As the world mourned the passing of John Paul II, who never ceased defending the right to life of the unborn, a thought occurred. If George W. Bush had nominated John Paul II to a federal judgeship, every Senate Democrat would have voted to kill his nomination, and filibustered it to death if it ever reached the Senate floor.

The present conflagration over lower federal court appointees is the warm-up, so to speak, for the war that will start the instant President Bush seeks to fill the first Supreme Court vacancy in a decade. We’re going to hate every minute of it, I promise. We’re going to rage and snarl and shake our fists at each other and say things related more to the nominee’s presumed intentions than to his qualifications and character. We’re going to get down and dirty and low and nasty.

A recent small gathering of conservatives who dared to criticize judicial supremacists has caused an outpouring of paranoia among liberals and others who want judges to make the major social and political decisions of our times. The ad hoc group called the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration suddenly became the target of pack journalism.

The severing of ethics from morality in D.C. made it possible for Bill Clinton to claim that he would run "the most ethical administration ever." He had no intention of following ethical rules, big or small, but it sounded good at the time and he wanted to signal to good-government types that he would pay homage to the thicket of rules that cropped up after Watergate. Clinton liked the idea that one could acquire ethics from periodic sessions with counselors. For a time he traveled with a battalion of them as if his character formation was something he could delegate to experts.

Either way, friends of immigration reform have already scored a victory. By putting immigration at the center of their campaign, the Tories have both forced into public view and legitimated a whole range of concerns which, until quite recently, were left to the taboo fringes of British politics.

Mass immigration is a global problem. The same rules of discourse that until recently prevented discussion of the issue in Britain still prevent discussion of it in the United States.

Three of Britain's leading businessmen refused to sign a letter endorsing Tony Blair because of the invasion of Iraq.

The three - Sir Terence Conran, Tim Waterstone and David Potter, the chairman of Psion - are long-standing Labour supporters and each of them signed a letter backing the party before the 1997 and 2001 elections.

States and localities have a strong incentive to worry about illegal immigrants - nearly 5 percent of them have criminal records. The burden of providing education, healthcare, and prison cells for illegal immigrants falls heavily on state and local governments. And these aliens push down wages for legal migrants and Americans, and often don't pay income taxes.

The Open Society Institute, a private foundation controlled by liberal billionaire and political activist George Soros, received more than $30 million from U.S. government agencies between 1998 and 2003. Last year, Soros donated at least $20 million of his own money to such liberal groups as Moveon.org, in a failed attempt to block the re-election of President George W. Bush.

At the end of last month, the US Selective Service System issued a report assuring President George W Bush that it would be ready to implement a draft within 75 days. While stirring up a storm of speculation, this report may actually be the least compelling harbinger of military conscription.

In so doing, they are behaving as if the Senate is supposed to have equal say with the president in deciding who sits on the court. That is nonsense.

The Constitution could not be clearer. The nomination is made by the president alone. The Senate is to give its advice and consent—not demand ideological purity.

How much of our dollar stake we have lost depends on how much we originally paid for it. Uncle Sam let his dollar fall, or rather through his deliberate political economic policies drove it down, by 40%, from 80 cents to the euro to 133 cents. The dollar is down by a similar factor against the yen, yuan and other currencies. And it is still declining, indeed it is apt to plummet altogether.

How will the America we leave to our children stack up against the America our parents left to us? What will future generations think of us? Will we be known as the preservers and expanders of the beautiful legacy, or as its destroyers? By our actions or inactions, we're deciding which it will be. Right now.

"Unlike the United Nations, the WTO can actually require that a country change its laws, regulations and precedents -– not simply national laws but often state and local laws," comments Zakaria, approvingly. "Its rulings on disputes between nations are binding. It is undemocratic and filled with technocrats. And it was an American creation that [many] conservatives supported wholeheartedly."

"Security for whom? For the aged?" asked conservative columnist John T. Flynn in his 1948 book, The Roosevelt Myth.

"What of the millions of people who through long years of thrift and saving have been providing their own security? What of the millions who have been scratching for years to pay for their life insurance and annuities, putting money in savings banks, commercial banks, buying government and corporation bonds to protect themselves in their old age?" Mr. Flynn asked, nearly 60 years ago. "These thrifty people have seen one-half their retirement funds wiped out by the Roosevelt inflation that has cut the purchasing power of the dollar in two."

What Benedict XVI is telling the world and dissident Catholics is: It is not Christ’s church that must change its teaching, it is you who must change your hearts. Like Christ himself, Benedict XVI will be reviled because he has said no to the world, the flesh and the Devil.

An internal TC document obtained by AFP said “Europeans must be more explicit, privately if not publicly, in committing themselves to sanctions if Iran resumes its uranium enrichment program. For its part, the U.S. needs to engage the Iranians not just on the economic front but also on questions of regional security.”

Incredibly, in light of all the direct evidence linking Strassmeir to the OKC bombing, the FBI didn’t interview him until April 30, 1996, and this wasn’t even done in person, but via telephone. Such a blatant miscarriage of justice is even more damning when we consider that Strassmeir remained in the United States for eight months after the bombing, and didn’t depart for Germany until January, 1996.

What are the alternatives to US-controlled electoral processes and imperial penetration of civil society organizations designed to curtail national independence and popular sovereignty?

They remind me of those we call RINOs -- Republicans in name only, sometime adherents of that brand of Marxism lite now the official creed of the Democrats.

They are the CINOs -- Catholics in name only -- adherents of the new religion of anything goes as long as it is acceptable to the majority. They are weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth over the selection of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, unhappy with the reality of his papacy and writhing in frustration over their inability to force their Church to make changes it cannot make and remain the Roman Catholic Church.

Since the end of the Cold War, having come to value military power for its own sake, the United States has abandoned this principle and is committed as a matter of policy to maintaining military capabilities far in excess of those of any would-be adversary or combination of adversaries. This commitment finds both a qualitative and quantitative expression, with the US military establishment dwarfing that of even America's closest ally.

Did legalizing abortion in the early ’70s reduce crime in the late ’90s by allowing “pre-emptive capital punishment” of potential troublemakers? Or did the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, by outmoding shotgun weddings, adoption, and respect for life, instead make more murderous the early ’90s crack wars fought by the first generation of youths to survive legalized abortion?

Today's Wilsonians, with father-and-son Bush in the van, are far more dangerous to America than the late, unlamented Wilson. Their ignorance of the Founders' intentions and lack of any semblance of the Founders' wisdom have made them democracy-crusaders in every blood-spilling sense of the phrase. Knowing nothing of, and thus having no respect for, the long and bloody post-Runnymede struggle of Americans and their ancestors to build an equitable democracy at home, the new Wilsonians are using – and intend to expand the use of – the U.S. military to seek overseas the unobtainable, war-inducing goals of the crazed Woodrow.

The new pope’s refusal to bow before the idols of our age is enough to set some people’s teeth on edge. But he does not stop there: In his new book, Ratzinger calls on Europe to return to its Christian roots. He calls Europe’s “passionately demanded multiculturalism” a “renunciation” of and “fleeing” from “what is one’s own.”

The timing of the governor's statement is interesting as well. In conjunction with the skyrocketing popularity of "Broken Borders" with CNN's Lou Dobbs, a program that night after night delivers the facts, reveals the claptrap and operates on a keen bedrock of immigration common sense, the Schwarzenegger administration also realizes that border security will be at the forefront when a national drive for immigration reform, led by former San Diego mayor and talk show host Roger Hedgecock, commences in Washington on April 23.

But people listen to conservative talk because they want to, not because federal regulators force them to. To claim that "diversity of view" is lacking in the era of blogs and cable news, moreover, is downright silly. Complaints about fairness are really about driving out conservative viewpoints. Sure, talk radio is partisan, sometimes overheated. But it's also a source of argument and information. Together with Fox News and the blogosphere, it has given the right a chance to break through the liberal monoculture and be heard. For that, anyone who supports spirited public debate should be grateful.

House Bill 2575 would automatically register young men for Selective Service when they sign up for licenses or state identification cards.

“There is a significant difference in moral judgments that an individual makes between applying for issuance or renewal of a driver’s license, permit or an identification card on the one hand and registering with the Selective Service System on the other,” says a statement written by Oregon Catholic Conference executive director Bob Castagna and read to the House Transportation Committee March 30 by Philip Kennedy Wong of Ecumenical Ministries.

"We Border Patrol agents may work for the U.S. government, but we are Americans first – fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and friends – members of the community, then we are citizens of the United States, then we are federal employees," the agent continued.

Except that it really is. In fact, in economic life, there is hardly anything more certain than demographics. It’s the "death" half of "nothing is sure except death and taxes." The boomers are going to see to it politically that as they approach death, the workers are going to pay more taxes.

The boom is off the rose. The Dow has gone down since the date of Dent’s interview. Five years have passed by, and there is no boom in sight.

Now Pope Benedict XVI, Ratzinger, using such potent phrases, will prove a devastating foe to a misnamed Enlightenment culture that has long eyed the Church as the only institution left to neutralize through "liberal reforms." The power of his election can be measured in the escalating hysteria in the wake of it: like clockwork, the elite's fake love and interest in the Church after John Paul II's death has reverted to real hate now they know it's hopeless to try and steer it. One thing animates the hate: the new pope's unwillingness to substitute the ever-changing tenets of modern liberalism for the timeless teachings of Jesus Christ.

Whatever may be said of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, he has fought more tenaciously for GOP principles, as he understands them, and for his party than any congressmen in the memory of this writer.

And because he is a Christian conservative and cultural warrior who has liberal scalps on his office wall, the Liberal Establishment and Big Media loathe him and mean to take him down. Whether they succeed will depend on the GOP on Capitol Hill and President Bush.

Illegal aliens not only work on our airplanes, they also have unfettered access to our airports. Just recently 14 Brazilian nationals who were working illegally as janitors were arrested at Logan International Airport. Allowing these illegals to work and to give them access to the inside of the terminal is the largest lapse of security at that airport since the 9/11 attacks.

Incidents such as these are just the tip of the iceberg.

The central theme of the speech was the dangers of relativism, which is after all the opposite of the idea of Truth. What is relativism if not the belief that no truth exists that is superior to mere opinion? In the relativist mind, thinking itself is useless – since there’s no truth to investigate.

He explained that a free society can only subsist where people share basic moral convictions and high moral standards. He further argued that these convictions need not be ‘imposed or even arbitrarily defined by external coercion’."

Not by chance Ratzinger was, so to speak, the theological killer of the "liberation theology," an attempt to merge Christian tradition with Marxist ideology.

US corporations justify their offshore operations as essential to gain a foothold in emerging Asian markets. The Hira brothers believe this is self-delusion. "There is no evidence that they will be able to outcompete local Chinese and Indian companies, who are very rapidly assimilating the technology and know-how from the local US plants. In fact, studies show that Indian IT companies have been consistently outcompeting their US counterparts, even in US markets. Thus, it is time for CEOs to start thinking about whether they are fine with their own jobs being outsourced as well."

If it’s found that attacking Islamists came through what used to be our southern border, what happened to President Nixon and the Republicans will look tame.

President Bush doesn’t see the irony in telling Israel to control their population within borders – point blank – but being unwilling to demand the same of Mexico. Why are some borders worth keeping and our own a sham? This open joke may become an open sore after another mass murder of Americans.

Does anyone have any idea why Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, is being kept out of the United States—and away from his U.S. citizen wife and children in Dallas, Texas—while millions of illegal aliens and previously-deported criminals are free to roam America from sea to shining sea?

The answer is just another confirmation of the late Sam Francis’ description of America’s current state of affairs: “anarcho-tyranny.”

The largest local union of Border Patrol agents in the country has declared its support for the Minuteman Project in Arizona, while at the same time slamming both the American Civil Liberties Union and President Bush.

"The Minutemen have made it very clear that they fully support rank-and-file Border Patrol agents. If only we had such support from the politicians we have to work for (aren't we really supposed to be working for the citizens of this country anyway?)"

We know we are living lies. We know that what we see and live is not truth. We hear and watch their non-stop manipulations and yet we still vote and participate in their immoral practices and enterprises. I’m afraid that we’ve lost many of our God-given instincts and intuitions as human beings living in the world they’ve created. I’m afraid our souls are damaged and numb and perhaps stopped seeking truth and justice.

As high tariffs and low or no income taxes made the GOP America's Party from 1860 to 1932, the Wilsonianism of Bush I and Bush II – open borders, free trade, wars for global democracy – has destroyed the Nixon-Reagan New Majority that used to give the GOP 49-state landslides. Bush carried 31 states in his re-election bid. He would have lost had Democrats capitalized on the free-trade folly that put in play, until the final hours, the indispensable Republican state of Ohio.

In August 1995, four months after the OKC bombing, an inmate died in the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City. Federal officials ruled the death of Kenneth Michael Trentadue a suicide. However, when Trentadue’s family finally got his body, they knew the “suicide” was really a homicide. Moreover, it was obvious that he had been tortured, brutally beaten, and strangled. His body was covered with bruises and lacerations. The Oklahoma Medical Examiner and the federal government’s own forensic pathologists agreed that this was a case of murder, not suicide. But crucial evidence was “lost,” the crime scene was destroyed, and witnesses were pressured to change their testimony.

Last week, the Israeli government indicted the former nuclear technician on 22 counts of violating restrictions it had imposed upon him last April. A hearing date has not yet been announced.

During the past year Vanunu has openly defied the Israeli authorities. Indeed, on the very day, last spring, when he completed his 18 year sentence for treason, Vanunu walked out of Ashkelon prison to the cheers of his supporters and immediately violated the government’s restrictions by issuing a press statement on the nuclear issue.

Permit me to draw your attention to what strikes me as the most profound political paradox of our times. The US government is larger, more consolidated, more powerful, and more intrusive than it has ever been in its history – indeed our sweet land of liberty is now host to the most powerful leviathan state that has ever existed.

The only real restraint against all forms of government is public opinion. A public that says no to the state is the best defense against despotism, and the best cultural and political context in which liberty grows and thrives. Our times have taught us that world economy does not need the state. As the old liberals said, society contains within itself the capacity for self-management. Our experience in our families and communities has taught that the state does very little to our benefit. Our experience in our workplaces has taught us that the state makes productivity more difficult and gives us very little to nothing in return.

Former Oklahoma State Representative Charles Key, co-author of “The Final Report”*, in cooperation with The OKC Bombing Investigation Committee, REACH committee, and writer/documentary film producer Christopher Emery are pleased to announce “The OKC Bombing: A Day of Truth ~ Ten Years Later” reception, dinner, and speakers forum to be held in Oklahoma City on Tuesday, April 19th and Wednesday, April 20th, 2005.

A paleo’s-eye view at the Star Trek convention of the American Right.

Sam Francis, who died a few days before the conference, spent the last 15 years explaining why the conservative movement has been a failure. From the mood of most of the attendees at CPAC, you would not get that impression. Rather, they were exuberant, triumphalist. Republicans control both houses of Congress, the presidency, and the majority of the governorships across the country. Fox News and the Internet give the Right a voice alongside the traditionally liberal print and television media. But what very few would admit, or even care about, is that government is still getting bigger, abortion is no closer to being banned than it was 20 years ago, homosexual marriage seems to be inevitable, and immigration is inundating our country at unprecedented rates. If electing Republicans and waging wars is the gauge, then the movement has been a gleaming success. But if that becomes conservatism’s raison d’etre, we can pray for nothing more than its failure.

Those in Congress who want to do what is right for the country must get serious about the federal deficit. The worst thing is to have Congress and the White House do little and to have the nightmarish days of the 1970s return. CARFA is no cure-all to the soaring deficit but it is one simple step to help arrest soaring domestic discretionary spending. Those who are concerned had better speak up now.

What worries me is the subconscious hold that movies exert over our imaginations, especially those of the youth. Nowadays the young prefer entertainment to exceed reality, ergo the endless car-crashes, explosions, and violence, so acting means being aggressive, foul-mouthed, and anti-social.

Key facts of this scandal were revealed in an October report from the Inspector General of the Social Security Administration (SSA). The report examines the records of the 100 companies that filed the most W-2 reports from 1997-2001 on which the names and/or Social Security Numbers did not match SSA records and that SSA--even after some investigation--could not credit to a known taxpayer.

It's hard to underestimate the effect a case like this has on national-security professionals. For cynics, it shows that big players get off easy when they commit the crimes smaller fry lose their careers over. Meanwhile, spies, policy-makers and other handlers of secrets are effectively being told their efforts aren't taken seriously. It's a classic Washington double standard.

The "Ethics Coalition" consists of Democracy 21, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Common Cause, Public Citizen, Public Campaign, Center for Responsive Politics, and the Campaign Legal center. Most of these are subsidized by Soros for the purpose of attacking Republicans. While these organizations purport to be non-partisan watchdogs, in fact they almost never target ethical abuses by Democrats.

As long as the U.S. remains in the UN, it makes no material difference where the UN’s headquarters is located. After all, the World Trade Organization, which is already issuing rulings that have a direct impact on our economy, is headquartered in Geneva, not New York. Granted, removal of UN Headquarters to Geneva (or, more appropriately, to Moscow or Beijing) would do much to improve the civic hygiene of New York City. But with the Bush administration committed to strengthening the UN, nothing would be gained by merely changing its address. And this reality is probably not lost on the PR flacks who created Move America Forward, who have distinguished themselves only by the slavishness with which they’ve shilled for the Bush administration.

Outsourcing is labor arbitrage. Cheaper foreign labor is being substituted for more expensive First World labor. Higher productivity no longer protects the wages and salaries of First World employees from cheap foreign labor. Political change in Asia has made it easy to move First World capital and technology to cheap labor, and the Internet has made it easy to move cheap labor to First World capital and technology. When working with First World capital and technology, foreign labor is just as productive—and a lot cheaper.

The CAFTA trading partners are simply too poor and too small to serve as major consumer markets for anything made in America, if indeed we still are manufacturing anything in this country. But with 40 percent of workers in Central America earning less than $2 a day, CAFTA will pit the working poor of these countries against American workers, especially textile workers and small farmers. U.S. multinationals don't exactly have a great track record when it comes to keeping jobs at home in the face of cheaper labor overseas.

Is America a democratic republic, where the laws are made by elected legislators? Are we a federal republic, where social questions are decided by the states?

Or has America become a judicial dictatorship, where Supreme Court justices render final judgment on all social and moral issues -- from the death penalty to abortion to homosexual rights to religious displays to the Pledge of Allegiance. This question of power lies behind the "Judges War" that has broken out in this capital.

We need to amend our view of personal responsibility in such a way that we: (1) require that any natural consequences resulting from a person's behavior, both private and public, be borne solely by that person and (2) hold people entirely responsible for their own actions and entirely blameless for everyone else's.

Much of the media coverage and virtually all of the 'government' comment on the Minuteman Project has been negative.

Despite measurable success, the Main Stream Media and bureaucrats of all stripes continue to denigrate what is proving to be a good thing. A good thing however that personifies those who don’t want to be confused with facts that contradict a preconceived opinion or prejudice.

Paper presented to the Ninth International Revisionist Conference.

In the eyes of posterity it will inevitably seem that, in safeguarding our freedom, we destroyed it. The vast clandestine apparatus we built up to prove our enemies' resources and intentions only served in the end to confuse our own purposes; that practice of deceiving others for the good of the state led infallibly to our deceiving ourselves; and that vast army of clandestine personnel built up to execute these purposes were soon caught up in the web of their own sick fantasies, with disastrous consequences for them and us.

-- Malcom Muggeridge
May 1966

Over the past several decades, we have gotten used to judges being above the law, so it was perhaps inevitable that we would now be asked to get used to the idea that judges are above criticism.

Still, now that the Constitution is no longer viable and the time many of us spent trying to defend it is now just so many empty hours, what better way to pass it than by playing a spirited round of "Pick the President"?

Historically, religion always represented a threat to government because it competes for the loyalties of the people. In modern America, however, most religious institutions abandoned their independence long ago, and now serve as cheerleaders for state policies like social services, faith-based welfare, and military aggression in the name of democracy. Few American churches challenge state actions at all, provided their tax-exempt status is maintained. This is why Washington politicians ostensibly celebrate religion – it no longer threatens their supremacy. Government has co-opted religion and family as the primary organizing principle of our society. The federal government is boss, and everybody knows it. But no politician will ever produce even a tiny fraction of the legacy left by Pope John Paul II.

The American people have been bamboozled for more than a generation now that their government can safely ignore God and his moral standards. The principal underlying presumption in this is that the God of the Bible is irrelevant. The presumption is that there is not really a God at all, or if there is a God, he is either too impotent or too distant to be concerned with the affairs of men. This humanist philosophy presumes that the wisdom of man is the standard of all things. There is no fear of a God that is all-powerful, all-wise, sovereign over all of nature and the affairs of men, and who is himself the one and absolute standard of truth, good and right.

Frank Luntz is a pollster and propagandist for the Republican Party and Fortune 100 companies, but in addition, one of his main preoccupations is defending Israel's image abroad. Luntz is a proponent of what Zionists call hasbara, i.e., an aggressive propaganda campaign to whitewash Israel's image in the US [15]. So, from the funding sources we can surmise that pro-Israeli propaganda is one of the purposes of Horowitz's projects.

"84 percent of Americans believe that Jesus is God or the son of God, compared to 46 percent of the British… And over 70 percent of Americans believe in hell, compared to only 28 percent of the British… Nearly 45 percent of Americans attend church … once a week, compared to … 13 percent of the British… Between 39 and 46 percent of Americans describe themselves as evangelical or born-again Christians."

At least some American Christians are building alternative institutions to shield their families from decadent popular culture. But the British working class appear wholly addicted to the prolefeed on the telly.

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy?

A Must Watch Documentary

What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine. Has the military become too important in American life?

While the church has maintained her numerical strength in America, this is due only to immigration. As one Chicago priest said, each week he buries a Lithuanian or Polish Catholic – and baptizes two Hispanic babies.

To the extent that the solution to our problems lies in individual repentance, faith, hope and love, each of us holds the answer in his own hands. But to the extent that our lives are affected by public policy, our efforts are greatly hampered by the system of court-imposed restrictions and compulsions that today’s liberals call “the living Constitution.”

The purpose of the TOPOFF anti-terrorist exercises is not to "defend America" against terrorists, but to build a consensus within federal, State and municipal bodies, as well as within the business community and civil society (hospitals, schools, etc.) that this illusive outside enemy exists and that "the threat is real".

True, religion is based on revelation not subject to proof by inductive reasoning. You either believe it or you don't. Much of science, however, is based on speculation also not subject to proof by inductive reasoning. Evolution and the big bang are theories, not facts.

The new game rules are the art of War; the new war. The war is not fought just on land, but in the battlefield of the mind; its weapons are not swords or guns, it is our Arts, our Sciences, our actions and our very way of living. Our ammunition is not bullets and bombs, it is ideas. Ideas so powerful, so radical, so dangerous they could be considered toxic, and to be handles with care.

This is what he said:

You must be strong with love, which is stronger than death. . . . When we are strong with the Spirit of God, we are also strong with the faith of man. . . . There is therefore no need to fear. . . . So . . . I beg you: Never lose your trust, do not be defeated, do not be discouraged. . . . Always seek spiritual power from Him from whom countless generations of our fathers and mothers have found it. Never detach yourselves from Him. Never lose your spiritual freedom.

The Pope’s commitment to human dignity, grounded in the teachings of Christ, led him to become one of the most eloquent spokesmen for the consistent ethic of life, exemplified by his struggles against abortion, war, euthanasia, and the death penalty.

Unfortunately, few in American politics today adhere to the consistent ethic of life, thus we see some who cheered the Pope’s stand against the war and the death penalty while downplaying or even openly defying his teachings against abortion and euthanasia.

Let's face the facts. The game is over and we -- the "reality-based community," the believers in genuine democracy and law, the heirs of Jefferson and Madison, Emerson and Thoreau, the toilers and dreamers, all those who seek to rise above the beast within and shape the brutal chaos of existence into something higher, richer and imbued with meaning -- have lost. The better world we thought had been won out of the blood and horror of history -- a realm of enlightenment that often found its best embodiment in the ideals and aspirations of the American Republic -- is gone. It's been swallowed by darkness, by ravening greed, by bestial spirits and by willful primitives who now possess overwhelming instruments of power and dominion.

The number of Mexican migrants trying to sneak into the U.S.across the Arizona border has dropped by half since hundreds of U.S. civilians began guarding the area earlier this week, say Mexican officials assigned to protect their citizens.

Both surely know in their hearts that the real culprit is the irresistible appeal of secular hedonism to healthy, busy, well-educated populations. We live, as never before in human history, in a garden of delights, with something new to distract and delight us every day. None of that is enough to turn the heads of those who are truly, constitutionally devout; but not many human beings are, nor ever have been, that committed to their faith. And so the flock wanders away to the rides, the prize booths, and the freak shows.

The Clintons' reaction when Berger was caught? The former president's comments sound just too scripted to believe: He laughed and said that it was typical of Sandy to be disorganized and forget how he handled documents. Quite a comment about the man he appointed to superintend the nation's secrets.

The ugly face of fascism appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday.

It appeared twice: With Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and again with FBI Director Robert Mueller as both demanded Congress not only reauthorize the rights-robbing USA Patriot Act but expand the ability of the federal government’s goose-stepping storm troopers to invade the privacy of Americans and ignore the protections of the Constitution.

As secularization picked up speed in the 18th and 19th century and went into overdrive in the 20th, modern liberals militated to secularize and control everything, including the Catholic Church, which they regarded as the only cultural obstacle left to surmount. Enlightenment dilettante Denis Diderot spoke of strangling the last priest with "the guts of the last king."

This Op-Ed is worth remembering when the liberals, both outside and inside the Church, begin their march for "reforms" on the grave of Pope John Paul II. The roses that they lay on it have many thorns.

It is appalling that many defenders of the war in Iraq are Christians; it is even worse when they appeal to Scripture to excuse or justify a senseless war that has now resulted in the deaths of over 1,500 Americans and the wounding of countless thousands more.

We have lost our way by rejecting the beliefs that made our country great. We no longer trust in trade, friendship, peace, the Constitution, and the principle of neutrality while avoiding entangling alliances with the rest of the world. Spreading the message of hope and freedom by setting an example for the world has been replaced by a belief that use of armed might is the only practical tool to influence the world – and we have accepted, as the only superpower, the principle of initiating war against others.

Darwinism excludes the supernatural realm and then looks to unintelligible, lifeless matter for understanding. Intelligent design acknowledges the handiwork of an intelligent Creator. If the Creator is able to create and sustain all things, it stands to reason that he is able to protect and bless our land. What also follows is the fact which makes Darwinists cringe: men are accountable to God.

Liberals may think of themselves as people who believe in certain principles but, if you observe their actual behavior, you are likely to discover that most liberals have a certain set of attitudes, rather than principles.

In an era of lapsed faith and rampant heterodoxy all over the Western world, the trials facing the successor to John Paul II will be greater than those experienced by Pius IX. In an era of resurgent jihad, collapsing birthrates and migratory deluge, the geopolitical threat to traditionally Christian nations and societies is graver today than at the time of Pius V. All Christians, regardless of denomination, should pray that the new pontiff will understand, name, and confront the unprecedented twin peril of disbelief from within and conquest from without.

According to records maintained by an organization called the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, as of April of this year, 372 towns, cities and counties, and five of the 50 states, have passed laws in one way or another declaring themselves to be "Patriot Act free zones."

What blindsided liberals after 1978 was the ability of conservatives to commandeer the media to extend their agendas. Liberals had long assumed that their control over the media was unbreakable. They believed that they could set the agenda. The best-laid plans. . . .

Those nasty Minute Men, described by President Bush as “vigilantes”, have done what all us pundits haven’t done to date and maybe could never have done, namely made the Federal Government do something about border security.

Senior commanders on this southern Arizona Army post have told soldiers they may not take part in patrolling the border with Minuteman Project volunteers.

In a memo to soldiers assigned to the Network Enterprise Technology Command, Maj. Gen. James Hylton prohibited those assigned to his organization, to include the 11th Signal Brigade, "from participating in any active patrolling, monitoring or other intentional act associated with identifying and/or detaining illegal immigrants, either through an organized group, or on you own."

President Bush has led us into a gratuitous war that has destroyed America's soft power and demonstrated the limits of its hard power. In the name of fighting terrorism, Bush has eroded already weakened civil liberties. President Bush's "war on terror" has inflicted greater costs on America than that inflicted by the terrorists themselves.

What set John Paul apart from the other leaders of his time was his goodness, his holiness, his sanctity, his moral courage in defending the truths of the Church and his uncompromising refusal to alter moral truth to accommodate the spirit of an immoral age.

Immigration detention centers on the Mexican border are little more than new Ellis Islands. Their only apparent function is to release illegal aliens for the supposed purpose of appearing somewhere else for an EOIR Immigration Court hearing someday.

Pope John Paul II's life has transformed Christendom and inspired millions around the globe. Revered by Christian and secular leaders alike, his legacy will continue to call people to a life of radical conversion to Christ. This religious icon, who chose as the motto for his pontificate: "Do not be afraid," heroically lived up to many of the challenges of his time. Although he will be greatly missed, his legacy will far outlive his extraordinary pontificate.

Would the Solidarity movement that undermined the Communist regime in Poland have emerged with the courage and hope it did without Pope John Paul II? Would the Soviet Union have lost its Eastern European satellites and its very existence without the Pope and Ronald Reagan?

Following his death, we now see many world leaders -- starting with George W. Bush -- who maliciously attempted to thwart Pope John Paul's antiwar stance, pouring gallons of crocodile tears over the TV cameras.

However, this media propaganda cannot overshadow the fact that John Paul II’s last big battle was against the Bush administration's “preemptive war” doctrine. The Pontiff and his closest collaborators resisted an unprecedented assault by the men of the would be new roman emperor on the Potomac and told directly Bush and his minions that their war was an “unjust war.”

This Polish warrior pope delivered the ultimate answer to Stalin's sneering taunt: "How many divisions does the Pope have?" In the end, the Vatican's Swiss Guard proved mightier than the Red Army's 100 divisions.

All the bad guys, no matter what branch of evil they adhere to, hate the Holy Father because he represents the one force with international stature that stands against them.

Pope John Paul II, a giant among men, who has single-handedly taken on the power of the War Party – and who towers so far above his critics that the distance can only be measured in light years – is our Man of the Year.

The kicker is that the US commitment to sovereignty is made with heavy qualifications. Nation-states must “exercise their sovereignty responsibly.” This implies a dual role for the US, one of which may help clarify as well as warrant US “freedom of action.” First, the document suggests it is the job of the US to interpret what it means for a nation-state to act responsibly, and, secondly, it is the job of the US to enforce breaches in responsibility. To be the enforcer, the US requires a “freedom of action” where other countries do not.

Under Bush, 2.8 million manufacturing jobs, one in six, have been lost. Real wages of working Americans are stagnant. Two-thirds of a million textile and apparel workers face wipeout from Chinese imports that are now unrestricted. As Paul Craig Roberts writes, the jobs being created pay less and demand less in education and training than the jobs being outsourced. Our workers are being sacrificed on the altar of globalism. Says Landsburg: tough luck!

Current talk of "New Paradigms" and "New Economic Models" should tell you exactly where we are and where we are ultimately headed.

To put a "politically-incorrect" measure on the ballot with some protection to their citizens against illegal aliens, Arizonans gathered petition signatures in the triple-digit heat, distributed leaflets and posted "Yes on 200" signs. After its passage by voters, AZ governor Napolitano and Attorney General Goddard then ignored the "will of the people" by doing all possible to hinder implementation. When Mexican officials protested the passage of Prop 200, not one of Arizona's state or federal officials did their duty of telling Mexico to mind its own business and stop meddling in Arizona's domestic affairs!

The case for starving and dehydrating Terri Schiavo to death was built on hypocrisy and deception.

The culture of death revealed its face in the propaganda campaign for Terri Schiavo’s demise. Perhaps the most noteworthy fact of the entire ordeal, other than the killing of an innocent woman by starvation, was how thoroughly the American people were lied to throughout the entire affair.

The judicial activist in Terri's case is Greer, who sentenced a brain-damaged woman to death by starvation and dehydration. If this is not judicial activism, in violation of a citizen's right to life, due process of law, and not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment, what is?

And what is there left to say about that angel of death, the American Civil Liberties Union? As Nat Hentoff writes, the ACLU, "which would be passionately criticizing state court decisions and demanding due process if Terri were a convict on death row, has shamefully served as co-counsel for her husband, Michael Schiavo, in his insistent desire to have her die."

As our nation embraces social Darwinism, don't be fooled into believing its kiss of death pertains only to those with physical handicaps and disabilities. It also includes the unintelligent, ignorant, idiotic, mindless, illogical, moronic scatterbrains we have to deal with everyday. Remember, one of the most widely used arguments against Terri was that she did not possess enough cognitive ability to reason, think or analyze the events unfolding around her. So, with this in mind, we no longer have to put up with those idiots we run into at work, school or behind the cash register at the mall. We can just eliminate them. Even though we might have a problem defining who's stupid and who's not since such a classification would be relative from person to person, I'm sure we'll figure it out.

This murder - and ignoring of what may be multiple correlated felonies - is being staged to shock Americans to the core and prepare them to accept local, regional and state decreed death and widespread euthanasia as the new norm.

Americans must keep in mind, nothing is done on this scale by accident or happenstance. This is a planned, public execution which is blatantly intended to put the fear of death by the government into Americans from this day forth.

When Bob Moser came on my phone in late September 2004, at no time did he identify himself as a reporter, a journalist, or allow that he was interviewing me for a story.

As a "Foodie," I can say that Moser is to journalism as instant grits are to Southern cuisine.

It was my impression that he was a prospective member of my organization, The American Resistance Foundation [TAR].

A cardinal considered a candidate to succeed Pope John Paul II delivered a strong message in favor of Jewish settlement in the Holy Land on Wednesday night, rejecting the claim that European Christians' support for the State of Israel is based on Holocaust guilt and saying that all Christians should affirm Zionism as a biblical imperative for the Jewish people.

Archbishop of Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, part of a visiting Austrian delegation, made the remarks in an address at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on the topic of "God's chosen land."