The McCain/Kennedy bill adapts key elements of President Bush's January 2004 “immigration reform" proposal, which offered (in Mr. Bush's words) “legal status, as temporary workers, to the millions of undocumented men and women now employed in the United States, and to those in foreign countries who seek to participate in the program and have been offered employment here."

The EU constitution is a Trojan horse slapped together by corporate and banking elites with the clear purpose of undermining national sovereignty and accelerating globalization. Thank God the French had the common sense to read the document and vote it down. Unlike their American counterparts, who have been the victims of a barrage of free trade agreements (NAFTA, CAFTA, FTAA) which have sacrificed the environment, eviscerated national sovereignty, and savaged the middle-class, the French thumbed their noses at a plan that was designed to torpedo their economic system. If the constitution had passed, its neoliberal policies would inevitably put Frenchmen in direct competition with the lowest paid workers in Canton Province.

The most important result of the extinction of the conservative Democrat has been that the two parties have become aligned along ideological lines in a way that wasn't the case for at least 100 years. As the conservative element of the Republican Party was strengthened by the addition of the Southerners, liberal Republicans found themselves increasingly pushed out, completing the ideological solidification of both parties.

Momentum for serious border control is growing as a congressional report recommends deploying the National Guard and another shows how to reduce the number of illegal aliens already here to virtually zero. The report by the staff of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus stated the obvious: As demonstrated by the Minutemen, it said, troops stationed
on the border will virtually eliminate illegal entry.

There are no "good" wars or "just" wars, only death and destruction that modern day bullies in the seats of power escape by sending other people's kids to kill and die for them.

Democrats like to talk about the Republicans being in the grip of far-right extremists, but the fact is that the Democrats are in the grip of far-left extremists. To be pro-life is not an extremist position. To be a strict constructionist of the Constitution is not an extremist position, although regrettably it is a rare position. Both parties need to free themselves from the fringes of their base.

Most one-worlders engage in what I call “citizenship devaluation.” While I consider myself a citizen of heaven just passing through, in the natural world I’m considered an American; and this American wants to preserve this nation. Are we up to the task at hand? We’d better be. Do we have a choice? No, we don’t. Real patriotism demands something extraordinary from each of us.

Do Americans have the courage to demand that their members of Congress vote for Constitutional judges, to put America's interest above political ambition and to end the obstruction tactics that are not letting our government solve the many problems that threaten our economy and security?

Do Americans also have the will to vote into Congress in 2006 those members who will put our nation's culture and heritage above the desires of the secularists and socialists?

The deployment of 36,000 National Guard troops or state militia on the U.S.-Mexico border would stop the illegal flow of foreigners into America, says a congressional report that credits the Minuteman Project with proving that additional manpower could "dramatically reduce if not virtually eliminate" illegal immigration.

Facing likely defeat, House Republican leaders Wednesday retreated from an effort to write into law limits on the combat support missions of women in the military.

McCain has thrown down a challenge to Bush, as well. Before Monday, the Democratic minority was dictating which judges would be held hostage and which ones would be released. Now, it is the Democratic minority, plus the McCain Seven, that is doing the dictating.

In his effort to uncover the DOJ's coverup of his brother's murder, Jesse Trentadue may have uncovered evidence of the FBI's failure to prevent the bombing of the Murrah Building. It is bad enough that the murder of Kenneth Trentadue is covered over with many layers of DOJ perjury and the withholding and destruction of evidence.

The Senate Democrats hung tough and the Republicans wimped out. The Republicans had the votes but they didn't have the guts.

The net effect of the Senate compromise is that this President and future Presidents will be under pressure to choose nominees who can get through the confirmation process without rocking the boat.

Democrats get what they really wanted all along — enough political clout to make President Bush think twice about nominating a conservative for the Supreme Court — and can perpetuate the fiction that the impasse over judges was a bipartisan creation, when it really was a show of extraordinary partisanship on the part of Democrats.

"Mainstream" is the elite's euphemism for what the majority should think, not what they actually do think. Notice that the anti-democratic streak grows more and more pronounced in the American elite. Last year this anti-democratic streak was seen in its gravitation toward non-American, utterly unaccountable institutions like the United Nations and the World Court as useful vehicles with which to overpower American majority views. The less support the elite could find democratically, the more they turned for support to undemocratic international institutions. This year their anti-democratic streak is seen in the glorification of a Senate with aristocratic pretensions, claims the ahistorical and happily uncultured elite press usually casts in other contexts as reactionary and disturbing.

Check out the headlines describing what 2 "open borders" Senators and 3 "open borders" Congressmen produce:

McCain, Kennedy team on immigration plan (1)
McCain, Kennedy would fine, not deport, entrants (2)
McCain says immigrant bill out next week (3)
McCain, Kennedy introduce immigration reform bill (4)
Bill would give illegals visas (5)
Legal path for migrants; McCain, Kennedy unveil sweeping reform bill (6)
Bills could grant legality to 10 million immigrants (7)
Bill would revamp Immigrant worker rules (8)

Remember that we have been told, over and over again by our leader, “It’s a new world!” Bill Clinton told us the same. So Did Bush Sr., and many others before him. And if you simply look at the tens of thousands of commissions, partnerships, memorandums of understanding, treaties, and massive gatherings in foreign countries that have evolved and taken place over the last 3 decades around the issue of globalization, it doesn’t take a genius to see the graffiti on the wall. Global governance is here. America is just waiting for a highly orchestrated kick in the head that will force her to full compliance.

Unlike wealthy currency traders, most Americans are stuck with their U.S. dollars. Average people, particularly those who depend on savings or fixed incomes to fund their retirement years, cannot abide the continued devaluation of our currency. A true strong-dollar policy would not depend on the actions of China or any other nation. It would, however, require a constriction of the money supply and higher interest rates, both of which would cause some short-term pain for the American economy. In the long run, however, such a correction is the only alternative to the continued erosion of our dollars.

That's why there is no moral equivalence between conservatives opposing activist judges and liberals opposing originalist judges. Even if Republicans had obstructed President Clinton's appellate court appointments to the degree Democrats have blocked President Bush's, which is not the case, we're talking apples and oranges, because most such Clinton appointees believe, as a matter of their judicial philosophy, that it's acceptable for courts to make law. If all judges honored the courts' proper constitutional role, the subject of their "conservatism" or "liberalism" would be largely irrelevant, because they would relegate themselves to interpreting the law, rather than making policy – conservative or liberal.

So a group of Republican senators have decided that getting favorable media attention is more important than preventing the Constitution from being violated by obstructionist Democrats. Not surprisingly, their leader was John McCain, long known as a RINO -- Republican In Name Only. The Democrats have promised to filibuster judicial nominees only under "extraordinary circumstances" -- vague words that leave the Democrats free to decide what they think may constitute extraordinary circumstances.

If a Constitutional Convention were in session as we speak, and a bunch of uppity Franklins and Madisons were planning a new government, should a libertarian be in favor of the new central state having limited/enumerated powers? Of course, it would be understood that if the new central state has only enumerated powers, in some cases it will be unable to intervene to stop the constituent states from engaging in certain unlibertarian practices. We would definitely favor such a structure – to enumerate the new central state's power and limit it to only those powers. The alternative is for the new central government to have unlimited powers. What libertarian could be in favor of setting up an unlimited government?

Gary Bauer, president of American Values, said the deal is a sad day for the nation: "The desire of millions of Americans to restore balance to our federal courts has been thwarted behind closed doors by 14 senators."

Our generation ranks first among all industrialized nations in the number of high school diplomas held by those between the ages of 45 and 64. Our 35-44 age group, however, is in fifth place, and our 25-to-34-year-olds place 10th. Considering that a large percentage of new jobs will require some level of postsecondary education, this is an extremely troubling trend.

Fourteen senators--seven Republicans and seven Democrats--agreed to the following terms Monday to avert the nuclear option and allow votes on certain judicial nominees.

If there are any potential losers in this deal, it is the moderate Republicans who have put their reputations on the line with not only their Republican colleagues, but also conservative voters. "If Myers doesn't get a vote, if a reasonable Supreme Court nominee does not receive a vote, or has his or her nomination blocked, then those moderate Republicans should be held accountable by not only the caucus but their constituents," said the Republican Judiciary staffer.

Twentieth-century Americans lack the temperament, the reserve and the respect for foreign faiths and cultures – the reverence for the sacred needed to lead a world where religious fundamentalism is soaring.

Give up the empire. We're going to lose it anyhow. You can't run an empire with moral nihilists in charge of your culture and of the image of America as presented to the world.

Today, though, nearly 1 in 5 American households has zero net worth or actually owes more than it owns. And the odds of a son or daughter rising above their parents in such a financial predicament have shrunk.

What that means is that the US is becoming less of a meritocracy, where skill and intelligence determine success, and becoming more of a class-bound society, where economic background, including the better education money can provide, matters more.

Soros, a convicted insider trader who spent $23 million to defeat President Bush for re-election, not only had a role in underwriting the research that went into the program, but CNN promoted his agenda of ending incarceration for dangerous criminals.

The program, "Reasonable Doubt: Can Crime Labs be Trusted?," which CNN aired several times last January as a "CNN Presents" documentary, was prepared in cooperation with the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) and hosted by Aaron Brown.

Too many conservatives have thrown in the towel, feeling helpless to influence those elected to protect their property rights, stop the destruction of our educational system, protect their right of privacy against an ever-growing, intrusive Big Government, and to withdraw from a malignant United Nations bent on destroying our national sovereignty.

A lot of us who identify ourselves as conservatives are increasingly pessimistic about the future of this nation. We have good cause, but we have few friends in Congress to advance our cause and the White House continues to use external threats and a mix of religious rhetoric to emasculate conservatism.

The most compelling reason for rejecting these trade pacts is their effect on sovereignty. In April 2004, a NAFTA tribunal overruled U.S. courts in a dispute between a Canadian and an American firm. NAFTA tribunal judge Abner Mikva offered, "If Congress had known that there was anything like this in NAFTA, they never would have voted for it." Furthermore, when the California Legislature passed a bill last year to help the state dispose of millions of scrap tires by recycling them into asphalt for road construction, Mexican rubber producers claimed this was a violation of NAFTA. Gov. Schwarzenegger, citing the supposed supremacy of NAFTA, vetoed the bill.

Is immigration good for the Republican Party?

The second-largest heavily immigrant ethnic group, after Hispanics, are Asian-Americans. Immigration enthusiasts often claim they are "natural Republicans" because they are thought to be prosperous, law-abiding, family-oriented etc. etc.

The only problem with this theory: these natural Republicans have been voting Democratic.

In addition, as a result of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley bill, CEOs and CFOs now have to sign off on the accuracy of the financial reports issued by their companies. Any inaccuracies -- whether intentional or accidental -- can be punishable by civil and criminal penalties including but not limited to five-year prison sentences, significant fines, and other disciplinary actions that could lead to violators being barred by the SEC from ever serving as a corporate officer or director in the future.

So why isn’t there similar legislation requiring the principals of media companies to sign off on the accuracy of the articles in their publications or the reports offered by their newscasters and announcers? Is this a first amendment issue?

Hardly. According to Cornell Law School, the first amendment offers no additional protection to members of the press concerning freedom of speech than it does anybody else:

Israel is a small country with a big government. The United States is a big country with a humongous government. But don't worry. It's not just government, we're assured; it's self-government! We can all vote. That makes everything all right, according to the slogans of democracy that the looters employ to placate the looted.

In truth, we are all implicated in a system so vast and intricate that nobody can comprehend it; and all the world's governments increasingly cooperate with each other. Modern war is terrifying, but modern peace is sinister.

One of Bush's improbable legacies may end up being a military more feminized than Bill Clinton's. As of this spring, 17,000 female soldiers had been dispatched to Iraq and Afghanistan, many of them serving in de facto combat roles, thanks to his military's fudging of the line between combat and noncombat positions. Could the ban on women in combat be abolished altogether under a Republican president? Yes, and if it does, it will be one more irony of American history showing that momentous cultural transformations often take place under "conservative" presidents who lull their constituents into a sense of complacency.

Despite its supposed new concern for hidden sources, let's note that Newsweek and the Post have no trouble providing, even in the midst of this story, cover for secret Administration sources that are FAVORABLE to Bush. Editor Whitaker's retraction relies on "Administration officials" whose names he kindly withholds.

The old free trade argument that US labor has nothing to fear from cheap foreign labor, because US labor works with more capital and better technology no longer holds when US firms provide the same capital and technology to foreign labor. The international mobility of capital and technology and the advent of production functions that operate the same regardless of location mean first world labor will be displaced in tradable goods and services until there is a global equalization of wages and living standards.

On January 7, 1953, he introduced the Bricker Amendment, which became the focus of a fight to the political death between Eisenhower and Sen. Taft, the new Majority Leader. Like the ABA, Bricker and Taft saw the amendment – rightly, in my view – as a necessary roadblock to the subversive internationalist influences that threatened to undermine the Constitution, diminish American sovereignty, and subvert U.S. national security.

"You have to wonder what advantage it will have to the United States — I think the only advantage would be for companies who want to move overseas," said Rep. Michael Michaud (search ), D-Maine, who argues that his state has suffered enough under past trade agreements.

A short sentence in an American magazine has managed to do what al-Qaeda has not been able to achieve since September 11, 2001 - inflame large sections of the Muslim world and reignite passions between Islam and the Christian West.

The Muslim media from Egypt to Pakistan consistently paint al-Qaeda, the US-led "war on terror", the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and events such as those in Uzbekistan in the perspective of the "End of Time" and Har Megiddo.

Before attributing the Koran controversy solely to a poorly sourced magazine article and the ability of al-Qaeda and other groups to cynically exploit it, the West would do well to draw a lesson from the episode that would help formulate better plans to cope with and defeat Sunni militancy. That lesson is simply to conclude that a substantial number of the West's opponents in the War on Terrorism are motivated by faith, and that they find U.S. and Western actions – especially those that seem to target Islamic sanctities – overwhelmingly more offensive and humiliating than the norms and lifestyles of Western societies.

In the Star Wars universe, the Sith are members of a self-centered secret society that has been passing down its knowledge for thousands of years. The religion revels in death and destruction. War is its sacrament, death stars and war ships its cathedrals. This is one of the central threads that runs throughout the entirety of Star Wars lore.

Take away the light sabers and levitation and you're left with what our world leaders really believe in, what their religion really is, what makes them tick. The global controllers, of whom Bush is just a puppet, are using the same tactics to control populations employed by the Dark Lords of the Sith.

It was perhaps appropriate that Dan Rather received the prestigious Peabody award in journalism at the same time when Newsweek magazine was finally backing away from its false story about Americans flushing the Koran down the toilet at the Guantanamo prison.

All this goes back to a more fundamental problem with the mainstream media. Too many journalists see their work as an opportunity to promote their own pet political notions, rather than a responsibility to inform the public and let their readers and viewers decide for themselves.

What then can any American do to reassert our nation's independence and rein in the executive branch's unconstitutional usurpations? The answer can be found in passage by Congress of H.R. 1146, a measure entitled "American Sovereignty Restoration Act." Significantly, its initial provision calls for repeal of the United Nations Participation Act. Other portions of the measure require withdrawal of our nation from various UN agencies and cancellation of all government funding of UN operations except for the few dollars that might be needed while the complete withdrawal of America from the world body is accomplished.

So whereas Newsweek may be flagellating itself and publishing a litany of mea culpas, what about Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Newsmax, the Associated Press and the Daily Mirror? Are their accounts wrong too?

Indeed, Newsweek's U-turn is nothing less than an insult to our intelligence.

After years of debating Liberals, hearing and reading the same talking points, and trying to get past those to discover what they actually think, I’ve gotten somewhat of a handle on what Liberals want. They claim to want equality and fairness. A more accurate description would be that they want sameness of result. Where most of us consider starting with sameness of opportunity to be the height of equality, Liberals are more interested in bringing everyone down to the lowest common denominator.

If the ACLU were to support the Hostettler bill, it would go a long way toward proving that they aren’t profiteers at the expense of people of faith and believers in the sanctity of tradition. But I suspect they will commit all their resources toward winning another tiny battle in their classless and unholy crusade. As Memorial Day approaches, keep it in mind.

It is time for the rest of the world to join Mordechai Vanunu in demanding that Israel acknowledge its status as a nuclear weapons state with a large and growing arsenal, and in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states--including Israel, India and Pakistan, but above all the U.S. and Russia--negotiate concrete steps on a definite time-table toward the global, inspected abolition of nuclear weapons.

It is important to recognize that energy-related pressures are bound to increase as global demand continues its upward course and the supply of oil and natural gas fails to keep pace. The Bush administration, in particular, is aware of these pressures, having analyzed the global energy equation in its May 2001 report on US energy requirements. While administration officials have repeatedly denied that oil played any role in the 2003 decision to invade Iraq, they clearly believed that a US-friendly government in the country would be advantageous to the United States with enormous advantages in any coming struggle with competitors like China over Persian Gulf energy.

The first thing is to establish a cutoff point after which Social Security will no longer exist. Select an age, say, 40 or 45, and establish that anyone under that age simply won’t receive any Social Security benefits upon retirement. Then cut the FICA tax for those people accordingly. Tell those over the cutoff age that they will receive a certain percentage of what they have put into the system, but no more than 100 percent, adjusted for inflation. Then start cutting spending elsewhere in order to live up to this guarantee.

First the first time in history, a legitimate middle class was created. It had never existed before, which was something I never realized. But now, today, in A.D. 2005, it was being deliberately exterminated. And might never exist again.

The U.S. military is headed for drastic drops in the quality of its troops and morale if current trends continue. Due to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
the recruitment of young men and women for the military has dropped considerably, and recruiting officers are finding it more and more difficult to meet their quotas.

The Arizona House and Senate urged that “the United States Congress vote no on any agreement for the United States to enter into a Free Trade Area of the Americas” and that copies of this go to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona.

The theologian Walter Wink (author of The Powers That Be) writes of what he calls the Myth of Redemptive Violence. This myth, he writes, is the belief that violence, especially administered by the State, is necessary and restorative to make people whole. Violence equals health, you might say, or in Orwellian terms, War is Peace.

Last night on Fox News, this writer heard Bill O’Reilly and Congressman Tom Tancredo use the I-word, impeachment, should terrorists detonate a terror device they smuggled over the border President Bush refuses to defend.

The president’s problem is this: a conviction politician, he believes deeply in his ideology and policies. But the country is coming to believe neither is working for America. Either he makes a mid-course correction, or the country will make it for him in 2006.

Most Americans realize our nation's immigration policies are flawed in favor of illegal aliens, but not everyone knows there is a provision of U.S. law being abused every year by thousands of migrant parents – all on the up-and-up.

I'm talking about a constitutional provision granting automatic citizenship to any child born in the U.S., even if its mother sneaks in the country illegally.

U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers, The Washington Times has learned.

While neglecting to guard our own nation's borders, America's political elites have no trouble sending military units to guard foreign countries.

According to the Wall Street investment firm Bear Stearns, twenty million illegal aliens are currently residing in the United States, double the official Federal government estimates. And as Donald Bartlett and James Steele reported in Time magazine, "the number of illegal aliens flooding into the United States this year will total 3 million.

On the radio and Internet, Buchanan framed his positions as amplification of remarks made over the weekend by President George W. Bush that the pact ending the war brought on a Stalinist domination that was "one of the greatest wrongs of history."

But Buchanan's comments on the Don Imus radio show and in an essay posted on the Web site of his organization, The American Cause, went much further. He suggested that because Germans voted Hitler in, they did not need to be liberated, and that Britain and France drew Germany into the wider conflict.

Offshore outsourcing is a new phenomenon that has received little attention from economists, who mistakenly view offshore outsourcing as just another manifestation of the beneficial workings of free trade and comparative advantage. In fact, offshore outsourcing is the flow of resources to absolute advantage. Economists have known for two centuries that absolute advantage does not produce mutual gains. Unlike the operation of comparative advantage, absolute advantage produces winners and losers.

China and India are winning. America is losing. It is as simple as that.

Despite what the environmental Marxists say, modern technology has advanced considerably from the raucous days of the Texas oil boom and the derricks that wastefully spewed forth oil. Now, the United States is capable of drilling in ANWR or in the Gulf or off the coast with virtually no adverse effect on the environment. And capable of building refineries that would be non-polluting.

A CIA spokesman declined to comment. Other current and former intelligence officials said the Denver relocation reflects the desire of CIA Director Porter J. Goss to develop new ways to operate under cover, including setting up more front corporations and working closer with established international firms.

My point is this: Decades have passed since the “liberal” agenda became the practical status quo for most of the country. When that happened, the “liberals” became the “conservatives” and the “conservatives” became the ones fighting for change. Traditionalists have become the radicals, challenging the intact system of belief and government.

So, it is high time that “conservatives” realize that they are in fact the real “liberals” in this country (if they can say it without choking). They are trying to retake lost ground and promote meaningful change in the government and society as a whole. They advocate the protection of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This involves not defense, but offense. Not laid back passive tactics, but active ones. Arrayed against them, they have the agents of the status quo: academics, teachers, pop culture icons, and even large portions of a bloated federal government and an artificially secularized court system.

To begin, we have much too much democracy. We need to discourage people from voting. In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense. Obviously they are no good at it. The whole idea smacks of the fumble-witted idealism of a high-school Marxist society.

Here's the plan. We target every single congress person up for re-election in 2006 and threaten a NATIONAL VOTING BOYCOTT unless they move immediately to institute a comprehensive election reform.

Wishful nation builders assume that democracy can be established anywhere, whereas their scholarly opponents put forth a long list of prerequisites that must be met before democracy can take root and survive on new soil. But perhaps non-democracies lack only one essential characteristic: a shared commitment to avoid resorting to domestic political violence.

States are threatening to challenge in court and even disobey new orders from Congress to start issuing more uniform driver's licenses and verify the citizenship or legal status of people getting them.

Did not the prophets and preachers in Bible days sometimes pay a horrific price to be faithful? In fact, try to name a Bible preacher that wasn't thrown in jail at least once! I submit that it has never been easy or popular to be a man of God, but what I want to know is, when did men of God decide that it should be?

I truly believe that if enough preachers would decide to be the courageous proponents of truth, as were our ancestors, and would determine to preach the truth without fear or favor regarding any person or political party, they could turn our ship of state around post-haste! I further believe that if they don't do it soon, it will be (if it's not already) too late.

If it was to keep Hitler out of Western Europe, why declare war on him and draw him into Western Europe? If it was to keep Hitler out of Central and Eastern Europe, then, inevitably, Stalin would inherit Central and Eastern Europe.

Was that worth fighting a world war – with 50 million dead?

The elites have thus had no moral scruples about lying to the public when confronted—although they are quite open about their intentions in their own writings, which they have long assumed the masses would never read. Indeed, the CFR’s Foreign Affairs has the look of just one more dry, academic-type periodical, assuring that it will never have the audience of, say, People—or even National Review. Which is perhaps why we can find in it statements such as that of Richard N. Gartner, a former UN ambassador, who wrote candidly in 1974 (in an article entitled “The Hard Road to World Order”) of “an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece ...” Fabian-style gradualism all the way.

When the awful record of official assistance became undeniable, multilateral development banks such as the International Monetary Fund began justifying their activities as promoting market reform. Yet it is an illusion that government-to-government aid can create prosperity.

The slow transformation of America from her Judeo-Christian culture of life and individual freedom to godless atheism, culture of death, and collectivized and mind-conditioned protoplasma-genderfree beings began many years ago. Back in the early 1920’s, John Dewey, ‘father of progressive education’ but in actual fact a humanist and co-author of the Humanist Manifesto I, declared: “There is no God and ...no soul. With
dogma and creed excluded . . . immutable truth is . . . dead and buried. There is no room for fixed, natural law or moral absolutes.”

President Bush's overreaching has put the most powerful country in human history in fear ­ fear that the U.S. will not be able to handle likely conflicts. As a result of that fear the conscientious objection of soldiers is not something they want to hear. But, they will hear it. And, more importantly, more and more Americans will hear it. They will learn that our soldiers are being ordered to commit acts they find unconscionable. Our youth will hear that if they enlist, they can't get out and recruitment will be made more difficult.

Sgt. Benderman has already won. The question is how will the U.S. military handle the reality of a man of conscience?

When Republicans took over Congress a decade ago, they vowed to shut down the departments of Education, Energy and Commerce along with 200 programs in those agencies and elsewhere. The GOP never carried through on their promises. Bureaucrats fought back so successfully that those three departments are flourishing, and doomed programs like those to develop clean coal technologies and federalize education standards were lavished with budget increases. In fact, none of those 200 programs was axed.

The biggest outrage would be for Congress or the Justice Department to slow, far less stop, their investigations. Volcker's inquiry is being conducted under the authority of one of the principal suspects, Kofi Annan, and reports directly to him. The U.N. can't prosecute the criminals or recover the money. It has every interest in preventing its most powerful organization -- the Security Council -- from being exposed as the bought tool of Saddam's regime. Henry Hyde -- and the rest of the congressional investigators, notably Norm Coleman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations -- won't bend to the wishes of Annan and Volcker. They will proceed -- and possibly succeed -- where Volcker can't and won't. Robert Parton and Miranda Duncan should be protected legally from whatever legal actions the U.N. takes to silence them, and whatever documents they have produced must be kept. Volcker wants to silence them, limiting Parton to one public statement which would be U.N.-controlled. That offer should be dismissed with the scorn it deserves.

Even if the U.S. were to increase its annual commitment to refugees by ten fold, conditions in the war-torn, hellhole countries like Liberia and Somalia do not change one iota.

But Somali refugees have radically changed Columbus—and not in ways that serve the best interests of the American population already residing there.

My warning: Beware the humanitarians!

Churchill and FDR rushed to embrace Stalin, gave him everything he demanded and more, and at Tehran and Yalta, ceded to him custody of all the peoples of Eastern Europe and of Poland, for which Britain had gone to war.

States' rights have taken a beating since 9/11 from the conservative wing of the Republican Party, once one of their greatest defenders. The latest state prerogative to take a hit is the right to set standards for getting a driver's license.

A variety of civil liberties, gun and libertarian groups say that these driver's licenses, fed into a central database, are national ID cards, which, in effect, they are. The measure is not called Real ID for nothing.

Rep. Tom Tancredo ought to reconsider his membership in the Republican Party, a Utah congressman said Wednesday after the two GOP lawmakers put an intraparty rift over immigration policy on full public display.

In an interview, Tancredo fired back at Cannon, pointing to his primary election challenge by Republican Matt Throckmorton in 2004. The Team America PAC, founded by Tancredo and chaired by Buchanan's sister, Bay Buchanan, backed Throckmorton. Another group, Project U.S.A., placed billboards saying "Congressman Chris Cannon wants amnesty for illegal aliens. Do you?"

As the nation heads toward debate on the so-called free-trade agreements to create CAFTA and the FTAA, Americans need to be made aware that these agreements are intended to make American manufacturers dependent on foreign manufacturers through production sharing. The only aspect of these agreements that's more important is the fact that they would permanently divest Congress of its constitutional responsibility to regulate trade, unconstitutionally surrendering that responsibility to an international body. America's national independence hangs in the balance of the outcome of the CAFTA/FTAA battle. Americans who want to retain their freedom and independence must put pressure on their legislators, pressure that cannot be ignored.

You could tell a Republican nationalist during this last war because the words peace and liberty were always said with a sneer, as if they didn't matter at all. Even the Constitution came in for a pounding from these people. Bush did all he could to consolidate decision-making power unto himself, and even strongly suggest that he was acting on God's orders as Commander in Chief, and his religious constitutionalist supporters went right along with it. They were willing to break as many eggs as necessary to make the war omelet. I've got an archive of a thousand hate mails to prove it.

The absence of espionage charges is weird, because Franklin was not the original object of FBI surveillance. They were watching AIPAC meetings with Israeli embassy officials, on suspicion of systematic espionage. They were surprised when Pentagon employee Franklin showed up in the videotapes.

So, what was the FBI originally investigating, exactly, and will that case ever break?

And, when will AIPAC be made to register as an agent of a foreign power?

The moral justification for refusing to participate in unjust wars is not difficult to grasp. We tend to forget, however, that acts of conscience are also affirmations in the rule of law. Camilo Mejia, Stephen Funk, Jeff Paterson (Gulf War objector), Carl Webb, Abdulla Webster, Michael Hoffman, Jimmy Massey, David Blunt, Aidan Delgado, Diedra Cobb, Jeremy Hinzman, Brandon Hughey, and dozens of other war resisters are not only heroes of peace, they are vindicators of the Constitution, the U.N. Charter, Nuremberg Conventions and the Geneva Conventions as well.

Many are the differences between now and the Great Depression era. So vast are the cited differences, that the present day has almost no resemblance. Versus that historic era,

Powerful hedge funds with $1000 billion are capable to move markets up or down, based in New York City, London, Tokyo, the Caribbean, and elsewhere. Their activities are not widely tracked, but their influence is significant.
Hyperactive central banks routinely intervene, provide liquidity to bond markets, to currency markets, and without doubt to stock markets, while altering interest rates in contradiction to extremes. Their anticipated movements disrupt markets.
Vast secretive derivative pyramids (sometimes illegal) function to prop or contain prices of bonds, currencys, metals, housing, and someday perhaps energy. They grow in size to greatly contribute to risk.
Sloshes of fiat money on each continent have no gold backing, which is printed liberally, as debt is exchanged to relieve imbalances. Lack of accountability has produced a series of crises since 1971, with no desire to turn back.
Powerhouses China & India have emerged as manufacturing and service centers, with cheap labor, strong commodity demand. These two nations exert influence in many markets, as they demand seats on the geopolitical stage.
Household participation in financial markets is huge, as the new "sheep" feebly counter the professional groups, with pension funds and personal savings in the balance. Public retail investors typically push the losing extremes.
Broadband high-speed interconnectivity among computers (peer to peer and internet transactions) has become an enabling force to send business to other continents. It has made possible the entire export of functions in the growing information-based portion of economies.
Debt foundation has become shifting sands to the economy, and the principal device to promote commerce, to make for a highly leveraged economy. The consequent instability has brought great risk to entire systems, both economic and financial.
Size of the financial sector has grown to become a dominant force in the economic framework, in speculation, debt investment, debt service, and asset management. It has grown like a cancer from the inflationary forces, and threatens economies from both displacement and risk of widespread default.
Asset bubbles exist almost everywhere to wreck havoc on the economy, but whose byproduct is price volatility. Inflated assets have subsidized both spending and investment, which adds to economic risk.
Shortages and declining production have become the norm in several key commodities, after two decades of negligence and preoccupation with paper. A race has begun both to acquire asset properties and to discover & produce from them.
Massive statistical disinformation has become the norm, widely distrusted, but acted upon nonetheless, to promote a picture of US Economic health. That view is false, reminiscent of the Age of Orwell. Snapshots have recently been joined by stretched forecasts to distort the truth, which has become like a shifting fog.
Revisionist history of the 1932 precedent has been studied, debated, and conclusions arrived at with full influence of bias toward the politically favored "inflation" priority. The current financial power system has become entrenched, and has made grand partnerships with the political power structure.

The public reaction was predictable when word first got out of SeaCode Inc.'s proposal to house 600 foreign software engineers on a cruise ship moored three miles off the California coast, thus undercutting U.S. wage rates and circumventing local labor rules.

1) Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.
2) The American government is corrupt from top to bottom.
3) If you rely on the mass media to inform you about your community, state and nation, you will, with rare exceptions, be woefully ignorant of what is really going on.
4) The universal franchise is a bad idea. The notion that the destiny of the nation should be put in the hands of ignoramuses, parasites, boobs, party hacks and idiots is absurd on its face.
5) Public education in America is a failure and is so flawed it cannot be reformed.
6) Not much has changed in the past 5,000 years of human history.

When you get right down to it, "discretionary" spending programs and "mandatory" spending programs share one crucial characteristic: They are virtually indestructible.

Congress creates programs, but almost never kills them.

Will the Republican Party’s neo-Jacobin ideology reunite the country in an aggressive nationalism against the world, or will America’s Asian bankers cease to finance the empire of red ink?

Does America still have an edge, or is America in retirement, living off past accomplishments?

Sad to say, even a cursory review of this record reveals the fact that the Republican Party in Washington, D.C., has become little more than a carbon copy of the Democratic Party.

Phillips writes, "Sadly, the GOP's elected and appointed officials conform themselves almost without exception to that which Mr. Bush espouses, including:

Let us move all U.S. air, sea, and ground forces out of Korea, where we are increasingly unwelcome and they are hostage to the North's nuclear weapons. Let Seoul and Tokyo deal with the paranoid in Pyongyang. And let us cease propping up unpopular regimes in the Middle East and remove our huge military presence. If we are no longer over there, they have no reason to come over here.

If he has any inclination to take advice from the Open Borders Lobby, he should check with Bill Simon, Bill Jones, Matt Fong, Dan Lungren or any of the other Republican candidates for major California office who ignored immigration in their campaigns and lost decisively.

And the Minutemen plan to take Schwarzenegger up on his offer. They are tentatively scheduled to begin to patrol the California/Mexico border on October 1st.

Nations without borders die. It takes a generation for immigrants to fully master English as their first tongue, discard their un-American cultural baggage, and participate in American Civilization as Americans, not as aliens. A million or so legal immigrants every year can assimilate. Tens of millions of invaders make a minority into a competing culture.

But Mr. Volcker decided that Mr. Mouselli was not credible. It is hard to escape the suspicion that this finding might be based on political sympathies - the conclusion that likely prompted the resignations of Mr. Parton and Ms. Duncan.

In Mr. Volcker's report, Mr. Annan is described as contradicting his own testimony, mostly by failing to remember events. Anyone can forget, but an adversarial investigator might use such lapses to advance the discovery of truth. In Mr. Volcker's report, that strategy is never used against Mr. Annan, but it is used to bring down Mr. Mouselli.

With regard to global tax recommendations that are on the table for serious consideration, the greatest money makers are the Global Carbon Tax and the Tobin tax followed by the international aviation fuel. A general financial transaction tax was rated as having a high income stream. Those easiest to collect would be the global carbon tax, the international aviation fuel, the maritime pollution tax, a tax on arm sales, and a tax on the global commons.

Just as liberals fret over the punishment of following the rules, they are also staunch advocates of preferential treatment for those who don’t follow the rules. Ron Woodard, director of N.C. Listen, a group working to reform immigration, explains this emphatically. “It seems to be a slap in the face to those immigrants who are waiting to come here legally,” he said. “We’re sending a message out... Why wait in line to come to America?”

Yet Annan still regards himself as the world’s moral tutor — a pose he strikes in his essay “‘In Larger Freedom’: Decision Time at the UN,” in the May-June issue of Foreign Affairs. In the article, published by the flagship journal of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations, Annan described his plans to convene a September summit of world leaders “to strengthen our collective security, lay[??] down a truly global strategy for development [that is, foreign aid], advance the cause of human rights and democracy in all nations, and put in place new mechanisms to ensure that these commitments are translated into action.”

The tide of battle in Congress on illegal immigration may be turning.

On his weekly radio show Sunday, Los Angeles-based Terry Anderson gave his listeners a report on participating in Roger Hedgecock’s extensive “hold their feet to the fire” series of rallies, lobbying events and radio broadcasts from Washington, D.C., over the past week. He described the lobbying as “a great success,” and gave the faithful hope that their efforts for real immigration reform might someday prevail on Capitol Hill.

So the next time you're at the pumps, getting agitated over the prospect of breaking another 50 dollar bill, ask yourself who's chiefly to blame for the outrageous gas prices you're paying. If your answer is greedy Haliburton executives, the taxman, or evil foreign oil merchants, you might want to avoid inhaling so many gas fumes in the future. While it's true that none of those folks are doing you any favors, the most ominous threat to your wallet is a bunch of homegrown, radical environmentalists, who would rather save some endangered species of dung beetle than the United States of America.

Restricting or “conserving” energy use will only serve to plunge the whole of humanity into an era the modern mind cannot even conceive. Current efforts to deny Third World nations to modernize keep more than two billion people without electricity. Their populations die young from disease and starvation. It is all preventable.

It is totally irrational to ban access to known reserves of energy anywhere on the face of the Earth. It is totally irrational to thwart the building of facilities to extract and refine it. It is totally irrational not to build nuclear energy facilities. It is totally irrational and yet it is happening here. It foretells the collapse of economic systems. That is the goal of those for whom the decimation of the human race is the only logical way to “save” the Earth.

The US prison population, already the largest in the world, reached a new high of more than 2.1 million last year, with one in every 138 residents of the country now behind bars, according to new government statistics.

European Bilderberg hunters have found the hiding place of this secretive cabal at a posh resort in this charming little city 40 miles from Munich. Their annual meeting is May 5-8.

Bilderberg is gathering at the Dorint Sofitel Seehotel Ueberfahrt, a five-star conference and business hotel with 188 luxury rooms. It is on a lake and near a golf course—typical Bilderberg requirements. High officials of the U.S. government and possibly a few congressional leaders will participate in three days of secret meetings to plan global policy. Heads of state and other high officials from Europe and Britain will participate, along with world financiers.

Support for this populist initiative crossed political, social, economic, educational and racial lines. Many eager signers had lost jobs to foreign workers. (Last week, Microsoft’s Bill Gates demanded the US government issue unlimited visas to foreign high-tech workers.)

For CAFTA, son of NAFTA, is at hand: the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The White House will bring it up, but only if enough Republicans can be bamboozled into going along. In return for access to our market, we get access to five Central American markets and the Dominican Republic—with a total economy the size of New Haven’s—47 million consumers, half of whom are living in poverty by their standards.

We are marionettes. The environment, fe-manism, diversity, tolerance, you name it. The bankers are pulling our strings. In the case of the drug culture, they made us self absorbed and quiescent. They didn't expect many of us to find God.

It's time to uphold the Divine Order, against the satanic New World Order.

It's clear that Americans are quite impressed with what the Minutemen have done for this country. Their pledge to secure this nation has been successful in a short amount of time. Citizens continue to volunteer to patrol their country's borders, much to the chagrin of ethnic advocates.

In looking for a base around the political middle that doesn't exist, Schwarzenegger is finding himself standing alone, unable to advance an agenda without energized Republicans to lend a hand. His blithe prediction that the party can move "left" and gain "5% more votes without it losing anything elsewhere" is being put to the test in California and so far it has failed.

The U.S. military plans to allow regional combatant commanders to request the president for approval to carry out preemptive nuclear strikes against possible attacks on the United States or its allies with weapons of mass destruction, according to a draft new nuclear operations paper.
The paper, drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Armed Forces, also revealed that submarines which make port calls in Yokosuka, Sasebo and Okinawa in Japan are prepared for reloading nuclear warheads if necessary to deal with a crisis.