December 2nd, 2010
I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. Now back to a less happy task: rounding up jihad-related news over the last week:
(Hat tip: The usual suspects under “Jihad” on your right.)
As a side note, I would be interested to hear if anyone actually finds these weekly roundups useful. I put these up and get very little feedback on them…
Tags: Bluetooth, Iran, Jihad, Kenya, Muslim, nuclear weapons, Pakistan, rape, Saudi Arabia, This Week in Jihad, UK, Wahhabism
Posted in Foreign Policy, Jihad | 4 Comments »
December 2nd, 2010
No really, he did.
You may scoff, but when you think about it, Obama exhibits a lot of behaviors we’ve come to associate with Blue Dog Democrats:
- He campaigned on fiscal responsibility only to add trillions to the deficit once in office.
- He claimed to be a moderate, but has overwhelmingly supported items on the liberal agenda.
- He continues to support Nancy Pelosi, no matter how far to the left she goes.
- Support for him has all but disappeared across rural and suburban America.
- He’ll lose his next election to a Republican.
(Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Tags: Blue Dog Democrats, Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, Obama
Posted in Democrats, Elections | 1 Comment »
November 30th, 2010
The race between Democratic incumbent Timothy Bishop and Republican challenger Randy Altschuler for New York’s 1st first congressional district is the last undecided House race of 2010.
Bishop is ahead by some 200-odd votes, but Altschuler has been gaining due to absentee and military ballots (despite New York sending troops ballots later than required by law). There are also appears to have been some voting fraud in the race.
I expect this race to see quite a few court days before all is said and done…
Tags: Democrats, Elections, New York, Randy Altschuler, Republicans, Timothy Bishop, voting fraud
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November 29th, 2010
Like everyone else, I’m a little slow getting back into the post-Thanksgiving swing of things, so here’s a collection of links:
- Good to see Harry Reid spending all his time
focusing on the economy trying to force right to work states to unionize policemen and firefighters. Because those of us in red states suffer so terribly from a lack of strikes…
- Son of Kyoto is effectively dead, mainly because there’s no way in hell the Senate will approve the U.S. doling out tens of billions of dollars in subsidies for the likes of Iran, Cuba, and North Korea.
- One contributing factor may be than many view the media as hopelessly biased on environmental issues.
- Contrary to popular belief that Arizona’s immigration law would alienate Hispanic voters from the Republican Party, Republicans candidates actually did better among Hispanic voters in 2010, garnering 38% of the vote compared to 29% in 2008 and 30% in 2006. “Many Hispanics indeed voted for the very Republican candidates most identified as having a pro-enforcement or anti-amnesty stance. And these Republicans generally did as well as, or better than, the Republicans running for the same positions in the previous election.”
- I knew about Fredric Wertham’s campaign against “immoral” comic books in the 1950s, but until I read this George Will piece about the current moral panic over video games, I never knew he was a left-winger who named a clinic after Karl Marx’s son-in-law and testified on behalf of Ethel Rosenberg.
- Charles Murray on the new elite. Not sure if I linked to it before, but Murray is always worth a second read.
Tags: Border Controls, Charles Murray, Communism, environmentalism, Ethel Rosenberg, Fredric Wertham, George Will, Global Warming, LinkSwarm, moral panics
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November 27th, 2010
Judge Lynn Hughes has blocked Houston from taking down their red light cameras, pending litigation from vendor American Traffic Solutions. This is after voters voted to have them taken down.
I previously covered Houston’s decision to take down red light cameras here.
Tags: American Traffic Solutions, Houston, red light cameras
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November 25th, 2010
For those who haven’t heard of him, Joe R. Lansdale is a friend, a mentor, and a hell of a writer. He’s also not a conservative (don’t get him started on Bush 43). But I thought you might appreciate his defense of Walmart from the perspective of someone who grew up in a small east Texas town:
If you’re poor and barely making it, or even if your income is middle-of-the-road, it’s good to get what you need at slashed prices, anytime of the day, seven days a week, in a big, ugly, over-lit store that closes only on Christmas and half a day on Christmas Eve. If you forgot to get a gift card and a six pack of tall boys, you have to think, “To hell with downtown.” What we got now in our downtown are specialty stores that provide things we can’t get at Walmart, like maybe a stuffed deer head for that special place over the mantle. The stuff we really need, hell, it’s at Walmart.
Here’s something else. With Walmart in town, lots of people can be put to work, far more than downtown ever employed. Someone has to run a 24-hour store, check people out, sack groceries, push carts, place stock, work at the McDonald’s sequestered in the back. The workers have all skin colors, not something I saw a lot of downtown, except for immigrants unloading trucks.
Tags: Joe R. Lansdale, Texas, Walmart
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November 24th, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Sadly, Jihad doesn’t wait for American holidays, so here’s a roundup of related news:
- 13-year old Pakistani girl gang-raped by members of the ruling party for her brother’s involvement in helping another woman get married to the man she loved (rather than an arranged marriage).
- Not wild about the Ground Zero Mosque? You might be paying for it.
- Even The New York Times notices Britain’s jihad schools. All it took was a program on the BBC. Maybe the Beeb could do a piece on how higher taxes and bigger government are actually unpopular among Americans…
- New “anti-bullying” law may just be another way to restrict politically incorrect speech on campus…including criticism of the Religion of Peace.
- Oppressive Middle Eastern regime with ties to terrorist groups stonewalling International Atomic Energy Agency about their nuclear program. Hmmm, for some reason that scenario sounds strangely familiar…
- Hezbollah threatens to take over Lebanon.
- It’s not a surprise when Pakistani officials defend the Taliban, since they were essentially created by the Pakistani ISI. However, it’s a bit more surprising when it comes from the Minister of Tourism.
- Of course, The Pakistani ISI are not to be confused with the Islamic State of Iraq terrorist group, which is currently railing against…Microsoft? (You have to be an MEMRI subscriber to see the full report. I may have to sign up…)
- This week’s winner in Irrational Fatwa Bingo is…blood donations.
- Finally, less a link than a question. Yesterday, in the course of fisking the latest WaPo gun control article, Dwight at Whipped Cream Difficulties linked to this table of law enforcement deaths over the last decade. The odd thing is that it shows 5 police deaths by terrorism in 2007, and despite racking my brain, I can’t think of any terrorist incidents that involved police officers that year. Can anyone figure out how and where those five deaths occured?
Tags: Free Speech, Ground Zero Mosque, honor killing, Jihad, MEMRI, Microsoft, nuclear weapons, Pakistan, Pakistani ISI, rape, Syria, This Week in Jihad, WMD
Posted in Crime, Foreign Policy, Jihad, Media Watch | 2 Comments »
November 23rd, 2010
According to the latest Gallup poll:
Americans’ support for stricter gun control laws has gradually declined over the last two decades, from 78% when this question was first asked in 1990 to 49% in 2008, and 44% in 2009 and again this year.
Also, 69% of Americans oppose an outright ban on handguns.
The fly in the ointment: 63% of Democrats want stricter gun regulations. So chances are, when a Democratic running for office says they’re in favor of Second Amendment rights, they’re most likely lying just as much as when they claim to be pro-life, and even if they aren’t, they still won’t hesitate to put gun-grabbers like Nancy Pelosi in positions of power.
(Hat tip: Alphecca.)
Tags: Gallup, Guns, handguns, Nancy Pelosi
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November 23rd, 2010
Two days before Thanksgiving! Here’s a swarm of links from what should be a slow news week:
Tags: deficits, Democrats, Estonia, LinkSwarm, New Madrid Fault, Republicans, Thomas Sowell, waste
Posted in Border Control, Democrats, Economics, Foreign Policy, Guns, Jihad, Republicans, Waste and Fraud | No Comments »