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Video: The Democratic Race In Seven Minutes

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:46:29 PM
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Campaign Curtails Stops In Black Communities

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:36:10 PM
Obama Walks Fine Line in Search of White Vote

. . . Obama can't be too closely identified with the black community if he wants to attract white, blue-collar voters - a constituency Obama has lost decisively in recent primaries. And the furor over Obama's association with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., the candidate's outspoken former minister, underscores the challenge the candidate faces in winning over working-class whites.
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'Jihad' Newspeak

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:41:56 PM
Anyone heard Condoleezza Rice use the word "jihad" lately?

According to the Associated Press, the secretary of State hasn't publicly uttered that word, except when referring to the name of a specific group, for the past eight months.

And she isn't likely to start again anytime soon.

That's because the Bush administration has gone all PC in the War on Terror.

Under guidelines issued for all federal agencies by the Department of Homeland Security and based on "recommendations from American Muslims," terms like "jihad" and "mujahedeen" are now off-limits in referring to Islamist extremists - because they're said to boost support for terrorists among Muslims.

"Even if it is accurate to reference the term," according to the guidelines, "it may not be strategic, because it glamorizes terrorism [and] imbues [terrorists] with religious authority they do not have."

Other terms, like "Islamo-fascism," are also taboo, on grounds that they're "offensive to many Muslims."

Are they kidding?



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In-Your-Face Illegal Aliens In Chicago

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:36:19 PM
Michelle Malkin  •  May 1, 2008 07:36 AM

1:40pm Eastern. The illegal alien march in Chicago is underway. His t-shirt says: “I’m illegal. So what?” (Full photo at the Chicago Tribune site.) Live video coverage here.

Scroll down for updates…

Illegal immigration activists and anti-war activists will lead the parades today, but May Day attracts all grievance-mongers.

Here’s another all-purpose, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink “list of demands” (I feel like I’m at Oberlin again) from the “National Immigrant Solidarity Network:”

Their calendar includes the “Festival of Tolerance and Unity” in Aurora, CO; a nationwide call to walk out of school to protest standardized testing; and a protest by longshoremen in San Francisco.

Good luck to the law enforcement officers across the country–especially in L.A.–who will have to contend with the attention-craving, law-ignoring ruffians and thugs turning out today for the annual p.c. powwow. They’ll need it.


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Which Country Does The US State Department Serve?

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:24:56 PM
Michelle Malkin  •  April 30, 2008 09:30 PM

I’ve written extensively about the role Mexican consular offices play in coordinating subversion of our immigration laws across the country. As I’ve noted before, the Mexican consulates are well-funded, well-organized, and everywhere. Thanks to their influence, the Bush White House ignored homeland security warnings about the illegal alien Mexican matricula consular cards and allowed the phony baloney cards to proliferate as Treasury Department-approved ID. Mexican consular meddling has dangerously hampered border enforcement. Heather Mac Donald has reported exhaustively on the Mexican government’s growing power and influence in working to sabotage immigration enforcement efforts.

One congressman is trying to get the State Department to do something about these meddling, sovereignty-undermining consulates. He’s not having much luck.

Maybe if enough law-abiding citizens put pressure on the State Department, they’ll respond.

Contact:

State Department public communication division: 202-647-6575.
E-mail form here.


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See No Jihad, Hear No Jihad, Speak No Jihad

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:15:45 PM

New Jihad Watch: Watch your language

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Inevitable

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:13:11 PM

Surprise: Freed Gitmo detainee carried out suicide bombing in Iraq

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The Usual Suspects

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:08:54 PM

Identifying the whiners


After the Supreme Court upheld the Indiana voter-ID law yesterday by a 6-3 vote, I figured that we would hear whining from the usual suspects this morning. Interestingly, the pundits seem remarkably quiet about it, but the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times proved me correct. What a relief! Both see this as a “retreat” and a dark day for democracy, when the decision follows common sense.

Having a government ID is not a high hurdle in any case, and certainly not in Indiana, where the state will subsidize its cost to low-income voters. . . .

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Looks Like Someone Understands The Solution

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:04:53 PM

Gas tax follies continue


Windfall-profits tax? The oil industry has a pre-tax profit margin less than half of that of the computer industry. They made $40 billion in profits on ~$220 billion in sales, which isn’t exactly a runaway model for investors. The company for which I worked did better than ExxonMobil’s 18.6% margin in three of the last four years I worked there. Microsoft performed more than twice as well. “Windfall profits” needs a lot more definition than just gross numbers — especially to the massive amounts of investors in oil companies, including most if not all retirement accounts which rely on growth.

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“Can I Finish, Please?”

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:00:22 PM

Video: Bush erupts against attention-deficit media




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Giving Peace A Chance? We’ll See

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 6:54:36 PM

Muslim clerics to issue fatwa against killings and violence?

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Will They Always Vote Democrat

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:31:03 PM
The Democrat superdelegates have a problem. They are afraid to take the nomination from Obama because they think the black vote won't show up in November and vote Democrat. I tell them not to worry. There's a 50-year history showing that they have done far worse -- destroying the black family, for example -- and blacks still vote Democrat."
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Gotta Love It When They Get It Right

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:57:37 AM
Huge Supreme Court Decision: Justices okay voter ID Law by 6-3 margin

 WSJ: Voter-Fraud Showdown. How Can Anyone Object to Asking for ID? - John Fund
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Wright Is Just Wrong

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:56:34 AM
"The Jeremiah Wright stuff isn't about racism or religion. It's about who Obama's friends are. It's not just Wright. It's terrorists like Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Jeremiah Wright's problems do not stem from his religion, so much as they stem from his hatred of this country, his rabble-rousing, and his conspiratorial beliefs about the evils of this country and its government."

No less a liberal than Salon's Joan Walsh calls Wright, wrong

American Thinker: Obama's 'Mainstream' Friends
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More And Bigger Government

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:51:12 AM
Hillary's profoundly ignorant speech on energy, Put a government watchdog in charge of our energy markets because they're unregulated? Unregulated? How about all the different formulations of gasoline we have to have for different geographical areas of the country, just to name one set of regulations? How about the regulations where they cannot drill? A government official in charge of the market?
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