Still recovering from this cold. Enjoy this Friday LinkSwarm compliments of the management:
ISIS on the run? Not so much. They just took over the Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi, where U.S. troops are training Iraqi troops.
45 “Asian” men arrested on UK child sex charges. And by “Asian,” they mean “Pakistani Muslim.” Et tu, Daily Mail? (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Yemen turns into yet another Obama Middle East foreign policy triumph.
“The United States has accepted two new immigrants for each additional job created since 2000, according to federal data.”
Will that stop the drive for Obama’s illegal alien amnesty? Of course not, since that amnesty will make it easier for illegal aliens to vote.
“Who wants to read the inside story of Obama’s ’08 campaign if you know the writer is committed to being kind to Hillary?”
What’s behind the most recent uptick in job growth? Stingier unemployment benefits. Insisted on by Republicans.
If Putin really wants to subsidize the Greek welfare state, I say let’s kick them out of NATO and let him…
Indicted Democratic Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price asked for taxpayers to pay for his corruption trial defense…that is until the judge demanded a complete accounting of his net worth, and which point he dropped the request.
The Ghosts of Auschwitz in the Middle East.
“The Daily Show always had limited appeal; it just happens that the appeal included the New York media elite.”
A look at Greg Abbott’s data-driven gubernatorial campaign.
So Obama’s State Department had another one of their dog-and-pony show #AskJen events, where users all over Twitter send questions in to State Department spokeslephrechaun Jen Psaki, which are then summarily ignored in favor of trivial questions from pro-Obama plants. But I was happy to do my part:
About Lawrence Person
Lawrence Person is a political commentator and science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. His political work has appeared in National Review, Reason, The Freeman, Liberty and The World & I. His SF has appeared in Asimov's, Analog, F&SF, Postscripts, Jim Baen's Universe, Fear, and several anthologies. He owns such a large library (mostly science fiction first editions) he had to buy a two-story house to put it in, and then adopted a golden retriever to drag him out of his house on a regular basis.
