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THE SARACEN TOWER


The Amalfi Coast on the Sorrentine Peninsula south of Naples, Italy, is considered to be the most beautiful coastline in the world (click on Read More for pictures).  It is riddled with crumbling stone buildings known as "Saracen Towers."

They were built over a thousand years ago to protect the region from invasions and attacks from "Saracens" - the term Medieval Europe used for Moslems, from the ancient Greek Sarakenoi, the nomad bandit tribes of Arabia.  In the centuries before the invention of Islam when all of the Middle East was predominantly Christian, the Sarakenoi developed a fearsome reputation for their raids on monasteries and murdering monks.

This became vastly worse when they acquired a religious rationale for their banditry.  They called their new religion Islam, the Arabic word for "submission," claiming it meant submission to their deity Allah - but what it really meant was "unbelievers" submitting to them.  And what that meant was they had a religious right to enslave Christians.

Last Sunday, we commemorated the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 Moslem attack on America.  The 19 terrorists, most with Saudi visas, murdered 2,977 innocent people in a more grotesque way than any horror movie.  It was an unforgivable act of unmitigated evil that traumatized us all.

We continue to deal with the trauma today - and what may help is to place it in a historical context.  The examples of Islamic barbarity history provides are legion - so let's focus on that of the Saracen towers.

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WE WILL NOT BE STOPPED FROM CELEBRATING THE GREATNESS OF OUR COUNTRY


There is a bittersweet irony that the strength of the American spirit shines brightest in times of tragedy. We saw that in Arizona. We saw the tenacity of those clinging to life, the compassion of those who kept the victims alive, and the heroism of those who overpowered a deranged gunman.

Like many, I've spent the past few days reflecting on what happened and praying for guidance. After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion blame for this terrible event.

President Reagan said, "We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."

Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to talk radio, not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle, not with law-abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their First Amendment rights at campaign rallies, not with those who proudly voted in the last election.

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WILL THE ATTACK COME ON ELECTION DAY?

Everyone in America is holding his or her breath, sure that an Islamofascist terrorist attack will be perpetrated before the November election. Al Qaeda wants to pull off another Spain, it is thought. Blowing up the Madrid trains just before the Spanish election defeated the anti-terrorist Aznar government and put spineless Bambi Zapatero, in office.

Al Qaeda’s greatest goal right now is to prevent the re-election of George Bush. That is why the safest place in the US this month will be Boston. There is no way anything will be perpetrated to attack the Democrat Convention. New York during the Republican Convention is another matter.

But this is what is expected. Here is what worries me.

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THE OBAMA REGIME AND THE SECOND FRENCH REVOLUTION


Sorry folks, but tonight's entertainment feature on the Second American Revolution, replacing the Obama Regime with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, has been retracted.  You will now enjoy a rerun of the French Revolution instead.

What?  How can this be?  Here's the sad story that will explain why you need to learn French and to buy our New high tech neck armor -- specially priced at only $500 to save your neck from the French guillotine.  Also excellent protection against vampires.  But most of all, this is a surprise revisit from the past to warn us why we must prepare ourselves for the coming French Revolution in America.

You will recognize many of the Ministries issuing endless rules and regulations that you have nothing to say about but sadly there will be more, though there will be no Ministry of Silly Walks, because there is nothing funny about it.  Sit back, raise your glass of French wine, pick up your guitar and play, just like yesterday, you'll get on your knees and pray,  We Won't Get Fooled Again!!

(Yes, the classic by The Who is rated by National Review as the #1 Conservative Rock Song of all time.  The lyrics are here, you can listen/watch here.)

Written in 1971, it looks eerily prescient, because Obama's America today looks more like it's on the way to another French Revolution than another American one.  To learn why, we turn to a Frenchman who explained it over 150 years ago.

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HALF-FULL REPORT 10/19/12


"It's over."  When hyper-partisan Democrat operative Bob Beckel throws in the towel, as he did last night on Fox, you know it really may be for Zero.  In fact, you might mark down on your calendar that last night, October 18, is when the Zero Presidency died, as it suffered what looks to be an unrecoverable triple whammy.

First was Beckel's verdict in response to the latest Gallup poll (10/17) showing Romney with a virtually insurmountable lead of 52%-45% over Zero.

Second was the greatest gaffe Zero has ever uttered, timed less than three weeks before the election.  Last night on Jon Stewart's Comedy Central show (yes, a comedy show), he actually said, in response to Stewart's questioning his handling of the Benghazi scandal: "If four Americans get killed, it's not optimal."  Tim Stanley of the London Telegraph thinks he's channeling Michael Dukakis.

Third was Romney's hilarious gutting of Zero at the Al Smith Dinner last night, the ultimate elite white-tie event for Catholic charities held annually at the Waldorf-Astoria.  Example: now as Mr. Obama is in "the last few months of his presidency," he must be thinking:  "So little time, so much to redistribute."

Or how about this: "Campaigns are hard, and I and the President are each very lucky to have one person who's always in our corner, someone who we can lean on, someone who's a comforting presence without whom we wouldn't be able to go another day. I have my beautiful wife, Ann. He has Bill Clinton."  Enjoy the whole monologue, and note how it was a huge hit with the New York audience:

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GLOBAL TAXES FOR IMPLEMENTING GLOBAL FASCISM


What government unit has the right to tax you -- your local government, regional or state government, federal government, or multinational organizations such as the United Nations, the World Bank and the World Health Organization?

The reason the question is becoming more important is that rising numbers of politically powerful persons and institutions are calling for global taxes on such things as financial transactions, tobacco, sugar and carbon emissions.

Think of the consequences if international organizations gain the ability to tax. The tax-exempt bureaucrats who run these organizations will have an endless list of "unmet needs" and thus will create reasons to have never-ending tax increases. The United Nations is pushing a global financial transactions tax "to offset the costs of the enduring economic, financial, fuel, climate and food crises, and to protect basic human rights."

Endless global taxation to finance endless global corruption and fascism.

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ARE JOURNALISTS FASCISTS?


As acolytes of Saul Alinsky who preached the politics of personal destruction, liberals consistently demonize their opponents as either stupid or evil.  Since nobody can honestly oppose their worldview, those are the only two alternatives.  It's one or the other, sometimes both, but never neither.

The libs couldn't claim Nixon was stupid, so he had to be evil.  They couldn't make the sale that Reagan was evil, so he had to be stupid.  Infected with BDS, they raged at Bush 42 for being both.

Last week (8/29), we saw the con applied to Rick Perry.  Some hack named Jonathan Martin wrote a piece in the widely-read Politico site entitled, Is Rick Perry Dumb?  The Perry-is-stupid meme instantly flooded the liberal blogosphere.  Google "Perry" + "dumb" and you'll get 22 million hits.

All conservatives are driven crazy by the gargantuan bias and hypocrisy of the liberal media.  It's been that way all our lives.  It's time to put an end to it.  Let's talk about how.

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BAILOUTS AND PUBLIC PENSIONS


Do insolvent states actually believe other states should bail them out?   I predicted they would back in June 2009.  Sure enough, folks in Washington and in over-spending state capitols are now whispering the dreaded "b-word":  bailouts - for individual states!

American taxpayers should not be expected to bail out wasteful state governments. Fiscally liberal states spent years running away from the hard decisions that could have put their finances on a more solid footing. Now they expect taxpayers from other states to bail them out, which will allow them to postpone the tough decisions they should have made ages ago and continue spending like there's no tomorrow.

Most Americans would say these states have made their bed and now they've got to lie in it. They accepted federal dollars and did not voice opposition to the unfunded federal mandates, and they even re-elected politicians who foisted debt-ridden programs on them that could never be sustained.

Instead of coming to D.C. cap in hand asking for more "free" money, they should follow the example of their more prudent sister states and take the necessary steps to sort out their own finances. They must start by reforming their insolvent pension systems.

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FORGET THE TRIAL

The most disastrous news to come out of Iraq this week was the demand by the new Iraqi Interim Government for custody of Saddam Hussein. We are reaping the moldy harvest of the American liberal obsession for legalism. All one had to do is see the farce of Slobodan Milosevic’s trial to know what judicial lunacy awaits a similar tribunal travesty for Saddam.

Yet this is suddenly the least of our worries. Turning Saddam over to the Iraqis means he will escape from custody. Through bribery or blackmail or force, the Iraqis will either let him escape or be unable to prevent it - which means all the treasure and blood America has spilled to liberate Iraq will have been in vain.

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THE THREAT OF RUSSIA


The strategic challenge that Russia poses to the United States today is quite serious. Russia is increasingly anti-democratic and hostile to the United States.  Xenophobia is widespread in Russia.  The Kremlin is currently encouraging nationalism and militarizing the country.  It constantly attacks the West.  And a sizable number of the Russian population sees neighboring countries as part of the Russian zone of influence.

Now this is not me speaking, this is taken from a recent statement by Alexei Kudrin, who until September of 2011 was the finance minister of Russia, and who has just been publicly offered a cabinet position by Vladimir Putin. 

The most serious aspect of the Russian threat to the United States is their nuclear use doctrine.  They have the lowest nuclear use threshold in the world.  Russia reserves the right to introduce nuclear weapons into conventional warfare, and they characterize this, amazingly, as "de-escalation" of the conflict.

You won't believe the statements of Russia's nuclear commanders.  Here's one:

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HALF-FULL REPORT 10/12/12


Weirdos.  That's what I kept thinking watching SloJoe being such an obnoxious jerk on purpose in front of tens of millions of voters last night. 

Why do Democrats so consistently have weirdos as their leaders?  Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Algore, Harry Reid, Pelosi Galore, Zero, SloJoe, and for all his disarming charm, Bill "Better put some ice on it" Clinton - all are obnoxiously, arrogantly, pretentiously, immorally weird.  Why can't at least one of them be a normal human being?

How does a normal person, like Paul Ryan, handle someone who is trying as hard as he can to be as rude and weird as possible?  You could try this: (see video)  

In fact, Biden was so weird last night that it's being seriously asked if he was on coke.  The Sodahead website says it's a valid question.  As one Tweeter commented, "Biden already got in a few good lines... in the bathroom just before the debate!"  It may be no joke.

The VP debate is, however, a Prelim.  The Main Event is next Tuesday, October 16 - which may turn out to be BOBHICA Day for Zero - Bend Over Barack, Here It Comes Again - with the 2nd Romney-Zero debate.

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THE LARGER THE GOVERNMENT, THE FEWER THE JOBS


Many in the political class, including President Obama and many members of Congress, have an interest in confusing, rather than enlightening, the public. The effort to misinform about the growth in spending and the impact of government spending on job creation reached a new level last week when the president claimed he was the most restrained spender since President Eisenhower and that spending was up only a little more than 1 percent (over what?).

A quick review of economic policy for the past 30 years, as can be seen in a glance at the table below, provides evidence that big increases in government spending do not create jobs but, in fact, do the opposite. The correct way to measure the impact of government spending is not to look at the nominal numbers, which include population and economic growth and inflation, but rather as a percentage of GDP (national output).

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THE MOST IMPORTANT WORD IN THE CONSTITUTION


One word is the single most important word in our government's founding document to understand - for the entire edifice of the modern liberal administrative state is built on the willfully perverse misinterpretation of it.

The meaning of this word is the hill on which to make our stand for recovering our American birthright of freedom.  The good news is that the cavalry is on its way to rescue us from the forces of fascism - and it's led not by John Wayne but by a 63 year-old black man.

Don't you love Providence's sense of humor?

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL 57 STATES


My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate - from the FBI's 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel's.

And let's face it, everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah, a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don't know what the term is in Austrian for that... 

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KERRY HONORED BY VIETNAM COMMUNISTS

There is a photograph prominently displayed in the Vietnamese Communist War Remnants Museum (formerly known as the "War Crimes Museum") in Saigon (called Ho Chi Minh City by the Communists). The photograph, in a room dedicated to foreign activists who contributed to the Communist victory over America in the Vietnam War, shows Senator John Kerry being greeted by Comrade Do Muoi, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

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