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The Jihad Candidate

Contributed by Rich Carroll

Conspiracy theories make for interesting novels when the storyline is not so absurd that it can grasp our attention. ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ and ‘Seven Days in May’ are examples of plausible chains of events that captures the reader’s imagination at best-seller level. ‘What if’ has always been the solid grist of fiction.

Get yourself something cool to drink, find a relaxing position, but before you continue, visualize the television photos of two jet airliners smashing into the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan and remind yourself this cowardly act of Muslim terror was planned for eight years.

How long did it take Islam and their oil money to find a candidate for President of the United States? As long as it took them to place a Senator from Illinois and Minnesota? The same amount of time to create a large Muslim enclave in Detroit? The time it took them to build over 2,000 mosques in America? The same amount of time required to place radical wahabbist clerics in our military and prisons as ‘chaplains’?

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Supreme Court Strikes Down D.C. Gun Ban, Upholds Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a constitutional right to keep guns in their homes for self-defense, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun control in U.S. history.

It was a great result–however, the victory was narrow (5-4). What does that mean for the future of your right to own a gun?

Check out these two quotes by Justices Stevens (appointed by Ford) and Breyer (appointed by Clinton)…

“the majority would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons.”

“In my view, there simply is no untouchable constitutional right guaranteed by the Second Amendment to keep loaded handguns in the house in crime-ridden urban areas.”

Stevens (Ford), Souter (H.W. Bush), Ginsburg (Clinton) and Breyer (Clinton) are the four dissenters…

Thankfully Justices Roberts (G.W. Bush), Scalia (Reagan), Kennedy (Reagan), Thomas (H.W. Bush), and Alito (G.W. Bush) believe that the founding fathers simply meant what they said.

Thanks from Chuck Baldwin

US Presidential Candidate Chuck Baldwin sent me an email thanking Intelligent Conservatism for helping spread the conservative message.

Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:03:48 -0400
From: Chuck Baldwin
Subject: THANKS
To: derek@intelligentconservatism.com

A big “Thank you” to Derek, Jim, and all the great folks at Intelligent Conservatism. With your help, we are going to turn this country around. Keep up the good work.

Thank the Environmentalists

Real estate developers and property owners in one of Spain’s premier beach resort towns are threatening to sue Greenpeace.  They want to sue over Greenpeace’s graphic predictions of what global warming will do to their area, which has caused housing prices to plummet by 50%.

Over six months ago, La Manga, Spain was prominently featured in a photo book published by Greenpeace that was supposed to act as a wakeup call for the Spanish government to take action on climate change.  It showed a dried up river and desert in an area that is currently covered in lemon and orange groves.  It shows digitally modified photos of the town submerged in water with only the tops of hotels, apartments and palm trees sticking out.

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James Madison on Government

Here’s a quote from the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s weekly newsletter:

“The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state government, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government” - James Madison

That was then. This is now. To listen to most Democrats you would think that the primary purpose of our federal government is to redistribute wealth.

Obama and McCain

Article by Thomas Sowell

Now that the two parties have finally selected their presidential candidates, it is time for a sober- if not grim- assessment of where we are.

Not since 1972 have we been presented with two such painfully inadequate candidates. When election day came that year, I could not bring myself to vote for either George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I stayed home.

This year, none of us has that luxury. While all sorts of gushing is going on in the media, and posturing is going on in politics, the biggest national sponsor of terrorism in the world- Iran- is moving step by step toward building a nuclear bomb.

They have already telegraphed their intention to dictate to us with such things as Osama bin Laden’s threats to target those places in America that did not vote the way he prescribed in the 2004 elections. He could not back up those threats then but he may be able to in a very few years.

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Quote of the Week

On the night that Barack Obama clinched the Democrat nomination he was in St. Paul, Minnesota – there to deliver this absolute gem of a quote:

“I am absolutely certain that generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick. This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

Isn’t that amazing? Not until Barack “The Messiah” Obama signed up that last delegate did this country do anything to care for sick people. Medicare and Medicaid have existed on paper only … certainly not in reality. What’s more … a signal has now been sent to the oceans to recede and a great glob of Neosporin has now been spread across our planet.

PANDERING TO VOTER IGNORANCE

Article by Neal Boortz - boortz.com

Ok … perhaps all politicians do this, but the Democrats are making it an art form.  Yesterday we talked about Obama’s call for a windfall profits tax on the oil companies.  What he’s talking about is stepping up and seizing an even bigger portion of the pensions, 401K and retirement funds of middle class America; including our teachers, nurses, police officers, soldiers and firemen.

So … what do we have for you today in the rich history of Democrats and their spokesmen?  Yesterday I watched some “democrat strategist” talking about Obama’s tax plans.  Sure enough, I didn’t have to wait long before he pulled out that Warren Buffet line about CEOs enjoying lower tax rates than their secretaries.  Give a big-time break here.  That idiotic line only works because the uneducated fools who hear it and cheer don’t have a clue as to the little trick that is being played on them.  Sadly, many news anchors don’t get it either; or if they do, they roll over and play dead when the line is delivered.

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High school teaching provides lesson in futility

Article by Melanie Hubbard

I should have put the year I took up boxing on my resume.

It’s sixth period, my first day teaching high school, and my regular Junior English class refuses to settle down. I give them a brief talk, amid the jostling and visiting (and the walking, and the love taps, and the food trading, and the vaulting over desks) about respect. I will respect them, I say, and they will respect me.

For about 30 seconds, they like the idea of my respecting them, and then they’re up again. I move toward the busiest knot of them. I am, at not even 5 feet tall and 100 pounds, the tiny center of a group growing rowdier by the second. I mention that I can get help, if I need it. “I’ll help!” a young man offers, and begins skipping, unhelpfully, to the front of the room. I have to do something fast. “Step outside. That’s enough.” And the class roars, “Oooooh!” This is not what I had in mind.

Earlier this spring I decided to try high school teaching. After six years teaching at the college level, with no permanent full-time job in sight (given the state’s headlong dive for the bottom in higher education), the possibility tantalized. Besides, there’s a shortage of qualified teachers in Hillsborough County, perhaps because the teaching demands increased and the pay stayed low, even after a raise. I wanted to learn what I could before deciding whether to apply for a permanent position on Teacher Interview Day this week. I ended up with a temporary full-time spot at a Hillsborough high school (I was asked not to identify which one) for the last six weeks of the term, and I was welcomed with open arms. By my fellow teachers, at any rate.

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BARACK PUSHES WINDFALL PROFITS

Article by Neal Boortz - boortz.com

Barack Obama has been toying with the idea of imposing a tax on windfall profits on US oil companies, and it will definitely be a part of his presidential platform. Take a look at this latest statement he made in Raleigh, North Carolina.  He said, “I’ll make oil companies like Exxon pay a tax on their windfall profits, and we’ll use the money to help families pay for their skyrocketing energy costs and other bills.”  Gee, that sounds like a wealth distribution plan if I’ve ever heard one.  Rob from the rich to give to the “poor.”

Ok .. first of all, just what are “windfall profits?”  Does anyone have a handy definition?  Might I offer one?  Damn right I might.  Try this:  “A tax levied on a industry by a politician eager to pander to economically ignorant voters who, for whatever reason, are upset with that industry.”

This term “windfall profits” has become another buzzword for liberals, and particularly the Barack Obama campaign.  A majority of Americans probably couldn’t tell you the first thing about windfall profits … but the word inflicts these feelings of evil and wealth envy.  Therefore, the Obama campaign will continue to use this fancy term to get you all riled up.  Politicians are good at that.

Once again we run up against the economic ignorance of the American people.  Most people couldn’t tell you the difference between a profit and a profit margin if their flat-screen TVs depended on it.  The profit margins - the amount of money they earn for a dollar of sales - have actually declined a bit.  Banking institutions, cosmetics companies and pharmaceutical companies are just part of a long list of businesses that earn more than the evil oil companies.

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