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Jed Gladstein
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March 20, 2011
Taqiyya and American EducationWe are all familiar with the historical idea of hand-to-hand combat. Whether it is knights on chargers, samurai warriors, or American Special Forces operators, there is something palpable and visceral about traditional combat. It is an in-your-face r...
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March 19, 2011
Sheer SophistryIt is sheer sophistry for American "elites" to maintain that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are a genuine obstacle to peace in the Middle East. To even assert such nonsense is to ignore three thousand five hundred years of history. Ne...
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March 12, 2011
Tepid TeaIt is enough to make a grown man weep to see how tepid the House Republicans are under Speaker John Boehner. It isn't just that their pathetic excuse for federal budget cuts betrays the 2010 electoral mandate of the American people, which it does. It...
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March 6, 2011
The Fallacy of TyrannyNo matter how long a people may suffer under tyranny, their yearning to be free can never be permanently extinguished. That much should be obvious from the events we are now witnessing in the Middle East: a new generation of Iranians is defying...
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February 21, 2011
Exchanging Present Perils for Future FantasiesA government report was just released on U.S. border security. It concludes that our nation is in operational control of less than half of our Southern border. We know that Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano has been touting how well Mr. Oba...
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January 22, 2011
The Taming of the MassesOne of the most dangerous strategies of the totalitarians in our midst is the deliberate confusion they create around the notion of totalitarianism. Only a fraction of "educated" people know that so-called "right-wing" fasci...
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November 20, 2010
Crimes against TruthI'd like to put certain people in the Hollywood community on trial for crimes against truth. I don't mean try them, convict them, and sentence them to prison. I mean try them, convict them, and sentence them to walk around in shame, with the knowledg...
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November 9, 2010
Energy & Education - The Twin Pillars of IndependenceNormal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...
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November 5, 2010
The Problem with EarmarksPersonal political slush funds are nothing new. The problem with earmarks is that they are personal political slush funds funded with our money. Every time a member of Congress earmarks money for a project back home - or anywhere else in the world fo...
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November 4, 2010
Words of Wisdom from Jim DeMintNormal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...
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November 3, 2010
Do tea partiers hate the banks more than the left?Charlie Gasparino is a Fox News Wall Street pundit. On Neil Cavuto's show today, he said that Wall Street is terrified of two words: Tea Party. Why? Because, according to Gasparino, the Tea Party people "hate banks more than the left wing of the...
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October 22, 2010
Defund the Democrats' agendaJesse Unruh is reputed to have said that "money is the Mother's milk of politics." For many years, Unruh was one of the most powerful Democrats in the State of California. He was the Speaker of the California State Assembly and for a time w...
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October 14, 2010
'Save the Nation' LegislationThe Republicans are poised to take back the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate. That gives them a chance to save the nation. The legislation that they pass out of Congress in the next two years must do two things. First, it must fund t...
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October 4, 2010
The glue of civilizationI read an interesting article by Selwyn Duke recently, who pointed out the principal vice of Libertarianism. He rightly notes that the meme "Live and Let Live" can act as a siren song that may lead to the destruction of the American Republ...
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August 11, 2010
The Pleasures of Racism, Selfishness, and FearFor those who don't pay attention to how America's mainstream media actually functions nowadays, the recent JournoList scandal may prove a bit shocking. JournoList was a listserv [1] created by Ezra Klein, a sanctimonious young man who regularly appe...
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August 4, 2010
A Totalitarian MindsetFor those who know history, it is clear that the "liberals" in this country have in many respects become like the fascists and communists of the twentieth century. They propagate talismanic slogans like "freedom of choice" but are...
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June 10, 2010
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June 1, 2010
The unconstitutional censusNormal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...
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May 23, 2010
The Sons and Daughters of LibertyFrom "astro-turfers" to "tea-baggers"... from "racists" to "domestic terrorists"... the men and women of the American Tea Party movement have been consistently vilified by the powers-that-be in this country. Th...
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April 10, 2010
When Civil Rights Make Civil Hands UncleanThe advocates of "social justice" masquerade as partisans of civil rights, but they are actually practitioners of civil wrongs.Some people in this country think that they have a right to use government compulsion to overcome the free will o...
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March 23, 2010
Steely DeterminationOn Sunday, March 21, 2010, while the Democratic Party's ugly spectacle of unfolded in Washington D.C., I periodically switched on Fox News to see what was taking place. I could only handle bite-size pieces of the news that day, because there is a lim...
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March 17, 2010
Is Fox News tilting toward the Arabs?I wondered how long it would take after Saudi money was insinuated into Rupert Murdoch's empire before anti-Semitism hit the Fox News airwaves in the form of tug-at-your-heart, pro-Arab, mini-hit pieces against the State of Israel. It didn't take lo...
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February 19, 2010
Government coercion won't work in a democratic republicIt is a profound mistake to believe that people can be compelled to acquire a higher level of consciousness by coercion. This applies to all forms of consciousness - spiritual, social and political. That is because coercion is a negative force. When ...
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February 12, 2010
Sometimes "No" Is More Than a One Syllable WordNormal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...
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January 21, 2010
Oh those feckless RepublicansI was watching Neil Cavuto for a couple of minutes the day after Scott Brown was elected a Senator for Massachusetts, and he had Tim Pawlenty on as a guest. Mr. Pawlenty is the Republican Governor of Minnesota, and touted by some on Fox and elsewhere...
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January 16, 2010
Out of BoundsHow can the American military come to grips with home-grown Islamic terrorism when it won't even acknowledge that political correctness enabled the Fort Hood massacre just as surely as an alcoholics' wife enables his obsession by her co-dependency?At...
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January 13, 2010
Stupidity can lead to perfidyThere is a time when thoughtful people have to acknowledge that the comfortable assumptions they have been making about how other people are acting must be reexamined.Now is such a time.I have worked in government, and have seen first-hand how job in...
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January 12, 2010
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December 29, 2009
The Man Who Never WasWhy has the Obama administration remained silent about the second man who was taken away in handcuffs after everyone deplaned Northwest Airlines flight 253 when it landed in Detroit carrying the terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab? According to...
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December 15, 2009
The dislocation of judicial discernmentNormal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...
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December 10, 2009
The Palin PalimpsestSarah Palin is an authentic American phenomenon. She resonates with a majority of the American people as authentic -- because she is authentic. She is a no-BS, stand-for-the-truth, take-a-licking-and-keep-on-ticking kind of gal. In other words, she i...
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November 9, 2009
Freedom & SecurityA lot of people tell us that we have to give up some of our freedom in order to enjoy security. But that isn't true. The truth is that if we give up our freedom we will have neither freedom nor security.Down through the ages, people have always found...
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November 9, 2009
Reality Check - Health Care ReformAs a lawyer, my radar screen is pretty active when it comes to the words people use, because those words have real consequences in people's lives, especially when they are found in laws that govern how we live our lives.The nearly 2000-page legislati...
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November 1, 2009
Power Derives from Lawful AuthorityThe President of the United States has no more legal right to sign a treaty that turns legislative, executive, and judicial functions of our national government over to the United Nations than he has to declare the United States an Islamic Republic a...
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October 31, 2009
Sober RealitiesI chanced to speak briefly with a woman today in the supermarket, and the conversation turned spontaneously to the state of the nation’s economy. She wasn’t “dressed to the nines” by any means, but looked like one of those peo...
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October 26, 2009
What Jobless Recovery?The radical left economist Paul Krugman recently opined that the United States is headed into a jobless recovery despite the three-quarter trillion dollar “stimulus” package that the Obama administration said would keep unemployment belo...
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October 24, 2009
I Had a DreamI awakened the other morning from a dream to a vivid certainty. The certainty is that America is in mortal danger. Our country has reached a pivot point in its national existence, and the American people must now decide whether this country will be v...
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October 17, 2009
Are You A New-Age White Racist?Okay … so the title of this blog is alarming, right? Well, yeah! Nobody in this country takes the charge of racist lightly – especially white Americans. That’s because white Americans have had the charge of racism beaten into their...
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October 9, 2009
The Science of DisinformationIn the dictionary:Science is defined as "knowledge gained by the study of the physical world." Knowledge is defined as "possession of ... truths." Disinformation, is defined as "false ... information." So, apart from a p...
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September 23, 2009
What Part of 'Finance' Doesn't John Kerry Understand?At the Senate Finance Committee’s hearing today on Senator Max Baucus’ so-called health care reform bill, Democrat Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts went on record against giving the American people a whole three days to read the langua...
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September 5, 2009
The Point of the DaggerA dagger is pointed at the heart of America. Its point is the deliberate misuse of the English language for the purpose of influencing how Americans speak and think. If the dagger is driven home, reason itself will be the principal victim.Reason is t...
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May 9, 2009
The Price of Denial is DeathIn a recent article in Foreign Policy, Washington Post journalist David Ignatius bewailed his inability to function effectively as a "moderator" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where Islamic officials once again took the ...
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April 20, 2009
What Part of 'Democracy' Don't the Democrats Understand?Barack Obama has nominated Harold Hongju Koh to be the legal advisor to the U.S. State Department. Koh is the dean of Yale Law School, and he is of the opinion that America should be made subject to something called “transnational” jurisp...
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April 20, 2009
The Free Speech Freeze from Washington D.C.Why is it that politicians tend to betray the principles they espouse the moment they get into power? In the recent past, the Republicans betrayed the idea of fiscal responsibility in order to support a President from their own party. But today it is...
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April 18, 2009
Law and Lawfulness in a Civilized SocietySociety's laws represent an attempt to supply a deficit in human consciousness. If every human being always acted with deep discernment, there would be no need for laws. People would simply understand and accommodate the needs of every situation in t...
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April 17, 2009
Is Obama an Emperor without Clothes?Is Obama an emperor without clothes, as the mainstream media want us to believe? By “without clothes” I mean is Obama just another stand-up guy who cares for all of his fellow Americans and harbors no ill will toward our great nation? Or ...
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April 4, 2009
In Defense of DiscriminationThe English language is under attack and in danger of becoming unfit for communicating the nobler sentiments of life. An example of this is the word discrimination, which has been transformed into an expletive by certain people in this country whose ...
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March 28, 2009
Leave it to the educatorsSee also: The Futility of American Educational ReformPublic education today is a mess. It has been ruined by parents whose legitimate concern for their kids has been translated into illegitimate interference with the educational process. Aiding...