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What George Bush can learn from Rosa Parks – Star Parker I think there is a lesson and that lesson is that one person with courage, motivated by principles and not by fear, can change the world. If this was true of a poor black seamstress in Alabama in the 1950s, how much more so must it must be true for the president of the United States. …The beginning of a string a cave-ins started in the first term when the administration allowed choice and vouchers to be stripped out of the No Child Left Behind legislation. The crucial initiative to revamp Social Security, the first thing put on the table by a confident, newly re-elected President Bush, has now gone by the wayside…I think George Bush can revitalize his presidency by taking advice from one man. Himself. He should search his soul about what he truly believes is in the interest of America and its future and go for it _ regardless of what the political experts claim can or cannot be done. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/StarParker/2005/11/07/174500.html

President Bush’s Veterans Day Speech http://jewishworldreview.com/1105/bush_vets_day.php3

Riots in France – The Barbarians at the gates of Paris – Thomas Sowell In the name of tolerance, these countries have imported intolerance, of which growing antisemitism in Europe is just one example. In the name of respecting all cultures, Western nations have welcomed people who respect neither the cultures nor the rights of the population among whom they have settled…. None of this is peculiar to France. It is a symptom of a common retreat from reality, and from the hard decisions that reality requires, not only in Europe but also in European offshoot societies like Canada, Australia, New Zealand -- and the United States of America.  http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4466

Understanding the Paris riots Europe never learned the real lesson of the evils of Nazism. Rather than reject the deepest premises of the Nazis, they have inverted them into a new form, so that Europe no longer seeks to liquidate its racial minorities -- but instead empowers those minorities to carry out the self-liquidation of Europe. Nowhere are the results more ominous than in France. …So here we get the two essentials of Nazism: the rejection of reason and the mind in favor of the worship of brute emotion, and the elevation of the collective over the individual. …It was the re-assertion of some degree of French control after years of Multiculturalist tolerance that set off the riots.  http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4468

Your best defense is a handgun say 4 police officers American citizens simply cannot count on the police to protect them from assault. Almost always, the only thing the police can do is show up after the fact and sort things out. Laws are not written to prevent crime; they are written to give society the means to punish the criminal after he has committed his misdeed. In short, when crunch time comes, you are on your own. And if you really want to improve your odds of surviving an encounter with a felon, you've got to have a handgun handy….So, in the end, who are you going to believe? Four officers who have a combined total of 100 years of experience on the street? Or Mayor Daley, the gun-banner who travels with a cadre of armed men ready to shoot anyone who might attack him? http://www.starnewspapers.com/star/spedit/col/06-col1.htm

Irrelevant questions – Thomas Sowell  People who have for years not only voted for the Republicans, but donated their time and money to the Republican party, who have volunteered to stuff envelopes, man the phones and walk the precincts to get out the vote on cold election nights, deserve something better than Senators who wimp out at crunch time.  If the fate of the legal system in this country is not enough incentive for Senate Republicans to show some backbone, maybe concern for their own re-election will be. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2005/11/09/174864.html

Windfall Profits – Walter Williams Windfall profits serve as a signal that there are unmet human wants. …Instead of mouthing platitudes and beating up on oil executives, Speaker Hastert should lead the effort to reduce restrictions on drilling and refinery construction. Sen. Dorgan should review our 1970s experience with an oil windfall profits tax that reduced American production and increased our dependence on foreign sources. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/walterwilliams/2005/11/09/174865.html

Larry Pratt on the 2005 Election in Virginia If Republicans insist on using the Earley-Kilgore playbook during the 2006 elections, they can expect to see the same results that Earley and Kilgore got. Perhaps the question we should be asking the GOP is, “Are you feeling lucky, boys?” http://www.newswithviews.com/Pratt/larry49.htm

Rights and Responsibilities Freedom perpetuates an illusion of permanence; democracy plays a similarly devilish trick: it makes you think it runs on autopilot. When coupled with naïve idealism about the world, these deceptions can wreak havoc on a nation. Citizens get fat and happy, overly confident in the security of their fragile freedoms.     http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/SteveMuscatello/2005/11/11/175185.html

The moral legacy of Rosa Parks In the decades that followed, Rosa Parks witnessed the emergence of two black Americas: one enjoying the freedom to work and thrive, and one trapped in the net of government-administered welfare. … Dependency on government deadens the human spirit. … In 1950, only 18 percent of black families were headed by single women; today that number is more than 45 percent. … What is needed to continue Parks’ legacy is to free blacks disempowered by government surrogacy, and restore their dignity through a resurgence of black religious leadership, a focus on education, and a renewal of marriage and family. These were the pillars of the civil-rights movement and are the principles that will bring true liberation to those blacks left behind. http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?article=295

Biden does Kentucky  "If I'm the nominee, Republicans will be sorry. The next Republican that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary beads down their throat."  http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/guest/2005/lf_11101.shtml

Bush GOP Must Take On Global Warming http://www.gopusa.com/news/2005/november/1110_bush_global_warming.shtml

Political prosecution of Rush Limbaugh http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/11/10/173911.shtml?et=y

How the FDA harms your freedom and your health The purpose of this NewsWithViews.com article is to outline the crisis and to urge you to take action TODAY to support your right, under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, to have access to truthful information about the benefits of taking dietary supplements. http://www.newswithviews.com/Dean/carolyn19.htm

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