I actually laughed out loud when I saw this. Is this supposed to be serious journalism? Are we supposed to believe it’s a coincidence that at the very moment the president is barnstorming around the country calling for taxing the rich, ABC happens upon a group of 8-year olds spouting Obama talking points? The media has no shame.

Does ABC really think anyone gives a fig what a group of 8-year olds think about anything? I don’t think tax policy should be left up to miniature humans who still have baby teeth.

Radical Latino curriculum is poisoning young minds in Arizona. Fortunately,  Gov. Jan Brewer was able to ban the classes that promote the overthrow of the US Government, but a lot of nutty stuff still remains. Phyllis Schlafly has written a disturbing piece about this on IBD.

This law bans classes that "promote the overthrow of the United States government" or "promote resentment toward a race or class of people" because schools should treat all pupils as individual Americans. The issue arose because the Tucson School District offers courses in Mexican-American studies (known locally as Raza Studies) that focus on that particular group and its influence.

The law doesn’t prohibit these classes so long as they are open to all students and don’t promote ethnic resentment or solidarity. However, Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Horne, says the basic theme of the Mexican-American studies program is that Latino students "were and continue to be victims of a racist American society driven by the interests of middle- and upper-class whites."

Among the goals listed for the Mexican-American Studies are "social justice" and "Latino Critical Race Pedagogy." Pictures of the classroom showed the walls decorated with "heroes," such as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.

That’s not even the worst of it. Get a load of what they’re doing to US history:

The state of Arizona requires students to take a course in American history in order to graduate, but Ward said the course was actually not about U.S. history at all. He said it focused solely on the history of the Aztec people, which is the group to which Mexican-American activists ascribe their lineage.

Others who have looked at the books used in these courses say they refer to Americans as "Anglos" or "Euroamericans" rather than as "Americans." The books do not recognize the U.S. as a country, but claim Arizona is part of "Aztlan, Mexico" (even though the Aztecs never lived in what is now the U.S.).

To say that our education system is broken is really an insult. The fact is we no longer have an education system. What we have is a propaganda and brainwashing system masquerading as an education system. Kids are literally being taught a fictional and completely made up version of history. Those who willingly teach this crap to kids are not educators, they’re liars.

Via Variety:

Michael Moore is making a sequel to “Fahrenheit 9/11″ for Paramount Vantage and Overture Films, who will shop the project to international buyers when the Cannes Film Festival and market get under way today.

…Sequel will pick up where “Fahrenheit” left off. In the time since, President Bush’s popularity has plummeted, while the Iraq war continues and the economy falters.

Just what we need, another America-bashing propaganda film from Michael Moore.

Al Gore is once again sounding the alarm bells about global warming. Gore told the World Economic Forum in Davos that climate change is occurring at an even faster rate than predicted.

Recent evidence shows “the climate crisis is significantly worse and unfolding more rapidly than those on the pessimistic side of the IPCC projections had warned us,” climate campaigner and former US vice-president Gore said.

What I find interesting is that Al Gore can sound the alarm about global warming anytime he wants, and make increasingly dire predictions about the fate of the world, and liberals say nothing.

However, if President Bush were to give a speech about the threat from Iran or the increasing threat of radical Islam, the left would dismiss him as nothing more than a “fear monger.”

Al Gore is the Pat Robertson of science. His global warming predictions get more extreme with every passing month and liberals hang on his every word.

-Chris Jones

With the surge strategy in Iraq showing progress, the number of horror stories for the NY Times to put on the front page has been severely reduced. However, the liberal media struck gold this week with another rehashing and repackaging of the “Bush lied about Iraq” story.

It’s been common practice in recent years during unfortunate periods of reduced violence in Iraq, for the media to find a fresh way to rekindle the “Bush lied, People died” argument.

That argument is continuously repackaged and trotted out to an eager left-wing press like it’s a brand new story, and the AP appears to be the first news organization in 2008 to tell that story again.

The latest reincarnation of the story comes to us in the form of a “study” conducted by two “non-partisan journalism organizations.”

The Center For Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in Journalism found (to their shock and horror) that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.

The study concluded that the statements “were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.”

They even give the exact number of “false statements” allegedly made by the administration.

The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both.

Which inevitably led to the “Fund for Independence liberals in Journalism” to conclude:

“It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to al-Qaida,” according to Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith of the Fund for Independence in Journalism staff members, writing an overview of the study. “In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003.”

The part of this story you aren’t supposed to know is the one Texas Rainmaker is already out in front of. The two so-called “non-partisan” groups responsible for this story are both funded by anti-American as*hole George Soros.

Which makes those groups many things, but “non-partisan” damn sure isn’t one of them.

The Center for Public Integrity is funded by The Open Society Institute… yes, the same Open Society Institute founded by George Soros.

And the Fund for Independence in Journalism’s self-described primary purpose is “providing legal defense and endowment support for the largest nonprofit, investigative reporting institution in the world, the Center for Public Integrity, and possibly other, similar groups.”

The last Soros funded piece of propaganda was the now debunked study that claimed 650,000 civilians had been killed in Iraq since the invasion.

Just exposing the fact that George Soros funded this latest study automatically gives it zero credibility, but putting that aside for a moment let’s instead focus on the substance of the piece.

The mantra radiating from the left has always been that Bush knew Iraq had no WMD, so the administration manipulated the intelligence to fool the public into supporting a war.

There’s no question that we did get it wrong on Iraq. We always assumed that Saddam never really destroyed his stockpiles after the 1991 Gulf war like he was supposed to, but we were wrong.

We know now from debriefing Saddam after his capture that he was bluffing Bush into believing he had WMD, to avoid looking weak to his old nemesis Iran.

Saddam had been lobbying the U.N. privately for more than a year to lift the decade old sanctions against Iraq, and was within months of achieving that goal.

He wrongly calculated that if he could stall and bluff Bush long enough, the sanctions would be lifted and he would once again be on easy street.

He was so confident that Bush wouldn’t really invade that only a few weeks before “shock and awe” began, Saddam hadn’t even started on a war plan.

You can read all about what Saddam’s life was like after his capture all the way up to his execution in Ronald Kessler’s book “The Terrorist Watch.” Kessler talks with the FBI agent who spent nearly a year talking with Saddam for 8 hours a day 7-days a week.

Saddam literally told the agent he was bluffing Bush about the weapons. So this nonsense about the Administration fabricating things is total bullsh*t.

Saddam convinced intelligence agencies from around the world including China, Russia, Britain, Israel, Australia, Egypt, Jordan, Italy, France, and Germany, that Iraq still possessed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. There was also anecdotal evidence to suggest that Saddam was at least interested in reconstituting his nuclear program again.

So Bush had the premier intelligence agencies of the world telling him that Saddam had weapons, and U.S. intelligence agreed with that assessment. Was he supposed to do nothing? He should have just ignored all that intelligence warning of a potential danger after the horrors of 9/11?

Let’s also take a look at what leading opponents of the war were saying about Iraq all through the 1990′s right up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This fantastic compilation comes from lawhawk at A Blog For All.

-Chris Jones

The Daily Mail revealed today that the man responsible for the vast majority of the jihadi recruitment videos flooding the Internet is a 23 year old computer nerd from London.

Younes Tsouli, 23, an IT student at a London college, used his top-floor flat in W12 to help Islamist extremists wage a propaganda war against the West.

Under the name “Irhabi 007″, which combines a James Bond reference with the Arabic word for terrorist, he worked with al Qaeda leaders in Iraq and came up with a way to convert often gruesome videos into a form that could be put onto the Web.

Videos he posted included messages from Osama bin Laden and images of the kidnapping and murder of hostages in Iraq such as American Nick Berg.

Basically, Al-Qaeda operatives would pass him tapes straight out of a camcorder and he would transfer them to his computer.

After watermarking the videos with the “As-Sahab” Al-Qaeda logo he would then upload them to Islamic forums, YouTube, and other video sharing sites.

Once he uploaded the movies, they took on a life of their own and went viral. The propaganda was downloaded, copied, or burned to DVD millions of times.

Tsouli arrived in London in 2001 with his father, a Moroccan diplomat. He studied IT at a college in central London and was quickly radicalised by images of the war in Iraq posted on the internet.

By 2003 he had already started up his own radical Islamic website where he posted a variety of Islamic propaganda and jihad videos.

His work caught the attention of some high level Al-Qaeda members who then recruited him to be the IT guy for the entire organization.

In 2005, Tsouli became administrator for the web forum al-Ansat, used by 4,500 extremists to communicate with each other, sharing such practical information as how to make explosives and how to get to Iraq to become a suicide bomber.

By that time he had begun to attract the attention of various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and Britain, which eventually led to his arrest.

His capture led to the arrest of several Islamic terrorists around the world, including 17 men in Canada and two in the United States.

This is another example of why it’s so important that we stay vigilant and stay on the offense against these thugs. This kid was running Al-Qaeda’s Internet operation from an apartment in London.

The dedication that these people have to their radical cause is truly remarkable and should never be underestimated.

-Chris Jones

From the Times Online:

A STUDY that claimed 650,000 people were killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq was partly funded by the antiwar billionaire George Soros.

Soros, 77, provided almost half the £50,000 cost of the research, which appeared in The Lancet, the medical journal. Its claim was 10 times higher than consensus estimates of the number of war dead.

The study, published in 2006, was hailed by antiwar campaigners as evidence of the scale of the disaster caused by the invasion, but Downing Street and President George Bush challenged its methodology.

New research published by The New England Journal of Medicine estimates that 151,000 people – less than a quarter of The Lancet estimate – have died since the invasion in 2003.

“The authors should have disclosed the [Soros] donation and for many people that would have been a disqualifying factor in terms of publishing the research,” said Michael Spagat, economics professor at Royal Holloway, University of London.

The only people who took that number seriously were the left-wing lunatics who hate America and hate President Bush. That study was nothing more than left-wing propaganda meant to damage America’s image around the world.

It’s certainly not surprising that George Soros would be behind the whole thing. We have written extensively about how Soros uses his vast wealth to fund a radical left-wing agenda.

The Lancet chose to keep silent about the Soros funding, because they knew the study would have had zero credibility at the outset with everyone except liberal kooks.

-Chris Jones

The most outspoken global warming skeptic in France is Claude Allegre, a former education minister and a physicist by profession. His new book, “Ma Verite Sur la Planete” (“My Truth About the Planet”), doesn’t hold back.

He calls Gore a “crook” presiding over an eco-business that pumps out cash. As for Gore’s French followers, the author likens them to religious zealots who, far from saving humanity, are endangering it. Driven by a Judeo-Christian guilt complex, he says, French greens paint worst-case scenarios and attribute little-understood cycles to human misbehavior.

Allegre rightly points out that while the icecap of the North Pole is shrinking, the one covering Antarctica — or 92 percent of the Earth’s ice — is not, he says. Nor have Scandinavian glaciers receded, he says. To play down these differences by basing forecasts on a global average makes absolutely no sense.

Al Gore has tried very hard to prevent any chinks in his global warming armor from appearing, but more and more scientists are speaking out against him.

Liberals love to accuse the Bush Administration of “suppressing” the truth about global warming, and while in some instances that may be true, it is Gore who refuses to listen to anyone with a differing opinion. Scientists who don’t swallow the accepted doomsday version of global warming wholesale are shut out of conferences, smeared, and marginalized.

With every passing day new information about global warming is discovered that directly contradicts Gore’s propaganda film, An Inconvenient Truth, which is an ironic title in light of new scientific data.

Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called “consensus” on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom are current and former participants in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), criticized the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.

The new report issued by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s office of the GOP Ranking Member details the views of the scientists, the overwhelming majority of whom spoke out in 2007.

This blockbuster Senate report lists the scientists by name, country of residence, and academic/institutional affiliation. It also features their own words, biographies, and weblinks to their peer reviewed studies and original source materials as gathered from public statements, various news outlets, and websites in 2007. This new “consensus busters” report is poised to redefine the debate.

Predictably, Al Gore’s spokesman dismissed many of the scientists in the report as agents for big oil companies with an agenda. Anyone who doesn’t believe that man is 100% responsible for global warming and that we’re all gonna die either an idiot, or an agent for big oil with an agenda.

-Chris Jones

A judge on Wednesday ruled that Al Gore’s award winning climate change documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” should only be shown in schools with guidance notes to prevent political indoctrination.

High Court judge Michael Burton’s decision follows legal action brought by a father of two last month claiming the former US vice-president’s film contained “serious scientific inaccuracies, political propaganda and sentimental mush”.

-Chris Jones