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“Wealthy Democrats” impeaches the “Republicans are the party of the rich” propaganda. There already are “liberal” counterbalances to the conservative talk shows: ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and NPR.

The conservative talk shows became popular because the popular media wasn’t telling us the whole truth.

A group of wealthy Democratic donors is planning to start a liberal radio network to counterbalance the conservative tenor of radio programs like The Rush Limbaugh Show.

Trying to sabotage your country’s war effort sounds like treason in concept. I don’t know enough about British law to comment on its legality, but I will note that Britain has no written constitution with a First Amendment.

Anti-war coalition leaders, emboldened by the massive turnout at peace rallies in London and around the world, are planning to try to shut Britain down should Tony Blair defy public opinion and go to war without a UN resolution.

“We want people to walk out of their offices, strike, sit down, occupy buildings, demonstrate, take direct action and do whatever they think fit the moment war starts,” said Lindsey German of the Stop the War Coalition yesterday.

“We want to completely close down Whitehall and prevent the Ministry of Defence going to work. At 6pm on the first evening after the bombing starts, there will be demonstrations and vigils all over the country, to be followed by another march with CND on the first weekend after war starts.”

Parrots, hummingbirds and songbirds – which are able to learn complex, repetitive songs – have provided scientists with a unique insight into the origins of syntax, the rules that govern human speech.

“Malariotherapy” is a new word to me.

Two prominent Los Angeles AIDS researchers are being investigated for taking part in a controversial medical experiment with Cincinnati physician Henry Heimlich to infect AIDS patients in China with malaria.

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His experiments - which seek to destroy HIV, the AIDS-causing virus, by inducing high malarial fevers- have been criticized by the Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration and condemned by other health professionals and human rights advocates as a medical “atrocity.”

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For years, Dr. Heimlich has been criticized by state, federal and international health organizations over malariotherapy. Despite this, Heimlich proudly continues his work in China and says he wants to expand malariotherapy to Africa.

A new form of governmental contractor misconduct

ADELANTO - Two employees of a company that transports bodies for the county Coroner's Office were arrested Friday afternoon after a 4-year-old Adelanto girl's body was used for sex, authorities said.

The Eastern European countries had their fill of socialism in the Cold War. Now Chirac wants them to suffer more for the sake of a “progressive” cause.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - French President Jacques Chirac launched a withering attack Monday on eastern European nations who signed letters backing the U.S. position on Iraq, warning it could jeopardize their chances of joining the European Union (news - web sites).

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 Calvin Coolidge | Blair on War 

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One wonders if the judge imposed the same exclusion on Muslims.

The malign effect of political correctness on the American legal system.

While Americans are vying for gold in the replacement of individual rights with group rights, our friends across the pond sometimes do us one better. The automatic exclusion of members of two of the world’s major faiths from performing jury duty in a case of terrorist threats in London does seem to be one step--but only one--ahead of our own institutions.

When it came time, late last month, for the English courts to try radical Muslim cleric Abdullah el-Faisal on charges of inciting race hatred and the murder of “nonbelievers,” particularly Jews and Hindus, the presiding judge took special precautions to assure the Jamaican-born preacher a fair trial: He excluded from the jury all Jews, Hindus and their spouses. This extraordinary step by an experienced judge in a cosmopolitan Western country may simply be an instance of the court's not wanting someone likely to identify with the intended victims to be on the jury. (If such were the case, the judge could have questioned potential jurors individually for actual bias.) On the other hand, it could be another step in the trend, emphatic already in the American legal system, of equating a citizen's race or ethnicity with his probable point of view or, more radically still, his ability to judge his fellow citizen fairly on the evidence.

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Shortly after the London judge's exclusion of Jews and Hindus, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts handed down a decision in a case where a Hispanic murder defendant argued that the dearth of members of his ethnic group on his jury venire demonstrated ethnic discrimination. While the court ruled that there was not enough evidence to upset Hector Arriaga’s conviction, it did take the step of ordering the jury commissioner to keep better statistics in the future so as to give lawyers information by which to argue that discrimination should be presumed by the disparity between the venire's composition and the percentage of each “distinctive” racial or ethnic group in the population.

Much of the derision of Coolidge stems from statists who wanted a more active central government. This was particularly true in the FDR Era when belief that socialism “worked” was widely held.

(Editor's note: This column originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 2, 1964.)

In contrast with the worldly and sophisticated manner of his predecessor, Cal seemed pretty much old-shoe. The intellectuals laughed at him, as they still do, but to ordinary folks this made him a relief from presidents they had known. Everybody felt safe with shrewd, horse-and-buggy Cal.

Extra BY TONY BLAIR
Why I'm not going wobbly on Iraq.

When Blair was elected many said that he was a “British Bill Clinton.” Blair’s stance on the war on terrorism shows that he is made of sterner stuff.

By sticking to his principles Blair is shaming most Western politicians, who believe that appeasement is a viable strategy. The appeasers of the 1930s derided Churchill as a "war-monger," and it looks like British Left  hasn’t learned anything since then.

My Response

We don’t wake up and fear Russia or China as we did. America is not focused on the struggle for ideological hegemony between communism and liberal democracy. The issue is not a clash for conquest between the big powers.

But the old threat has been replaced by a new one: the threat of chaos, disorder, instability. A threat which arises from a perversion of the true faith of Islam, in extremist terrorist groups like al Qaeda. It arises from countries which are unstable, usually repressive dictatorships which use what wealth they have to protect or enhance their power through chemical, biological or nuclear weapons capability which can cause destruction on a massive scale.

What do they have in common these twins of chaos--terrorism and rogue states with weapons of mass destruction? They are answerable to no democratic mandate, so are unrestrained by the will of ordinary people. They are extreme and inhumane. They detest and fear liberal, democratic and tolerant values. And their aim is to destabilize us.

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 March to Save Saddam  | Vietnam “Peace” Movement | Blair Speech Excerpt 

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Editorial: The March To Save Saddam
By David Horowitz
In politics, intentions don't count. Actions do. More>

The demonstrators refuse to acknowledge the fact that since Saddam is unwilling to forgo weapons of mass destruction he must be forcibly disarmed.

See my “anti-war” page for information about the extreme Left-wing demonstration organizers.

Participating in the demonstrations is immoral in that it denies evil. Whether it is legally treason is questionable. The problem is that we need to have the line between legitimate dissent and treason sharply defined. 

So-called “anti-anti-Communist” philosophy started when Stalin ruled the Soviet Union. It’s just a form the denial of the crimes of Communism known as gulag-denial.

Millions of people poured into the streets of cities from Melbourne to New York on Saturday February 15 to protect Saddam Hussein from an imminent American attempt to disarm and dethrone him and disable his arsenal of chemical, biological and proto-nuclear weapons. They professed concern about Iraqi children (bearing mock bodies to symbolize their alarm) but marched in solidarity with Palestinians and Arabs who kill their own children by strapping bombs to them and telling them to blow up other children -- Jew children -- so that they will go to heaven and their families will receive a $25,000 reward.

In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter. If the marchers are successful, Saddam will survive to be stronger than ever. All over the Middle East and the Muslim world fanatical haters of Americans, Christians and Jews will take heart from Saddam's successful defiance, will draw the conclusion that the West is weak, and will be inspired to commit new atrocities against its most defenceless citizens.

All the marches were organized by supporters of Communist and other totalitarianisms, and by the fifth column agents of Islamo-fascism. All the demonstrations promoted Iraqi war propaganda -- myths about starving children and about alleged mercernary interests behind American policy; all of them had one purpose -- to disarm the American force already in the Middle East and allow Saddam to fight another day.

It is true that some of the marchers were well-intentioned or at least not so blind yet that they could look past the evil that is the regime in Iraq. What of it? What could be more irrelevant than splitting critical hairs when your country is under attack and your actions serve the aggressors?

During the Cold War there were many intelligent souls on the left who joined the “peace” demonstrations in the West organized by Communists and their supporters, but described themselves as “anti-anti-Communists.” They meant by this that they knew that Communism was bad, but were against the cold warriors who were locked in mortal combat with the Soviet empire. The Gorbachev regime in their eyes was bad, but Ronald Reagan was a “warmonger.” and therefore worse.

Editorial: The March To Save Saddam
By David Horowitz
In politics, intentions don't count. Actions do. More>

Nearly all of today’s leaders in the Democratic Party were involved in the so-called “anti-war” movement in the Vietnam Era, including its de facto leader, Slick. See the Colonel Holmes letter.

The absence of legal clarity again. If Saddam’s regime is legally an enemy of the U.S., then these actions to disrupt the war appear to be treason on their face. Should this happen and Bush not prosecute the offenders, the war on terrorism is likely to be as “successful” as the one in Vietnam.

During the Vietnam War -- the clearest parallel to the present events -- the anti-war movement was organized by Communists who wanted the other side to win. The non-Communists who joined their marches, whatever their intentions, served the same practical end. America was divided at home and these divisions eventually forced its armies to retreat from the field of battle. As a result, the Communists won and proceeded to slaughter two-and-a-half million peasants in Indo-China between 1975 and 1978. This is the scenario that the people (mostly the same people) who are leading Saturday's protests hope to accomplish: the defeat of the West and the triumph of Islamo-fascism and its friends.

Today's “peace” movement -- the innocent-intentioned along with the malevolent rest -- is a fifth column army in our midst working for the other side. Already their leaders have warned that if the United States remains determined to oppose this totalitarian evil and stay its intended course, they will act within our borders to “disrupt the flow of normal life” and sabotage the war. This is ultimately the most ominous threat Americans face. Abroad we can conquer any foe. The real danger lies at home.

Why War is the Right Choice
By Tony Blair
Tony Blair answers the "peace" movement. More>

The FrontPageMagazine.com version is an excerpt. OpinionJournal.com also published an excerpt.

… The EU is a massive achievement of peace and prosperity now set to welcome in the nations who suffered from the other great tyranny of my father's life time and my own: the Soviet Union. For the first 40 years of my life, the reality was the Communist bloc versus the West. …

The World Socialist Web Site says it is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). The Third International, also known as the Comintern, was created by the Soviet Union to foment Communist revolutions around the world. Ho Chi Minh was one of its agents.

The following statement of the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party were be distributed at demonstrations held Saturday, February 15 and Sunday, February 16 in cities across Europe and Asia, as well as in Australia and New Zealand, and in New York and other North American cities. The statement has already been published on their German site, and translations into French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch have been posted as well.

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