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Author Archives: Lawrence Person
Bruce Sterling on Wikileaks
Bruce is a lefty sort, but there’s a whole lot of pithy interest and insight in this essay, as there usually is in Bruce’s essays. And also like many of Bruce’s essays, it’s very long. I hope to finish it … Continue reading
This Week in Jihad for December 23, 2010
Some pre-Christmas Jihad news: Speaking of Christmas, crosses have been banned in Bethleham. UK Islamic group launches campaign against Christmas, saying it leads to rape, abortions, crime, pedophilia and raves. They forgot fruitcake. In the course of a general indictment … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Jihad
Tagged book burning, Christmas, genocide, Greek Orthodox Church, Guantanamo Bay, Islam, Jihad, This Week in Jihad, War on Christmas
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Linkswarm for December 22, 2010
A few bite-sized links of interest for the holiday season: Michael Barone digs deeper into the census data. Among the tidbits: Five of the seven states with no state income tax gained the most population, and the other two each … Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Economics, Guns, Texas
Tagged California, cheerleaders, China, Guns, hunting, Japan, LinkSwarm, Nate Silver, Texas
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Texas to Gain Four House Seats in Redistricting
The census data has finally been released, and Texas will gain four seats in the U.S. House. (Here’s a map breaking down which districts have gained or lost population, and by how much.) Keep in mind that at least one … Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Elections, Republicans, Texas
Tagged census, Democrats, Demograhics, Elections, population, Redistricting, Republicans, Texas
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Breakdown on how the DREAM Act Illegal Alien Amnesty Failed
This post from Roy Beck of the anti-amnesty NumbersUSA, which is further analyzed by Mickey Kaus here, goes into detail about which Senators flipped from pro- to anti-amnesty. Short version: Republicans were a lot more scared of a Tea Party … Continue reading
Posted in Border Control, Democrats, Elections, Republicans
Tagged amnesty, Claire McCaskill, DREAM Act, Illegal Aliens, Kent Conrad, Mickey Kaus, NumbersUSA, Roy Beck, Tea Party
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DREAM Act illegal Alien Amnesty Fails
Cloture vote fails 55 to 41. Democrats Max Baucus of Montana, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Mark Pyror of Arkansas and Jon Tester of Montana (all Senators from deep red states) all voted against the bill. … Continue reading
Posted in Border Control
Tagged Border Controls, DREAM Act, Illegal Aliens, Mickey Kaus
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Dallas Jury to Rebecca Aguilar: No, You Can’t Have a Successful Lawsuit. Not Yours.
Dallas Reporter: Gun owners exercising their 2nd Amendment rights by killing home invaders are evil. Here, let me badger one on camera. Dallas Station: You’re fired. Dallas Reporter: I’ll sue. Dallas Jury: Get stuffed Bonus: Ms. Aguilar simply can’t stop … Continue reading
This Week in Jihad for December 16, 2010
Lots of Jihad news of note this week: Just in case you were busy Saturday and didn’t hear, a suicide bomber struck central Stockholm on Saturday. That bomber, Iraqi-born Taimour Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly, was yet another product of British schools. But … Continue reading
Current Death Estimate for the Great Leap Forward: 45 Million
According to historian Frank Dikotter, who examined hundreds of documents across China from 2005-2009. Dikotter is author of Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962, which I haven’t read yet. But some of the descriptions of … Continue reading