I'm very thankful for technology's gift of the wifi radio.  So much so in fact that recently, I couldn't help myself and bought two.  Why, you might ask?  Originally a New Yorker, I grew up on AM radio, namely WABC-770AM, the flagship station for Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and Bob Grant amongst others....as well as Cousin Brucie and Dan Ingraham in their AM music days. The radio provides over 5000 choices of the best in world radio, for free...and is very addictive, especially during political seasons. Well,  last year, they re-invited Imus back to WABC Newsradio after his Rutgers Girl Basketball racist commentary, and so WABC developed a morning-only left wing flavor.  Imus invited former Muscovite Matt Taibbi, son of the well-known lawyer-journalist Mike Taibbi, to speak about his new book, The Great Derangement.  This book, like his others, is just one more assault on: President Bush and our Government, our "contrived reasons for going to war, our corruption in Washington, and of course, any attempt we make to neutralize the barbarous motives of the Islamofascists, whom he refuses to address as such.  Taibbi used the book interview with Imus to denigrate  former Christian acquaintances which he made as a "plant" at a John Hagee retreat-undoubtedly with intent to undermine McCain in the future.  His early life, spent mostly jogging in Uzbehkistan, resulted in his expulsion from and by that country...that says something about how left-leaning this guy is...too much even for former Iron Curtain states!.   I am continually amazed at just how out of touch the far left is with regards to the underlying mechanism of Islamofacist hatred for our modernity, our JudeoChristian ethics, and our liberty.  One would think that a "journalist" as well-traveled as Taibbi would have even a mediocre understanding of these issues and their history.  Yet, he glosses over them for the sake of maintaining his blatantly socialist, anti-Zionist, constantly irreverent spiel that helps protect his tenure at the Rolling Stone. Unfortunately, Imus was all over Taibbi, agreeing with virtually every opinion he espoused, and Imus has done this at least once a week ever since he returned to the airwaves last year.  Perhaps I have spent too much time discussing Taibbi...but perhaps not.  He has written so many Amazon top-50 books of an anti-American nature that I felt it time to expose him for the anti-American that he is.  He views our Republic, founded by the genius of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Richard Henry Lee, amongst others, as a deranged melange suffused with right-wing insanity.  When will he and his ilk finally "get it?"  That this Republic is the civilized world's best experiment in liberty ever?

Islamofascism, a term popularized by George Bush before the career Dems that wring their hands within the State Department began to complain about this term, is an unnecessary elaboration of a concept well-known to even our Founding Fathers.  The Moroccan "barbary coast pirates" that converted so many American  and British colonists into shackeled slaves at one time demanded one million dollars from our first President, George Washington. This was to be paid as a ransom for our early citizens enslaved by these pirates as our ships were illegally boarded and our wares confiscated.  These were Muslims, driven by the same hatred for Christians and Jews that prevails today.  The Koran and its supporting documents, in the main, support the killing of non-believers or the dhimmies who refuse to pay ransoms.  Only left wing pacifists and their ilk blame our Country for bad relations with Muslims abroad.  They refuse to believe that orthodox Muslims following orthodox Islam would take an innocent life, or that their faith is driven by violence.  Even a cursory review of the Koran reveals that violence is an accepted practice amongst Muslims.  So called "moderate Muslims" are the equivalent of the non-practicing Catholic or the "reformed Jew" in that they do not follow all of the tenets of their faith, but try to respect most of them.  Moderate Muslims are not well versed in the details of Islam, as the details would reveal to the careful but casual observer that murder and torture are accepted practices within Islam.  Our Founders knew this.  Over 3000 Americans learned this within a few fateful minutes on September 11, 2001 in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania.  We who read and refuse to gloss over know this.  And yes, even the peacenik handringers who pace the halls of the State Department know this.  But they have decided, as a matter of political correctness, to try to conceal this by issuing edicts that force our citizenry to avoid terminology that embues the truth.  But denial of these truths deprive us of certain liberties, which we must never allow.  Please pick up a copy of Andrew McCarthy's  Willful Blindness:A Memoir of the Jihad.  Read it and also read any book by Robert Spencer.  Go to Daniel Pipes.com and read articles by this Islam expert, and then refresh your knowledge of the handful of Crusades that existed in centuries past.  Maybe members of the State Department will do the same.  Because after their communique released this week to abandon words like Islamofascism and Jihad, the well-read among us will know who  is denying the truth and eroding our liberty.