The New York Times, other American and foreign media, as well as The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have used the word “Islamophobia” to refer to individuals who call any aspect of Islam into question. “Islamophobia” is a term often used to cast aspersions on the person offering a reasonable criticism of Islam and any other facet of the religion or its believers. The term would be rightly defined as a fear of Islam. This is not the same thing as hating all Muslims. You do not have to be a racist to fear the consequences of a religious belief. Agoraphobia is a phobia because it is impossible to live a rational life fearfully avoiding all the public activities which a normal life requires. So, is the fear of Islamic dominance and Sharia law unreasonable and deserving of being called a phobia? I think not. But America’s leaders have lost the cultural courage to speak out.

It is disturbing that the term “Islamophobia” is used by the PC crowd incorrectly in order to link it with rascism. . . . Continue reading here. . . .

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have effectively undermined all efforts to lift the ban on drilling for more oil. Despite growing public support for ending the ban, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she won’t even allow a vote on lifting the ban. Pelosi even boasts that in the House, the power of recognition and setting the agenda rests with the Speaker.

Support for drilling in the areas that have been banned is now over 73% in various polls. Reid and Pelosi, however, seem to be impervious to reason. Completely ignoring public opinion, the high price of oil, and the damage being done to our economy – they have misused their authority to block solutions to problems that don’t fit their personal agendas. They demand that the nation trust in their peremptory authority to decide what is best for the American people.

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According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the need to open more of the US to oil exploration is a hoax. Last week in a press conference she said, “This call for drilling in areas that are protected is a hoax, it’s an absolute hoax on the part of the Republicans and this administration.” One would have hoped she was talking about man-made global warming – but no such luck. The contorted pseudo-science of secular progressives sees the hoax (man-made global warming) as real and the common-sense truth (the need to drill off-shore and in ANWR) as a hoax. Perhaps we should blame our weak university system for the liberal politicians’ misguided thinking. But the fact is that they have become the pawns of the powerful and radical environmentalist lobby that sees the human race as a virus attacking Mother Nature.

The left continues to obfuscate the issue by repeating over and over again that the oil companies are causing this crisis by not drilling on US lands they have already leased. They obviously believe that if they repeat this often enough, they can brainwash the American people into believing it. I will attempt to offer our secular progressive friends a simple logical explanation for this: There is not enough oil under these lands to make it worthwhile to drill there. The oil companies lease land from the US government if they think there is a possibility oil might be there. Once they lease the land; they explore it. If exploration does not yield positive results, the land is returned to the Federal Government when the lease expires.

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