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Brian's Columns
On Violence and The Passion of the Christ
Howard Dean is Not "Nuts," But...
What to Say About WMD
Ah, Iowa
So, How Many Jews Have You Killed Today?


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Our Intellectual Site of the Week:
SeeThePassion.com
News and info about The Passion - which is still #2 at the box office and may overtake The Titanic as one of the all-time most popular five movies. Its sales are astronomical throughout Mexico (where it's rated X) and Latin America. Yet the Supreme Court is considering banning "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance this week...

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IC supports Chad Kirkpatrick as Arizona's State Representative from District 6 in NW Phoenix and Tom Jenney from District 15 in central Phoenix.

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The Abortion Debate
It's a Choice not a Child
This Week's Link:
Pro-abortion GOP Politicians to Target for Defeat
The WISH List's main mission is to get pro-choice women elected to government. Go to their site and click on "women leaders" for lists of pro-choice women to challenge in GOP primaries.
Prior Featured Abortion Sites

The Evolution Debate
This Week's Link:
Evolution is Dead!
Chronicling the demise of 19th century naturalism.
Prior Featured Evolution Sites


Kobe Bryant, Rape Shield Laws, and the False Accusations Problem on HisSide with Glenn Sacks

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Washburn’s Bust of a Statue
Washburn U's Holier Than Thou features a bishop with a miter that resembles a phallus.

Christopher Hitchens & Faith
Hitchens' criticism of The Passion strikes one as the rhetorical excess of someone predisposed to disdain Christianity.

Mexico Gives The Passion an "X" Rating
This appears to be anti-Christain bigotry, considering more violent American films have only received R ratings. Anyone under the age of 18 is prohibited from watching the movie in Mexico.

John Kerry, The Raw Deal
The campaign's latest slogan is John Kerry, "The Real Deal."

George Schuyler, All-American
To understand black history, you must know George S. Schuyler.

The List
John Kerry's foreign endorsements.

God's Theology?
Humans have flourished over thousands of years because of our innate goodness, a gift innate and part of our makeup.


Protesting Gibson’s Passion Lacks Moral Legitimacy
Surely Jewish organizations would carry just a little more moral authority if they routinely protested all attacks on faith.

IC Recommends:

The Aristotle Adventure:
A Guide to the Greek, Latin,
and Arabic Scholars who
Transmitted Aristotle's Logic
to the Renaissance.

Complete description here

 

IC Book Reviews:

A Long Short War
Nathan Alexander reviews Christopher Hitchens' collection of articles addressing the U.S. war against Iraq

A Treatise on Human Life: An Unalienable Right
Sandra Alexander reviews Dr. Harold Kletschka's book on the history of law and abortion

Books IC Recommends:

Our Oldest Enemy
A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France, by Mark Molesky
(coming in July 2004)

The Jewish Wars
Reflections by One of the Belligerents, by Professor Edward Alexander

Other Recommended Reading

Thomas Sowell
Christopher Hitchens
William F. Buckley
Ann Coulter
George Will
Charles Krauthammer
William Safire


PatriotArt.com

Liberal Commentary
IC's list of the best recent articles the left has to offer

IC Columnist Scott Shore's book in progress
Why the Torah (Old Testament) is the only universally acceptable basis for restoring values

Movement to Repeal the 17th Amendment
Why it's better to appoint U.S. Senators, not elect them

Insightful Christian Poetry
by Jim Chapman

Middle East Updates

 

Visit Faithmouse

Our Best of the Web
see prior Best of the Web links...

Volvo introduces sexist car for women
This really irks us, just when you thought women themselves were striving for equality, a team of women engineers designs a car "for women" that treats women like idiots - the front end can only be opened by a mechanic, and when it is time to change the oil, the car sends a wireless call to the nearest service station, which then calls the woman to set up an appointment! And gee, the car has fold-down seats to make room for "lots of shopping bags," and the cloth swatches on the car seats can be easily interchanged to match a woman's mood or clothing! Why don't we just send women straight back to the 1950's, in fact, shoot, why not give the car a 1950's design!

Collection of anti-John Kerry websites
Includes "Kerry Quotes," "Crush Kerry," "The Kerry Record," and "Kerry's Voting Record."

Kerry's contradictions on every issue
What doesn't Kerry stand for? This article goes over his bizarre stances on both sides of issues. Yet people are still voting for him....

Study reveals that Charter School Students surpass traditional public xchool students in overall achievement growth
This newly released study from the Goldwater Institute found that although charter school students begin school with lower test scores than public school students, they show overall annual achievement growth roughly three points higher than traditional public school students.

ABC News article admits prevalent liberal bias among mainstream press
Oddly enough, one of the top guns at ABC News, Mark Halpern, has written an article and posted it on the ABC News web site discussing how the press operates with liberal biases and predilections. These positions "include, but are not limited to, a near-
universal shared sense that liberal political positions on social issues like gun control, homosexuality, abortion, and religion are the default."

Feminists ruining Valentine's Day
Carey Roberts exposes how the feminists have replaced traditional romance with discussion of women's private parts, and how the obstacle to feminists is not "patriarchy," but heterosexual romance, love, and marriage.

Dean v. Dean
Dean has made so many contradictory statements on every issue he could have a full debate with himself!

Wesley Clark admits targeting civilians in the Balkans
Includes discussion of how a videotape of the bombing of a passenger train was sped up to make it appear as though it was an accident. Funny, considering Clark's criticism now of Bush's use of force in Iraq. Clark must have, uh, switched parties. And check out this site for even more on Clark. Don't forget to read an article we ran earlier on Clark's war record, by Mark Brnovich, located here.

Libertarians for Dean
We are NOT making this up, this appears to be a serious web site. We guess there really is a "libertine" wing of the Libertarian Party.

Republican Women calendar
JerseyGOP.com features women and men on the right with its "GOP Babe of the Week" and "Dude of the Week." It also features ugly members of the left with its Jackass of the Day. It has now come out with a 2004 calendar for $20 featuring some of the women. Not to be confused with the frightening looking left wing women featured on the BabesAgainstBush.com calendar.

Why Libertarianism is not Right-Wing
We don't necessarily agree with this article, but it brings up some good arguments. It discusses the origins of "right" and "left," and the various ways of putting right and left on spectrum charts. Thanks to Enrico Peppe for pointing this out.

Hillary Clinton tells racist joke - but where is the outrage?
We caught this in a link to ABC from the Drudge Report, otherwise, we haven't hardly heard a word about it in the mainstream press. Hillary Clinton made a derogatory joke about people of Indian origins working at gas stations, stating that Gandhi used to run a gas station. If a Republican, say Trent Lott, had made a similar remark, they would have been forced to step down from their position. Such ethics the left and the left-leaning media have.

Conservatives Against Bush
Paleocons against Bush and neocons.

Libertarians for Howard Dean
Not sure how some libertarians can align themselves with the far left, but this blog appears intelligent enough so it is an interesting read. If libertarians are mad at Bush's compromising, then why not waste their vote on the libertarian candidate, at least, whose principles are closer to theirs, instead of wasting it on tax & spend Howard Dean?

IC supports local Arizona candidate Chad Kirkpatrick in state representative race
Usually we stay out of local elections, but since it's a personal friend who we can vouch for, if you're from north Phoenix, we recommend you support Chad Kirkpatrick in the District 6 Republican primary. The incumbent received a D+ from the Goldwater Institute. 'Nuff said.

National Review's Best Non-Fiction Books of last century
Winston Churchill's "The Second World War" made #1, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago" made #2. We also spotted Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl," Buckley's "God and Man at Yale," and oddly enough, Rachel Carson's "Slient Spring." Even odder, #100 is Kenneth Starr's "The Starr Report." We somehow doubt he's proud of this book.

Break Their Haughty Power: The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.
Includes rare texts such as Vanguard of Retrogression: "Postmodern" Fictions as Ideology in the Era of Fictitious Capital, The 150th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto, On The Non-Formation of a Working-Class Political Party in the U.S., 1900-1945, and a book review of Gugenberg/Schweidlenke on New Age, Fascism, Ecologism. " From Queepeg Publications.

Kucinich.com: The Regressive Choice
This is a great spoof page of Dennis Kucinich for president. Vote in the Dennis Hairdo poll, and send them your tax cuts for the wealthy rebates. We came across this on a link from Republicans for Sharpton which is looking more humorous every day. There's also a link to t-shirts and bumperstickers that say Dean People Suck!

New Anti-Bush bumpersticker
From the hippies in Boulder, Colorado, where else?: "Redefeat Bush."

More College Students are Republicans than Democrats
A new poll finds that 31% of college students identify themselves as Republicans, whereas only 27% call themselves Democrats. Guess most conservative students are intelligent enough to see through the monolithically liberal university professors.

Republicans more likely to believe in God; Democrats more likely to believe in reincarnation, astrology and UFOs
The Left likes to make fun of the Right for being religious kooks, but hey, we'd rather believe in God than reincarnation, astrology, and UFOs, which is what the latest Fox News poll reports Democrats are more likely to believe in than Republicans.

 

Gay Marriage:  Why Should Christians Care?
Pink Triangle by Leslie Alexander
That gays should be denied the right to marry is hard to argue when the sexual lives of most married Americans, Christian or otherwise, look very much like the sexual lives of practicing homosexuals.

Arretez Ces Enfants!
by Isaiah Z. Sterrett
Richard Clarke is the only man in Washington who flip-flops more than John Kerry.

The Courageous Mr. Clarke
by Vincent Fiore
Richard Clarke has managed to do something in one week that he could not do in a lifetime in government; that is, be effective.

Supreme Court Ruling May Impact Domestic Violence Cases
by Wendy McElroy
The Supreme Court recently affirmed the right of victims of domestic violence to exercise control over their own cases.

The Nuclear Energy Institute: Devil's Advocate for Nuclear Power
by Dean M. Brooks
The Nuclear Energy Institute's efforts may result in the construction of the first nuclear power plant in the United States since 1978.

Are Mormons Conservative?
Book of Mormon by Justin Hart
Everything you wanted to know about Mormons but were afraid to ask.

One Year Toward Freedom
by Peter & Helen Evans
In this interview Elbegdorj Tsahkia, the first democratic Prime Minister of Mongolia, talks about the evolution of democracy and the problems of transition from a Communist regime to one of freedom.

Department of Peace?
Peace by Monty Rainey
The proposed Department of Peace would be headed by the Secretary of Peace, a member of the President's Cabinet.

Is Massachusetts A Lawless Society?
by Robert P. Kiley
The Massachusetts Supreme Court is not the only institution that abdicated its responsibility in the gay marriage fiasco.

Kerry on Economics: A Kinder, Gentler Mondale
by W. James Antle III
The fiscal policy solutions of choice in John Kerry’s party are raising taxes and spreading the wealth with a generous hand.

Hiibel v. Nevada
by Allan Bormel
Larry Hiibel claims he was wrongly arrested on May 21, 2000 for refusing to tell Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputy Lee Dove his name.

Reason Over Passion: In Defense of Charles Krauthammer
by Aaron Goldstein
Neo-conservatives like Krauthammer are an integral part of the conservative coalition.  A response to Matt Abbott's Neocon Critics of the Passion of Christ.

UN Wants Control of the Seas with US Senate’s Help
United Nations by Tom DeWeese
The Law of the Sea Treaty has again reared its ugly head and now stands on the verge of passage in the Senate under the forceful hand of Republican Senator Richard Lugar.

The Truth about Bush and WMD
by Christopher Tremoglie
Former President Clinton said in 1998 that Iraq had WMDs and that the U.S. would need to use force if Saddam Hussein rejected peace. Yet Ramsey Clark is leading a movement to impeach President Bush for lying about Saddam's possession of WMDs?

"Understanding" the Passion of The Christ
by John Jakubczyk, Esq.
A review that explains much of the film's symbolism that the average viewer may not have grasped.

Mass for the Twisted and Remedial: Protestors in Chicago
by Bernard Chapin
Bernard Chapin reports from the front lines: regardless of their Guillotinic impulses, the protesters harmed no one and not even an Enigma machine could have derived meaning from the cacophony that was their voices.

“Neocon” Critics of The Passion of the Christ
by Matt C. Abbott
Lev Navrozov, Scott Shore, Charles Krauthammer and William Safire have all criticized The Passion.

More Comments on Mel's Movie
by Bob Cheeks
Mel Gibson may have used artistic license here and there, but his interjections only underscored and highlighted Gospel themes.

Make Green, Not Peace
by Daniel Sargis
According to a recent report, Greenpeace illegally funnels tax-exempt contributions into taxable program activities.

Questioning Kerry’s Loyalty
John Kerry by Judson Cox
John Kerry’s ideology and voting record seem to be in accord with the interests of France, a nation that opposes American interests at every turn.

Richard Clarke's Agenda
by George Shadroui
Where was Richard Clarke when the Sudan offered to serve up Osama Bin Laden on a platter and the Clinton administration did not explore the offer?

Escalation?
by George de Poor Handlery
Targeting Sheik Yassin is said to lead to a regrettable and avoidable escalation of violence for which Israel is responsible.


Israel Should Support the Kurds Against Syria
by Ariel Natan Pasko
Only that way will the Middle East  be transformed into a region worthy its millennia old history.

No More Dictatorships by 2025
by Alan Caruba
We live in a world where just forty-five men rule the lives of more than two billion people.


John Kerry and the Opportunism Gene
by Teri O'Brien
Senator Kerry seems to be governed by an irresistible impulse to pander to every audience he faces.

Survival Against Peace: For the Margins of an Unfolding Middle Eastern Tragedy
by George de Poor Handlery
Peace without survival is no peace. To ask for anything else is not only folly: it is criminal.

Andalusia, aka the Nation Formerly Known as Spain
by Nicholas Stix
Even ordinary extortionists, when they get paid off, always want more.

Defining Moments in the War on Terror
by Michael Nevin, Jr.
Spain should heed Sir Winston Churchill’s warning from years past, “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

Shut Up and Tell Jokes
by W. James Antle III
Comedians are the latest group of performers to try their hand at politics.

Thank G-d Iraq Was Liberated
G-Dub by Aaron Goldstein
Iraq has a long way to go but its future is brighter than it has been in years.

Assault Weapons Proliferation
Uzi by Stephen Erwin
Most of the public and even the majority of its core supporters don’t begin to understand the most important truths about the Assault Weapons Ban.

UN Poisons US Education with Our Tax Dollars
United Nations by Tom DeWeese
The US Department of Education has issued its first $1.2 million grant to implement the UN’s International Baccalaureate (IB) program.

Punk Rock is Dangerous
Conservative Punk by Michale Graves
The leftist radical agenda seems to be resonating loudly from within pop culture, and has hijacked punk rock through selfish motives.

Protect Arizona Now
Arizona by Matt Haver
Proponents of the Arizona Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act have had enough of Governor Napolitano's do-nothing approach to illegal immigration.

Can Iraq Succeed Without Private Property Protections?
Iraqi Flag by Cheryl Chumley
Have we forgotten that without private property protections, no other civil rights can exist?

Bush Ads Must Blast Kerry As Frighteningly Liberal
by J. Grant Swank, Pastor
The truth is that Kerry is in awful shape politically and morally. Therefore, that has to be put on the table.

Feminist Confession Reveals Cultural Shift
Woman by Wendy McElroy
The ongoing melodrama surrounding feminist author Naomi Wolf clearly shows that a cultural tide has turned.

She-Devil and Straw Woman
Ann Coulter by Gary Larson
All that matters, of course, is the "charge."   Enough, you see, for today's liberal media to sanctify with fake credibility.
Sharon's Perfidy
Ariel Sharon by Scott Shore
The Ariel Sharon of today makes Neville Chamberlain look like a bully.

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