Posts Tagged ‘Jihad’
Friday, February 13th, 2015
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:
Tags:2014 Governor's Race, al-Baghdadi, amnesty, Ann Althouse, Border Controls, Crime, Dallas, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Greg Abbott, Hillary Clinton, Holocaust, Illegal Aliens, Jews, Jihad, John Wiley Price, LinkSwarm, Media Watch, Military, Texas, Yemen
Posted in Crime, Democrats, Elections, Foreign Policy, Jihad, Media Watch, Military | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
When word dropped that Jeremy Bird, manager of Battleground Texas’ disastrous 2014 campaign, was going to Israel to help campaign against Benjamin Netanyahu, (“With the help of American money and a former campaign adviser to President Barack Obama, V15 is trying to replace Israel’s government”), I held off on the news because I wanted to do a little research. After all, given his involvement with core Democratic Party causes, I thought there was a pretty good chance he’d played footsie with at least one pro-Palestinian/anti-Israeli cause along the way.
Turns out my hunch was right.
Obama adviser Jeremy C. Bird once worked for an anti-Israel activist condemned by the Anti-Defamation League.
Bird, then a student at Harvard’s Divinity School, worked for Edmund Hanauer, one of America’s most prominent anti-Israel activists, in 2002.
Bird worked for Hanaeuer while Hanaeuer wrote a virulently anti-Israel op-ed that accused Israel of “state terrorism” and “war crimes,” and called for the arrest and prosecution of Israeli soldiers.
Never mind the deep impropriety of an American administration sending an adviser to defeat the sitting Prime Minister of an American ally. (Remember when Ronald Reagan sent Ed Rollins to Israel to defeat Shimon Peres? Me neither.)
So Democrats are sending an anti-Israel activist to try to influence an Israeli election.
That’s some might fine electioneering, Lou…
Tags:Battleground Texas, Benjamin Netanyahu, Democrats, Edmund Hanauer, Elections, Foreign Policy, Israel, Israeli Elections, Jeremy Bird, Jihad, V15
Posted in Democrats, Elections, Foreign Policy, Jihad | 1 Comment »
Friday, January 30th, 2015
Already the end of January? How did that happen?
Some links:
Mitt Romney is not running for President in 2016. Good. Now the media can stop sucking all the oxygen out of the race running will-he-or-won’t-he stories.
In a way-too-early poll, Scott Walker is within three points of Hillary.
And speaking of Scott Walker: “In America, it is one of the few places left in the world where it doesn’t matter what class you were born in to. It doesn’t matter what your parents do for a living. In America the opportunity is equal for each and every one of us but in America the ultimate outcome is up to each and every one of us individually.” Liberal critic: “That’s racist!”
Swedish reporter assaulted while wearing a kippah to test attitudes toward Jews.
Mark Steyn: “Extending special privilege to Islam corrodes free speech.”
America has no strategy in the Middle East. Or much of anywhere else…
Actual New York Times headline: “Bomb Blast at Shiite Muslim Mosque in Pakistan Kills 56.” As opposed to all those Shiite Christian Mosques?
Union leader found guilty of “extortion, racketeering and conspiracy.”
“It’s not enough to punish men for things they haven’t done. Women must be kept away from men, for their own good, because of the crimes those men haven’t committed.”
Jonathan Chait is shocked, SHOCKED to discover liberals opposing free speech.
“I fought for women to be anything, but also for women to choose to be a stay-at-home mom.”
Russian bonds cut to junk grade.
Apple posts the largest quarterly profit in the history of the world.
Governor Abbott declares February 2 Chris Kyle Day.
Andrew Sullivan to stop blogging, an event almost as tragic as the cancellation of Cop Rock.
Related Iowahawk tweet:
Sports Illustrated lays off all its photographers. Maybe they should change the name to just Sports. Personally I stopped reading the online version when Peter King decided his column would be a fine place to pimp for gun control…
There was a rally in Austin for school choice:
I LOLed:
Tags:Andrew Sullivan, Austin, Chris Kyle, Foreign Policy, Greg Abbott, Hillary Clinton, Jews, Jihad, Jonathan Chait, LinkSwarm, Media Watch, Mitt Romney, New York Times, Republicans, Scott Walker, Texas
Posted in Austin, Jihad, Media Watch, Republicans, Texas | No Comments »
Thursday, January 29th, 2015
To a certain extent, this Texas vs. California roundup is incomplete, since we’re hot and heavy into the new legislative session and I haven’t had a chance to fully digest the proposed budget numbers yet. By the Legislative Budget Boards numbers, they’re only projecting a 1.5% increase in the 2016-2017 biennium budget over 2014-2015. But see the first link…
Setting the story straight on the Texas budget. TPPF uses a different baseline…
California’s public employee unions would prefer that you not know how well they’re compensated.
How California’s public employees use sick leave to spike their pensions.
Supreme Court may take on California union mandatory dues case.
Though not nearly as bad as California, Texas state and local public employee pensions are also in need of reform.
California’s Kern County declares a fiscal emergency over dropping oil prices. “Collapsing crude prices are squeezing the finances of Kern County, home to three-fourths of California’s oil production.” Thankfully, oil and gas extraction is a lot more widespread in Texas.
The City of Sacramento’s unfunded liabilities have reached $2.3 billion. (Hat tip: Pension Tsunami.)
“Fresno? No one goes to Fresno anymore!” Except for job growth percentage, that is, where Fresno outpaced Silicon Valley.
Remember the Newport Beach police department firing a whistler-blower? Via Dwight comes a followup: “A husband and wife who sued Newport Beach and its police department for alleged retaliation and wrongful termination have settled their lawsuits for $500,000, according to city officials.”
“Physician-assisted suicide has returned to California’s political agenda.” Well, why not? California’s ruling Democrats have been attempting fiscal suicide for well over a decade now…
Toyota breaks ground on its new Texas headquarters.
A public school in California is having a Hijab Day.
Tags:Budget, California, Democrats, Fresno, Jihad, Kern County (CA), Legislative Budget Board, Newport Beach, oil industry, pension crisis, Sacramento, Texas, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Toyota, unions, Welfare State
Posted in Budget, Democrats, Jihad, Supreme Court, Texas, unions, Welfare State | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 28th, 2015
Once again, Pat Condell cuts right to the heart of the matter progressive multiculturalists desperately seek to obfuscate.
Samples:
“Not all Muslims hate Jews, but crucially the religion of Islam does hate them.”
“Every anti-Israel rally that’s full of Muslims quickly turns into an anti-Jewish hate fest. Pointing this out does not make me or anyone else a racist. However, denying it in the face of the evidence does make you a coward and a liar, especially if you call yourself a journalist.”
“Yet we in Europe are busy importing this mentality wholesale as part of our multicultural rainbow coalition of suicidal stupidity and moral cowardice.”
“The number of Jews leaving France for Israel is doubling every year.”
“In fact Jews are the new Jews. Muslims are the new Nazis.”
Watch the whole thing.
(Hat tip: Jihad Watch.)
Tags:anti-semitism, Foreign Policy, Jihad, Muslim, Pat Condell, video
Posted in Foreign Policy, Jihad, video | No Comments »
Friday, January 23rd, 2015
This week haw been incredibly busy, so enjoy a briefer-than-usual LinkSwarm:
Eric S. Raymond on how Social Justice Warriors use Kafkatrapping, which presumes you are guilty until you are proven guilty or admit your guilt.
Instapundit on why Jews are leaving France. “Because they don’t feel welcome, and because they don’t feel safe.”
More about Europe’s jihadist “no go” zones.
New York Assembly speaker and longtime Democratic Party power-broker Sheldon Silver arrested for taking over $4 million in bribes.
“America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence” says billionaire who flew his family to Davos on his private plane.
I have nothing significant to say on the death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Abdullah’s “reforms” were so small as to not be worth talking about, the Saudis are not our friends, they continue to export violent, backward Wahhabism, and they are occasionally useful but untrustworthy allies in a region where sometimes they are among the least horrible of possible alternatives.
“Hillary Clinton Is George Costanza. Every decision she’s ever made in her entire life has been wrong.” (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Marco Rubio is in. (Hat tip: Jim Geraghty’s Morning Jolt.)
Boy does the liberal media hate American Sniper.
Related: Chris Kyle Derangement Syndrome.
Like father, like son.
Guess what happened at a concert against violence? Go ahead. Guess.
Dilbert via Twitter:
Tags:Crime, Democrats, Dilbert, feminism, Foreign Policy, France, Glenn Reynolds, Hillary Clinton, Instapundit, Jews, Jihad, LinkSwarm, Marion Barry, Marion Christopher Barry, Media Watch, Military, Republicans, Sheldon Silver, Social Justice Warriors, victimhood, Wahhabism
Posted in Crime, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Jihad, Media Watch, Military, Republicans | No Comments »
Monday, January 19th, 2015
Enjoy a Monday LinkSwarm to get your week started:
Police conduct anti-terrorism raids in Germany, Belgium and France. Could this be the start of a real effort to halt Islamic extremism in Europe? I rather doubt it. Too many leftist parties across Europe need Muslim votes, and European elites still seem implacably hostile to the Euroskeptic parties pushing for an end to unlimited Muslim immigration.
Old and Busted: Never again! The New Hotness: More dead Jews? Meh.
The late Anwar al-Awlaki was good at two things: drawing up plans to kill innocent people in the name of Islam, and banging skanky whores.
The Prime Minister of France: “I refuse to use this term ‘Islamophobia,’ because those who use this word are trying to invalidate any criticism at all of Islamist ideology.” (Hat tip: JihadWatch.)
More from France’s PM on the new antisemitism:
“There is a new anti-Semitism in France,” he told me. “We have the old anti-Semitism, and I’m obviously not downplaying it, that comes from the extreme right, but this new anti-Semitism comes from the difficult neighborhoods, from immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa, who have turned anger about Gaza into something very dangerous. Israel and Palestine are just a pretext. There is something far more profound taking place now.”
In discussing the attacks on French synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses this summer, during the Gaza war, he said, “It is legitimate to criticize the politics of Israel. This criticism exists in Israel itself. But this is not what we are talking about in France. This is radical criticism of the very existence of Israel, which is anti-Semitic. There is an incontestable link between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Behind anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.”
Michael Totten quotes the late Christopher Hitchens. on the jihadist opinion of the current controversy: “Carving up grandfathers and granddaughters with an axe on New Year’s Eve can be okay if it’s done to protect the reputation of a seventh century Arabian man who heard voices.”
Bobby Jindal: “Islam has a problem.”
“Victimology is the language and currency of our politics.”
All those Harvard professors supporting ObamaCare are shocked to discover they’re paying for it.
“In 2009, 76 Democrats represented primarily white working-class congressional districts. Just 15 of them are still in the House today.”
A majority of the GOP gains since then have come from the Democrats’ near-total collapse in one set of districts: the largely blue-collar places in which the white share of the population exceeds the national average, and the portion of whites with at least a four-year college degree is less that the national average. While Republicans held a 20-seat lead in the districts that fit that description in the 111th Congress, the party has swelled that advantage to a crushing 125 seats today. That 105-seat expansion of the GOP margin in these districts by itself accounts for about three-quarters of the 136-seat swing from the Democrats’ 77-seat majority in 2009 to the 59-seat majority Republicans enjoy in the Congress convening now.
“It was not merely Democratic politicians who were wiped out in November. A plethora of liberal shibboleths were also massacred.”
Virginia voters won’t let a little thing like pleading guilty of contributing to the delinquency of a minor prevent him from regaining his seat in the House of Delegates. (Hat tip: Ace of Spades.)
How big is Texas?
Three myths about Medicaid expansion. I hope that Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick understand that we didn’t elect them to cave in on ObamaCare…
Are your tweets University of Indiana-approved, comrade? (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Feminism’s empathy gap. Or the Shanley Kanes of the world reject the experiences of women that don’t fit their preferred victimhood narrative…
How a Global Warming true believer became a skeptic.
10 bodies, 11 severed heads found in Mexico.
Pictures of empty Venezuelan store shelves, as Socialism continue to work its usual magic.
Liberal California billionaire Tom Steyer may run for the senate. Hopefully he’ll have the same luck as the politicians he donated to in 2014…
Only found out recently that Death by Government and genocide/democide expert R. J. Rummel died March 2, 2014.
Conservatives win several rule fights in the Texas House.
Rick Perry’s farewell address.
Gregg Abbott’s inauguration will have 4 tons of brisket. Or, as we call it in Texas, “an appetizer.”
Times when climbing down a chimney is a good idea: Your name is “Santa Claus.” Otherwise? Not so much.
A cure for cracked winter hands.
“My personality is as spartan as a Danish furniture catalog, why can’t yours be the same?” (Hat tip: Dwight.)
American Sniper kills at the box office:
Tags:American Sniper, Anwar al-Awlaki, Belgium, Bobby Jindal, Democrats, feminism, France, genocide, Germany, Global Warming, Islam, Jihad, LinkSwarm, Medicaid, Mexico, ObamaCare, Paris, R. J. Rummel, Republicans, Rick Perry, socialism, technology, Texas, Venuzuala
Posted in Communism, Democrats, Global Warming, Jihad, ObamaCare, Republicans, Texas, Waste and Fraud | No Comments »
Friday, January 16th, 2015
So how did John Kerry apologize for the Obama Administration not sending a representative to the most important anti-Jihad rally in history?
He had James Taylor sing “You’ve Got A Friend.”
No. Really. That’s an actual thing that actually happened:
I’m trying to think of the last music performance that generated such cringe-worthy embarrassment for all involved. It may have been this:
I’m trying to imagine a musical choice that would have been more pathetic and I’m failing. Sir-Mix-A-Lot singing “Baby Got Back” would be more head-scratching, but at least wouldn’t have called for a double facepalm.
Well, I guess Cheap Trick’s “Surrender” would have been slightly more insulting.
A few Twitter reactions:
Thank God Kerry was never elected President…
Tags:Democrats, Foreign Policy, France, James Taylor, Jihad, John Kerry, music, Paris
Posted in Democrats, Foreign Policy, Jihad | No Comments »
