This policy is based on a misconception. The Sunni are resisting the US occupation in arms. The Shia have not joined this rebellion, though Muqtada Sadr and his Mehdi Army fought the US Marines for Najaf last August. A central feature of Iraqi politics is that since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the US has become steadily more unpopular in Iraq outside Kurdistan. This is true among the Shia as well as the Sunni. An opinion poll by Zogby International shows that the Sunni Arabs who want the US out now or very soon total 82 per cent. The proportion of Shia wanting the US to go is less than the Sunni but still overwhelming at 69 per cent. Shia religious leaders have been telling their followers to vote as the quickest way to end the occupation.

This 'guided' election is Bush's best last chance to declare a titanic victory, then bring all his troops home to a big ticker-tape parade before Iraq dissolves into bloody chaos or is taken over by Iran. Otherwise, the U.S. will be stuck forever to its Iraqi tar baby, ruing the day it overthrew old ally, Saddam.

The Bilderberg steering committee was exposed holding its winter meeting at a nostalgic location—the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, Holland where the secret society got its name in 1954. The Jan. 21-23 meeting was discovered by Henk Ruyssenaars of the Foreign Press Foundation.

“Sometime soon Rep. Rangel is preparing to reintroduce legislation to reinstitute the military draft since he strongly feels everyone should share the burden of war,” said Emile Milne, Rangel’s press representative and legislative director Wednesday from his Washington office. “He is essentially reintroducing legislation that failed to gain support last session. However, this time around, I think, it has a better chance of passing.”

At present, U.S. health care costs have reached 15 percent of annual national income and could exceed 30 percent by mid-century. When that figure reaches 25 percent, Rogoff writes, "Americans would see their tax bills more than double.... With oppressive tax burdens and heavy state intervention in health — already the largest sector of the economy — socialism would have crept in through the back door."

Our elite-sponsored politicians, media and educators must be held accountable for teaching three generations of young women to fear men and squander their precious few years of fertility starting a career instead of a family.

Governor Lamm, walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference that our nation and the future of this great democracy is deeply in trouble and worsening fast. If we don't get this immigration monster stopped within three years, it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in its path, especially The American Dream.

As for the demand for more "diversity" at Harvard, for more women professors of math and science, whether or not they are the highest achievers – which was the reason for the conference at which Summers spoke – it is born of a Marxist mindset.

What is new is the degree of commitment by American conservatives to an ancient revolutionary program of world transformation through force of arms. They now applaud an escalated rhetoric of revolution. The revolution was by 1938. But the willingness of conservatives today to abandon their intellectual and moral roots in the anti-French Revolutionary tradition of Edmund Burke has now reached what may be a tipping point.

The whole idea of government-generated propaganda is alien to the American tradition and has about it a distinctly Soviet air. The founding fathers did not try to export their revolution abroad, and explicitly warned against doing so – unlike the founding fathers of Russia's 1917 Communist coup d'etat, who looked upon it as a duty.

This was once our land! Why shouldn’t we have a right to settle in it?” or "The gringos stole the land from us, and we have a right to be here." That land I currently own once belonged to someone else doesn't give the former owners the option of arbitrarily cancelling their purchase agreement at their whim and resuming occupancy. Land wasn't stolen from Mexico by the US, no matter how much the "reconquistas" (reconquerors) try to rewrite history. Mexicans lost the so-called "right to settle in it" when their government accepted $28 million in pre-Civil War (1848-1852) sales payments. A lawful land transaction was duly recorded and remains intact today.

America's policy of foreign intervention, while still debated in the early 20th century, is today accepted as conventional wisdom by both political parties. But what if the overall policy is a colossal mistake, a major error in judgment? Not just bad judgment regarding when and where to impose ourselves, but the entire premise that we have a moral right to meddle in the affairs of others?

If anti-Bushism causes increased anti-Americanism, it stands to reason that the man at the top of the US government should take corrective measures. What is troubling is that President Bush has proved time and again that he is convinced of the moral correctness of his policies. The world can go take a hike as far as he is concerned. The fact of the matter is that everything negative that stems from his actions is the price the United States has to pay for his self-styled moral correctness.

Vigeurie denied that conservatives were in control of our government. Of course, he is absolutely correct - Vigeurie, Paul Craig Roberts and so many others, understand the difference between un-American Jacobins agonizing and aching for power, and plain old American conservatives. And regular conservatives, even harnessing modern communications technology, are not dangerous - if anything, they play a role as a kind of national conscience, a useful function in a crazed democracy.

Intellectually, the tendency toward power worship was torn asunder by the great liberal revolution that began in the middle ages and culminated in 1776, with the generation that proclaimed that political rulers were worthy of distrust, in need of being restrained, and ultimately dispensable.

When we contrast the promised benefits of contraception (spontaneity, romance, pleasure) with the realities that Paul VI predicted (divorce, adultery, political tyranny, even disease), we should not be surprised to discover that the proliferation of contraception has done nothing to slow abortion. On the contrary, the former leads to the latter. It's easy enough to see how abortion steps in when contraception all too frequently fails. But the more profound relationship between contraception and abortion is this: Both are a deliberate rejection of human life, the true end of marriage.

You see, while illegal immigration is a ticking time-bomb that will eventually lead to sudden material destruction, the current, insanely high level of legal immigration is a death-by-a-thousand-cuts that is leading to incremental cultural destruction. The reason for this is threefold: the high levels themselves, the nature of the average modern immigrant and multiculturalism.

Trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and the GATT Final Act, which created the World Trade Organization (WTO), have been designed specifically to destroy national independence and establish the basis for regional and global government. Pending trade agreements, such as the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), have been crafted to accelerate this betrayal of America’s independence.

Despite vicious attacks from media critics and conspicuous snubs from Hollywood insiders, Mel Gibson and his enormously successful film, The Passion of the Christ, received more vindication at the 31st annual People's Choice Awards on January 9. The Passion won the People's Choice Award for best motion picture drama for 2004.

Instead of being the victim of triangulating Democrats, Bush could steal their game plan and take the bull by the horns, Clinton-style. Instead of "staying the course" in Iraq and splitting the GOP – and guaranteeing a Democrat victory in 2008 – a peace-and-prosperity Bush could bring true unity to the country, and send the neocons back to the Democrat lunatic fringe, from whence they came, with one honest speech that he could write all by himself.

*The second-term nominations abound with officials who are comfortable personally with Bush, but do not necessarily follow an ideological course. The first round of nominations contained names provoking outrage on the left: John Ashcroft, Ted Olson, Gale Norton, Linda Chavez (whose nomination was withdrawn) and John Bolton. The second round is less combative.

Under President Bush, the U.S. government collects 16 percent of the GDP in taxes and spends 20 percent. We have a deficit of close to 4 percent of the economy.

From every standpoint, America is a nation over-extended, living beyond its means, mortgaging its future for the present.

In foreign-policy terms, the president is a novel hybrid of realist and idealist: the son of his father, but with large chunks of Woodrow Wilson thrown in. Bush wants to evangelize the world for freedom and democracy - that's his idealistic, Wilsonian side - but is prepared to welcome such allies as China and Pakistan in the war against terror. That's the realist part. Can these two traditions, mutually contradictory, coexist?

Sen. John McCain wants the Senate Armed Services Committee to hold hearings on allegations that the Defense Department may be bending U.S. laws in order to give Secretary Donald Rumsfeld more authority over clandestine overseas operations.

Scales said the military has been conducting clandestine operations much like that described in recent news reports for "many, many years" under different names and auspices.

Abortion is un-American. It baldly violates the first principles of the country, cracking the foundation on which all rights for Americans rest -- the right to life. Unless the right to life is inviolable, none of the rights that presuppose it are inviolable either. The Founding Fathers could not have imagined that the most perilous place in America would end up being a mother's womb.

After listening to his inaugural speech, anyone who thinks President Bush and his handlers are sane needs to visit a psychiatrist. The hubris-filled megalomaniac in the Oval Office has promised the world war without end.

By early next year (2005) Congress will convene and decide whether or not to push through the incognito FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas). If this free-trade pact goes through successfully, a revolution inconceivable since America’s founding will sweep across the American front, unleashing widespread economic instability by uniting North America’s market with Mexico’s, and eventually South America’s.

By waging open-ended foreign wars for "liberty," warned John Quincy Adams, America's ruling philosophy would "insensibly change from [one of] liberty to force...." That warning, sadly, was amply validated by George W. Bush's Second Inaugural Address.

And yet, for all of this, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and other Bush cheerleaders extolled his administration as a force for freedom – and those assessments were assented to by credulous millions nationwide. This is a splendid, albeit tragic, illustration of the insensibility Adams warned about.

In their attempts to manipulate American immigration policy and Americans' opinions, Hispanic-rights groups like MALDEF and LaRaza have dictated that the term "illegal alien" is a "racial slur." Baloney! "Alien" and "illegal alien" are terms found in federal immigration law describing both the individual and the violation. Americans need not apologize for insisting that lawbreakers be called exactly what they are.

As I point out in my article in the current issue of The American Conservative entitled A Tale of Two States: America's Future is Either Texas or California (click here for an excerpt), the Golden State had relatively high rates of white fertility and marriage up through the 1988 election. And that election marked the ninth time in ten Presidential campaigns that California had gone Republican.

In view of the ideological chasm that seems to separate the admirers of Franklin D. Roosevelt from those of George W. Bush, one might suppose that these two presidents exhibited completely different character and conduct, yet a close examination reveals that they actually have much in common. The similarities, however, are scarcely reassuring to those who are worried about what President Bush might do next.

This brief look at the four years growth of the federal budget, deficit, debt, and bureaucracy shows without a doubt that a Republican president and a Republican Congress cannot be trusted to role back the welfare/warfare state even one-tenth of an inch. Given their track record, you can count on them to increase it substantially during the next four years. Never, never, never trust any document written by the Republican Party or anything that comes out of the mouth of any Republican president, congressman, or politician about reducing the size and scope of government. And yes, the same thing goes for the Democrats.

If January's elections produce an Iraq that looks to America as a friend and ally and offers a model democracy for the Arab world, Bush's war will be judged a success. But if the Sunni insurgency tears Iraq apart in chaos and civil war, leading to a U.S. withdrawal, or a second Vietnam, Bush's fate is sealed. He will have launched a war of choice, not necessity, and lost it, something no other president has ever done."

Bush has to reign in right wing radio, right wing television, and right wing religious organizations, which trash Islam on a daily basis. Such trashing of Islam is, of course, great for their ratings and their annual bonuses, but, its unintended consequence is that it generates waves of hatred of Bush the size of a tsunami.

Do we know what it takes to implant democracy in a foreign land? For over a century now, the United States has been sending troops into troubled countries and trying to establish free and stable governments. While the results have not always been disappointing, the track record overall is not good.

Opposition to using the U.S. military to promote democracy was even stronger among respondents. When asked whether U.S. troops should be used to install democratic governments in states ruled by dictators, 63 percent of the CCFR respondents opposed the idea, while only 30 percent favored it.

Midway through his inaugural address, when the president proclaimed "the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world," I wondered if Bush or his speechwriters knew or cared how alien this ultra-revolutionary rhetoric would seem to conservatives of the old school – and soon had my answer:

Alex Jones watched the morning coverage of the inauguration and stated that he noticed the sound would be turned down whenever jeers started to be heard in the backgrouund.

Either this or the commentator would suddenly chime in to drown out the protess by talking about how great Lord Bush was and much he is devoted to preserving freedom (while every action he takes destroys it).

This is an odd ruling elite, the Red State faithful, many of whom reverted to type and wore their cowboy boots and their fur coats to the parade. They are inheritors of both 19th century Methodist notions of human perfectibility and chosenness while, at the same time, the much-older Scotch-Irish sense of swagger and persecution. They are a people who both hate and fear the world and yet want to save it, to teach it what they desperately believe it needs to learn, for its own good. They are people who are convinced they are entitled to run the planet but are also scared to death by almost all of the strange and mysterious folks who inhabit it.

Ironically, the neo-cons who wrote the sacred books of this administration ­ the Patriot Act, Powell's WMD presentation before the UN, the National Security Strategy Report ­ deny the validity of Christianity even as they delight in the blindness of the faithful as a tool to be used to solidify their intent to control the world.

Fifty-eight per cent of the 22,000 who took part in the poll, commissioned by the BBC World Service, said they expected Mr Bush to have a negative impact on peace and security, compared with only 26% who considered him a positive force.

The Republican test going forward, and one voters should hold them to, is whether the party can now put its permanent stamp on Washington in a way that is consistent with its professed conservative philosophy.

The list of no-nos includes backpacks, thermoses, aerosol sprays, glass bottles, coolers, bags larger than 8 by 6 by 4 inches, strollers and -- better hope it doesn't rain -- umbrellas. You won't have to remove your shoes -- not yet, at least.

To the anguish of Christian groups, the authorities have also banned crosses.

With US soldiers dying in Iraq, he could have kept it low-key. Instead, he wants $40m worth of balls, parades, bad food and military display.

Today, into the nest of corruption can the rest of humanity see into, watching as $40,000,000 is wasted to celebrate the triumphant victory over the American people. The coronation of corruption is upon us, full of splendor and arrogance and apathy. When nothing has changed for centuries, even millennia, when the elite possess the confidence that they will continue to rule today and into the future while we continue to drool in kneeling subservience, who can blame them for partying in resplendent accomplishment?

To do nothing is to live in denial and accept the lie of our existence. To sit in silent complacency is to welcome the domination over our lives. The failure to act is an act in failure, and a warm embrace to an unmitigated corruption befalling humankind.

The vast majority of America doesn't want to say it, not even the hundreds of thousands who have groused over the MNF commercial since it ran. But you all feel it, deep down inside and have been conditioned to be ashamed of it. Here, let me say it for you: I don't like this race mixing, either the reality or the media-fabricated illusion, one bit and I want it to stop.

The speediest withdrawal was probably the one that followed President Reagan's decision in February, 1984 to pull a US marine force out of Lebanon after a disastrous 16-month deployment that included the blowing up of 241 US marines in their barracks by a truck bomb.

Wilson did not live to see the consequences of the disastrous peace he brought home from Versailles. President Bush, however, will likely reap the fruits, or witness the futility and failure of his great gamble, before he leaves office.

The minds of many Americans have been sytematically and deliberately decimated to the point that they can no longer tell the difference between truth and lies.

Bush has identified "immigration reform" a.k.a Open Borders as a major goal of his second term. His amnesty proposal, which will be eagerly backed by Arizona’s Senator John McCain and certainly by key Democratic Senators such as Ted Kennedy, and certainly by Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader, would let a huge number of illegal aliens (some say as many as 20 million) become legal US residents with access to welfare programs—something Prop 200 now stops.

Certainly the Bush experience represents something of a teaching moment for the left. What can they learn? Do not trust the state. Do not ask it for anything. Reject power and all its works. Once unleashed, it resists containment. Even if the left will forever loathe capitalism and the market economy, it can come to recognize that the state which tramples on property at home will trample on everyone's liberties, at home and everywhere.

According to the Times, the logs indicate that the U.S. has used the plane to transport abducted “prisoners” to “countries with poor human rights records” where they have been turned over to the authorities for “torture by proxy.”

The Times' transparent double standard, its lip-smacking glee over the arrest of the white man in Mississippi and its weepy apologies for the black killer in Louisiana, tell us what the real point is. "

Americans have been betrayed. Sooner or later Americans will realize that they have been led to defeat in a pointless war by political leaders who they inattentively trusted. They have been misinformed by a sycophantic corporate media too mindful of advertising revenues to risk reporting truths branded unpatriotic by the propagandistic slogan, 'you are with us or against us.'

The Supreme Court is wrestling again this term with several cases that draw a line between the national and state spheres. These 'federalism' cases, usually involving the commerce clause or the 10th Amendment and the principle of state sovereign immunity, have caused some of the last decade's most contentious exchanges on the Rehnquist court. "

On and on the Jewish lobbies went, completely blind to the fact that they were exposing their ruthless determination to humble and control the British Royal Family. Rest assured that this will never happen, and two weeks or so from now, Prince Harry will probably have more than five million admirers, among whom will be historians eager to discover how King Edward the First resolved Prince Harry's current problem. The next 'Jewish Diaspora' seems to be approaching rather quickly, at least in the United Kingdom.

But because Rather simply cannot concede what is true, that he abhors the Right and cannot abide Bush, CBS has had to invoke the Ted Baxter Defense on his behalf: Poor Dan stumbled because he was exhausted by his labors at the GOP convention and covering a hurricane.

The paradigm of Walmartization towards a 'happy world' trumpeted by the transnational companies needs our ignorance and passive indifference to succeed. Paradoxically, those remaining without access to credit or debit cards - in other words, the majority of the planet's inhabitants - will remain out of the reach of this control system. With all its power, Wal-Mart and the transnational needs us to survive."

I would like to welcome you to twenty first century America. America is all government, all the time. Not government ‘of the people, by the people, and for the people’. No, America is now government over the people and the people had better shut the hell up or else. The else is secret detention!

It is true that Christian Zionists are numerically powerful, but a look at history quickly lets us know that their rise in importance in American politics coincided with the desire of Jewish Zionists to broaden their constituency and goes back to the late 60,s and 1970s to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the Arab defeat, and then during the Yom Kippur War in 1973 an oil crisis caused by an embargo by OPEC, the oil cartel, of the western nations that supported Israel in that war.

One is the revelation that the administration sees the US not just as a self-appointed global policeman, but also as the world's prison warder. It is thinking of building jails in foreign countries, mainly ones with grim human rights records, to which it can secretly transfer detainees (unconvicted by any court) for the rest of their lives - a kind of global gulag beyond the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, or any other independent observers or lawyers.

A blunt critique being released today by the Heritage Foundation says President Bush and the Republicans have too often pushed big spending programs, contrary to their campaign promises, made again in 2004, to move the government in a more conservative direction.

We know that Nazis are not funny. When are we going to learn this about Soviet Communism?

We should be able to resolve to change our ways and stop pretending that mass murderers are cool or funny. In that way, we can start paying tribute to the men and women who died at the Wall, or anywhere else, at the hands of Communist dictatorship."

Mr. Frum, the original 'patriotic conservative' who tried to smear the entire anti-war right as 'unpatriotic' back in 2003, has now defected from the ranks of the Open Border lobby, at least in a way . . . But nowhere does our Patriot mention the major problem immigration causes—the creation of a massive subculture of unassimilated Third World aliens inside the country.

It will be interesting to see if Prince Harry manages to maintain the same equilibrium after having slime and public obloquy heaped upon him by the Jewish community of England, most of them first or second-generation foreign immigrants like Michael Howard, the Conservative leader, and a sprinkling of well-remunerated "Holocaust survivors" (i.e., people to whom not very much happened, unlike their less fortunate contemporaries in Treblinka, Dresden, Coventry, and Hiroshima).

The seminal political event of the past several years in America has been the changing political ideology of Middle America from small-government conservatism to a virulent brand of fascism. There is barely any discernable connection between 1994 and 2004. Almost all the issues which were important to red state America then have since fallen off of their radar screen. They are advocating many policies that are in direct conflict with the fundamental tenets of traditional conservatism.

"What Conservatism Is - and What It Isn't . . . Answering that question entails defining conservatism. My dictionary defines 'conserve' as 'to keep in a safe or sound state; to preserve.' Preserve what? Or as Patrick Buchanan famously asked, 'What are conservatives trying to conserve?'"

This army of fascism is the product of years of methodical ingraining of ignorance and indifference into society by those holding the reigns of power. It is the end result of the re-wired human brain preyed upon and feasted on by television and the corporations that control thought through it. Obedient to the monitor, blind to reality, the army now gathering life takes direct commands from the images, sounds and war cries emanated by television. Acting on instinct, and on the televised propaganda they are conditioned to obey and follow, the army now walking among us neither questions nor searches for answers, preferring to exult the fantasies of fiction over the embarrassments of truth, preferring to dwell in ignorance rather than being liberated by knowledge.

Before gangsters like Alberto Gonzales seduced us into abandoning our values, a person was considered innocent before being proven guilty. Now we're locking people away because "the government does not have enough evidence to charge [them] in courts." And everyone, including Democrats, is OK with this.

Liberals have a view of conservative Christians who try to force their religion on other folks, but a real look around shows almost the opposite picture. One of Ann Coulter's greatest insights was that leftists are the new puritans, who can't go to sleep at night fearing that someone, somewhere, is looking upon a religious symbol.

The goal of gun control is not to actually control guns and make the world a safer place, but to control people. It is not as important for you can pass a criminal background check so much as it is that you feel obligated to ask the state for permission to buy a gun. Liberals know gun control laws will not stop criminals, but it will erode the sense of independence and self reliance of regular people until they feel that they can do nothing that does not meet government approval.

"Knowing what we now know, would you design our tax system, Social Security system, the United Nations and the World Bank as they are designed and now operate? Unless you are brain dead, you would have answered no to all the above."

Until recently, governments had fairly limited appetites, if only because they had limited means of taxation, propaganda, and surveillance of their subjects. The government under George W. Bush is far more ravenous than that of George III — not because Bush is a worse man than the old king, but because the nature of government has changed, whether it takes the form of liberal democracy or dictatorship. Indeed, “spreading democracy” may be just one way of spreading modern tyranny.

"By abdicating its constitutional power to declare war against Iraq, Congress embarked on what could be called a 'faith-based' foreign policy endeavor. For its part, the Bush administration acted in manifest bad faith, barraging the public with artfully wrought falsehoods and conducting a shameless, multi-layer bait-and-switch deception."

The politically-correct scholar, finding himself in such tricky situations, is often caught in a double-bind. His post-structuralist and deconstructionist leanings may incline him towards analysing such encounters with an open mind, trying to seek out instances of rational agency, empowerment and positivism at work. But at the back of his mind resides the abiding (political) concern that those very same findings may serve other interests, and be put to use by the omnipresent CIA agent, neo-Conservative American think-tank, or a media already hostile towards Islam and Muslims.

Ironically, Rupert Murdoch’s Weekly Standard, edited by neoconservatives William Kristol and Fred Barnes, today in an op-ed by Jonathan B. Last is highly critical of the report and the treatment of Mapes.

The current invasion of this country by illegal aliens has long been concentrated in our own power elite, starting at the top with President Bush. As is now well known, he has been trying since even before 9-11 to open our borders and please Mexican President Vincente Fox, who has a lot of unemployed excess people he needs to dump in order to relieve his own shortfall economy and to allow remittances from these illegal aliens to serve as foreign aid from the US–estimated at some $15 billion a year. Bush continues to advocate another large amnesty for the 20 million or so illegal aliens now here, one of at least 5 big ones since the early 1970's.

In its latest example of Wal-Mart bashing (Sojourners gives its readers the links to anti-Wal-Mart websites and pathologically publishes attacks on the retail giant), David Batstone and David Chandler compare the company unfavorably with another giant, Ford Motor Company, or at least the Ford of the early 20th Century.

CBS's blue-ribbon panel on journalistic fraud at the network has extended rather than ended the fraud. Instead of exposing a fraud the panel advances a new one: that Dan Rather's fabricated National Guard story wasn't influenced by liberal bias. The panel's report contains a heading called "Factors that Support a Conclusion that a Political Agenda Did Not Motivate the September 8 Segment." Guess what the panel puts under it? "The Previous Work of Rather and Mapes." In other words, the panel considers their previous stories evidence of political neutrality. Are they kidding? The previous work of Rather and Mapes is a glaring factor that supports the conclusion of motivating liberal bias.

"Obsession with centralizing authority by the leadership does not precisely fit the pattern set by Democrats during 40 years of ruling the House. But the new majority party resembles the old one in this sense: having long been in power, they act as though they are sure they will keep it forever. That attitude manifested itself in determination to get rid of Chris Smith. "

The immigration issue is awakening for the simple reason that Americans in areas far removed from the Mexican border are now for the first time beginning to see their local communities transformed by the realities of mass immigration from the Third World - crime, disease, poverty, overcrowding, welfare, the wreckage of schools, and the obvious cultural disintegration that uncontrolled immigration brings.

The Ministry of Immigration has just rejected the request for recognition of my husband, Jonathan Pollard, as a Prisoner of Zion. It explained: "the law states that a Prisoner of Zion is a person who carried out Zionist activities and it is doubtful that espionage is considered such an activity."

Should Vermont secede from the USA and declare itself independent again (as it was from 1777 to 1791) under the name Second Vermont Republic? This question was posed to attendees at a conference and a town meeting, both held in Middlebury, VT on the weekend after the national election, Nov. 5–7; and in both cases the answer was a nearly unanimous YES.

Manipulating Matter :: Global Elite :: Exposing secret world government: "Evidently, government-sponsored research programs are already dedicated to the Technocracy's vision of re-sculpting reality. Bainbridge is certainly no stranger to this vision, as is evidenced by his association with Scientology. In Religion and the Social Order, Bainbridge presented a mandate for scientists to become 'religious engineers' in the development of a new world religion (Bainbridge, 'New Religions, Science, and Secularization'). This new world religion, which Bainbridge calls a 'Church of God Galactic,' would find its origins with science fiction literature (Bainbridge, 'Religions for a Galactic Civilization'). In the formulation of his 'Church,' Bainbridge used the scientistic cult of Scientology as a working model:"

Many of today's CHRISTIAN churches teach a watered down version of the Scriptures that puts the God of the Bible on equal footing with Allah, Buddha, Baal and a host of other religions. Our nation has become a godless society where a man (Michael Marcavage) was arrested for reading from the Bible at a city council meeting in Landsdowne Borough, PA.

"In what Barnett calls a 'Grand March of History' he claims that the U.S. military must be transformed in order to preemptively take control of the gap, so the U.S. can 'manage' the global distribution of resources, people, energy, and money."

You have been rewarded for your unflinching loyalty to George W. Bush with a nomination for Attorney General of the United States. As White House Counsel, you have walked in lockstep with the President. As Attorney General, you will be charged with representing all the people of the United States. Your performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday verified that you will continue to be a yes-man for Bush once you are confirmed.

Gonzales saved racial quotas in the 2003 University of Michigan cases Grutter and Gratz by gelding the anti-affirmative action briefs written by Ted Olson - the truly tragic figure in this Administration.

Given the genius of Catholicism it should come as no surprise that Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is the most popular fundamentalist work of our time, hailed and promoted by fundamentalist preachers. What seems odd at first given the fact that Gibson is not strictly speaking a fundamentalist but a reactionary Catholic on the warpath against Vatican II makes perfect sense when seen in terms of the libidinal structure of Gibson's film and the psychological needs it fuels. The long standing fundamentalist hatred of Catholicism is misplaced. Equally misplaced is the attempt to confine fundamentalism to preachers in the Bible-belt.

"The struggle between the US and al-Qaeda is not about Iraq alone. It is, first and foremost, about reclaiming the Arab Middle East from US dominance. The rest of the Islamic world is the secondary part of its global campaign."

The purpose of this guide is to provide you with practical advice that may prove useful to you in case you have made the difficult decision to search for employment opportunities outside of your country.

The sure way to enter another country is by getting your passport from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the visa, which you may apply for at the embassy or consulate of the country you wish to travel to.

"By consistently underestimating the number of troops necessary for the successful occupation of Iraq, the administration has placed a tremendous burden on the Army Reserve and created this crisis," said the very same West Point, Airborne, and Harvard man who thinks Iraq looks a lot like Korea to him.

Although I truly believe that Bush is not a conservative by any stretch of the imagination, I'll accept that the president and his rabidly loyal base have hijacked the conservative movement.

The fact that "America is about to become a net food importer for the first time in generations" constitutes "death-in-the-family news," Guebert continues. And "that news is made worse by the speed in which ag imports overtook ag exports. In August, ERS predicted a $2.5 billion ag trade surplus for 2005, the skinniest since 1972 but still a surplus. Three months later, though, ERS lowered 2005 exports by $1.5 billion, raised imports by $1 billion (in a curious coincidence, both now are pegged at $56 billion) and the thin margin was gone."

Who among you truly believes that you are unaffected, untouchable, or unaccountable? Will there not be a Judgement Day for each and every one of us, a time when we'll have to answer for all that we have done or not done? Do you believe that perhaps good intentions absolve you from your responsibilities as a member of a much larger community?

While Wal-Mart controls not only the prices of what you buy but the content, as well, our leaders gush about the low unemployment rate. What they don't say is how few of these jobs are rewarding, or pay enough to live on the "Wal-Mart-free" side of town.

In a kind of symbiotic relationship, Wal-Mart and Bush have created a vicious circle. The more the economy worsens, the more people will be forced to shop at Wal-Mart; And the more people shop at Wal-Mart, the more the economy will worsen.

Freddie Mac's and Fannie Mae's securities have proven so attractive to foreign investors that those securities routinely "insource" between 20 percent and 25 percent of all the dollars our current account deficits send abroad.

The platform of the Democratic Party is built on a human rights abuse -- abortion. Yet Democrats still pose as champions of human rights. Today Senate Democrats will saddle up on their high horses to trample Alberto Gonzales for allegedly sanctioning human rights abuses against terrorists and detainees. The party of abortion will inveigh against "torture." Democrats who rationalize the near-infanticide of partial-birth abortion will accuse Gonzales of rationalizing detainee mistreatment.

In the wake of the tsunami disaster in Indonesia, governments throughout the world are doing what governments always do: throwing money at the problem. In this case, the money is referred to as "foreign aid."

January 7, 2005 marks the 20th anniversary of what came to be known throughout the world as "The Great Holocaust Trial" thanks chiefly to the drive, determination, courage and vision of one man, Ernst Zundel, supported by those he inspired.

A 35-year veteran clandestine CIA officer and adviser to former director George Tenet told me, first, that Arafat did not plan the second intifada; second, that the status quo theory that "he couldn't get what he wanted so he chose the path of violence" is a lie.

Radical restructuring of the legal industry is now a necessity to slow and stop the legal piracy committed by persons who are supposed to protect our rights but have instead twisted and distorted the legal system into their own, personal cash-cow.

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Though illegal aliens can be barred from adjusting status for other factors, “aggravated felons” can and do file for “green cards” as a matter of routine.

So as long as the EOIR and the federal courts have their fingers in the immigration pie, there’s really not much to stop illegal aliens from getting some type of legal status somehow . . . as long as they keep coming back to try their hand with the federal immigration bureaucracy.

The Bush administration has fused Orwell with Kafka in the same way someone fused the cry of an infant with that of a cat from the Meow Mix television commercial. The upshot is Gonzales, ticketed maybe for the Supreme Court because he winked at torture and yessed the president. He's Kafka's man, Orwell's boy and Bush's pussycat. Know him for his roar.

Meow.

Here are what will be the big stories of 2005, according to my cloudy crystal ball:

So no true democracy, just U.S.-implemented "guided democracy" in Iraq, meaning a Vichy regime that keeps U.S. bases, sells oil cheap, makes nice to Israel, and allows U.S. firms to exploit Iraq's wealth.

Under the proposal, the first-year benefits for retirees would be calculated using inflation rates rather than the rise in wages over a worker's lifetime. Because wages tend to rise considerably faster than inflation, the new formula would stunt the growth of benefits, slowly at first but more quickly by the middle of the century.

"The report also points out the cost of the underground economy of illegal aliens working in the U.S. is costing the federal government hundred of billions of dollars in unpaid income taxes and could lead to an higher impact on taxpayers if President Bush's amnesty proposal is passed into law. "

It’s a strange and disturbing echo of the “America: love it or leave it” twaddle that rent this country three decades ago. Down that road lies a divisive jingoism more dangerous than any revelation of abuse.

The 32-page book, The Guide for the Mexican Migrant, was published in December by Mexico's Foreign Ministry. Using simple language, the book offers safety information for border crossers, a primer on their legal rights and advice on living unobtrusively in the United States.

"Most importantly, immigration reform was a campaign issue in dozens of 2004 elections. Our side lost more than we won. But the important thing is that we fielded good, solid candidates - too numerous to list - who never backed down."

As we see the moral superiority of Egeland on parade, so we annually witness the rage and resentment of Third World regimes against America -- that we are responsible for their poverty, that we do not give enough to them -- in the General Assembly and at U.N. conferences. Recall the one in Durban, South Africa, three years ago, where reparations for slavery were demanded, but only of the West.

Think about that. Those who dare criticize the commander-in-chief will be attacked. This is, in my opinion, the most important -- the most critical -- reason we must not be silenced.

"The idea that today's conservatives are in any way defenders of individual liberty, the free market, and what Russell Kirk called 'the permanent things,' i.e., the sacred traditions that have accumulated over time to constitute the core of our Judeo-Christian culture, is no longer a defensible proposition. Instead, what used to be called the conservative movement has morphed, almost overnight, into a coterie of moral monsters, whose political program is one of unmitigated evil. "

The only reason America changed after Sept. 11, 2001, was because the attack shook Americans out of their complacency, which was unrealistic in the first place. Several people, including me, had warned that we would eventually be hit by terrorists if we continued to involve ourselves in Middle Eastern quarrels. The other reason America changed was because people in Washington seized on the event to do things they had wanted to do anyway, such as invade Afghanistan and Iraq. It is no accident that the current president of Afghanistan and the current U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan were both employees of the oil company that had unsuccessfully attempted to negotiate a pipeline deal with the Taliban.

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the chief architect of Pope John Paul II's traditionalist moral policy, has long been a bugaboo for liberal Catholics. But they had stopped worrying that the German might one day ascend to St. Peter's throne. His hard-line views and blunt approach had earned him the epithet of panzerkardinal and too many enemies. Well, their worrying may now resume. Sources in Rome tell TIME that Ratzinger has re-emerged as the top papal candidate within the Vatican hierarchy, joining other front runners such as Dionigi Tettamanzi of Milan and Claudio Hummes of Sao Paolo. "The Ratzinger solution is definitely on," said a well-placed Vatican insider.

George W. Bush’s vision for America’s future is coming into clearer focus following Election 2004: For the next generation or more, it appears the American people will be asked to sacrifice their children, their tax dollars and possibly the remnants of their democracy to what a top U.S. commander now candidly calls the “Long War.”