Women “Unprotected” on College Campuses

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Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in her Profession Endangers Every Student
by Miriam Grossman MD

Miriam Grossman, a courageous psychiatrist at the University of California at Los Angeles Student Psychological Services, is sounding an alarm bell 40 years too late, a bell that conservatives have been urging America to heed. But late is better than never. In her 2007 book Unprotected, she chronicles the myriad ways in which “radical politics pervades my profession, and common sense has vanished.”

Grossman originally published this book as Anonymous MD, fearing for her UCLA job and for her private practice. But soon she realized that she would be a much more effective spokesperson for her cause if she revealed her real identity, which she did on the Dr. Laura Schlessinger radio show.

That she was afraid in the first place shows the tyrannical nature of the academic left in America today… intolerant, all-controlling, harassing and intimidating people who disagree with its point of view. Read more

Church Attendance Law Takes Effect

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President Bush signed a new law requiring church attendance on Sundays. The bill was passed by a bipartisan Congress and was hailed by conservatives as a step toward invigorating the spiritual life of America.

If the above statements were true – which they are not –  there would be hysteria all over America. There would be calls from the secular left about a need for ‘separation of church and state’ and proclamations that we had become a theocratic dictatorship.

Conservative Christians would argue, on the other hand, that this is the best law ever, and that it is going to raise the piety level of our nation in order to make us a better people over the long run.

In fact the headline of this editorial could just as easily read Minimum Wage Increase Goes into Effect, describing the law signed by President Bush in 2007 that raises by 70 cents, effective July 23, 2008, the minimum wage that employers can legally pay their workers from $5.85 and hour to $6.55 an hour.

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Media Matters… or Does It?

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When The New Yorker magazine recently ran a cartoon cover of Barack and Michelle Obama as radical, gun-toting Muslims who burned the American flag and revered Osama bin Laden, the Obama campaign was outraged. And while The New Yorker is fully in the can for Obama along with all of America’s leftist intelligentsia, their cover “joke” was lost on the Illinois senator, the joke being that the cartoon really was intended to poke fun at the right-wingers who apparently are hinting that Obama is nothing less than a Muslim jihadist.

But Barack Hussein Obama is being thin-skinned yet again. If a guy with that name wants to emerge from the underbrush and run for president, he’d better expect some skepticism. Americans have a healthy habit of wanting to know who they are voting for for president.

And after almost a decade of savage attacks and acid cartoons of Bush, Cheney, Rice, etc., you don’t see GWB & Co. playing victim as Obama has done on everything from Reverend Wright (quit the church) to his 1996 questionnaire answers that were perceived as anti-gun (a staffer filled it out) to any mention of his wife (she is off limits). Read more

Obama Glow Fading?

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In late June, Newsweek magazine announced poll results that showed Barack Obama with a 51-36 lead over John McCain. At the time, Nikitas3.com editorialized:
 
Meanwhile, a new Newsweek poll shows Obama with a 51-36 lead over McCain. While this is intended to stimulate the chattering classes and frighten conservatives, we can take comfort in the fact that Newsweek has morphed into a far-left publication that can and will conveniently skew the polls any way it wants.

For instance pollsters know that phone surveys conducted at certain times of the day or week will produce results biased one way or another. Or people in certain demographic zones will tilt one way or the other. And that the polls can be rigged by the questions asked, or even by their sequence. Read more

Jesse Helms, 1921-2001, Righteous Warrior

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Jesse Helms, the conservative US Senator from North Carolina who energized the political right for decades and perpetually angered those on the political left, died July 4 at age 86, leaving a legacy that will far outshine even what most Republicans know about him.

One of four key figures in the rise of American conservatism in the second half of the 20th century (the others being William F. Buckley Jr., Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan) Helms was a tireless, unrepentant and serially politically-incorrect leader.

He served 30 years in the US Senate from 1972 to 2002. In his life he opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Martin Luther King holiday; despised the United Nations and tried to de-fund it; railed against public-funded art that he found repugnant; represented North Carolina tobacco interests unwaveringly; fought for school prayer and against abortion; vocally opposed homosexuality and other sexual license; was fiercely anti-communist; hated liberalism in its every form; and ultimately was the central figure in helping to make Ronald Reagan the 40th President of the United States.

Born in Monroe, NC the son of a sheriff, Helms wanted early on to become a journalist. In his book “Righteous Warrior, Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism”, University of Florida history professor William Link describes Helms’ career in the Navy, then as a radio commentator. Read more

What Is Freedom?

The full text of the Declaration of Independence is here, along with an essay called “What Is Freedom?”

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

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Gun Rights Upheld!

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In a historic decision, the Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that the District of Columbia’s strict handgun ban, in place since 1976, is unconstitutional.

This was the High Court’s first foray into the legality of the US Constitution’s Second Amendment which reads: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

The issue in the DC case, and at the heart of the entire gun debate, was whether individuals indeed have the right to keep arms under the 2nd Amendment without being part of a “militia”.

Pro-gun forces long have pointed to the fact that the first act of all tyrannies is to disarm their publics and thus that individual gun ownership is essential to freedom.

Writing for the conservative majority, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the Constitution does not allow “the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home.”

And this is key to the legitimacy of the ruling, the words “self defense”. Because under what is called Natural Law — that idealistic and God-given criteria to which free peoples, including Americans, adhere to rule themselves justly — the right of self defense is sacrosanct.

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Haditha, Virginia Tech Revisited

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Two recent legal stories originating on opposite sides of the globe, but coming oddly from the same place, remind us of our duty to be forthright and vigilant.

In the mass-murder case at Virginia Polytechnic and State University – also known as Virginia Tech – circuit court judge Theodore Markow approved an $11million settlement with the families of 24 of the 32 slaying victims of gunman Cho Seung-Hui.

The settlement was granted in order to avoid a court battle over who was to blame beyond Hui himself. Families now are forfeiting the right to sue the university, state and local governments serving Virginia Tech, the university police and the case’s mental health services providers.

The April 16, 2007 killing spree was perpetrated by a Korean-American student who had shown repeated instances of suspect and even violent tendencies in his behavior and in his creative writings – duly noted by his professor – and who had been referred to mental health counseling. In 2005, a Virginia court even declared Hui an imminent threat to others. But special justice Paul Barrett decided that Hui was not crazy enough to be committed to a mental-health facility, which would have red-flagged the gun purchases that Hui eventually made. Read more

Untouchable Obama

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“But I will tell you: The hottest ring in hell is reserved for those in politics who attack their opponents’ families,” said Democrat US Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois about public criticisms of Barack Obama’s wife Michelle.

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said that questions about Mrs. Obama are the latest edition of the political game “kill the witch”.

Never mind decades of ferocious and scurrilous media attacks on anyone with ‘Republican’ after their name like Dan Quayle, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, George Bush, Trent Lott, Bob Packwood, Tom DeLay, Dennis Hastert, Katherine Harris…

And welcome to campaign 2008, in which one camp – Obama and his supporters — have decided that their candidate is beyond not only question and reproach, but even mere inquiry. Obama cannot be criticized and his wife cannot be scrutinized even for her negative comments about America. Thus the vicious media treatment dished out to President Bush since before he even had entered the 2000 presidential race (remember the book about his alleged cocaine use published when he still was Texas governor?) not only will not be tolerated for Obama, but even Obama’s actual quotes and associations are being buried by the press and subliminally marked as off limits. How convenient.

Pastor Wright? Forget it. Obama has quit the church.

Wright’s mentorship of Obama? Naaah, they were just friends. Forget that the Audacity of Hope title came from Wright.

Tony Rezko? That was just some guy whom Obama did a little real estate deal with. No problem. He’s going to jail. So what.

Jim Johnson, the former head of Fannie Mae who also headed up Obama’s VP search team, who got questionable loans from Countrywide, the dark prince of subprime lending? Hey, you can’t know everything! Johnson is fired!

Obama’s subtle jabs at Hillary’s feminism? What jabs? Read more

“Detainee” Treatment…

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Bye-Bye Billary?

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Hillary Clinton’s defeat so far in her bid to become the first female President of the United States is like a shot between the eyes of the former First Lady and her husband, our 42nd president. And this should come as no surprise. The Clintons have created enough ill will even among their ostensible allies to last a few more lifetimes, and it all has come to a head in the last 5 months.

From their first entry into our public consciousness in the late 1980s, the Clintons have been perceived as slippery soap. In 1992, Hillary showed up on 60 Minutes to defend her husband against charges of womanizing, the worst of which turned out to be true. There would be worse.

When they got to the White House, they were publicly upbeat but privately arrogant, dishonest, rude and angry. Reports of Bill Clinton’s famous temper were met with disbelief. John Q. Public ultimately was fooled.

Throughout the Clinton tenure, controversy ensued. From the death of Vince Foster and the sprint to loot crucial files from his office; to Whitewater, in which more than 100 witnesses either fled the country or took the 5th Amendment, leading the media to proclaim that obviously the Clintons were innocent; to strong evidence of communist Chinese military money flowing into Clinton 1996 re-election coffers; to 500 FBI files somehow ending up in the Oval Office; to the “lost” Rose Law Firm billing records, the Clintons have been seen as, let us say, less than honest.

Even on leaving the White House, they were accused of stealing valuable items, and their staff was said to have vandalized office equipment.

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Throwing in…

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Jimmy McGovern Quayle Obama

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“As our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes… and I see many of them in the audience here today…”
 
That is Barack Obama speaking in Las Cruces, New Mexico on Memorial Day.
 
In case you haven’t picked up on the gaffe, “fallen” heroes are dead. This is something that a Chicago politician like Obama obviously should know since “fallen” police officers and firefighters are routinely honored as part of the urban tradition.
 
Speaking of his recent campaigning, Obama said, “I’ve now been in… fifty…seven? states.. I think. One left to go…”
 
Come again? Obama is a United States Senator who wants to be president. Is not the phrase “50 states” ingrained in us? Do we not say “50 states” as a matter of reflex? How can you possibly say “57 states”? Read more

Let the Energy Markets Work

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The run-up in crude oil prices has many people buzzing about worst-case scenarios like $10 a gallon gasoline. But as we saw in the housing market, what goes up indeed can come down, sometimes precipitously. And the price of our fossil energy easily could come down again if we get sensible about how we extract and use it.

Geneva-based PetroLogistics has given the first optimistic sign in months about crude oil, saying that increasing production in countries like Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq is helping to raise world supply and bring down prices.

“There is a strong rebound in supply,” said PetroLogistics president Conrad Gerber.

Saudi has upped its production 300,000 barrels per day, Nigeria 200,000 and Iraq has added 300,000. Azerbaijan and Sudan also are expected to increase output. Brazil is bringing new supplies online while American exploration is turning up plenty of new sources, including 16 billion barrels in one strike in the western Gulf of Mexico and a 4-billion barrel bonanza in… North Dakota?!… all good news for the near term, and the long term too.

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Touchy Democrats Show True Nature

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In a speech before the Israeli Knesset (parliament) marking the 60th anniversary of that nation’s statehood, President Bush warned about negotiating with freedom’s enemies:

“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” he said. “We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator (William Borah) declared, ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is – the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”

Rather than praise the President for stating something that is historically astute and obvious, Democrats looked deep and saw Bush menacingly inserting himself into the 2008 presidential campaign. Then they went on the attack, and for good reason. They see in one brief statement a truism that could shake the coming election.

While Bush’s comments easily could have applied to figures like Britain’s Neville Chamberlain in his wish to appease Hitler, they more recently could have applied to two Democrats — Jimmy Carter in his dialogue with the Hamas terrorist group, and Barack Obama who said last winter that he would open dialogue with some of the most despotic tyrants of the world rather than confront them with American strength as Ronald Reagan confronted the Soviets – and won – in perhaps the most intelligent deployment of foreign policy in world history.

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