May 31, 2013
Radical extremism has proven itself to be a difficult — and deadly — anomaly to combat, which is why a leading neuroscientist’s recent claim that it may soon be possible to “cure” Islamic radicals, cultists and others with negative views and behaviors is raising eyebrows.
Kathleen Taylor, a research scientist at the University of Oxford, made the bold proclamation while speaking at the Hay Literary Festival in Wales, The Times reports.
Taylor said that extreme and negative beliefs can be targeted with some new techniques that are being developed and tested. Hitting children was also mentioned as another behavior that could possibly be treated using these elements.
“One man’s positive can be another man’s negative,” she said, according to the Times. “One of the surprises may be to see people with certain beliefs as people who can be treated.”
Here’s how the Daily Mail recaps some of Taylor’s other comments:
‘Somebody who has for example become radicalised to a cult ideology — we might stop seeing that as a personal choice that they have chosen as a result of pure free will and may start treating it as some kind of mental disturbance.’
‘In many ways that could be a very positive thing because there are no doubt beliefs in our society that do a heck of a lot of damage, that really do a lot of harm. [...]
‘I am not just talking about the obvious candidates like radical Islam or some of the more extreme cults.
‘I am talking about things like the belief that it is OK to beat your children.
‘These beliefs are very harmful but are not normally categorised as mental illness.’
CONTINUE READING: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/31/neuroscientists-bold-assertion-islamic-radicals-cultists-and-parents-who-hit-their-kids-could-soon-be-cured/
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Friday, May 31, 2013
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Letter to the Editor: Bengazi Attack, by Nancy Murdoch, CCTA Chairman
Submitted to the New Bern Sun Journal:
The death of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans shines the light of truth on the negligence of the Obama administration. What may be worse than their sheer incompetence is the dishonesty and hype employed to cover up their lies and failures.
Both President Obama and Hillary Clinton attempted to blame the tragedy on a sophomoric video mocking Mohammed. Instead of taking advantage of an opportunity to vigorously tout the strengths of our earned freedom, Obama and company repeated the “apology tour”. When the smoke screen of the video began to look like a losing argument, the administration trotted out UN Ambassador Susan Rice to push the story of spontaneous violence rising from peaceful protests. Yep, peaceful protestors carrying rocket propelled grenades. More disturbing is the weapons likely came from the U.S.
Not only were additional security requests denied, but the bare essentials were pulled out of Libya right before 9/11. American citizens were left defenseless in a war torn area. There had been 13 previous terror attacks and we know Ambassador Stevens was rightly concerned about his own safety. Both the British Embassy and the Red Cross had closed.
Surely the basic truth was known with 24 hours of the event, so why continue the fabrication? It is impossible to ascertain the reasons behind the big lie but perhaps they would rather blame Americans than evil radicals. Or is it just politics? Why is there such a big disconnect between the White House and the State Department? Why was Ambassador Rice willing to ruin her credibility by pushing the White House story? Why did weeks pass before the FBI went to Benghazi?
The words radical Islam and jihad have been basically banned from government language. You may see no evil, hear no evil or speak no evil, but evil will still exist. Appeasement is the strategy of cowards.
What “bump in the road” will be used to blame the next unfortunate event occurring in the Middle East? The odds of another event are high as the actions of this administration have emboldened our enemies. Who would expect our own government to lie for our enemies? Rather than hope and change we are left with fear, uncertainty and debt. Only true demagogues or fools would want four more years of this incompetence and corruption.
The death of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans shines the light of truth on the negligence of the Obama administration. What may be worse than their sheer incompetence is the dishonesty and hype employed to cover up their lies and failures.
Both President Obama and Hillary Clinton attempted to blame the tragedy on a sophomoric video mocking Mohammed. Instead of taking advantage of an opportunity to vigorously tout the strengths of our earned freedom, Obama and company repeated the “apology tour”. When the smoke screen of the video began to look like a losing argument, the administration trotted out UN Ambassador Susan Rice to push the story of spontaneous violence rising from peaceful protests. Yep, peaceful protestors carrying rocket propelled grenades. More disturbing is the weapons likely came from the U.S.
Not only were additional security requests denied, but the bare essentials were pulled out of Libya right before 9/11. American citizens were left defenseless in a war torn area. There had been 13 previous terror attacks and we know Ambassador Stevens was rightly concerned about his own safety. Both the British Embassy and the Red Cross had closed.
Surely the basic truth was known with 24 hours of the event, so why continue the fabrication? It is impossible to ascertain the reasons behind the big lie but perhaps they would rather blame Americans than evil radicals. Or is it just politics? Why is there such a big disconnect between the White House and the State Department? Why was Ambassador Rice willing to ruin her credibility by pushing the White House story? Why did weeks pass before the FBI went to Benghazi?
The words radical Islam and jihad have been basically banned from government language. You may see no evil, hear no evil or speak no evil, but evil will still exist. Appeasement is the strategy of cowards.
What “bump in the road” will be used to blame the next unfortunate event occurring in the Middle East? The odds of another event are high as the actions of this administration have emboldened our enemies. Who would expect our own government to lie for our enemies? Rather than hope and change we are left with fear, uncertainty and debt. Only true demagogues or fools would want four more years of this incompetence and corruption.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Letter to the Editor: Our Chairman, Nancy Murdoch
April 4, 2012
At the risk of being called a racist by WJ Gould and others who worship at the altar of Obama, I intend to speak up against what I consider the biggest threat of modern times, and that would be the reelection of the radical hack now residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. As long as the First Amendment still exists I don't intend to sit idly by as our Country is destroyed by a bunch of so called “progressives”, wrapping their hearts and minds around an ideology that is closer to Marx than Madison.
For someone portrayed as a Constitutional scholar Obama has total disdain for our Founding Documents. He glibly misquotes the Declaration of Independence, not once, but twice. He decries the Constitution as it doesn't give him the power he believes he so richly deserves, failing to realize the Constitution was intended to protect the citizens from the tyranny he embraces, not to allow power maniacs the right to ride rough shod over the People.
The Declaration lists all the injuries suffered at the hand of King George. It could easily be rewritten for modern times with a list of grievances against Obama and his regime.
Nancy Murdoch
Havelock, NC
At the risk of being called a racist by WJ Gould and others who worship at the altar of Obama, I intend to speak up against what I consider the biggest threat of modern times, and that would be the reelection of the radical hack now residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. As long as the First Amendment still exists I don't intend to sit idly by as our Country is destroyed by a bunch of so called “progressives”, wrapping their hearts and minds around an ideology that is closer to Marx than Madison.
For someone portrayed as a Constitutional scholar Obama has total disdain for our Founding Documents. He glibly misquotes the Declaration of Independence, not once, but twice. He decries the Constitution as it doesn't give him the power he believes he so richly deserves, failing to realize the Constitution was intended to protect the citizens from the tyranny he embraces, not to allow power maniacs the right to ride rough shod over the People.
The Declaration lists all the injuries suffered at the hand of King George. It could easily be rewritten for modern times with a list of grievances against Obama and his regime.
- He has entered us into war situations without approval from Congress.
- He has apologized to other Countries for injustices that no one presently alive is responsible.
- He thinks we are no more exceptional than Greece, failing to understand that freedom and liberty are exceptional ideas of which some can only dream.
- He makes appointments without Senate approval on a regular basis.
- He appoints tax cheats to high office.
- He appoints known socialists and others wishing to destroy the free market to high office.
- He assaults the free market and capitalism, bastions of a free society.
- He appoints an Attorney General who openly opposes the Second Amendment, and is interested in justice for only “his people” rather than equal justice under the law.
- He appoints a Secretary of Energy who wants gas prices to be equal with Europe.
- He funnels taxpayer money to green energy companies who are dubious for future success.
- He presents a budget so onerous that it gets no votes, not even from his own party.
- He interjects into situations of which he is ignorant or uninformed (the police acted stupidly).
- He has dalliances with fringe elements (Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, ACORN, George Soros).
- He has insulted our friends, and cozies up to our enemies.
- He has increased the national debt at a rate unequal in our history.
Nancy Murdoch
Havelock, NC
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Gas pricing: The reality
As we suffer from much higher gas prices at the pump, many unfounded rumors swirl around as to how the price of auto gas at the pump is established. Basically, it is simply the Law of Supply and Demand.
Crude oil, irrespective of where it comes from, is a global commodity and, as such, is traded across the global commodity market -- just like wheat, corn, or cattle futures. The global market price for crude oil is based on the amount of crude oil that is up out of the ground and in transit by sea, by 18-wheelers, in the pipelines, in storage tanks, and at the oil refineries.
Based on fairly accurate knowledge of how much crude oil is up out of the ground, the world price for crude oil is established. When the supply goes down, the price goes up. When the supply increases, the price goes down.
The radical environmentalists spread the rumor that the U.S. exports oil to other countries and, therefore, does not need to increase its domestic oil production. Actually, the U.S. is a net importer of crude oil. In short: we import far more crude oil than we are producing.
Nevertheless, we do export a small amount of “refined” oil products to other countries. Here’s why: Our oil refineries are designed to produce far more unleaded gasoline than diesel fuel. So, the reason diesel fuel is so much higher in price now than auto gas is because the supply of diesel fuel is so limited compared to the supply of unleaded auto gas. Higher diesel-fuel prices translate to higher prices for food and for all consumer goods.
While we do export a small amount of auto gas and other refined-oil products to Mexico and Canada, we do so in exchange for more diesel fuel for our trucking fleets and for other consumers of diesel fuel.
Due to the radical environmentalists, we have not built a new oil refinery in this country in 40 years. If the Obama Administration would allow them, new refineries would be designed to produce as much diesel fuel as auto gas. Unfortunately, to reconfigure our current refineries would be prohibitively expensive.
As for our abundant coal reserves, in 2008, Candidate Obama told ABC News that he plans to tax our coal-powered plants into bankruptcy and use the taxes collected to develop alternative energy sources.
Another rumor: Big Oil gets big tax breaks. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the tax preferences for all fossil-fuels amount to $2.5 billion per year, enough to run the U.S. government for about six hours. Renewable energy gets 68-percent of the tax breaks, fossil-fuels 15-percent, and nuclear energy four-percent. Twelve percent goes to energy efficiency incentives like Mr. Obama’s favorite $50.00 light bulbs, Solyndra solar that gave $370,000 in bonuses to 20 executives and went bankrupt, and the $250,000 per car subsidies for the failed Chevy Volt.
CONTINUED:
http://www.central-view.com/past.asp?number=1614
Crude oil, irrespective of where it comes from, is a global commodity and, as such, is traded across the global commodity market -- just like wheat, corn, or cattle futures. The global market price for crude oil is based on the amount of crude oil that is up out of the ground and in transit by sea, by 18-wheelers, in the pipelines, in storage tanks, and at the oil refineries.
Based on fairly accurate knowledge of how much crude oil is up out of the ground, the world price for crude oil is established. When the supply goes down, the price goes up. When the supply increases, the price goes down.
The radical environmentalists spread the rumor that the U.S. exports oil to other countries and, therefore, does not need to increase its domestic oil production. Actually, the U.S. is a net importer of crude oil. In short: we import far more crude oil than we are producing.
Nevertheless, we do export a small amount of “refined” oil products to other countries. Here’s why: Our oil refineries are designed to produce far more unleaded gasoline than diesel fuel. So, the reason diesel fuel is so much higher in price now than auto gas is because the supply of diesel fuel is so limited compared to the supply of unleaded auto gas. Higher diesel-fuel prices translate to higher prices for food and for all consumer goods.
While we do export a small amount of auto gas and other refined-oil products to Mexico and Canada, we do so in exchange for more diesel fuel for our trucking fleets and for other consumers of diesel fuel.
Due to the radical environmentalists, we have not built a new oil refinery in this country in 40 years. If the Obama Administration would allow them, new refineries would be designed to produce as much diesel fuel as auto gas. Unfortunately, to reconfigure our current refineries would be prohibitively expensive.
As for our abundant coal reserves, in 2008, Candidate Obama told ABC News that he plans to tax our coal-powered plants into bankruptcy and use the taxes collected to develop alternative energy sources.
Another rumor: Big Oil gets big tax breaks. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the tax preferences for all fossil-fuels amount to $2.5 billion per year, enough to run the U.S. government for about six hours. Renewable energy gets 68-percent of the tax breaks, fossil-fuels 15-percent, and nuclear energy four-percent. Twelve percent goes to energy efficiency incentives like Mr. Obama’s favorite $50.00 light bulbs, Solyndra solar that gave $370,000 in bonuses to 20 executives and went bankrupt, and the $250,000 per car subsidies for the failed Chevy Volt.
CONTINUED:
http://www.central-view.com/past.asp?number=1614
Friday, March 25, 2011
Shariah Law on America’s Shores: Townhall Magazine Examines ‘Terror’s Secret Weapon’
March 24, 2011
The impending threat of radical Islam is not one that stops at America’s borders. A detailed new analysis featured in the April issue of Townhall Magazine, posted here as an online exclusive for Blaze readers, examines how Muslim radicals are aggressively using liberal courts, American businesses and outspoken activists inside our own country to implement Islamic Shariah law — an uncompromising religious code that runs counter to freedoms preserved in the American Constitution.
READ THE ARTICLE: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/shariah-law-on-americas-shores-townhall-magazine-examines-terrors-secret-weapon/
The impending threat of radical Islam is not one that stops at America’s borders. A detailed new analysis featured in the April issue of Townhall Magazine, posted here as an online exclusive for Blaze readers, examines how Muslim radicals are aggressively using liberal courts, American businesses and outspoken activists inside our own country to implement Islamic Shariah law — an uncompromising religious code that runs counter to freedoms preserved in the American Constitution.
READ THE ARTICLE: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/shariah-law-on-americas-shores-townhall-magazine-examines-terrors-secret-weapon/
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
ACT FOR AMERICAN
View our TV show online!
Last weekend the ACT! for America television show premiered on Family Net (Saturday, 2:30 PM EST) and ALN (Sunday, 4:00 PM EST). This weekend the program will air at the same time on those networks. Please check your local listings.
FOR THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE ACCESS TO EITHER FAMILY NET OR ALN, YOU CAN NOW VIEW THE SHOW ONLINE AT YOUR CONVENIENCE!!
ACT for America
P.O. Box 12765
Pensacola, FL 32591
http://www.actforamerica.org/
ACT for America is an issues advocacy organization dedicated to effectively organizing and mobilizing the most powerful grassroots citizen action network in America, a grassroots network committed to informed and coordinated civic action that will lead to public policies that promote America’s national security and the defense of American democratic values against the assault of radical Islam. We are only as strong as our supporters, and your volunteer and financial support is essential to our success. Thank you for helping us make America safer and more secure.
Last weekend the ACT! for America television show premiered on Family Net (Saturday, 2:30 PM EST) and ALN (Sunday, 4:00 PM EST). This weekend the program will air at the same time on those networks. Please check your local listings.
FOR THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE ACCESS TO EITHER FAMILY NET OR ALN, YOU CAN NOW VIEW THE SHOW ONLINE AT YOUR CONVENIENCE!!
ACT for America
P.O. Box 12765
Pensacola, FL 32591
http://www.actforamerica.org/
ACT for America is an issues advocacy organization dedicated to effectively organizing and mobilizing the most powerful grassroots citizen action network in America, a grassroots network committed to informed and coordinated civic action that will lead to public policies that promote America’s national security and the defense of American democratic values against the assault of radical Islam. We are only as strong as our supporters, and your volunteer and financial support is essential to our success. Thank you for helping us make America safer and more secure.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Conservative Action Alerts
Defending the Constitution against a Radical Federal Government
“We don’t sue because we don’t like things. That is what elections are for,” Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli told the closing lunch of the Fall 2010 Legal Strategy Forum, “We sue because some things the federal government has done are unconstitutional.” Speaking at The Heritage Foundation Thursday, Cucinelli urged the public interest lawyers in attendance to do all that they can to educate the public about how the federal government’s ever expanding power is antithetical to our nation’s First Principles. “These legal battles have been coming for some time. The hyper aggressive expansion of federal power did not start in the last two years. The problem stretches back into previous administrations,” he said.
While Virginia is also involved with litigation against the Environmental Protection Agency, Cuccinelli spent most of his time addressing Virginia’s suit challenging the federal government’s power to force all Americans to buy health insurance. Cuccinelli reached all they way back to before the nation’s founding to bolster his claim that an individual mandate is beyond the scope of powers the Founding Fathers intended the federal government to have.
In 1774, the First Continental Congress implemented a trade boycott against Great Britain in protest of the Intolerable Acts. When King George III asked if the colonists could boycott British goods, his solicitor general informed him it was beyond the power of the king to mandate that his subjects buy specific goods like tea. “The power of the United States government under the Constitution must be smaller than that of King George,” Cuccinelli said.
Cuccinelli also recounted an admission made by former Solicitor General Walter Dellinger at an earlier panel discussion. Pressed to identify what – if any – boundaries there are to federal government power if courts find the individual mandate Constitutional, Dellinger said the only boundary left would be politics. “Congress could force you to buy cars. Even a specific car, like an Equinox. I have an Equinox. You don’t want one.”
Cuccinelli had one word to describe such an interpretation of federal government power: “radical.”
http://conservativeactionalerts.com/blog_post/show/1378
The Constitution for the United States -- Full Text Here
http://www.conservativeactionalerts.com/blog_post/show/702
“We don’t sue because we don’t like things. That is what elections are for,” Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli told the closing lunch of the Fall 2010 Legal Strategy Forum, “We sue because some things the federal government has done are unconstitutional.” Speaking at The Heritage Foundation Thursday, Cucinelli urged the public interest lawyers in attendance to do all that they can to educate the public about how the federal government’s ever expanding power is antithetical to our nation’s First Principles. “These legal battles have been coming for some time. The hyper aggressive expansion of federal power did not start in the last two years. The problem stretches back into previous administrations,” he said.
While Virginia is also involved with litigation against the Environmental Protection Agency, Cuccinelli spent most of his time addressing Virginia’s suit challenging the federal government’s power to force all Americans to buy health insurance. Cuccinelli reached all they way back to before the nation’s founding to bolster his claim that an individual mandate is beyond the scope of powers the Founding Fathers intended the federal government to have.
In 1774, the First Continental Congress implemented a trade boycott against Great Britain in protest of the Intolerable Acts. When King George III asked if the colonists could boycott British goods, his solicitor general informed him it was beyond the power of the king to mandate that his subjects buy specific goods like tea. “The power of the United States government under the Constitution must be smaller than that of King George,” Cuccinelli said.
Cuccinelli also recounted an admission made by former Solicitor General Walter Dellinger at an earlier panel discussion. Pressed to identify what – if any – boundaries there are to federal government power if courts find the individual mandate Constitutional, Dellinger said the only boundary left would be politics. “Congress could force you to buy cars. Even a specific car, like an Equinox. I have an Equinox. You don’t want one.”
Cuccinelli had one word to describe such an interpretation of federal government power: “radical.”
http://conservativeactionalerts.com/blog_post/show/1378
The Constitution for the United States -- Full Text Here
http://www.conservativeactionalerts.com/blog_post/show/702
Friday, October 8, 2010
ACT FOR AMERICA
Guest column: What the Muslims in America can do
by DR. M. ZUHDI JASSER
Dr. Jasser is the president and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, based in Phoenix, Ariz. Contact: info@aifdemocracy.org. • October 6, 2010
You may get a hundred different answers from a hundred American Muslims about what it means to be an American Muslim. The controversial Islamic center near ground zero, while pouring salt in a yet widely open national wound, did begin to awaken us to the yet unfought war of ideas within the "House of Islam." Many of us reform-minded Muslims have been waging that war of ideas for most of our adult life, long before 9/11. But time has shown that we cannot wage this battle alone.
It may not seem to matter much for a faith community that is barely 1 percent of the population, but American Muslims carry an invaluable ability to influence the ideologies of over 1.5 billion Muslims - over a fifth of the world's population. Until middle America realizes how our national security hangs in the balance of that intellectual war within Islam, our security will never improve.
The last 12 months have seen the most arrests and attacks of radical Islamists on Americans since 9/11. This was confirmed to Congress last month by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who also finally acknowledged the growing homegrown threat of radical Muslims.
Sadly, many of my co-religionists called on by media to speak for American Muslims too often wallow in denial simply deflecting any responsibility by distancing themselves from radicals or myopically equating Muslim radicals to those of other faiths. They willfully ignore the main ideological conveyor belt towards radicalism - political Islam.
Most Americans no longer accept these detached irresponsible dismissals from leading American Muslims. They see so many examples of American Muslim clerics who condemn terror out of one side of their mouth while deceptively amplifying victimology, Islamophobia, anti-Americanism and morally vacant justifications from the other.
Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki, for example, condemned 9/11 in the national media and was hailed as a moderate Muslim while at the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque of Northern Virginia in 2001. Most, however, refused to look with any critique at his theo-political ideas - a political Islam with high risk of radicalization. Today, he is one of the greatest threats to America creating such violent traitors as Nidal Hasan. His sermons and teachings are a clinic on homegrown radicalization and yet they still fill some Islamic bookstores with no hint of any counter-ideological movement from leading American Muslim organizations. Since so many leading well-financed American Muslim groups are sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood's ideas, they are certainly not going to lead a movement against political Islam and for the separation of mosque and state.
In our conversation at Drake University this week, I hope we focus on the fact that at the center of the growing threat to our national security is this battle within the House of Islam. American Muslims need to accept and spread the meme that it is time to get shariah (Islamic law) out of government and bring the ideas of modernity and Enlightenment to the Islamic faith we love.
We need to take the offense in ending the ideas of jihad, the "ummah" as nation, and the "salafi" dream of returning everything to the time of the Prophet Muhammad. Until we Muslims take on the responsibility of separating history from religion and mosque from state, the threat will not dissipate.
www.actforamerica.org
by DR. M. ZUHDI JASSER
Dr. Jasser is the president and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, based in Phoenix, Ariz. Contact: info@aifdemocracy.org. • October 6, 2010
You may get a hundred different answers from a hundred American Muslims about what it means to be an American Muslim. The controversial Islamic center near ground zero, while pouring salt in a yet widely open national wound, did begin to awaken us to the yet unfought war of ideas within the "House of Islam." Many of us reform-minded Muslims have been waging that war of ideas for most of our adult life, long before 9/11. But time has shown that we cannot wage this battle alone.
It may not seem to matter much for a faith community that is barely 1 percent of the population, but American Muslims carry an invaluable ability to influence the ideologies of over 1.5 billion Muslims - over a fifth of the world's population. Until middle America realizes how our national security hangs in the balance of that intellectual war within Islam, our security will never improve.
The last 12 months have seen the most arrests and attacks of radical Islamists on Americans since 9/11. This was confirmed to Congress last month by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who also finally acknowledged the growing homegrown threat of radical Muslims.
Sadly, many of my co-religionists called on by media to speak for American Muslims too often wallow in denial simply deflecting any responsibility by distancing themselves from radicals or myopically equating Muslim radicals to those of other faiths. They willfully ignore the main ideological conveyor belt towards radicalism - political Islam.
Most Americans no longer accept these detached irresponsible dismissals from leading American Muslims. They see so many examples of American Muslim clerics who condemn terror out of one side of their mouth while deceptively amplifying victimology, Islamophobia, anti-Americanism and morally vacant justifications from the other.
Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki, for example, condemned 9/11 in the national media and was hailed as a moderate Muslim while at the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque of Northern Virginia in 2001. Most, however, refused to look with any critique at his theo-political ideas - a political Islam with high risk of radicalization. Today, he is one of the greatest threats to America creating such violent traitors as Nidal Hasan. His sermons and teachings are a clinic on homegrown radicalization and yet they still fill some Islamic bookstores with no hint of any counter-ideological movement from leading American Muslim organizations. Since so many leading well-financed American Muslim groups are sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood's ideas, they are certainly not going to lead a movement against political Islam and for the separation of mosque and state.
In our conversation at Drake University this week, I hope we focus on the fact that at the center of the growing threat to our national security is this battle within the House of Islam. American Muslims need to accept and spread the meme that it is time to get shariah (Islamic law) out of government and bring the ideas of modernity and Enlightenment to the Islamic faith we love.
We need to take the offense in ending the ideas of jihad, the "ummah" as nation, and the "salafi" dream of returning everything to the time of the Prophet Muhammad. Until we Muslims take on the responsibility of separating history from religion and mosque from state, the threat will not dissipate.
www.actforamerica.org
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Anthony G. Martin, Conservative Examiner
Behind the masks--how the radical Left intends to save elections for Obama
September 6th, 2010
When the most vicious attack dogs are backed into a corner, as they say, 'you ain't seen nothing yet.' The mongrels pull out all of the stops, barring none, in order to salvage what little is left of their viability.
This is certainly the case with the Obama minions who are increasingly showing signs of desperation with regard to their public approval...and their looming shellacking at the polls in November.
The radical Left has kicked up its efforts into high gear in a desperate attempt to salvage the November midterm elections this year and to somehow reelect Barack Obama in 2012.
Mainstream America continues to wake up to the fact that they have been duped, that the 'man behind the mask' in the White House is not who they thought, and that the plan for America as implemented by Democrats in Congress since 2006, when they took control of both Houses, is leading the country off the cliff.
The result? The Leftwing consortium of extremist groups has resorted to gutter tactics that one associates with the very worst of the Chicago thugs.
Saul Alinsly, the 1960s radical whom both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton describe as their 'mentor,' described the tactic best in rule number 13 in his book 'Rules for Radicals':
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."
Another way to describe it is 'Disrupt-Discredit-Destroy.'
No greater example of the tactic can be found than the Left's response to Dr. Alveda King's appearance at Glenn Beck's 'Restoring Honor' rally in Washington on 8/28. King, the niece of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., committed the ultimate faux pas in the view of the race-baiters such as Al Sharpton and the NAACP, and thus, a concerted effort was mounted to smear her.
Beck himself has been the subject of outrageous smears, closely akin to that of Sarah Palin. The Huffington Post even offered $100,000 bucks for a non-existent Glenn Beck 'sex tape.'
Meanwhile, the NAACP has joined with the far-Left extremist group Think Progress, arm of the Center for American Progress, to 'highlight' incidences of 'racism' within the Tea Party movement.
It should be remembered that in July it was Think Progress that was caught red-handed manufacturing a fake video depicting non-existent Tea Party racism.
A new website has even been launched, the sole purpose of which is to spout propaganda concerning the supposed racism that is 'rampant' in the Tea Party movement.
And who would be the sponsors of this website? Think Progress, Center for American Progress, Media Matters, and the NAACP.
A much broader consortium of Leftwing organizations is in on the smears, however. The large labor unions, SEIU, the AFL-CIO, and others, are notorious for their sometimes violent attacks against detractors.
Recently the AFL-CIO referred to Sarah Palin as 'McCarthyite,' which, in the view of Leftists, strikes fear in the heart when one remembers that official documents released by the Kremlin during the late 1990s confirmed that most of Joe McCarthy's charges of Communist infiltration of the American government and society during the 1940s and 50s were proved to be 100% correct. But the Left is still counting on the thorough smear-job it accomplished against McCarthy in order to negatively portray Palin.
The AFL-CIO has also joined up with Communists, La Raza, the ACLU, and other unions, for a massive 'voter registration drive' prior to the midterm elections in November.
And ACORN-like voter fraud has already been discovered in Houston, Texas.
The key to understanding the significant threat posed by these groups, and others, is to recognize that the main players are often members of multiple organizations that work behind the scenes toward the same subversive goals. The Tides Foundation, Media Matters, Moveon.org, the Apollo Alliance, Center for American Progress, ACORN (or whatever name du jour they happen to be using), SEIU, the AFL-CIO, and a host of others walk in tandem to target, smear, discredit, and destroy conservative voices.
According to private investigators and other sources, some of these groups often enlist volunteers or pay special operatives to scan conservative websites in order to implement the Alinsky strategy referenced above. And, as this explosive report shows, sometimes the perpetrators work for federal government itself.
Be sure to catch my blog The Liberty Sphere.
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/behind-the-masks-how-the-radical-left-intends-to-save-elections-for-obama?cid=examiner-email
September 6th, 2010
When the most vicious attack dogs are backed into a corner, as they say, 'you ain't seen nothing yet.' The mongrels pull out all of the stops, barring none, in order to salvage what little is left of their viability.
This is certainly the case with the Obama minions who are increasingly showing signs of desperation with regard to their public approval...and their looming shellacking at the polls in November.
The radical Left has kicked up its efforts into high gear in a desperate attempt to salvage the November midterm elections this year and to somehow reelect Barack Obama in 2012.
Mainstream America continues to wake up to the fact that they have been duped, that the 'man behind the mask' in the White House is not who they thought, and that the plan for America as implemented by Democrats in Congress since 2006, when they took control of both Houses, is leading the country off the cliff.
The result? The Leftwing consortium of extremist groups has resorted to gutter tactics that one associates with the very worst of the Chicago thugs.
Saul Alinsly, the 1960s radical whom both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton describe as their 'mentor,' described the tactic best in rule number 13 in his book 'Rules for Radicals':
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."
Another way to describe it is 'Disrupt-Discredit-Destroy.'
No greater example of the tactic can be found than the Left's response to Dr. Alveda King's appearance at Glenn Beck's 'Restoring Honor' rally in Washington on 8/28. King, the niece of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., committed the ultimate faux pas in the view of the race-baiters such as Al Sharpton and the NAACP, and thus, a concerted effort was mounted to smear her.
Beck himself has been the subject of outrageous smears, closely akin to that of Sarah Palin. The Huffington Post even offered $100,000 bucks for a non-existent Glenn Beck 'sex tape.'
Meanwhile, the NAACP has joined with the far-Left extremist group Think Progress, arm of the Center for American Progress, to 'highlight' incidences of 'racism' within the Tea Party movement.
It should be remembered that in July it was Think Progress that was caught red-handed manufacturing a fake video depicting non-existent Tea Party racism.
A new website has even been launched, the sole purpose of which is to spout propaganda concerning the supposed racism that is 'rampant' in the Tea Party movement.
And who would be the sponsors of this website? Think Progress, Center for American Progress, Media Matters, and the NAACP.
A much broader consortium of Leftwing organizations is in on the smears, however. The large labor unions, SEIU, the AFL-CIO, and others, are notorious for their sometimes violent attacks against detractors.
Recently the AFL-CIO referred to Sarah Palin as 'McCarthyite,' which, in the view of Leftists, strikes fear in the heart when one remembers that official documents released by the Kremlin during the late 1990s confirmed that most of Joe McCarthy's charges of Communist infiltration of the American government and society during the 1940s and 50s were proved to be 100% correct. But the Left is still counting on the thorough smear-job it accomplished against McCarthy in order to negatively portray Palin.
The AFL-CIO has also joined up with Communists, La Raza, the ACLU, and other unions, for a massive 'voter registration drive' prior to the midterm elections in November.
And ACORN-like voter fraud has already been discovered in Houston, Texas.
The key to understanding the significant threat posed by these groups, and others, is to recognize that the main players are often members of multiple organizations that work behind the scenes toward the same subversive goals. The Tides Foundation, Media Matters, Moveon.org, the Apollo Alliance, Center for American Progress, ACORN (or whatever name du jour they happen to be using), SEIU, the AFL-CIO, and a host of others walk in tandem to target, smear, discredit, and destroy conservative voices.
According to private investigators and other sources, some of these groups often enlist volunteers or pay special operatives to scan conservative websites in order to implement the Alinsky strategy referenced above. And, as this explosive report shows, sometimes the perpetrators work for federal government itself.
Be sure to catch my blog The Liberty Sphere.
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/behind-the-masks-how-the-radical-left-intends-to-save-elections-for-obama?cid=examiner-email
Monday, September 6, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Why "Blacks" and "Latinos" Would Want To Vote Conservative
By: Dennis Marcellino
(I put “Blacks” and “Latinos” in quotes because it feels disrespectful … and it’s actually racist, divisive and un-American … to identify people by the color of their skin. But for the purpose of statistical analysis and identifying a racist problem in our country, I’ll use those terms here.)
How is it possible that two groups who have historical legacies of being religious could vote in elections overwhelmingly for the political party that promotes and legalizes “sin” (homosexuality, abortion, taking God out of the mainstream, etc.) – the Democrats? Blacks have consistently voted in the 90% range for Democrats, and Latinos have voted in the 60-70% range.
The answer to this question can be found in a great statement made recently by Glenn Beck. He said, “When somebody has an agenda, they don’t want to hear the truth.” That is, they let their dominant agenda trump any other agenda they might have. In this case, blacks and Latinos are letting their racial identity trump their religious identity. He also said that when this is the case, the more radical are even sometimes given to “lying, stealing and cheating” to advance their agenda. (More “sins”.) And if someone isn’t representing the truth, they automatically are in lies (untruths).
Some of the groups that have at least some agendas and ideologies not based on truth would be: liberals, racists, feminists, hedonists, homosexuals, environmentalists, political parties, various religions/denominations, secularists, various addictions – including blind addiction to happiness and pleasure, and various personal agendas that aren’t in harmony with nature as designed by its Creator.
A problem with people who have agendas (as the Glenn Beck quote stated) is that they are hard to reason with because based on the tenets of their agenda, they allow a blind, knee-jerk, lock step loyalty to those tenets to overrule their ability to reason, as they just parrot the sound bites of those tenets. And the fact that they often use name-calling and emotion to push those sound bites and silence their opponents implicitly says that they don’t have enough confidence in the tenets of the agenda or ideology that they are aligning with to be able to calmly and intelligently present and defend them.
The particular focus here in this writing is a focus on two groups (“blacks” and “Latinos”) whose self-proclaimed leaders and people who find their primary identity in them have generally statistically adhered to certain agendas, one of which is: voting for Democrats. Also included in this focus are the liberals (and especially the radical ones) who have used these groups to promote the liberal agenda.
By the way, as a side note, if the “racist” accusation is going to be loosely thrown around (as is being done these days), it needs to be recognized that the groups who are most guilty of doing this are the finger pointers of racism: liberals and blacks. And that conclusion is based on the very definition of racism … which is a violation of Dr. Martin Luther King’s definition, which is: noticing the color of a person’s skin instead of noticing their individual character. And in a truly color blind society, a person’s race never needs to be mentioned or addressed, (unless it is done in a positive way … that is, mentioning the positive contributions to humankind in general that have come out of various cultures …for example, I love Mexican food and some of the music that has come out of black religious traditions).
So, if the above-mentioned groups have agendas that have tenets that are not within THE truth … what is THE truth? The basic truth behind this life and its mysteries is that there is a Creator of it and that Creator gave us the Bible as a direct communication to let us know what the mysteries behind this life are, what the optimum ways to approach life are, and what determines our destinies (both eternal and here on Earth). That conclusion has been proven to be true in the book THE PROOF that God exists and the Bible is true.
In that book are cited many examples of how following the Bible to the letter has proven to be the most effective, rewarding and harmonious way to approach a society or a personal life.
An example of the good that can happen when changing a society's rules to be more in line with the Bible is the remarkable transformation of the city of Shimabuku, Japan. Shimabuku was rediscovered by American GIs during WWII, 30 years after the Bible was presented to them by an American missionary, who convinced them to adopt the Ten Commandments as Shimabuku’s legal code and the Sermon on the Mount as their guide to social conduct. Nurtured on the Bible, a whole generation of Shimabukans had drawn from it their ideas of human dignity and of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The result was remarkable. Shimabuku for years had no jail, no brothel, no drunkenness, no divorce; and there was a high level of health and happiness. The Bible was referred to to solve any problem that came up. (That is what I did/do in my life too, which has been the exact thing that changed my life for the better).
The bottom line here … and an appeal to any open-minded or religious liberals, blacks and Latinos in this important election year … is to recognize that liberalism is a bad choice for two reasons: (1) It has never worked, but instead has created chaos and grief, both spiritually/experientially and economically (and the current administration is severely hurting the economy by mounting great debts and causing jobs to be lost), and (2) It is against what is in the Bible.
On a more ominous note here is what the Bible says about those who vote for people who promote and legalize sin. (And the Bible says that wisdom begins with a fear of God.)
People are offending God by voting for the proponents of sin (liberals). They also are putting themselves in jeopardy with God. Romans 1:32, “Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them” (for one, by how they vote). And the “things” being spoken of in that verse are spelled out right before that verse and are common tenets in liberalism and secularism. Romans 1:25//31, “Who changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator. For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use of their bodies into that which is unnatural; likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.” (e.g. AIDS.) “Unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, void of understanding, faithless.” And 2Thessalonians 2:12 says, “that all who have not believed the truth but have approved wrongdoing” (by how they vote) “may be condemned.”
Some might view some of these statements by God and some of my statements as harsh. And if they are in one of the liberal agenda groups I mentioned they might even feel attacked. But then again, others might see these statements in the Bible and by me as giving them an opportunity to finally and completely identify with goodness and righteousness. I know for me, a key Bible revelation that got me to convert from being a wimpy liberal who overlooked most sin, into becoming a Christian, was the reality that the Bible says that God “hates” sin and it makes Him very angry. It made me see that deep down I too hated sin and it made me angry, but was too intimidated by my liberal peers to allow myself to see that. I really hated the fact that I and nearly all of my liberal friends were having broken relationships, addictions and lack of deep fulfillment and peace because of liberal ways. It was very liberating for me to see that though my feelings weren’t in line with my liberal friends, they were with an almighty and all good Creator of the universe and me … and who would have the final say over my eternal destiny and my peace on Earth. And it was exhilarating to discover that God had given perfect instructions in the Bible on how I should conduct my life so it would be sinless and in good harmony with my mind/heart/body/spirit, others and God. And I tried them and they worked. I didn’t want to just be “loved” or “understood” as to why I was taking a dysfunctional approach … I just wanted to get on with knowing THE truth and the optimum ways to approach inner and outer life. Taking that new approach allowed a long lost strength in me to emerge. And I became much happier and energized because of it. So basically, I was converted by truth and righteousness, not love or sympathy. The love came later, both from God and the community that I could now feel a part of because we were seeing the same thing: that the optimum way to approach life is to submit our lives to obedience to a holy God, whose rules we had a strong hunger to continually come to know (and still do) through study of the Bible He gave us.
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Byline
Dennis Marcellino is the author of eight books, including The Plague Of Liberalism (which can be seen at www.ThePlagueOfLiberalism.com) and THE PROOF that God exists and the Bible is true (which can be seen at www.ConclusiveProofOfGod.com).
For the media:
His media kit can be seen at www.ThePlagueOfLiberalism.com/mediakit.html.
(I put “Blacks” and “Latinos” in quotes because it feels disrespectful … and it’s actually racist, divisive and un-American … to identify people by the color of their skin. But for the purpose of statistical analysis and identifying a racist problem in our country, I’ll use those terms here.)
How is it possible that two groups who have historical legacies of being religious could vote in elections overwhelmingly for the political party that promotes and legalizes “sin” (homosexuality, abortion, taking God out of the mainstream, etc.) – the Democrats? Blacks have consistently voted in the 90% range for Democrats, and Latinos have voted in the 60-70% range.
The answer to this question can be found in a great statement made recently by Glenn Beck. He said, “When somebody has an agenda, they don’t want to hear the truth.” That is, they let their dominant agenda trump any other agenda they might have. In this case, blacks and Latinos are letting their racial identity trump their religious identity. He also said that when this is the case, the more radical are even sometimes given to “lying, stealing and cheating” to advance their agenda. (More “sins”.) And if someone isn’t representing the truth, they automatically are in lies (untruths).
Some of the groups that have at least some agendas and ideologies not based on truth would be: liberals, racists, feminists, hedonists, homosexuals, environmentalists, political parties, various religions/denominations, secularists, various addictions – including blind addiction to happiness and pleasure, and various personal agendas that aren’t in harmony with nature as designed by its Creator.
A problem with people who have agendas (as the Glenn Beck quote stated) is that they are hard to reason with because based on the tenets of their agenda, they allow a blind, knee-jerk, lock step loyalty to those tenets to overrule their ability to reason, as they just parrot the sound bites of those tenets. And the fact that they often use name-calling and emotion to push those sound bites and silence their opponents implicitly says that they don’t have enough confidence in the tenets of the agenda or ideology that they are aligning with to be able to calmly and intelligently present and defend them.
The particular focus here in this writing is a focus on two groups (“blacks” and “Latinos”) whose self-proclaimed leaders and people who find their primary identity in them have generally statistically adhered to certain agendas, one of which is: voting for Democrats. Also included in this focus are the liberals (and especially the radical ones) who have used these groups to promote the liberal agenda.
By the way, as a side note, if the “racist” accusation is going to be loosely thrown around (as is being done these days), it needs to be recognized that the groups who are most guilty of doing this are the finger pointers of racism: liberals and blacks. And that conclusion is based on the very definition of racism … which is a violation of Dr. Martin Luther King’s definition, which is: noticing the color of a person’s skin instead of noticing their individual character. And in a truly color blind society, a person’s race never needs to be mentioned or addressed, (unless it is done in a positive way … that is, mentioning the positive contributions to humankind in general that have come out of various cultures …for example, I love Mexican food and some of the music that has come out of black religious traditions).
So, if the above-mentioned groups have agendas that have tenets that are not within THE truth … what is THE truth? The basic truth behind this life and its mysteries is that there is a Creator of it and that Creator gave us the Bible as a direct communication to let us know what the mysteries behind this life are, what the optimum ways to approach life are, and what determines our destinies (both eternal and here on Earth). That conclusion has been proven to be true in the book THE PROOF that God exists and the Bible is true.
In that book are cited many examples of how following the Bible to the letter has proven to be the most effective, rewarding and harmonious way to approach a society or a personal life.
An example of the good that can happen when changing a society's rules to be more in line with the Bible is the remarkable transformation of the city of Shimabuku, Japan. Shimabuku was rediscovered by American GIs during WWII, 30 years after the Bible was presented to them by an American missionary, who convinced them to adopt the Ten Commandments as Shimabuku’s legal code and the Sermon on the Mount as their guide to social conduct. Nurtured on the Bible, a whole generation of Shimabukans had drawn from it their ideas of human dignity and of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The result was remarkable. Shimabuku for years had no jail, no brothel, no drunkenness, no divorce; and there was a high level of health and happiness. The Bible was referred to to solve any problem that came up. (That is what I did/do in my life too, which has been the exact thing that changed my life for the better).
The bottom line here … and an appeal to any open-minded or religious liberals, blacks and Latinos in this important election year … is to recognize that liberalism is a bad choice for two reasons: (1) It has never worked, but instead has created chaos and grief, both spiritually/experientially and economically (and the current administration is severely hurting the economy by mounting great debts and causing jobs to be lost), and (2) It is against what is in the Bible.
On a more ominous note here is what the Bible says about those who vote for people who promote and legalize sin. (And the Bible says that wisdom begins with a fear of God.)
People are offending God by voting for the proponents of sin (liberals). They also are putting themselves in jeopardy with God. Romans 1:32, “Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them” (for one, by how they vote). And the “things” being spoken of in that verse are spelled out right before that verse and are common tenets in liberalism and secularism. Romans 1:25//31, “Who changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator. For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use of their bodies into that which is unnatural; likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.” (e.g. AIDS.) “Unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, void of understanding, faithless.” And 2Thessalonians 2:12 says, “that all who have not believed the truth but have approved wrongdoing” (by how they vote) “may be condemned.”
Some might view some of these statements by God and some of my statements as harsh. And if they are in one of the liberal agenda groups I mentioned they might even feel attacked. But then again, others might see these statements in the Bible and by me as giving them an opportunity to finally and completely identify with goodness and righteousness. I know for me, a key Bible revelation that got me to convert from being a wimpy liberal who overlooked most sin, into becoming a Christian, was the reality that the Bible says that God “hates” sin and it makes Him very angry. It made me see that deep down I too hated sin and it made me angry, but was too intimidated by my liberal peers to allow myself to see that. I really hated the fact that I and nearly all of my liberal friends were having broken relationships, addictions and lack of deep fulfillment and peace because of liberal ways. It was very liberating for me to see that though my feelings weren’t in line with my liberal friends, they were with an almighty and all good Creator of the universe and me … and who would have the final say over my eternal destiny and my peace on Earth. And it was exhilarating to discover that God had given perfect instructions in the Bible on how I should conduct my life so it would be sinless and in good harmony with my mind/heart/body/spirit, others and God. And I tried them and they worked. I didn’t want to just be “loved” or “understood” as to why I was taking a dysfunctional approach … I just wanted to get on with knowing THE truth and the optimum ways to approach inner and outer life. Taking that new approach allowed a long lost strength in me to emerge. And I became much happier and energized because of it. So basically, I was converted by truth and righteousness, not love or sympathy. The love came later, both from God and the community that I could now feel a part of because we were seeing the same thing: that the optimum way to approach life is to submit our lives to obedience to a holy God, whose rules we had a strong hunger to continually come to know (and still do) through study of the Bible He gave us.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Byline
Dennis Marcellino is the author of eight books, including The Plague Of Liberalism (which can be seen at www.ThePlagueOfLiberalism.com) and THE PROOF that God exists and the Bible is true (which can be seen at www.ConclusiveProofOfGod.com).
For the media:
His media kit can be seen at www.ThePlagueOfLiberalism.com/mediakit.html.
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