1. How Democrats' Social Agenda Will Backfire

This weekend White House wannabe Howard Dean and his supporters (all 10 of them) will celebrate the third anniversary of his signing of Vermont's law giving homosexuals the same legal rights as married couples, the only measure of its kind in the nation.

Republicans will also be celebrating. The cause of their joy, however, will be the self-inflicted political wounds of Dean and likeminded Democrats. (Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri, Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and all the other would-be presidential nominees have promoted homosexual causes, even the most moderate of the lot, Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut).

Al Gore failed to succeed Bill Clinton as president despite a strong economy, a pro-Democrat media establishment and all the advantages of White House incumbency because his left-wing positions on gun control, homosexuality and abortion cost him every single state in his native South. It is nearly impossible to win the presidency without carrying any states from the South, the nation's most populous region. Now a repeat of the Democrats' 2004 failure looks increasingly likely in 2008.

Richard White, a Republican state senator in Mississippi, told the Associated Press that any candidate talking about gay rights might as well write off his state.

"The people down here, they are not going to put up with that kind of stuff," White said. "We're not prepared for all that in Mississippi or anywhere else in the Southern states."

Even Southern Democrats realize the risk. Darryl Tattrie, chief financial officer of Kentucky's Democrat party, favors civil unions but admits this is a losing issue in the Bluegrass State.

"I don't think voters in Kentucky would be for that," he said. "It's the way folks are raised."

All this suggests the frenzy of Democrats and their media allies over the comments by Sen. Rick Santorum, [R-PA], will backfire.

The majority of Americans agree with Santorum. Polls show that most citizens think homosexual acts should not be illegal (something the senator never suggested) but are immoral, the Associated Press noted.

2. What Sen. Santorum Really Said

By the way, Sen. Santorum is not the bigoted meanie that the pro-Democrat media establishment would have you believe. On the full transcript of his interview with the Associated Press, he says, on at least three occasions, that he has no issues or problems with homosexuals, the American Spectator points out.

So why didn't AP report that? Because, as NewsMax.com and Fox News Channel and only a few other media voices dared to point out, the AP reporter, Lara Jakes Jordan, who intentionally inserted the word "[gay]" into Santorum's comments to make it appear that he was gay bashing, just so happens to be the wife of Jim Jordan, who just so happens to be the campaign manager of Sen. Kerry, who just so happens to be one of the loudest Democrat voices trying to exploit the issue.

As NewsMax pointed out this past week in one of the most underreported revelations this year, ABC News' political unit admitted, "Could anyone deny that most Washington reporters tend to move more aggressively to bring down Republicans in trouble than Democrats in trouble?" This is the same ABC that Media Research Center found provided by far the most biased, anti-American coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom, far worse than even Dan Rather's.

"All Rick was doing was reinforcing basic Catholic teaching on homosexuality: Love the sinner, hate the sin," a Santorum supporter in the Senate leadership told the Spectator. "Somebody has to get out in front of this for him with the gay groups, because he can't do it by himself."

So why aren't leaders of the Catholic Church supporting Santorum? Better wait a decade or two or three. After all, look at how long it has taken Catholic bishops in the U.S. to start cracking down on the anti-Catholic abortion advocacy of allegedly Catholic politicians. And whereas the bishops in Sioux Falls, SD, and Sacramento, CA, have bravely dared to censure Sen. Tom Daschle and California Gov. Gray Davis, the bishops in the dioceses of Kerry, Sen. Teddy Kennedy, Sen. Patty "Osama Mama" Murray and dozens of other pro-abortion "Catholics" continue their silence.

3. Exposed: Atheists' Lies About U.S. Army Chaplain in Iraq

Do you remember a few weeks ago when anti-religious groups were claiming that a U.S. Army chaplain serving in Iraq refused permission for soldiers to use water for bathing unless they first listened to a sermon and were baptized? It turns out, of course, that they were bearing false witness.

The office of the Chief of Chaplains conducted an informal inquiry and discovered the allegation was false, United Press International reports.

In fact, there wasn't even a shortage of water at that camp. It "was supplied with tens of thousands of gallons of water for soldiers to use," the office said. "All major water needs of the soldiers were met before the water for baptism was made available to the chaplain."

"Significantly," the chaplains' office stated, "no soldier at Camp Bushmaster has complained or commented that he was coerced in any way by the chaplain. In fact, reports are that this chaplain is always selflessly available to soldiers and that they generally respect and like him and are grateful for his presence, even if they are not of his faith."

Here's what is true: This latest deceit by the Anti-religious Left won't get a tenth of the publicity the original smear campaign did.

4. New Questions on NASA's Shuttle Failure

NewsMax contributor Hugh Sprunt tells us:

The article I wrote for NewsMax.com on Feb. 4 asks rather plaintively why, after viewing the launch video on Jan. 17th that showed the impact of the "foam debris" on the Columbia's left wing (underside and leading edge), NASA did not request imagery of the left wing ASAP in order to evaluate such damage since it seemed reasonable (to say the least) that the video imagery indicated a serious possibility that the shuttle's wing had been damaged by the launch debris.

Despite a lot of dissimulation and bafflegab by various individuals within and without NASA since the loss of Columbia, the point made in the article I wrote for NewsMax.com continues to be the view I hold to this day.

More than two months after the article appeared at NewsMax.com, there is official confirmation of that view (the first I've seen in print from a professional who ought to know what he is saying).

We learned from today's [April 24] New York Times that a previous manager of NASA's shuttle program felt the same way when he viewed those videos:

"A former NASA shuttle manager [Robert F. Thompson] testified today that it appeared obvious the front edges of the Columbia's [left] wing would be badly damaged by the hit it took from debris upon its launch.

"...It should have been clear that the front edges of the wing could not withstand the hit that the Columbia apparently took on liftoff."

Had current NASA management had anything approaching the attitude of the former shuttle program manager quoted above, presumably it would have obtained ground-based and space-based imagery that would have revealed a serious level of damage.

That imagery, in turn, would presumably have caused NASA to investigate using Atlantis as a rescue vehicle, as advocated in my NewsMax.com article (something that, to date, NASA denies would have been feasible though no data has appeared in print yet, so far as I know, that refutes my back of the envelope analysis that appeared in my early NewsMax.com article).

5. Salon Rages: How Dare You Reveal What We Wrote!

We know a good story when we see one. When the Washington Times pointed out the anti-American writings of Salon Executive Editor Gary Kamiya, NewsMax.com naturally reprinted them. We even tried to be nice about it by saying that Salon "is moderate compared to the hateful rantings of some U.S. leftists."

Now Salon is in a conniption fit that the Times, NewsMax and others revealed Kamiya's self-professed desire for Saddam Hussein to defeat the U.S. The San Francisco Web site rages that "the organs of the right-wing press in the U.S. - from The Washington Times to Newsmax [sic] to Rush Limbaugh to Bill O'Reilly - ripped out a small chunk of Kamiya's article and began circulating it to the faithful."

Fascinating. All we did was reprint what the Times included:

"I have a confession: I have at times, as the war has unfolded, secretly wished for things to go wrong. Wished for the Iraqis to be more nationalistic, to resist longer. Wished for the Arab world to rise up in rage. Wished for all the things we feared would happen. I'm not alone: A number of serious, intelligent, morally sensitive people who oppose the war have told me they have had identical feelings."

More dead American troops would have been preferred to the "larger moral negative" of a victory that boosted President Bush's chances for re-election, according to the Salon big.

"Many antiwar commentators have argued that once the war started, even those who oppose it must now wish for the quickest, least-bloody victory followed by the maximum possible liberation of the Iraqi people," Kamiya wrote. "But there is one argument against this: What if you are convinced that an easy victory will ultimately result in a larger moral negative - four more years of Bush, for example, with attendant disastrous policies, or the betrayal of the Palestinians to eternal occupation, or more imperialist meddling in the Middle East or elsewhere?

"Wishing for things to go wrong is the logical corollary of the postulate that the better things go for Bush, the worse they will go for America and the rest of the world," Kamiya wrote.

After reading the item in the Times last week we even went to Salon and did a search to find Kamiya's complete column, but either it had been yanked or Salon's search engine is useless.

Now Salon fumes that "the real agenda of conservative media's overbearing pundits ... is to drive everyone who disagrees with them out of the public arena. They're not interested in open debate; their goal is to intimidate and silence."

Actually, although some Americans would like to silence the anti-American utterances of the likes of Kamiya, Ramsey Clark, Sen. Patty "Osama Mama" Murray, Rep. "Baghdad" Jim McDermott and the college dropouts of the Tinsel town left-wing fringe, we want just the opposite to occur. Let the Left keep revealing itself to Americans. Knowing the truth of the Left's agenda will set them free.

6. STARS, Not SARS, Is the New Plague in Hollywood

Forget SARS. One of NewsMax's top Hollywood sources tells Insider Report that STARS is the latest dreaded disease in Tinsel town.

Skip Press, who is the author of "Writer's Guide to Hollywood," "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Screenwriting" and a bio on the Sheen family and who knows complete idiots when he sees them, jests:

"The new Hollywood disease, STARS, seems to be isolated to not-well-educated TV and film actors, but it has doctors baffled. They aren't sure whether it's Strangely Talkative Anti-Republican Syndrome [OR] Sadly Troubled Actors Ranting Syndrome."

7. Tammy Bruce's New Book Hits Amazon Bestseller List

Tammy Bruce's latest blockbuster book The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values hit the bookstores last week with a bang.

The book also has hit the Internet hard -- and already is ranked among Amazon's top 50 sellers.

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In The Death of Right and Wrong, her second major book, Bruce leaves no sacred cow of the Left standing.

Tammy argues that factions on the Left are successfully undermining morals and values in our culture in order to further their own political agendas. And in doing so, they have blurred the distinction between right and wrong. When virtue and character are supplanted by cries of, "Yeah, but he's one hell of a politician," then it becomes easy for anyone--Left, Right, or Center--to break the rules for personal or collective gain.

Through extensive research and a keen examination of today's news headlines, Tammy reveals that the more values and character become important--when one's private life is held under the same scrutiny as the public life--the more Americans tend to move away from the political Left. Tammy shows that like the fluttering of the butterfly's wings in the rain forest, the unzipping of the president's pants in the Oval Office can have a profound ripple effect on our cultural values, and can be tied to things as diverse as the Enron debacle and the Catholic priest molestation scandal.

In this book, readers will discover:

• How radical feminism attempts to destroy Christian values in order to advance its own agenda
   
• Why Hollywood filmmakers are out of touch with the average American as they continue producing violent, licentious movies that rarely make money
   
• How Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton, and the power-elite on the Left are able to manipulate public perception to get away with murder in their private lives
   
• How academia rewrites American history to fit its moral-relativist ideology
   
• How the Left has hijacked the justice system through corrupt defense attorneys and creative rule bending

...And much, much more.

Simultaneously shocking, engrossing, and infuriating, The Death of Right and Wrong is a masterful culture study that is as full of color as Tammy Bruce herself--"a gun toting, lesbian, feminist, voted-for-Reagan activist."

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