For a startling change of pace, this week the Friday LinkSwarm will be on…Friday!<\/p>\n
“Clearly, some observers fear ordinary Americans more than they do terrorists; they fret more over how dangerously unintelligent and hateful Yanks will respond to bombings than they do over the bombings themselves. But where is this Islamophobic mob? Where are these marauding Muslim-haters undergoing a post-Boston freakout? They are a figment of liberal observers\u2019 imaginations.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Finally catching up on work Andrew Breitbart and Lee Stranahan<\/a> were doing three years ago, The New York Times<\/i> finally discovered that there was massive fraud in the Pigford “black farmer settlement<\/a>, namely hundred of millions of dollars going to people who had never farmed in their life for “discrimination” by the Department of Agriculture.\n It takes some chutzpah to lobby against voter ID bills when you’ve already been convicted of voter fraud<\/a>.\n Walter Russell Mead on the Wreck of the Euro<\/a>. “Meanwhile everything in Europe gets worse. As we\u2019ve said before, with the exception of communism itself, the euro has been the biggest economic catastrophe to befall the continent (and the world) since the 1930s. Politicians in Europe thought they were living in a post-historical period in which mistakes didn\u2019t really matter all that much. They were horribly wrong, and the wreck of the euro is blighting lives and embittering spirits on a truly staggering scale.” Quibble: $500,000 won’t just buy you “a pretty nice house;” in most of the country, it will buy you mansion.\n Iowahawk’s new digs<\/a>. (Though he’s also escaped from his captors at his old digs<\/a> as well.)\n Denmark rethinks welfare<\/a>. “Denmark\u2019s long-term outlook is troubling. The population is aging, and in many regions of the country people without jobs now outnumber those with them.”\n Back-to-back record lows for Texas.<\/a> How’s that global warming working out for ya?\n Drink, Drive, Get Public Employee of the Year<\/a>. (And yes, of course she’s a Democrat.)\n “If Maureen Dowd\u2019s evisceration manqu\u00e9<\/a> of President Obama\u2019s gun control strategy in the New York Times is any indication, Ms. Dowd is in the wrong line of work.<\/a> She doesn\u2019t understand American politics. She doesn\u2019t know how votes are gained and lost, she doesn\u2019t know what presidents do or understand what powers they have, and above all she doesn\u2019t understand how politicians think.” On the plus side, Dowd did say that Obama “still has not learned how to govern.”\n Max Baucus to retire.<\/a> “Mr. Baucus is the sixth Democrat since the start of the year to opt not to run for re-election in 2014, following Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan, Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, Tom Harkin of Iowa, Tim Johnson of South Dakota and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey.”\n Funny what 4+ years of Obama has done for Bush43’s image<\/a>. “Among registered voters, his approval rating today is equal to President Obama\u2019s, at 47 percent.”\n “Kerry possesses neither principle nor expertise<\/a>, and so the odds of him saying something both daft and morally bankrupt are always high.”\n Shotgun beats baseball bat.<\/a>\n Feminist political correctness<\/a> now trumps rights of the accused and due process of law on campus.\n Infowars has a dating site<\/a>. No, really.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For a startling change of pace, this week the Friday LinkSwarm will be on…Friday! So where are those violent mobs of Americans attacking Muslims the media keeps implying are common? 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