National Guard troops don't belong in Iraq. They should be rescuing and protecting in Louisiana and Mississippi, not patrolling and killing in a country that was invaded on the basis of presidential deception. They should be fighting the effects of flood waters at home -- helping people in the communities they know best -- not battling Iraqi people who want them to go away.

The question this raises is what is to be learned from this disaster in the Times' opinion. One of two things, it appears: either the Feds are going to have to spend more billions trying to overcome the dangers of living in a city sitting at least seven feet below sea level and thus exposed to the effects of deadly storms, or the people who live there need to go live someplace else. If they don't, anything that happens to them is their own damned fault.

There are turncoats in the Republican Party now. Bush must attack the credibility of his fellow conservatives in order to defend his failures. Senator Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam vet, has come out and stated that Iraq is beginning to resemble Vietnam on many levels. You have Trent Lott hawking his book while spilling the beans about pre-Iraq invasion meetings with Bush and how determined he was to invade days after 9/11. There is also the nuisance of Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) and his determination to get to the bottom of what happened to Operation Able Danger. Then there's Pat and Bay Buchanan blasting Bush on his Iraq policy, while giving Cindy Sheehan a wink and a nod. Oh yes, what about that Sheehan woman?

If ever there was a time for Americans to repudiate the endless claims of environmentalists, it is now.

Hurricane Katrina is an object lesson in the power of Nature to lay waste to everything in its path. But just as surely as the rising of the sun, it will be mere hours before some environmental group announces that this hurricane resulted from “global warming.” Let me assure you that this hurricane and all others are part of a natural climatic cycle that begins off the west coast of Africa and makes its way across the Atlantic. Always has and always will.

An important reason for the increasing loan-to-value ratio is the proliferation of what are called "piggyback" loans. Basically, a borrower takes out two mortgages simultaneously -- a first mortgage and a second, piggyback mortgage on top. The first mortgage will be what is called "conforming," which means that it can easily be resold on the secondary market. The balance might be in the form of a home equity loan or credit line that is used to make the initial purchase, rather than taken out afterwards.

America has often faced the threat of foreigners promoting radical ideologies, including Jacobinism, anarchism, communism, fascism, and now Islamism. It is an unavoidable consequence of mass immigration. The higher the level of immigration, the more likely it is that individuals espousing hatred and violence toward America will gain entry. But whatever the level of immigration, excluding or removing noncitizens from the United States based on their promotion of such beliefs ("ideological exclusion") can help to protect the country. Historically such efforts have played this role, especially during the 20th century. With the end of the Cold War, Congress effectively repealed ideological exclusion, meaning that only active terrorists on watch lists could be barred, while those promoting the ideologies of such terrorists would have to be admitted. To end this vulnerability, ideological exclusion should be restored, allowing aliens to be excluded or deported not only for overt acts but also for radical affiliations or advocacy. Such grounds for exclusion and removal should be based on characteristics common to the many varieties of extremism, rather than target a specific ideology.

Executive Summary

This report covers the immigration histories of 94 terrorists who operated in the United States between the early 1990s and 2004, including six of the September 11th hijackers. Other than the hijackers, almost all of these individuals have been indicted or convicted for their crimes. The report builds on prior work done by 9/11 Commission and the Center for Immigration Studies, providing more information than has been previously been made public.

The anti-war group Code Pink, slammed by conservatives and some wounded veterans for co-sponsoring recent protests in front of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., now suggests that the most inflammatory signs held up at the protests might have been the work of "infiltrators whose aim [was] to disrupt the vigil."

I have come to the conclusion that Bush's greatest flaw is his failure to understand and live by the most basic and enduring folk wisdom of the Ages. Bush not only fails to observe and abide by these insights and guideposts, he consistently thinks and acts in ways that are quite contrary to logic and intelligence. He also fails to consider the sensitivities and the preferences of the people he is supposed to represent and protect

Citizen outrage over the illegal alien invasion is now at an all-time high. The chance for real immigration reform on two parts of the immigration law enforcement triad—border enforcement and interior enforcement—has never been better.

But there’s a forgotten third part of the immigration law enforcement triad: deportation enforcement.

That is, whether the federal government will actually deport aliens after apprehending them.

With Christ-approval numbers now in the single digits, and with compelling evidence from the “disciples for truth” that Christ is a member of Al Qaeda, he was arrested under the provisions of the US Patriot Act and whisked off to an undisclosed location.

The indigent, penniless Christ was represented in court by a public defender who appealed Christ’s incarceration all the way up to the US Supreme court.

Justice Antonin Scalia, who is of Italian ancestry tracing back to ancient Rome, when speaking for the court refused to hear the appeal. In a tersely worded opinion for a unanimous court, he stated: “We wash our hands of this matter.”

Unemployment in the high-tech sector remains stubbornly in double digits. But out-of-work software engineers and computer programmers need not look to the government for help. Even though the Department of Labor currently is job postings for almost 52,000 jobs, most of which are for high tech positions. That's how many applications have been filed by companies seeking to hire foreign workers holding H1-B visas. The programmers guild wants the Labor Department to post the jobs to Americans can see who's hiring, but that can't happen according to the Department of Labor, because the law doesn't allow it.

George Bush is chief executive of the United States. It is his duty to enforce the laws. Can anyone fairly say he is enforcing the immigration laws? Those laws are clear. People who break in are to be sent back. Yet, more than 10 million have broken in with impunity. Another million attempt to break in every year. Half a million succeed. Border security is homeland security. How, then, can the Department of Homeland Security say America is secure?

The Republican Party claims to be a conservative party. But what kind of conservative is it who, to cut a few costs or make a few bucks, will turn his family's home into a neighborhood flop house?

Let the pro-war "liberal hawks" write all the fancy polemics they want, and, as the full tragedy of our involvement in Iraq unfolds, it won't affect public opinion one iota. What's more, they know it, and this knowledge of their own ineffectiveness – the suspicion that the louder they shout, the more they can be certain no one is listening – has unhinged some of them. Certainly this is true of Hitchens, whose public meltdown climaxed in his giving thanks to bin Laden for the horror of 9/11:

This report is signed by one Philip Giraldi, who is identified as "a former CIA Officer, [and] a partner in Cannistraro Associates." This makes it even more interesting -- for the head of Cannistraro Associates is none other than former CIA counter-terrorism chief Vince Cannistraro (right), who was also Director for Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council under President Reagan, former Special Assistant for Intelligence in the office of the Secretary of Defense, and whose face you've seen a lot on TV -- he's currently a consultant to ABC News on intelligence and terrorism.

The United States, which set up the rules for adopting the Iraqi constitution, has probably shot itself in the foot, as it usually does when it tries to play the imperial game. One of those rules states that the constitution is dead meat if it fails to get a two-thirds vote in three provinces. The Sunnis are a majority in four provinces. They call the draft constitution a plan for civil war.

A great deal of print has been wasted on President Bush's inability to tell the truth. In fact, it really makes little difference whether Bush is a pathological liar or not. What is meaningful however is that deception is the primary tool for the maintenance of the state. Transparency and candor are now seen as direct threats to the preservation of the status quo. This suggests that Bush's lying is not simply a matter of human frailty or corruption, but a clear statement of administration policy. This may seem like a minor point, but in fact the conduct of the Bush administration cannot be seriously evaluated without understanding that deceit is the cornerstone of their class-based world view.

The acute danger of a US nuclear sneak attack on Iran had been indicated by a signal piece contributed by CIA veteran Philip Giraldi to the magazine The American Conservative. Giraldi is the partner of retired CIA operations man Vince Cannistraro, and can be presumed to be drawing on high-level leaks by those opposed to the Bush-Cheney war scenario. Giraldi wrote:

But what if the form that Sheehan has somehow given to the nation's growing sense of betrayal does not simply fade at summer's end? What if that spark takes hold in the Texas scrub and sets off "an untamed fire of freedom" from the murderous lies that have led America into crime and disgrace? We might yet see Bush undone by his own incantation -- and truth become the new word of power.

White House aides are leaking reports that President Bush has finally “flipped his lid” over anti-war protestor Cindy Sheehan, screaming obscenities and repeatedly “flipping the bird” at the mention of Sheehan’s name or others disagreeing with his policies.

What neither conservatives nor liberals seem willing to acknowledge is that the Bush and Clinton families have been the closest of friends for years. (Why else would G.W. Bush send a military transport plane to Australia to fetch Bill in the early moments following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001? He didn't do anything like that for Jimmy Carter!) These two royal families have been hobnobbing since back when George H.W. Bush was President and Bill was Governor of Arkansas.

In fact, these same feminist-inspired demographic trends have resulted in 34 million women joining the workforce between 1970 and 2000, during a time when American birth rates dropped from 18.4 to 13.9 per thousand. The new addition of these women to the workforce has helped to mask the growing demand for labor during a time of explosive economic expansion, “from 5.03 trillion in 1970 to 11.75 trillion in 2004 as measured in 2005 dollars,” as WorldNetDaily columnist Vox Day brilliantly pointed out in his August 15 column entitled “Girls just want to have fun.”

Day also warned that the American birth rate has fallen “by 25 percent to sub-replacement levels,” and this sterile trend threatens all of Western Civilization from North America to Europe. So maybe I’m not the only voice crying in the wilderness about the economic problems that legalized abortions have caused in our society.

The longer the U.S., the occupying force, remains in Iraq, the more long-term will be the effects. So the best thing for the United States and Iraq alike is to bring U.S. troops home as quickly as possible.

In a word, American capitalism is destroying itself by dismantling the ladders of upward mobility that have made large income inequalities acceptable. By rewarding themselves for destroying American jobs and manufacturing, engineering and scientific capabilities, US executives are sowing a whirlwind. American political stability will not survive the turning of an American university degree into a worthless sheet of paper. Libertarians and free market ideologues who rejoice in freedom should open their eyes to freedom's destruction.

Instead, it is best to rebuke both the pro-assassination Robertson and the cheerleaders of pro-mass casualty Middle Eastern domination, but let’s be honest and recognize Robertson is nothing more than a side show in this whole affair. The real outrage belongs to those on the top. Too many want to have it both ways though. They want to condemn Robertson for his remarks and the "instability" it has caused U.S-South American relations, but give the administration a free pass on the real causalities and instability that have been caused since March of 2003 and which seem to have no end in sight. Only honest liberals and antiwar conservatives have been consistent on these issues from the beginning.

In the practice of Zen Buddhism, a koan is a statement that is intentionally insoluble to the rational mind, a tool by which to master life’s seemingly paradoxical events. Yet the Japanese Zen masters have nothing on us red-blooded Americans, who for over a century have become unconsciously adept at sustaining such conflicts, easily accepting contradictory interpretations of Constitutional Law, between the original scope of the Bill of Rights and that since the Fourteenth Amendment.

The network links a bewildering line-up of players -- the Bushes, the Vatican, bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and China's Communist overlords, among others -- in a staggering array of crime and turpitude: prostitution, pedophilia, mass death and war profiteering. Yet this is not some grand "conspiracy theory," a serpent's egg hatched in Bilderberg or Bohemian Grove. It's simply the way the Bush boys do business, trawling the globe for sweetheart deals and gushers of blood money from the war and terror they foment.

Those who set out to make legislation and politics scientific will only succeed in politicizing science. There is a pattern here. When the modern state made its appearance on the world stage some five hundred years ago, many thought it would be a means for enforcing justice; instead it ended up justifying force and in the process destroyed the common understanding of justice. According to present prevalent views, justice is no more than a personal opinion. To the extent that it has meaning in public life it is the ruling opinion, propagated by its control of education and enforced by its control of the state’s police powers. Is that the fate that awaits science?

Had conservatism a Cassandra, she might, amidst the current mood of triumph, point out that whereas 50 years ago the American Right boasted several political theorists destined to exert a lasting influence, today it has not one to its credit. In the 1950s and ’60s, James Burnham, Richard Weaver, Leo Strauss, Harry Jaffa, Russell Kirk, Friedrich Hayek, and Willmoore Kendall (among others) were all at the apex of their powers. No figure of similar stature remains.

The media are wrong. The people who have come out to Camp Casey to help coordinate the press and events with me are not putting words in my mouth, they are taking words out of my mouth. I have been known for sometime as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite. Now I am urged to use softer language to appeal to a wider audience. Why do my friends at Camp Casey think they are there? Why did such a big movement occur from such a small action on August 6, 2005?

Unfortunately, the president, be he a Republican or a Democrat, has become the ceremonial figurehead for a self-perpetuating elitist clique that keeps our nation deeply entangled in conflicts abroad. Our nation’s involvement in wars and foreign crises for most of the past century has resulted in the creation of an office that in many ways amounts to an elected dictatorship.

Conservatives have moral indignation on our side regarding the leftist abuses on campus. Moral indignation is highly contagious, so powerful that it tends to sweep aside everything else. That is why, in almost every case, a three-pronged strategy of public relations, political heat, and legal responses wins against leftist abuses on campus.

Leftists believe that any conservative presence on campus is too much, even though the resources of time, talent, and money available for campus conservative activity are still minuscule compared to those of the left.

The passivity of his handlers in permitting Sheehan to dominate news coverage from the Texas White House in Crawford has also surprised observers and bolstered the impression that the administration has both lost its political touch and has no answers to the kinds of questions Sheehan and the public at large are raising.

If the administration now admits that its desired transformation of Iraq’s political, social, and economic affairs is infeasible and that it cannot defeat the resistance forces that oppose its continued occupation, will the Americans pack up and leave, putting all their propaganda eggs into a basket labeled “at least we toppled that horrible dictator Saddam Hussein”? Of course not. The program to create a democratic paradise in Iraq may have collided with reality, but that collision does not imply that U.S. forces will proceed to evacuate the venue of the failed experiment. To suppose that it does is to misunderstand why they were sent there in the first place.

Immigration has joined the long list of subjects on which it is taboo to talk sense in plain English. At the heart of much confusion about immigration is the notion that we "need" immigrants -- legal or illegal -- to do work that Americans won't do.

Lawmakers have proposed a number of "solutions" to the problem of illegal immigration, from amnesty programs to mass deportations. But one conservative Republican says the key to discouraging illegal immigration is to hit the employers who hire them right where it counts: in the wallet.

Worth noting is the fact that these sizeable deficit projections are expected to occur in a very favorable economic environment: Inflation-adjusted GDP growth will average 3.25 percent a year; the unemployment rate will average 5.2 percent; and short-term and long-term interest rates for Treasury securities will remain well below their 1970-2000 averages. Yet, under these CBO economic assumptions, annual deficits for 2006-2010 will still average nearly $325 billion. Even if one assumes that spending in Iraq will fall by 50 percent beginning in 2008, the average annual deficit for the five-year period would still total $300 billion.

The purity of Sheehan's protest has lately been diluted by her association with the far Left, the extravagance of her language and the arrival of political operatives to manipulate and manage her. But in a slow news month, Cindy Sheehan has helped turn the focus of national debate back to the war, at a moment of special vulnerability for the president.

Over the past two years, administration officials, civilian and military, have never ceased to talk about "turning corners" or reaching "tipping points" and achieving "milestones" in the Iraq-war-that-won't-end. Now it seems possible that Cindy Sheehan in a spontaneous act of opposition - her decision to head for Crawford, Texas, to face down a vacationing president and demand an explanation for her son's death - may produce the first real American tipping point of the Iraq war.

According to DEA officials, Mexican drug cartels now control 11 of the 13 largest drug markets in the country and wield more influence over our illicit drug trade than any other group. DEA reports show that in 2004, 92 percent of the cocaine in the U.S. came through the U.S.-Mexican border, up 15 percent from 2003. They also show that methamphetamine seizure at the border is up 74% since 2001.

The congressional power to strip federal courts of jurisdiction is plainly granted in Article III, and no constitutional amendments are required. On the contrary, any constitutional amendment addressing judicial activism would only grant legitimacy to the dangerous idea that social issues are federal matters. Giving more authority over social matters to any branch of the federal government is a mistake, because a centralized government is unlikely to reflect local sentiment for long. Both political parties are guilty of ignoring the 9th and 10th amendments, and federalizing whole areas of law that constitutionally should be left up to states. This abandonment of federalism and states’ rights paved the way for an activist federal judiciary.

The implications of intelligent design, they correctly sense, are devastating to the man-centered relativism and skepticism their intellectual culture treats as the only acceptable grounds on which to build culture. They are averse to intelligent design for the same reason they shudder at the mention of a natural moral law: it is an intolerable constraint upon self-sufficient man.

Immigration law, he ruled, is solely the federal government’s to neglect, and claims that the act of illegal entry into the US might be violations of any local laws would be “unconstitutional attempts to regulate in the area of enforcement of immigration violations, an area where Congress must be deemed to have regulated with such civil sanctions and criminal penalties as it feels are sufficient.”

In other words, if an unelected bureaucrat at ICE decides that it is OK for an unidentified foreign national to be in the United States illegally, it is OK for him to be in New Ipswich illegally. The law be damned.

The Bush administration's Top 40 Lies about war and terrorism.

More often than not, events prove that the opponents of intervention were absolutely right, but that yields small comfort in a nation of such short memories. For all the revelations of previous presidential duplicity and stupidity, most Americans seem ready to believe their president during even the most artificial crises. That offers irresistible opportunities for incompetent or unscrupulous incumbents to regain public support, and vastly improves the chances for armed conflict at every diplomatic hurdle.

How ironic. An Englishman blows up trains in Arabia and he becomes a hero and national legend. But some Pakistanis blow up trains in England and they are known as terrorists.

It is said, "History is written by the victors." No kidding! And no exaggeration, either.

Courageously she has gone to Texas near the ranch of President Bush and braved the elements and a hostile Jewish supremacist media to demand a meeting with him and a good explanation why her son and other’s sons and daughters must die and be disfigured in a war for Israel rather than for America.

Recently, she had the courage to state the obvious that her son signed up in the military to protect America not to die for Israel.

General Byrnes reportedly made an enemy of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for opposing the Rumsfeldian "transformation" of the military into a more "flexible" instrument of the Bush Doctrine and the neocons' imperial vision. In essentially firing a four-star general – a vicious act of retribution that certainly bears the personal stamp of the chimp-in-chief – the White House engaged in a preemptive strike against the War Party's enemies in the military. This is no doubt a sore spot for the White House: opposition from American's military leaders to the Iraq adventure made headlines in the run-up to war, and their continuing objection to this administration's policy of unconstrained aggression was summed up in the remark of a retired general to the Washington Times: "The Army is just too small for what they want it to do."

The Wall Street Journal's Editorial Page has long been notorious for making a religion of Open Borders. Now it has tried to enlist religion on the side of its obsession. On Aug. 12th, the WSJ's free website, www.OpinionJournal.com, ran an essay by the deputy editor of its "Taste" page, Naomi Schaefer Riley, called "Welcoming the Stranger: Faith-based groups say it's time to reform immigration." (In WSJ-speak, "reform" means "more of the hair of the dog that bit us.").

One of the traits that distinguish the modern liberal is the belief in systemic problems and therefore systemic solutions. The conservative recognizes that all human problems begin with the individual. The liberal, believing that crime is a result of societal conditions, thinks that if the society is corrected, crime will disappear. The conservative knows better.

Meanwhile, our military/industrial complex is working at a brisk pace to produce "robust" nuclear weapons that won't make the dramatic splash once judged expedient for sowing terror through the epic, visible horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This new generation of homicidal nuclear gadgets won't be called affectionately, "Fat Man" or "Little Boy." This new generation of nukes will be deviously nicknamed "Deniable," "Limited," "Precision-Targeted," and, of course, "Civilian-Caring"—when not just plain "Democratic," which they will be as they will kill a lot of people.

The greatest danger to our society comes from Trial Lawyers and their associate umbrella group, the ACLU, who have managed to make terrorism into a legal art. Instead of using bombs to blow up innocents, they use the law to blow up people's lives from the inside out.

Rumors inside the military say that a growing faction of discontented high-ranking officers are attempting internally to try and stop the Bush administration’s imminent plans for war with Iran in an effort to avert global war.

Although the exact number of high-ranking military involved is undetermined, sources have disclosed it appears to be evenly split between pro Bush and anti Bush factions.

I sincerely doubt Byrnes is another Butler. However, if he was indeed the leader of a faction opposed to the Straussian-Machiavellian neocons, who want to nuke Iran (and possibly a city in America—under cover of a JTF-CS exercise—as a pretext to start their version of the 30 Years’ War), we can hold out at least a modicum of hope in the realization that the military does not consist solely of self-seekers and warmongering psychopaths.

With the Internet viewed as their largest obstacle at this point in time, the Bilderberg Group globalists were seen and heard in this meeting making comments about how the Internet in America must be shut down, and how these "truth-telling patriots" must be stopped at whatever the cost.

U.S. policy makers want to pursue a policy of global hegemony and to impress it with special force on the areas of the world located atop great deposits of petroleum or astride pipeline routes for transporting oil and gas to world markets. They want to prop up tyrannical but cooperative governments in places such as Egypt, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. They want to take Israel’s side every time in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They want to position their armed forces in more than a hundred foreign countries and, in all too many cases, to employ those forces against politically aggrieved locals who might upset the status quo. Yet U.S. policy makers pretend to believe that in the midst of all their provocations of Muslims and other people far and wide, they can either kill or hoodwink those who resist and who fight back sometimes by terrorist means morally reprehensible in their own right, to be sure, yet nonetheless comprehensible. In sum, U.S. leaders seek to achieve the impossible.

What I have noticed about conservatives and Republicans is that they are no longer conservative and Republican.

Conservatives and Republicans used to be people who thought it was America's business to avoid wars and to govern well at home. It was Democrats who involved us in wars – World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam all started under Democratic presidents.

According to reporter Greg Szymanski, anonymous military sources said that Brynes was the leader of a faction that was preparing to instigate a coup against the neo-con hawks in an attempt to prevent further global conflict.

Indications are that, much like popular opinion amongst the general public, half the military oppose the neo-con's agenda and half support it.

"You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite/ You call yourself a patriot. Well, I think your are full of sh*t!... How come you're so wrong, my sweet neo-con."

In the short term, however, the plan is fraught with difficulties. At present, there is no wiggle room in the world's oil supply for massive disruptions and most experts are predicting shortages in the 4th quarter of this year. If the administration's war on Iran goes forward we will see a shock to the world's oil supplies and economies that could be catastrophic. That being the case, a report that was leaked last week that Dick Cheney had STRATCOM (Strategic Command) draw up "contingency plans for a tactical nuclear war against Iran", is probably a bit of brinksmanship intended to dissuade Iran from striking back and escalating the conflict.

Here are the essentials. The president must announce publicly the date by which the U.S. government will completely end its Iraqi presence, military and civilian. The statement must promise in unambiguous, unconditional terms that within a precise period (I suggest six months) after the directly elected new Iraqi government takes office, he will order the complete evacuation of all U.S. military forces beyond the normal Marine guard at the U.S. Embassy, all U.S. civilian personnel except for a diplomatic staff of normal size and all U.S. contractors.

Of the new jobs, 26,000 (about 13%) are tax-supported government jobs. That leaves 181,000 private sector jobs. Of these private sector jobs, 177,000, or 98%, are in the domestic service sector.

Here is the breakdown of the major categories:

• 30,000 food servers and bar tenders;
• 28,000 health care and social assistance:
• 12,000 real estate;
• 6,000 credit intermediation;
• 8,000 transit and ground passenger transportation;
• 50,000 retail trade; and
• 8,000 wholesale trade.

The problem of illegal immigration will not be solved easily, but we can start by recognizing that the overwhelming majority of Americans – including immigrants – want immigration reduced, not expanded.

We must end welfare state subsidies for illegal immigrants. Some illegal immigrants – certainly not all – receive housing subsidies, food stamps, free medical care, and other forms of welfare. This alienates taxpayers and breeds suspicion of immigrants, even though the majority of them work very hard. Without a welfare state, we would know that everyone coming to America wanted to work hard and support himself.

The future looks bright.

“The meaning of words had no longer the same relation to things, but was changed by them as they thought proper. Reckless daring was held to be loyal courage; prudent delay was the excuse of a coward; moderation was the disguise of unmanly weakness; to know everything was to do nothing. Frantic energy was the true quality of a man. A conspirator who wanted to be safe was a recreant in disguise. The lover of violence was always trusted, and his opponent suspected.” These are the words used over 2,000 years ago by the famed Athenian historian Thucydides to describe the attempt by Peloponnesian rulers to sell the treachery of war to their citizens. The Bush administration took a page out of the Peloponnesian War playbook and rebranded the unpopular “war on terror” as the ostensibly more palatable “global struggle against extremism” — and then they changed the name back.

Bush is more likely to take his "intelligence" from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who, according to George H. W. Bush's national security adviser, Gen. Brent Scowcroft, has our current president "wrapped around his little finger." (For harboring such thoughts, Scowcroft was unceremoniously removed from his key position as chair of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board early this year.)

For decades immigration has been the driving force behind U.S. population growth. Although the foreign influx continues, the new arrivals are now outnumbered by babies born to immigrant mothers.

Births to immigrant mothers have quadrupled over the past three decades: [Table1, below.]

228,486 in 1970 ( 6.1 percent of all births)

339,662 in 1980 (9.4 percent of all births)

621,442 in 1990 (14.9 percent of all births)

915,800 in 2002 (22.7 percent of all births)

"The CAFTA vote had nothing to do with the American public, or even trade policy per se. CAFTA was driven by politics and nothing more. Multinational corporations and political globalists share the same goals, namely the centralization of political power in international bodies and the diminution of national sovereignty. What we witnessed last week was not just the selling of votes, but also a sellout of American control over our own trade regulations."

“Why am I called the Prince of Darkness? Well, I like to say that it’s because I’m for small government, low taxes and individual economic freedom -- all of which are satanic characteristics in this town,” said Novak. “But I think really why I am called the Prince of Darkness is that I tend to be a critic and look at the glass as half empty rather than half full. And the fact of the matter is, I am a journalist.”

The free-trade True Believers need to ask themselves why they are losing Congress when they have all the king's horses and all the king's men behind them: The New York Times and Washington Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, the Heritage Foundation, Cato and Brookings, National Review and the New Republic, Congress and the White House, and most of the corporate lobbyists and big campaign contributors.

Answer: The free-traders are losing Congress because they have lost the country. Every community has now seen factories shut and jobs shipped overseas. Working men and women know their wages are barely keeping up with inflation. They worry about their country's dependency on foreign goods and foreign money. They all now have friends who have lost jobs to outsourcing.

The ACLU hates the Boy Scouts because of their credo – specifically their assertion of a belief in God- and because of their refusal to allow homosexuals into their organization. The ACLU, in effect, wants to punish the Boy Scouts for their value and belief system.

Huntsman has been a member of the globalist organization, and has played a significant role in the unfolding campaign to build a system of global governance through the creation of multilateral "free trade" pacts. These facts are significant in light of his emergence as an Establishment-approved point man dealing with the problem of illegal immigration from Mexico and Latin America.

Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. was listed as a member of the CFR from 1993 to 1998. In a mini-essay published in the group’s 1996 Annual Report, Huntsman praised the globalist group effusively, extolling the CFR as "America’s premier crossroads for those who are internationally minded and experienced…."

CAFTA and NAFTA are not simply agreements; rather, they set up authorities that trump federal, state, and local laws and constitutions. When our elected officials signed CAFTA into law, they signed over a piece of our sovereignty.

CAFTA and NAFTA are not simply about economics; rather, they are about open borders and political union as part of the New World Order. As has been hidden in plain sight by the CFR, the economic union is only a stepping stone to the long-dreamed of political union. The stones are as follows: NAFTA then CAFTA then the FTAA then the Pan-American Union (and a regionalized world) then the UN or the New World Order (world government).

The state and local laws to restrict the private use of eminent domain are merely policy statements that the eminent domain authority of the state or local government will not be used to take private property for private developers. A city or county's policy statement cannot prevent a state or the federal government from exercising eminent domain authority in the local government's jurisdiction, nor could a state's policy stop the exercise of eminent domain by the federal government. Moreover, not all of these efforts to restrict the use of eminent domain are succeeding, and those that do can be changed by a majority vote. They do not constitute a constitutional protection of private property.

If obstructionism by Senate Democrats of President Bush’s political and judicial appointments has taught us anything about the nature of the goals of liberalism it is they detest Christianity, or any religious faith that has the audacity to hold opinions contrary to their own. Senator Charles Schumer may want to try to perform a song and dance around Article VI of the Constitution, banning “religious tests” in the confirmation process of official appointments, by replacing the words “religious beliefs” with “deeply held personal beliefs,” but the results are the same. Liberals discriminate against people of faith under the hypocritical guise of “tolerance” to ban them from public office and diminish their influence on society.

Look at how quickly the Democrats turn skepticism about science on and off, depending on their ideological needs. When speaking of the grand medical promise of experimentation on the stem cells of destroyed human embryos, they show no skepticism about science whatsoever and make fantastical claims about its power. But when scientists report the dangers of RU-486, the Democrats suddenly assume the posture of skepticism and show a resistance to science's niggling claims. Like shamans shooing away missionary doctors, the Democrats tell the American public to close their ears and keep taking their liberal medicine -- contraceptives that fail, abortifacients that can poison them, and so forth.

Under the Kyl-Cornyn bill, illegal aliens wouldn’t ever see the EOIR Immigration Court, because the DHS would hand-out the free non-deportation pass before the EOIR could get involved.

In America, the white total fertility rate (babies per woman lifetime) dropped below the replacement rate of 2.1 by 1972, over three decades ago, so the white population has almost stabilized by now. In Mexico, however, the total fertility rate was 6.82 in 1970, 5.30 in 1980 and 3.61 in 1990, so there are a whole lot of Mexican women between ages 15 and 35 who are still having children. Even if they only have the replacement rate each, the total Mexican population will continue to rise for decades.

My colleague Bill Lind laid out the case for a grand strategy of isolation from disorder last fall in The American Conservative, in a piece that Senator Robert A. Taft might have agreed with. (Lind, by the way worked for the Senator's son, Sen. Robert Taft, Jr., Ohio Republican, during Taft's tenure in the U.S. Senate.)

While the next conservatism should be firmly for measures that really improve our security, like taking control of our borders and ending illegal immigration, it should be equally firm in rejecting departures from our Constitution. Our country has survived many wars without discarding the Constitution, and I have no doubt we can do the same in the War on Terrorism if conservatives insist on it.

Perhaps the strangest vote buyoff occurred two days before the CAFTA vote. Lawmakers from hard-hit manufacturing districts steadfastly have opposed CAFTA, arguing that it would accelerate the outsourcing of jobs to nations with cheap labor. So House leaders scrambled to craft last-minute legislation to “get tough” on China, which is the real source of concern for most American manufacturers. A bill was drawn up, and a hasty vote cast, so lawmakers could explain that they traded a yes vote on CAFTA for action against China. One small problem presented itself, however: the China bill failed on the House floor! So House leaders went back to the drawing board, struck some and held a second vote on the same bill the next day. This time it passed, but its chances of surviving the Senate or a White House veto are virtually nil. So members from manufacturing districts literally sold their votes for nothing. Their months of double-talking, coyness, and vote peddling resulted in nothing more than an empty promise.

It turns out that people loathe it when government steals property for purposes of private development. Politicians notice this fact. They then attempt to gain the favor of their constituents by pushing and favoring legislation that prevents this. The heck of it is that the Institute for Justice, which was the leading critic of the Kelo decision, has vowed to fight back by supporting legislation at the state and local level. Well, great! Someone should have thought of this before all the resources were wasted attempting to convert the Supremes.

So in plain English I ask what is a Conservative? In the context of the American Republic I suggest that aside from emotional social and religious issues that have been used to distort the meaning of the word, there are some fundamental positions that might be used to identify someone as Conservative:

Though frustrated, I have followed the advice of my attorneys and written almost nothing about the CIA leak over two years because of a criminal investigation by a federal special prosecutor. The lawyers also urged me not to write this. But the allegation against me is so patently incorrect and so abuses my integrity as a journalist that I feel constrained to reply.

The most recent example of this is the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). CAFTA passed the U.S. House on July 28th by a vote of 217-215. It’s a treaty that, as the name alleges, makes us a freer nation. Unfortunately, freedom today has been defined by bureaucrats as being large numbers of convoluted regulations. As one lobbyist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said in justifying CAFTA, "We as a country are a party to a very small number of trade agreements globally, particularly compared to the EU (European Union).”

When Americans are forced to comply with a ruling of an appointed international tribunal, the idea of national sovereignty goes out the window. This, of course, is prerequisite to the emergence of global governance. NAFTA, CAFTA, and the WTO are more than nourishment for the one-worlders. They are vitamin-packed, steroid-enriched, injections of global governance.

A number of political observers and activists today sounded “a red alert” after allegations surfaced this week that Vice President Dick Cheney has ordered Strategic Command (STRATCOM) to make contingency plans for a nuclear strike against Iran in the aftermath of another “9-11 type attack” on the United States.