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Friday, January 31, 2003

Unquiet on the Western Front

Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 6:59:12 pm PST

A short interview with Oriana Fallaci in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine: Unquiet on the Western Front. (Hat tip: Bala Ambati.) Your post-Sept. 11 sermon, ”The Rage and the Pride,” about the threat from Islamic fundamentalism, is full of anger.Very. I was bleeding when I wrote. It is an ...

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The Independent

Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 5:53:47 pm PST

The Independent responds (lamely) to the worldwide firestorm of criticism over the disgusting anti-Semitic cartoon they published on Monday, January 27 2003.

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Iraq Coverage Glossary

Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 4:37:55 pm PST

Rand Simberg has compiled a glossary of some of the strange phrases we hear repeated endlessly by news anchors, morning show hosts, pop stars (talented and otherwise), and other species of idiotarian.

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Caught on Tape

Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 3:26:36 pm PST

Breaking News: the Bush administration is planning to release top secret NSA intercepts documenting the Iraqis’ deception of the United Nations and the Blix Brigade: Caught on Tape. THE DECISION TO allow Secretary of State Colin Powell to use the electronic intercepts in his speech next Wednesday to the U.N. ...

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Islam != Human Rights

Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 2:22:41 pm PST

Iran’s conservative daily Jomhuri-ye Eslami (considered a mouthpiece for “Supreme Leader” Ali Khamenei) says that Iranian liberals calling for democracy, reform, and human rights are fighting against Islam itself. "Today, those [in Iran] who spread slogans such as reform, liberty, political development, democracy, [and] human rights... are fighting [the] religion ...

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Al Qaeda Wants Nukes

Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:52:12 am PST

Ominous new revelations from British intelligence about Al Qaeda’s nuclear aspirations: Al-Qaeda 'was making dirty bomb'. British officials said on Thursday Bin Laden now had gained the expertise and possibly the materials to build a crude radioactive bomb. The government says evidence suggests that by 1999, Bin Laden's priority was ...

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Got Some in Italy

Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:46:44 am PST

More freakazoids nabbed in Italy. 28 of them, along with 800g (28 ounces) of explosives.

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Americans, Don't Indiscriminately Go Wild!

Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:43:48 am PST

Corsair the Rational Pirate has assembled a collection of truly whacked out North Korean anti-US posters.

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Religion of Peace Claims 15 More

Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:22:27 am PST

A bus bombing in Afghanistan has killed at least 15 people. Only two people on the bus survived the explosion, which destroyed the bridge and left the vehicle a mangled hulk. "When the explosion occurred, I heard cries. Then I lost consciousness," said driver Ahmad Zia, 26. "When I woke ...

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After Iraq

Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:03:18 am PST

Bad news for those who thought the war was over when the US destroyed the Taliban, and gave themselves permission to go back to sleep. In a clear-eyed column, Jeff Jacoby looks at the bigger picture and says that Baghdad is just the second phase of a necessary process: After ...

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So Long to All That

Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 9:48:43 am PST

Another strong essay from Victor Davis Hanson on the coming end of the old world of bases, alliances, and NATO: So Long to All That.

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U.N., R.I.P.

Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 8:49:42 am PST

It’s Friday, and that means it’s Krauthammer time: U.N., R.I.P. My son long ago introduced me to the joys of the Onion, the hilarious Web site that features such parodies of the news as "Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia; Cities of Sjlbvdnzv, Grzny to be First Recipients." So when, on ...

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Calling Allah on the Great White Phone

Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 8:28:04 am PST

So you’re all out of Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs are getting too expensive since the IDF destroyed the local metal shop, and rocks don’t give you that same thrill any more; what to throw at the evil Zionist occupation forces? Out of the way, kids! This is man’s work! Looks like someone ...

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Not A Soldier

Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 8:09:15 am PST

A big LGF “Bravo!” to US District Judge William Young, who listened to Richard Reid spew the usual whiny, stupid Islamozoid excuses for murder, and then laid some righteous truth on the mangy terrorist: Shoe bomber gets life in prison. “We are not afraid of any of your terrorist co-conspirators, ...

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Thursday, January 30, 2003

Islam: Religion of Peace?

Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 5:23:50 pm PST

Mark your calendars for 3 pm this Saturday, when C-SPAN will broadcast a panel discussion featuring Joseph Farah, Daniel Pipes, Serge Trifkovic, and Kenneth R. Timmerman, titled Islam: Religion of Peace?

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Mandela Mouths Off (Again)

Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 2:54:21 pm PST

Nelson Mandela puts in a strong early bid for Idiotarian of 2003. "Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly?" he asked. "All that (Bush) wants is Iraqi oil," he said. He accused Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair of undermining the United Nations and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, ...

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Reid Takes the Fall

Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 1:12:55 pm PST

It’s the long goodbye for Richard Reid: Shoe Bomber Sentenced to Life in Prison. But in a memo to the court before his sentencing, Reid's lawyers say he did not try to blow up the plane with 197 passengers aboard to wage war against America. They say he "took no ...

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Tyrant-Loving Cheese Gobblers

Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 9:34:03 am PST

France snubs the United States, but kisses up to Syria. (Hat tip: adam.) DAMASCUS, Syria - Leaders of Syria and France discussed ways Thursday to coordinate their positions on the U.N. Security Council to avert a war on Iraq, the official Syrian Arab News Agency reported. Syrian President Bashar Assad ...

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What's On Arafat's Desk?

Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 9:21:07 am PST

In the latest installment of our ongoing series, EU suit Miguel Moratinos seems to be the only one willing to spend time with the grizzled old murderer these days. About the baby wipes: I think they’re on to us. They’re making sure no embarrassing blue dispensers show up in the Chairman’s ...

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Religion of Child Abuse

Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 8:47:56 am PST

Islamic torture school in Kenya. This one leaves me speechless. (Hat tip: a lot of people emailed about this, but Phil from the UK was first.) Eleven teenage boys have been rescued from an Islamic correction centre in Nairobi where they were chained, tortured, and indoctrinated with violent anti-Christian ideas. ...

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Europe and America Must Stand United

Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 8:24:42 am PST

The leaders of 8 European countries have issued a joint statement, strongly supporting the United States at a time when we need it most. After the blizzard of anti-Americanism from some of our prized “allies,” the statement is a breath of Alpine air. This one deserves to be reprinted in ...

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Peace Creeps and Spies

Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 8:09:10 am PST

The NY Daily News reports that Iraqi spies have been sent into the US from Canada to New York and Washington, to stir up anti-American sentiment at demonstrations: Iraqi spies in US. (Hat tip: GI Joe.) The report also says that Tablik Ja'maat, an Al Qaeda-linked group in Zimbabwe, has ...

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Economic Idiotarianism

Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 7:59:17 am PST

Bad news for those irritated by the term “idiotarian”—it’s not going away. Today at Tech Central Station, Arnold Kling applies the concept to the field of economics: Economic Idiotarianism. The idiotarian approach to debating economic policy is to frame an issue as a conflict between Authority Ranking (bad) and Communal ...

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Wednesday, January 29, 2003

Francophiles

Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 8:31:18 pm PST

Oh, schadenfreude, how sweet thou art. “Chirac is SATAN.” I kinda like the sound of that.

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Prescott Bush and Der Schnifter

Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 5:45:59 pm PST

So I’m listening to Larry Elder’s radio show, and a caller mentions that President Bush’s grandfather Prescott Bush “helped finance Hitler.” OK. Wow. I guess I’m still a neophyte at this conspiracy thing because I haven’t come across that one before. So I Google it. And weeoooweeooo—here’s a motherlode of wacko ...

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A Two Arafish Day!

Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 4:12:12 pm PST

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Singing the Praises of Dictators

Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 3:41:41 pm PST

Here’s an eye-opening article by Yale freshman James Kirchik, about the duplicitous PR being peddled to American students by Saudi Arabia: Singing the praises of dictators. Kirchik’s article makes it clear that the House of Saud’s indoctrination campaign targeting America’s youth is still firing on all cylinders. Last week, a ...

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Euros Scared, Appeasing

Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 1:54:11 pm PST

If you’ve paid attention to the recent terror plot arrests in Europe, you may have noticed an alarming common thread: an increasing focus by the terrorists on chemical and biological poisons. The New York Times reports today that this has not escaped the attention of European security agencies, who are ...

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CAIR Whines, Seethes, Demands

Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:33:37 am PST

Islamist front group CAIR is “demanding” that the FBI rescind a new policy directive for agents to count mosques. That’s all the directive says—count the mosques, as part of overall demographic profiles to guide investigations. Not invade the mosques; not even search them. CAIR calls this “religious profiling of the worst ...

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A Toy in Every Pigsty

Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 9:54:46 am PST

Good news: the European Union is finally taking a tough, proactive stance on the serious issues of the day. (Hat tip: brian stien.) Farmers throughout the country have 90 days to put a toy in every pigsty or face up to three months in jail. The new ruling from Brussels, ...

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Arabs Whine, Seethe

Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 9:27:11 am PST

Arabs are calling the election of Ariel Sharon a “victory for extremism” that will lead to more violence: Many Arabs view Likud victory in Israel a blow to peace hopes. <sarcasm> Of course, there’s no extremism among the peace-loving Arabs. </sarcasm>

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Arafish Says...

Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 3:11:16 am PST

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Tuesday, January 28, 2003

That State of the Union Thread

Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 7:52:48 pm PST

Saddam Hussein is not disarming.

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Iraq Heads UN Disarmament Conference

Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 5:54:30 pm PST

Due to a “purely automatic rotation by alphabetical order,” the chair and co-chair of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament will be ... Iraq and Iran. Note: this entry is not a joke.

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Anti-Semitism in The Independent

Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 2:03:57 pm PST

Yesterday, British newspaper The Independent published an astonishingly anti-Semitic political cartoon that evokes the hideous blood libels of Nazi propaganda rag Der Stuermer: Cartoon in UK paper draws Israeli protest. LONDON - The Israeli Embassy in London has sent a strongly worded letter of protest to The Independent, following an ...

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When Hollywood Knew Our Enemies

Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 1:45:44 pm PST

Steven Zak misses the days When Hollywood Knew Our Enemies. Say these words with feeling: We're at war, and our enemies are Islamic fascists. Can you do it? If not—if we're a nation too timid to express that truth without apology—then we've put ourselves at a dangerous disadvantage.Why would I ...

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An LGF Suggestion for the SOTU

Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:03:08 am PST

From Cox and Forkum’s collection “Black & White World.”

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Microsoft gets bitten by bug

Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:01:24 am PST

The virus like attack that spread throughout the Internet this weekend affected Microsoft's own servers. Microsoft Corp. itself was exposed to the virus-like attack that crippled global Internet activity last weekend because it failed to install crucial fixes to its own software on many Microsoft computer servers. Although Microsoft ...

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A Natural Ally

Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 9:29:27 am PST

Former senator Larry Pressler argues forcefully for the United States to acknowledge India as its foremost friend in the area: India, a natural ally. (Hat tip: NC.) The United States for too long has treated India and Pakistan as equal allies in the region, when America would be better served ...

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Islam Whitewash Week

Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 9:01:58 am PST

Islamist front group the Muslim Student Association is running an “Islam Awareness Week” at Northern Illinois University (and probably other universities as well), whitewashing the meaning of jihad for gullible college students: Hadam Soliman, a senior OMIS major and vice president of the MSA, gave a speech titled, “Islam: A ...

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Monday, January 27, 2003

Said Whines, "When Will We Resist?"

Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 7:05:19 pm PST

Edward Said’s writing is getting so overheated it threatens to ignite the wallpaper: There seems no force capable of stopping Ariel Sharon and his defence minister Shaul Mofaz, who bellow their defiance to the whole world. We forbid, we punish, we ban, we break, we destroy. The torrent of unbroken ...

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Fatah = Hamas

Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 2:42:34 pm PST

In a recent interview in Arabic, Farouq Al-Qaddoumi, head of the PLO political bureau and secretary general of Fatah's Central Committee, supported attacks inside Israel: Question: "Do you support resistance within the 1948 areas as well [as in the occupied territories]?" Al-Qaddoumi: "It is the Palestinian people's right to resist ...

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Colin Talks Tough

Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 1:17:43 pm PST

U.S.: Not Much Time for Iraq to Avert War. "Iraq's refusal to disarm...still threatens international peace and security," Powell said after U.N. inspectors presented their progress report to the Security Council at U.N. headquarters in New York. "The inspectors' findings came as no surprise," Powell said. "To this day, the ...

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LGF T-Shirts Through PayPal

Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:52:03 am PST

Good news for those who have forgotten how to write checks and address envelopes—we now have a PayPal option to order LGF T-shirts online!

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2003 Bloggies

Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 9:59:32 am PST

Well, LGF is up for a Bloggie award again this year, in the “best weblog about politics” category. But I have to admit that my enthusiasm for winning is dampened by the fact that the prize is a copy of Michael Moore’s Idiotarian Manifesto, Stupid White Men, donated by a ...

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Life During Wartime

Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 9:22:54 am PST

In an excellent (and lengthy) essay, Bill Whittle lays out the reasons why action against Iraq is utterly necessary, and why it must be now.

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The Shah Always Falls

Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 9:14:22 am PST

Here’s the great read of the day; an interview with brilliant military historian Ralph Peters: The Shah Always Falls. (Hat tip: M. Simon.) Having gone out and seen much of the world—more than 50 countries—I find it clear that some cultures are better structured than others for success in the ...

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EUroweenie Infiltration

Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 8:41:54 am PST

Somewhere in Europe, a message board or an email list is instructing weenies to come to LGF and vote for the United States as the biggest threat to world peace. Checking the IP logs, I see hundreds of votes coming from Germany (the majority), the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the UK. ...

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Dave's Blog

Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 8:20:44 am PST

Why didn’t anyone tell me that Dave Barry has a blog? (Or is that in one of these 543 unread emails?)

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Oh Canada

Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 8:14:51 am PST

A story from Friday that I missed: after a phone call from Dubya, Canadian Prime Minister Chrétien seems to be coming around. (Hat tip: Yoseph Malkin.) OTTAWA—Prime Minister Jean Chrétien took Canada a step closer to war yesterday, raising the prospect of joining the U.S. and Britain in an attack ...

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Sunday, January 26, 2003

Peaceful Religion Watch

Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 5:32:18 pm PST

I detect a tinge of fear and uncertainty in the Friday khutba this week, although there was still plenty of bloodthirsty ranting and obsessive hatred of Jews in the spiritual centers of the Islamic world. In the holy mosque at Mecca—that’s Mecca, as in the #1 holiest place in Islam—Saudi Arabia, ...

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NBC Suits Discovered in Mosque

Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 3:14:56 pm PST

WorldNetDaily says Australia’s Herald Sun newspaper will break a story tomorrow that “NBC suits” (nuclear, biological, chemical protection suits) were found in the Finsbury Park mosque. (Hat tip: Philip Winestone.) Another reader just emailed to tell me the London Times is running this story as well (although their site requires ...

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The New Palestinian Constitution

Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 1:01:08 pm PST

Colin Powell says there is hope for a “democratic, viable” Palestinian state—but the draft proposal of the new Palestinian Constitution says that Islam is the official religion and the basic source of legislation is shari'a. ...the draft considers Islam as the official religion of the state along with respect of ...

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Anti-Semitism in Switzerland

Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 9:46:14 am PST

A stunning display of Nazi-like anti-Semitism from the Euro anti-globalization crowd (via Andrew Sullivan): Notice the yellow star, proudly and openly flaunted, marking Donald Rumsfeld as a Jew. And notice that the AP caption for this photo does not even mention it. Demonstrators wearing masks with the faces of U.S. Defense ...

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Al Qaeda Raid in Saudi Arabia

Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 9:16:16 am PST

A police raid on suspected Al Qaeda members in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, resulted in a running gun battle that killed a bystander: Gunmen flee after Saudi shooting. Sa'd al-Faqih, head of the London-based opposition Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia (Mira), said the Saudi police raid on Friday targeted suspected ...

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Colin vs. the Splodeydonkey

Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 8:31:15 am PST

Once again, the bias is evident in this AP headline: Israel Raids Gaza; 12 Palestinians Killed. Oh ... and by the way, one small detail ... those 12 Palestinians were shooting at the IDF. An army officer, identified on Israel Radio only as Lt.-Col. Ron, described a night of door-to-door ...

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Saturday, January 25, 2003

Religion of Incitement to Murder

Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:49:25 am PST

Radical Muslim “cleric” Abdullah el-Faisal is on trial in Britain for incitement to murder: British Jury Watches Muslim Cleric Video. El-Faisal is heard telling the gathering that it is the duty of Muslim women to bring up their sons "with a Jihad (holy war) mentality — not to be wimps." ...

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A Bunch of Nutters

Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 9:58:05 am PST

In the first Gulf War Saddam Hussein had to kidnap his human shields and hold them hostage. Remember the scenes of Saddam menacing Western children, roughly tousling their hair as they recoiled in terror? Well, some people don’t remember. Or think. At all. Because this time the Western human shields are ...

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No Sanctuary at the UN

Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 8:46:21 am PST

In separate incidents today, two men tried to enter the United Nations compound in Baghdad, one of them screaming “Save me!” in an apparent attempt to reach sanctuary. United Nations security guards promptly turned them both over to the Iraqis. ...a man appearing to be in his 20s ran in front ...

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Friday, January 24, 2003

The Perils of Popularity

Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 6:46:02 pm PST

Once again I feel compelled to issue an LGF apology to anyone who has emailed without receiving a reply. Would you believe my Inbox currently contains 2,863 items, of which 554 are unread, in spite of my best efforts?

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Danish Scouts Play “Kill the Jews”

Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 5:30:19 pm PST

This sickening story was emailed to me by several people, starting yesterday; I held off just to make sure it was corroborated. Don’t want to get taken in by an E. Nough-style parody ourselves, do we? But no, this is not a joke. Danish Scout Camp Features Nazi Game. COPENHAGEN, Denmark ...

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Seething Muslim Anger Sighting

Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 5:03:11 pm PST

The US ambassador to Pakistan, Nancy Powell, said yesterday that Pakistan should prevent Islamic terrorists from infiltrating the Indian portion of Kashmir to carry out atrocities. Well, not in those words exactly, she was much more diplo than that, but that’s what she meant. How insensitive. How dare she. Now Pakistan’s “spiritual ...

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The Enemy Within

Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 4:43:20 pm PST

In The Enemy Within, Daniel Pipes argues the necessity of ... yes, the dreaded P word ... profiling Muslims. He ends with a sobering, eye-opening partial listing of those arrested in the United States in connection to militant Islamic terrorism: * Eagon, Minn. August 2001: Zacarias Moussaoui, accused of being the ...

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Ibish BS Blizzard Continues

Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 2:51:51 pm PST

On National Review’s letters page there’s a revealing exchange between Hussein Ibish of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and Robert Spencer, author of Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith. Ibish tries to deny that the Koran’s Sura 5:60 (which contains the infamous “apes and swine” reference) has ...

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Not Time to Wobble

Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 1:23:00 pm PST

Mark Steyn was disturbed by Donald Rumsfeld’s suggestion that Saddam and cronies might be allowed to go into exile: This is not the time to wobble. This phoney war began round about the time of Abdullah’s last non-starter of a peace plan — the Palestinian one. It has been a ...

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More Worthless Vows

Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:44:16 pm PST

Palestinian officials vow to clear up murky finances, disclose assets in response to corruption criticism. (Hat tip: mommydoc.) Let’s dance the night away with Mohammed Rashid. "What we will show you is what we have. What you will see Feb. 22 will be the reality," Mohammed Rashid, a key adviser ...

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Terror Transvestite

Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:43:18 am PST

A terrorist belonging to the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, opened fire this morning (23 Jan.) toward the Israeli community of Dugit, situated in the northern Gaza Strip. The male terrorist, disguised as a traditional Beduin woman, was later apprehended by IDF Givati soldiers. The commander of the ground force, ...

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Zerbisias on CBC

Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:14:46 am PST

One of the last Authentic Liberals takes note of a Canadian television show featuring none other than anti-Israel Hizb'Allah-supporting harpy Antonia Zerbisias, on which she bashed weblogs for their unprofessional, unsourced non-journalism. Zerbisias, of course, is a professional journalist, as this series of comments amply demonstrates. (Oddly enough, she didn’t mention ...

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Evil Over Good

Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 8:58:52 am PST

Victor Davis Hanson smashes the nonsensical, reductio ad absurdum arguments of the “anti-war” (read: anti-American) loony left, with the relentless hammer of cold logic: Evil Over Good. As usual with a Hanson essay, there’s too much good stuff to pull out a quote; just go and read the whole thing, ...

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Got Some in Spain

Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 8:41:20 am PST

Spanish police have arrested 16 suspected Al Qaeda members near Barcelona, discovering explosives and barrels of chemicals in their homes: Spain Arrests Al Qaeda Suspects in Predawn Raid. Police in predawn raids searched 12 homes in the Catalonia region surrounding Barcelona, also discovering explosives, bomb components and radio transmission equipment ...

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Letter from a Surrender Monkey

Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 7:45:30 am PST

Last night an admirer in France took the time to write a lovely email, expressing his support for the idea of “Europe” going to war—against the United States. YES, Europe should go at war against the U.S and the other countries of the world to protect Iraq from the U.S ...

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Microsoft Deal Scares Arabs

Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 7:14:26 am PST

Proving once again that Arab paranoia and irrationality knows no bounds: Microsoft deal with Israel alarms Arabs. (Hat tip: ploome.) Microsoft Israel, a subsidiary, signed a 100 million shekel [$20.2 million] contract for the supply of services, programs and support for computers in the Defense Ministry and military.Arab diplomatic sources ...

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Thursday, January 23, 2003

Seek and Ye Shall Find

Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 4:42:59 pm PST

The editor of an Iranian conservative daily does the holy war dance. "Today, the majority of the peoples of America and Europe understand that Bush's personality is like [that of] one of the millions of vagabonds and bastards seen all over the world, particularly in America. Had he been born ...

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The Rage of Oriana Fallaci

Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 1:34:58 pm PST

The New York Observer has a riveting interview with Oriana Fallaci: The Rage of Oriana Fallaci. It’s full of fascinating anecdotes, but this story about Ariel Sharon is a real stand-out. Last April, she said, Ariel Sharon phoned her to praise an article she had written in the weekly Italian ...

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And Again

Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 1:01:59 pm PST

The filthy swine of Hamas have killed three Israelis in another cowardly ambush near the West Bank city of Hebron.

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VDH on the SOTU

Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:52:49 pm PST

Victor Davis Hanson’s thoughts on the President’s upcoming State of the Union speech: Another Wartime SOTU. First, let us remember the true nature of morality — that there is a sin of omission as well as that of commission. Well-meaning citizens demand peace at all costs; but they do not ...

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Nobel Hypocrite

Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:36:42 pm PST

John Perazzo examines the anti-American dogma espoused by Desmond Tutu, Nobel Hypocrite. Moral equivalence. We’ve seen it a million times since the attacks of 9-11. It is the "peace" movement’s dogma, holding that the collateral, unintended killing of Afghan civilians during the US military campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda ...

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Comment Update

Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:42:18 am PST

Comments will be disabled a little longer. Much to my dismay, when we ran out of disk space yesterday a nasty little bug surfaced in my backend code, and gobbled up a couple of comment threads when people tried to post comments. The code I wrote to handle the “disk ...

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Axis of Schtoopid

Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:19:44 am PST

Canada joins the Axis of Schtoopid, following France and Germany, who, as we all know, are paragons of morality and principle and pacifism: Attack on Iraq Not Justified Now, Canada Says. Foreign Minister Bill Graham told CBC television he sided with France and Germany, which have both irritated Washington by ...

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Palestine for Dummies

Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:01:24 am PST

David Perlmutter asks why Palestinians, instead of being ostracized by the world community, are rewarded with sympathy and support: 'Palestine' for Dummies. (Hat tip: aturin.) The answer is a brutal one: money talks and (as Allan Dershowitz points out in his new book "terrorism works." The Palestinians are unique among ...

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Wednesday, January 22, 2003

Up Against the Wall, LGFers

Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 7:14:32 pm PST

I had a moment of panic tonight before I realized what was happening. Due to a series of high-profile links (Instapundit, WSJ, and more) we ran up against our server storage limit, and had some problems when people tried to post comments—and therefore, comments are temporarily disabled and some topics ...

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The Cold Test

Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 6:09:43 pm PST

Anti-idiotarian Dr. Bala Ambati emailed a link to this fascinating and important article by Seymour Hersh at the New Yorker, on the nuclear connections between North Korea (Axis of Evil member) and Pakistan (not Axis of Evil member...yet): The Cold Test. In 1985, North Korea signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, ...

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Religion of Peace Deals with Moderates

Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 9:43:08 am PST

This is why we don't hear much about Muslim moderates working to reform Islam: Police in northern Pakistan say unidentified attackers have shot dead a writer whose work was viewed as critical of fundamentalist Islam.The 40-year-old writer, Fazal Wahab, was shot at a local shop.Fatwas, or religious edicts, declaring his ...

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Marching With Stalinists

Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 9:43:08 am PST

I’m hard on the Washington Post, and most of the time they deserve it. But today Michael Kelly earns a big LGF “Bravo!” for this column telling the truth about the Stalinist group that organized last weekend’s Idiot Marches: Marching With Stalinists. There is, increasingly, much that happens in the ...

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Palestinian After School Sports

Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 9:43:08 am PST

A Palestinian soccer tournament at a school was named after the monster who carried out the Passover bombing massacre at the Park Hotel—and all 7 participating teams are also named after shahids. From the sports pages of the official PA daily newspaper Al Hayat Al Jadida, Jan 21, 2003: ...in ...

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LGF Content Stolen

Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 9:43:08 am PST

This guy named “datter” is stealing our content, including entire pages. (Hat tip: Ariel.) He lifted our complete list of news links, google searches, and anti-idiotarian links, along with many entries pilfered in their entirety, with no credit whatsoever. And to hide his theft, he doesn’t include a link to ...

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T-Shirts On Sale!

Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 9:14:16 am PST

It took a little longer to pull things together than we thought it would, but the Little Green Footballs T-shirts are finally ***ON SALE***! These are Hanes top-quality 100% cotton pre-shrunk shirts, with a silk-screened logo that will look sharp and clear through repeated washings. They are guaranteed to get you ...

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Dreams of a Nation

Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 8:49:34 am PST

I guess nobody at Columbia University thought it odd that the poster for their Palestinian Film Festival shows one blood-red country with no indication of a “two-state solution:” Dreams of a Nation. (Hat tip: davesax.) In death cult mythology, the doves are not about peace; they symbolize the souls of “martyrs” ...

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Al-Jee'ef Strikes Again

Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 9:43:08 am PST

While I've been working to get our T-shirts ready to ship (announcement coming later today!), E. Nough's parody news item -- about the Arab League's "outrage" over the "illegal Zionist occupation of space" -- has taken on an unstoppable Frankensteinian life of its own. Amazingly, the Israeli ambassador to France ...

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Tuesday, January 21, 2003

British Muslims Seethe, Whine

Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 9:26:09 am PST

In the course of seething and whining about the Finsbury Park mosque raid, a local Muslim emits shockingly casual anti-Semitism: Mokrene Gorb, 37, said: "This is panic. It makes me feel bad and it makes people here angry. They would never do something like this at a synagogue." Oh really, ...

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Lifting Up the Rock

Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 8:45:12 am PST

Discovered in the Finsbury Park mosque: a stun gun, a CS gas canister, a blank-firing gun, and hundreds of suspected stolen and/or forged passports and ID cards. However, the story linked above also says that the ultra sensitive British police did not search the entire mosque. I’m sure all the really ...

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Blair Warns UK

Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 8:10:24 am PST

Dire warnings from Tony Blair today, who told senior parliamentarians that a terror attack in Britain is inevitable. Linking the threat to so-called "rogue states" which Britain says are prepared to peddle weapons of mass destruction, Blair said: "The most frightening thing aboutthese people is the possible coming together of ...

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Religion of Nuke-Lust

Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 2:33:48 am PST

An article published on a web site connected to Al Qaeda shows their continuing determination to acquire nuclear and biological weapons: Nuclear Warfare is the Solution for Destroying America. In the name of Allah the most merciful.Thus, you are not mistaken in reading this text. This is the only way ...

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Attack in Kuwait

Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 1:53:45 am PST

One American is dead and another critically wounded in a shooting attack in Kuwait. (Hat tip: zulubaby.)

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Monday, January 20, 2003

Scott Ritter: Perv?

Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 7:47:25 pm PST

I saw the first reports yesterday afternoon, and began receiving emails last night; I’ve been waiting to see what shakes out before going public, perhaps out of some misguided 20th Century sense of propriety... but now I must admit it looks like this story has legs: Ritter's attorney confirms arrest. A ...

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Libya Heads UN Human Rights Group

Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 2:27:50 pm PST

Did we need any more evidence that the United Nations is nothing but a hopelessly incompetent, hopelessly corrupt puppet organization for the world’s killers and dictators? No? Well, we have some anyway: Libya Elected to Chair U.N. Human Rights Body. The Libyan candidate, diplomat and former journalist Najat al-Hajjaji, won ...

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RoP Says: Quit or Die

Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 2:02:47 pm PST

According to the local branch of the Religion of Peace™ (Harkat ul-Jehadi Islamia) in the Indian border district of Rajouri, women have until January 25 to quit government jobs or be killed. (Hat tip: Rantburg.) The posters in the name of Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islamia (HUJI) outfit pasted on the main walls of ...

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Arafish Says...

Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 1:45:42 pm PST

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Celebrity Whack-A-Mole

Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 1:09:37 pm PST

Pop! Harry Belafonte: As for American foreign policy, he said: "We move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to be paid for it--look at 9/11."Belafonte was critical on domestic issues as well: "Affirmative action is the next to ...

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Oh Canada

Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:48:17 am PST

Someone tried to burn down a Jewish community library in Ottawa today. (Hat tip: alex.)

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Seething Muslim Anger Sighting

Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:36:00 am PST

Muslims in Britain are seething with rage over the raid on the Finsbury Park mosque, in spite of the British government’s best attempts at hypersensitivity: Muslim anger as British police raid mosque. Prime Minister Tony Blair’s official spokesman said: “The police have the full support of the British government in ...

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Nobody Move, or Saddam Gets It!

Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:20:03 am PST

Oh man. If the news keeps getting weirder, we’re going to have to start labeling items with big PARODY / NOT A PARODY signs. Today Iraq promised to help the UN inspectors, by forming Iraqi teams to hunt for their own banned weapons. By the way, this is NOT A PARODY.

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Al-Jee'ef News Agency

Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 9:08:22 am PST

This morning I am flummoxed and flabbergasted. Why, you ask? Because Ha'aretz was apparently taken in by our parody news item from last Friday. It’s all E. Nough’s fault. But really ... how the heck do you read the line about “atomic wedgies” and take it seriously? And more importantly, have the ...

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Sunday, January 19, 2003

Breaking News

Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 8:00:21 pm PST

British anti-terror police have raided the Finsbury Park mosque.

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Sick Well Pisser Clobbered

Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 6:37:14 pm PST

Africa is in deep, deep trouble, if this story is at all representative of the AIDS crisis in Uganda: Sick Man Pisses in Well, Gets Clobbered.

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When You Gotta Go

Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 4:13:07 pm PST

Q: What’s the penalty for urinating on the wall of a mosque in Saudi Arabia? A: Seventy lashes.

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Texas Chainsaw Peace Creeps

Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 2:02:26 pm PST

Courtesy of David Kenner, we have a winner in the category of Most Offensive Anti-War Prop. Yes, those are dismembered dolls splattered with fake blood. At least I hope it’s fake.

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Enough with the Letters Already

Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 1:18:10 pm PST

Sheesh. Not another bogus 26-page letter from Osama bin Dead. The world hasn’t seen this much verbiage from a stiffy since L. Ron Hubbard’s last pot-boiler.

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The Hunt for White Meat

Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 12:47:18 pm PST

The National Post has the disturbing story of Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, a young Kuwaiti-born Canadian who became a valued Al Qaeda operative: Canadian admits to role in hunt for 'White Meat.' (Hat tip: mrhedges.) After finishing high school in Ontario, Mohammed Mansour Jabarah became an al-Qaeda terrorist. Now detained in ...

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Peaceful Thuggery

Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 12:07:55 pm PST

At the “anti-war” demonstration in San Francisco, “peace activists” non-violently smashed windows and lovingly vandalized the INS building. Here’s a nauseating page at a nauseating site—Indymedia, what else—where the peace activists exult over the success of their peaceful tactics and discuss ways to peacefully smash more stuff in the future ...

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Taliban Fighter Given Asylum in UK

Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:49:48 am PST

A 32-year old Muslim extremist who fought with the Taliban against British and American troops in Afghanistan has been granted asylum in the UK—because his life would be at risk from the new Western-backed government if he returned to Kabul. Wow. That is all. Just ... wow. (Hat tip: Brenda.)

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The Cone of Silence

Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:28:15 am PST

The Telegraph is sticking to their story that UN inspectors have discovered proof of Saddam’s nuclear bomb plans, even though, mysteriously, no other media source has yet picked up the story. United Nations weapons inspectors have uncovered evidence that proves Saddam Hussein is trying to develop an arsenal of nuclear ...

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But What About the Protocols?

Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:06:55 am PST

Egypt makes a show of rounding up the usual suspects: Egypt detains 20 suspected Muslim militants. CAIRO, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Egypt has arrested 20 men on suspicion of belonging to a banned Muslim militant group which assassinated a minister in the 1970s, security sources said on Sunday.The men, suspected ...

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No News is Good News

Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 8:45:25 am PST

Totally buried (the second to last paragraph!) in this AP story on the Korean crisis is the astonishing news that 40,000 South Korean Christians staged a pro-America demonstration yesterday in Seoul: South Korea: U.S. Didn't Debate Attack. (Hat tip: ziphius.) Also Sunday, about 40,000 people rallied at a Christian demonstration ...

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NYT Whitewash #2157

Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 8:25:38 am PST

In their report on yesterday’s “anti-war” rally in Washington DC, the New York Times says absolutely nothing about ANSWER’s connection to Workers World Party (surprise). And I guess I was hallucinating that the goon from CAIR had the crowd chanting “Allahu Akhbar!” after sending “greetings” from the mujahadeen. Or maybe I fell ...

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Saturday, January 18, 2003

Joke Alert!

Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 8:32:43 pm PST

I am being made aware, through a rather large number of emails, that more than a few people took this entry (about the Arab League protesting Ilan Ramon’s space shuttle voyage), well ... seriously. So I will now officially spoil the joke by making an announcement: it was a joke! ...

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Iraq’s Nuclear Program Revealed

Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 5:02:52 pm PST

BREAKING NEWS: the UN inspectors discovered something far more damning than a few empty warheads last week—they also unearthed the blueprints for Iraq’s ongoing nuclear weapons program. (Hat tip: Michael J. Totten.) Thursday evening turned into a wild night at the al-Hyatt hotel in Baghdad, for the 150 or so ...

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Good Work, “Peace” Creeps

Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 3:37:20 pm PST

Saddam Hails Worldwide Anti-War Demonstrations. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - President Saddam Hussein hailed worldwide anti-war demonstrations Saturday and said the protests showed that Iraq had international support for standing up to the United States. Saddam ordered his top officers to look after their soldiers to gain their confidence and make sure ...

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CAIR = Mujahadeen

Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 3:31:41 pm PST

It’s at NewsMax (so the tone is a little over the top), but what they’re reporting is true—I watched it myself. Near the end of today’s rally in DC, CAIR representative Ghazi Khaksan referred to the Council on American Islamic Relations as “mujahadeen.” Dr. Ghazi Khaksan, of the Council on ...

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How Do You Spell A-P-P-E-A-S-E?

Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 2:52:57 pm PST

The French think they’ve found a way to get control of radical Islam—violate their own principles of separation of church and state, and let the government fund lots of mosques. PARIS - France has decided to reconsider one of its most fundamental principles on the separation of the church and ...

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Swedish Boycott

Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 1:58:10 pm PST

Sweden’s ambassador to Berlin and the Archbishop of the Lutheran Church of Sweden are among a group of 73 prominent Swedes calling for a boycott of Israeli goods: Swedes call for boycott of Israeli goods from West Bank, Gaza Strip. (Hat tip: zulubabe.)

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Idiots Au Naturel

Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 1:25:04 pm PST

UPDATE: Hold on to your tin foil hats. Here are 10 Ways to Wage Peace, by the organizer of these Marin County Moonbats. To learn more about 9/11 and the war on terrorism, she recommends reading ... wait for it ... Victor Davis Hanson and Daniel Pipes! Just kidding. Actually, she ...

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The Communists Behind the Curtain

Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 1:04:51 pm PST

Power Line is all over the story of ANSWER, the front group for the communist Workers World Party that organized and footed much of the bill for the protests in DC today. Here’s a site with links to much more information on WWP, a group so repellent in its open ...

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Fighting Tom Friedman

Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:44:50 am PST

Several people emailed to point out this excellent editorial by Caroline B. Glick, about the dangerously naïve appeasement policies promoted by a certain boneheaded gasbag NY Times columnist: Fighting Tom Friedman. Now Friedman is back in the region. Reporting from Cairo on Sunday, he wrote about the ferocity of anti-American ...

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Sheep’s Clothing

Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 10:34:48 am PST

From Cox and Forkum’s collection “Black & White World.”

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Shari'a At Last!

Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 10:07:48 am PST

Like a bizarre perverted echo of Martin Luther King’s famous cry, “Free at last,” here’s a disturbing pro-shari'a editorial from AllAfrica.com: Sharia in Lagos At Last. Perhaps the strongest speech was that of Professor Hussein AbdulKareem of the Lagos State University College of Medicine (LASUCOM), who branded the opponents of ...

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C-SPAN Has Idiots and Liars

Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 9:36:36 am PST

If your blood pressure can stand it, C-SPAN is covering the “anti-war” rally in DC right now.

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March of the Idiots

Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 9:07:40 am PST

All around the world, idiots are doing what they do best—marching and screaming incoherent slogans. But once you get past the headline (Thousands Rally in DC!) you discover that the turnout seems to have been rather, uh ... pathetic. Demonstrators staged peace rallies worldwide, events that typically drew hundreds or ...

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Why the West?

Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 8:44:43 am PST

In the New Criterion, Roger Kimball reviews The West and the Rest by English philosopher Roger Scruton, with some spot-on observations about the clash of civilizations: Why the West? One of Scruton’s central themes, in this book as elsewhere, is what we might call the human requirements of freedom—those appurtenances ...

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Friday, January 17, 2003

What If?

Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 7:31:45 pm PST

The date is May 25, 2020. Along the Israel/Palestine border... ...established by the Crawford Treaty of September 2001, Israeli intelligence reports alarming developments. Border incursions by terrorists in Israeli urban areas have increased - almost three a day for several weeks. Simultaneously, Jordanian and Egyptian troops, who had been conducting ...

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Blood Libel in Kansas City

Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 6:48:11 pm PST

Islamic extremism in the heartland of America, as a local Muslim leader spews blood libels at Kansas City Art Institute. (Hat tip: ben-f.) Adnan Bayazid, a 63-year-old native of Syria who has sometimes served as imam, or prayer leader, at the Kansas City area's largest mosque, visited a Western civilization ...

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How Low Can They Go?

Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 5:38:55 pm PST

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Mosque to Abu Hamza: Scramza

Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 4:33:57 pm PST

The master freakazoid of Finsbury Park, Abu Hamza, is being expelled from the mosque. (Hat tip: “someone.”) Abu Hamza, 45, who lost his hands and left eye fighting in Afghanistan, has been told he has until Monday before he is expelled by the Charity Commission from the Finsbury Park mosque.But ...

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Psycho Death Cult Photo Album

Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 3:55:30 pm PST

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Fatah Site Hacked

Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 11:02:06 am PST

The sons of monkeys and pigs have wreaked a terrible vengeance on the web site of the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. An announcement by the Web site's operators said, "In spite of the unprecedented attack by the enemy, we remain faithful to the blood of our martyrs." This is the ...

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MEMRI Videos: Friday Sermons

Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 7:57:43 am PST

MEMRI has a new subtitled video collection of the insane hatred and incitement to murder that is dispensed every Friday in the most sacred mosques of the Arab world. Repeat: the most sacred, most influential spiritual centers of Islam—in case you still labor under the illusion that the jihad mentality ...

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Arabs Condemn Launch

Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 7:35:30 am PST

The enigmatic and erudite E. Nough has unearthed a shocking story from the al-Jee'ef news wire: ARAB LEAGUE CONDEMNS NASA LAUNCH Arab street 'explodes' in the wake of 'illegal Zionist occupation' of Earth orbit DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (al-Jee'ef) - The Arab League "strongly condemned" today the launch of the NASA space shuttle ...

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The Tyranny of “BUT”

Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 7:03:55 am PST

Victor Davis Hanson on the reign of BUT. Life in the West is easy and good. So any course of action that calls for sacrifice and danger — higher gas prices, treasure and lives risked, and terrorist reprisals — is de facto wrong. Our enemies are usually seen as poor ...

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A Holocaust Dissident

Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 1:49:49 am PST

Is this cluelessness or something worse? The Australian Broadcasting Corporation calls David Irving “a Holocaust dissident”—as if there were two sides to the issue. (Hat tip: Andjam.)

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Thursday, January 16, 2003

VDH on C-SPAN

Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 5:45:05 pm PST

Ever wonder how Victor Davis Hanson would react to being called a “Zionazi stooge?” Now you can find out (note to self: never play poker with Hanson), in a C-SPAN interview about the psychology of the loony anti-war left, touching on many of the same points he made in “Bomb ...

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Belgian Super Beings

Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 3:58:01 pm PST

The Belgians, aided and abetted by the usual NGO suspects, are continuing their efforts to judge the war crimes of the entire world, even the cases the ICC won’t touch—and of course, they want to start with Ariel Sharon: Human rights groups urge Belgium to keep war crimes law. BRUSSELS, ...

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Why Feminism is AWOL

Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 3:34:23 pm PST

Here’s an excellent piece in City Journal by Kay S. Hymowitz, on the silence of US feminists about the brutal oppression of women in Muslim countries: Why Feminism is AWOL on Islam. It’s a long essay, and rather than risk pulling a quote out of context I’ll simply recommend you ...

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Gullibility Personified

Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 3:22:22 pm PST

Well, it didn’t take long for my prognostications to come true; earlier I wrote: Saddam is playing games with the inspectors, letting them find a few empty warheads; it won’t be enough to trigger the war, but every peace creep and Saddam apologist will be screaming, “See! The inspections are ...

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A Match Made in Hell

Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:26:27 pm PST

With Al Qaeda-linked terrorists swarming all over Britain, cooking up biological poisons, stabbing cops to death, and preaching jihad and shari'a, the time is ripe for the BBC to exchange news with Al-Jazeera. If you thought the BBC was anti-Semitic before, just wait. (Hat tip: Jim Brown.)

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The Destruction on the Temple Mount

Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:12:08 pm PST

Among their many other crimes, the PLO is systematically destroying priceless Jewish religious artifacts from the Temple Mount, and undermining the foundations of the ancient temple. Steven Plaut writes about this archaeological terrorism, and accuses the Sharon government of cowardice for failing to confront it: The Destruction on the Temple ...

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Kosher Food in Space

Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:42:29 am PST

Israel’s first astronaut is circling the Earth today; Ilan Ramon’s mother was in Auschwitz, and he took part in the bombing of Iraq’s French-built Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981. UPDATE: Colonel Ramon is carrying a drawing by a 14-year-old boy who died in the Holocaust. (Hat tip: Jimmy.)

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Warheads Found in Iraq

Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:44:40 am PST

UN Inspectors Find Chemical Warheads. BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.N. inspectors on Thursday found 11 empty chemical warheads in "excellent" condition at an ammunition storage area where they were inspecting bunkers built in the late 1990s, a U.N. spokesman reported.A 12th warhead, also of a 122 mm, was found that requires ...

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Ansar al-Islam in Britain

Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 9:45:13 am PST

Two of the Algerian ricin plotters arrested in Britain are connected to Ansar al-Islam: Alleged Ricin Plotters Linked to Network.

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France Shuns Saudi Charities

Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 9:05:31 am PST

France displays some hitherto unsuspected backbone, denying visas to the representatives of 13 Saudi “charities:” Paris stands by embassy's refusal of visas to NGOs. According to a communique issued by the Saudi participants who were banned from attending the Paris conference, the measures adopted against charitable organizations such as theirs ...

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Wednesday, January 15, 2003

IDF Closes 3 Palestinian Universities

Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 6:00:42 pm PST

Palestinian universities are the crown jewels of a perverted educational system designed to produce suicidal murdering monsters; and today, when the IDF closed three death schools, they discovered a mountain of evidence. At the Islamic College of Hebron: The first college to be sealed up in this operation was the ...

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DNC Links to Nowhere

Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 2:28:54 pm PST

On the “Links” page of the official web site of the Democratic National Committee, you’ll find three links to Arab American sites, including the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee—but zero links to Jewish American sites. (Hat tip: Sharona.) UPDATE: Reader Young Goodman Brown points out that Jewish sites are listed under Religious ...

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Congolese Terror Cannibals

Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 1:29:00 pm PST

A United Nations inquiry has confirmed that rebel groups conducted a campaign of torture, rape, murder, and cannibalism in the Congo. (Hat tip: mommydoc.) Accused rebel groups include the Congolese Liberation Movement of Jean-Pierra Bemba, one of two key insurgent movements now promised a leading role in Congo's government under ...

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Blogspot Down in China

Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:26:16 pm PST

Weblogs have truly hit the big time; China’s Internet Police are now blocking Blogspot. (Hat tip: Montaigne's Cat.)

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Defining a Religion

Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:49:29 am PST

Another good column from Bala Ambati in the Duke University Chronicle today: Defining a religion. Over centuries, Christians broke the Church's stranglehold over politics and ended religious persecution with moral and physical force, teachings and wars. The founding moral flaw of the United States, slavery, was confronted intellectually and ended ...

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What the Hell is Wrong with These People?

Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 9:02:56 am PST

Osama bin Laden key chains, on sale for $1.00 in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City.

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Le Carre Flips Out

Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 8:27:06 am PST

Unbelievable. If the deluded fools keep popping their heads up at this rate, we’re going to need an Idiotarian of the Week contest. Now it’s John LeCarré, hitting every anti-war trope; it’s all about oil, it’s a personal vendetta between Bush and Saddam, it’s a religious war (but not a ...

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Tuesday, January 14, 2003

The Threatening Storm

Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 6:15:56 pm PST

President Bush is “sick and tired of games and deceptions.” Me too. And the Marines are shipping out from Camp Pendleton. (Hat tip: mommydoc.)

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Storm Gathering in Europe

Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 5:48:23 pm PST

France takes another step toward shari'a, as a possible explosive device is discovered at Sacre-Coeur Church in Paris.

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British Cop Stabbed

Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 5:39:48 pm PST

A British policeman was stabbed to death today, during a raid related to the discovery of ricin poison last week. A POLICE constable was killed and four other officers injured last night in Manchester as they tried to arrest three suspected terrorists from North Africa, in a raid linked to ...

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Taliban Wannabes

Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:56:58 am PST

Here’s a detailed piece about Ansar al-Islam, the Islamist terror gang that has taken control of part of Kurdish Iraq: Kurds Face a Second Enemy: Islamic Fighters on Iraq Flank.

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Europe vs. America

Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:28:11 am PST

An excellent short essay by Daniel Pipes about the growing chasm between old world and new: Europe vs. America. Polls unanimously point to a substantial leap in anti-Americanism. A massive Pew Global Attitudes opinion survey released last month, for instance, found increasingly negative views of the United States in over ...

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Outrage of the Day

Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:30:11 am PST

Once again the Washington Post makes me sick to my stomach, this time letting their op-ed pages be fouled by Palestinian terror apologist and master whiner Yasser Abed Rabbo: Israel Won't Let Us Reform. Not a single word about suicide bombers or terrorism, of course, although you will find ...

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Crow Goes Dumb

Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 9:47:51 am PST

Sheryl Crow joins the Idiotarian Tabernacle Choir. LOS ANGELES - Sheryl Crow, an activist for recording artists' rights, brought her own message against a possible war with Iraq to Monday night's American Music Awards. Crow accepted her award for pop-rock female artist wearing a white T-shirt emblazoned with the message ...

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Norway: Refuge for Islamozoids

Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 9:34:40 am PST

While the Norwegian Nut Brigade frets and whines about the evil George Bush and his war for oil (see below), a mad mullah linked to Al Qaeda and the Kurdish group Ansar al-Islam is being allowed to roam free in Norway—after being expelled from the Netherlands for heroin smuggling. THE ...

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And Now, From Norway: Idiots

Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 9:02:35 am PST

A group of childlike Norwegian celebrities and “intellectuals” are circulating one of those Nought In Our Brain-type letters, asking people to spam US leaders and media reps with their rhetorical baby food. On this Indymedia page, Bjørn Stærk posts an eloquent response to their inane letter—and a subsequent comment from ...

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Monday, January 13, 2003

Why Do Saudi Women Need Guardians?

Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 8:42:46 pm PST

Saudi women are getting restless.

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Left Betrays Iraqis

Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 5:10:08 pm PST

An op-ed in the Daily Telegraph by Nick Cohen says the anti-war left is betraying the Iraqi people. The anti-war movement is a private party. It has proved to be a remarkably fastidious friend of suffering peoples of the Middle East, and its doors are always open to non-Iraqi Muslims ...

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Truth in Advertising

Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:59:37 am PST

From Cox and Forkum’s collection “Black & White World.”

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UN Wants Another Year

Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:09:00 am PST

The United Nations, voice of the most loathsome dictatorships in the world, would like to dither around until Saddam Hussein has nuclear weapons: U.N. Experts Want Up to a Year for Iraq Inspections. By the way, I’m not joking with the above comment; I believe that many (if not most) ...

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Muslim Disinformation Campaign

Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:13:56 am PST

Here’s a must-read essay by Robert Spencer: Muslim Disinformation Campaign. As the American people learn more and more about Islam, Islam’s image problem is getting worse, not better. One principal reason for this may be the dissonance between the loud and repeated claims of Islamic spokesmen in the United States ...

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Sneaky Arab Advertising

Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 8:50:19 am PST

A series of anti-Israel radio advertisements last spring were sponsored by a group called the “Alliance for Peace and Justice.” But a report filed with the Justice Department last month by PR firm Qorvis Communications revealed that funding for the $679,000 media buy actually came from another source: the Saudi ...

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Bomb Texas

Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 8:22:30 am PST

The Hanson watchers were out last night; I received at least 6 emails alerting me to Victor Davis’s new article for OpinionJournal: Bomb Texas. Michael Moore, currently making the rounds plugging his movie "Bowling for Columbine" and a sympathizer of Not in Our Name, bemoaned the 9/11 terrorists' lack of ...

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Sunday, January 12, 2003

Winds of Change

Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 4:57:47 pm PST

It’s really nice to see Adil (Muslim Pundit) writing again, at the latest incarnation of Joe Katzman’s Winds of Change.

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Lest We Forget

Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 4:42:06 pm PST

The writing isn’t polished, but the sentiments are heartfelt and the questions are probing in this article by a former Indian government official, pleading with us not to forget Daniel Pearl—and who killed him and why. (Hat tip: Bala Ambati.)

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Saudi Women's Rights

Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 3:27:25 pm PST

It’s always good for an inadvertent laugh or two when the Saudis try to defend their misogynistic, backward treatment of women, and here’s the latest attempt: Seminar on women focuses on Western double standard. A little defensive, are we? The opening ceremony, which Princess Nouf bint Abdul Aziz attended, was ...

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Lebanese Hate

Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:53:11 pm PST

Lebanon’s ambassador to Canada recently spewed some anti-Semitism that was putrid enough to make even Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham vaguely uncomfortable: Lebanon ambassador: Jews control 90% of Canada's media. "I wanted to say exactly that 90% of the mass media in Canada is controlled by Jews or Zionists, ...

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Arafish Says...

Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:09:13 pm PST

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Palestinian House of Worship

Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 9:48:23 am PST

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Terror Apologia from Evergreen College

Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 9:14:17 am PST

Only a Western leftist “intellectual” like Steve Niva of Evergreen State College in Washington could so totally invert the normal order of cause and effect, emitting this truly disgusting article in a transparent attempt to influence the Israeli elections: Sharon's Fingerprints On Latest Suicide Bombing. (Hat tip: AG.) Any observer ...

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Taking Bias to a Whole New Level

Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 8:25:24 am PST

Forget media bias; if the story pointed out by Aaron Weisburd is true, the media may actually be guilty of conspiracy to commit murder: An Israeli official charges that CNN, CBS, ABC and other members of Big Media are conspiring with terrorists to promote the Palestinian cause. The director of ...

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Palestinian Metalworkers

Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 7:58:38 am PST

The IDF raided the Khan Younis “refugee camp” in Gaza today, destroying six more “metal workshops,” bringing the total of destroyed workshops since the start of the intifada to a ridiculously high number. <sarcasm> Palestinians, of course, are known worldwide for their exquisitely detailed metalwork, and their wonderful creations in cast iron ...

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Saturday, January 11, 2003

FBI Rewards Incompetence

Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 6:04:47 pm PST

Is anyone still surprised that the FBI continues to reward incompetence? (Hat tip: M. Simon.) An FBI lawyer accused of dropping the ball prior to Sept. 11 has been awarded a presidential citation that comes with a large cash bonus. The award, first reported by the Associated Press, riles FBI ...

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Didja Hear the One About the Woman Driver?

Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 4:57:18 pm PST

Remember that thread about Arab humor (or lack thereof)? An article in today’s Arab News comes dangerously close to something we might recognize as “humorous,” but with that ever-loveable Saudi twist: Who said women don't drive here? A letter I received from a friend recently woke me up to the ...

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Child Terrorists

Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 3:11:11 pm PST

Two Palestinian children armed with knives tried to infiltrate a Jewish settlement in northern Gaza today—and one was just eight years old. According to Netzarim residents, the two entered the settlement at around 7 P.M. They first encountered a child from the settlement and tried to attack him, but he ...

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Alcohol Poisoning

Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 1:59:54 pm PST

An Iranian teenager has been sentenced to death by hanging—for drinking. If I had to live in Iran, and couldn’t drink, I’d volunteer to hang myself.

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Safari Update

Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:33:42 pm PST

Now this is what I call service, and it bodes very well for the future of Apple’s new web browser: an update of Safari has already been released. In an earlier post I wrote that Javascript bookmarklets didn’t work with Safari, but this isn’t quite correct. The problem is that neither ...

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Religion of Amputation

Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:57:24 am PST

In northwestern Pakistan, where the Islamozoids have gained political control, they crave the frisson of sadism that only amputations and stonings can provide. Whipping is so ... passé ... ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Leaders in an ultraconservative region of northwestern Pakistan have asked the federal government for the authority to impose ...

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Gretta Still Digging

Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 9:42:07 am PST

Gretta Duisenberg seems intent on making herself the international representative of EUroweenie anti-Semitism, and her hideous skull-like face, skin stretched tight as a drum, is still yammering in Ramallah. RAMALLAH, West Bank, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The wife of European Central Bank chief Wim Duisenberg on Saturday described Israel's occupation ...

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Palestinian Child Abuse

Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 9:14:44 am PST

The photo is from a large demonstration in the Jabaliya “refugee camp,” in which Palestinian Arabs, inspired by Friday khutba, showed their support for the murderous government of Iraq. The writing on the Iraqi flag says, “God is great.” The little boy bawling in terror is the only one with any ...

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Europe’s New Plague

Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 8:24:56 am PST

Here’s a photograph of the Duisenberg creature that I discovered last night; I didn’t post it before bedtime because I didn’t want to be responsible for the inevitable nightmares. Duisenberg’s statements—that Israel’s actions against the Palestinians are worse than Nazi genocide—are a sort of sneaky, post-modern Holocaust denial. And it’s a ...

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Friday, January 10, 2003

Gretta Digs the Hole a Bit Deeper

Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 8:15:30 pm PST

Gretta Duisenberg, the horrible Jew-hating shrew who happens to be married to Europe’s top banker, may have finally crossed the line with her latest anti-Semitic spew: "The Holocaust excepted, the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories is worse than the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands," she was quoted as saying ...

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The Suggestion Box

Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 5:28:08 pm PST

It’s time for a new poll, and I’m drawing a blank at the moment. Suggestions? Ideas? Random snarky comments?

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Return of Pingenstein

Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 5:17:01 pm PST

Yes, it’s true. I need to test another new feature of our back-end system. Call me crazy, call me irresponsible, but don’t call me late for dinner.

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Der Pingenbloggen

Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 4:42:30 pm PST

Last try at pinging blo.gs. If this doesn't work, I'm getting drunk.

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No Stop Ping Me

Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 4:35:54 pm PST

Another try at der pingenblo.gsen.

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Another Ping

Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 1:26:20 pm PST

That first ping to blo.gs didn’t seem to work. Let’s see if this one does.

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LGF Ping News

Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 1:05:48 pm PST

By the way, as of this entry LGF is pinging blo.gs. (I think. This is the first test.) If that doesn’t mean anything to you, don’t lose any sleep.

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Korea Is Not Quite Iraq

Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:16:19 pm PST

Another superb Victor Davis Hanson column today, on Korea and Iraq: Korea Is Not Quite Iraq. Hypocrisy is not always a bad thing when it is a matter of dealing with nuts with nuclear weapons. Although it is not surprising that both principled critics and cynics should call for sterner ...

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Domo Arigato, LGF Fans

Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:36:37 am PST

Thank you to everyone who hit my Amazon wish list over the holidays. I’ve got a surplus of reading material to go through, and some great new CDs; Keith Jarrett’s Always Let Me Go is playing right now.

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What's On Arafat's Desk?

Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:53:16 am PST

Miguel Moratinos shares a laugh and a sandwich (?) with the world’s most decrepit terrorist, as the piles of paper continue to multiply. Almost a month after this photo, the satanic red binder remains in the same spot. And even though they can’t be seen, I sense the presence of ...

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The Appeasement Reflex

Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 9:56:29 am PST

As we wait for the shoe to drop, Europe’s urge to appease threatens to become overwhelming. The United States is doubling its 60,000-strong force in the Gulf. The Pentagon has told a further 7,000 Marines from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, to get ready, the Marine Corps said.But EU Commission President ...

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Muslim Stops Synagogue Torching

Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 8:11:20 am PST

A Muslim gas station attendant in Brooklyn sold a can of gasoline to a young Bosnian Muslim man—then watched in disbelief as the young man marched across the street and began splashing the gas on a synagogue. Before this freak could set the synagogue ablaze, the attendant called police; and ...

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Lileks on Scorsese

Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 7:46:09 am PST

James Lileks says Martin Scorsese has lost it; I really want to quote his conclusion, with the Scorsese speech we’ll never hear, but I won’t ruin it for you. I was a little sad to hear that Scorsese had gone over to the Schtoopid Side, but I’ve been in the ...

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Thursday, January 09, 2003

Al Jazeera in South Africa?

Thu, Jan 9, 2003 at 2:20:52 pm PST

South African state television (SABC) is considering replacing CNN with militant Islamic mouthpiece Al Jazeera. The possibility of America's most renowned news network being elbowed aside by a Persian Gulf channel, considered by critics to be an international platform for Osama bin Laden, has excited more than just the late-night ...

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Et Tu, Martin?

Thu, Jan 9, 2003 at 11:28:49 am PST

Martin Scorsese joins the Idiotarian Chorus.

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Incoming

Thu, Jan 9, 2003 at 11:24:45 am PST

Uh oh. Expect a sudden influx of idiotarians. And remember the LGF Prayer: Lord, grant me the serenity to ignore the trolls, the courage to debate with honest opponents, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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Shame on the CBC

Thu, Jan 9, 2003 at 11:15:27 am PST

Here’s a terrific letter to CBC News from former Canadian ambassador to Israel Norman Spector: Shame on the CBC's Israel coverage. (Hat tip: E. Nough.) Too much good stuff to quote; go ye and read of it.

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Grade A Certified Idiots

Thu, Jan 9, 2003 at 9:38:47 am PST

Kristina Olsen a nurse, whose sister was killed in the September 11 attacks, sings at the al-Amariya shelter in Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2003. Kristina is one of four members of the Peaceful Tomorrows group who have lost relatives in the violence of September 11, met to ...

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A Suicide Army

Thu, Jan 9, 2003 at 8:59:42 am PST

The bloody-pawed Pediatrician of Death and leader of Hamas, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, has called on Iraq to build a suicide army of jihad warriors from around the Muslim world. "If the Crusaders fail to break the will of the resistance of the Iraqi people – and fail they will, by ...

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How We Could Lose

Thu, Jan 9, 2003 at 8:40:29 am PST

An excellent article by Michael Ledeen crystallizes many of the misgivings I have about our so-called War on Terror: How We Could Lose. The terror masters treat the West as a single target, but the West refuses to acknowledge the clear pattern. The spectacle of Western diplomats quibbling over language ...

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Return of a Big Lie

Thu, Jan 9, 2003 at 8:11:43 am PST

This is how the Arabs do it. The best time to plant the initial lies is during the fog of battle. Then, as real casualties start to be reported, they are exaggerated and embellished, and more lies are added to the mix. By the time inquiries are made, the liars ...

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Bombs, Bullets, and a Loaf of Bread

Thu, Jan 9, 2003 at 2:47:13 am PST

Saddam Hussein appears to be repeating his long history of disastrous miscalculations based on wishful, magical thinking: Saddam to Iraqi Forces: Don't Fear U.S. "In aerial combat, there is a disparity in weapons, but on the ground, men fight with their guns and it's enough for the men to have ...

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Mouth of the Horse

Thu, Jan 9, 2003 at 2:17:37 am PST

For more information about Safari, Apple’s new browser, drop by Safari development team member Dave Hyatt’s weblog, where he responds to many of the criticisms that have been voiced and reveals that some of the more serious problems are already being fixed. While I’m writing about it, here are a couple ...

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Wednesday, January 08, 2003

The Duisenberg Sickness

Wed, Jan 8, 2003 at 7:35:55 pm PST

The wife of European Central Bank President Wim Duisenberg is a hellish Jew-hating harpy. And her husband—the most powerful money man in Europe—fully supports her. In a one-page letter released Wednesday, Europe's top banker broke his silence to react to allegations by Dutch Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer that ...

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Peace Creep Grabbed?

Wed, Jan 8, 2003 at 6:44:30 pm PST

You can’t usually trust a single word posted on their web site (including “and” and “the”), but Electronic Stupidfada is reporting that Canadian peace creep Jaggi Singh has been “kidnapped” by Israeli “security forces.” (Hat tip: SecHumanist.) On January 8th, while arriving for a pre-arranged meeting with a friend in ...

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Ed Koch Stands Up

Wed, Jan 8, 2003 at 6:09:21 pm PST

Ex-mayor of New York Ed Koch lists his New Year’s resolutions, and earns a permanent place in the anti-idiotarian pantheon: Israel's True Friends. (Hat tip: spooky.) Now to my personal New Year's resolutions. I will avoid France as a place to vacation. France leads those countries in the Security Council ...

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Too Unreasonable for Deterrence

Wed, Jan 8, 2003 at 2:41:08 pm PST

Here’s a short article originally published in the New York Times by Kenneth M. Pollack, whose book The Threatening Storm is required reading for anyone wishing to understand what’s happening in Iraq: He's too unreasonable for deterrence. (Hat tip: M. Simon.) Saddam is a risk-taker who plays dangerous games without ...

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The Hair Connection

Wed, Jan 8, 2003 at 9:30:00 am PST

AllTooFlat’s “news derivative” service has more details on Poison being discovered in an apartment in London.

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Reach Out and Touch Someone

Wed, Jan 8, 2003 at 8:49:14 am PST

The Moroccan student on trial in Germany for acting as paymaster for the September 11 hijacking cell in Hamburg says he called Al Qaeda groups in Saudi Arabia to talk about cloning: Sept 11 accused explains contact to Saudi radicals. German officials had testified that they had traced calls from ...

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Yo, Muhammad!

Wed, Jan 8, 2003 at 8:23:16 am PST

Kathleen Parker has a suggestion for the seething hordes who went berserk over Doug Marlette’s “offensive” cartoon: lighten up! Hey, did you hear the one about Muhammad and ... ? No? Me neither. And even if I did hear a good Muhammad joke, you can bet I wouldn't tell ...

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Tuesday, January 07, 2003

More Math, Less Religion

Tue, Jan 7, 2003 at 6:35:12 pm PST

Here’s a surprising report from CNN; Yemen, the Arab state that gave refuge to arch-jihadi Osama “Worm Chow” bin Laden, is starting to understand the importance of educating their children to aspire to something more than martyrdom: Yemeni schools count on the future. SANAA, Yemen (CNN) -- Yemeni schools are ...

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Safari Developer Review

Tue, Jan 7, 2003 at 4:31:15 pm PST

Mark Pilgrim has a detailed early look at how well Apple’s new browser handles CSS standards, oriented toward web developers. The good news for bleeding-edge CSS hardheads is that it seems to be susceptible to the same hacks and tricks used to hide stylesheets and CSS rules from Konqueror 3. ...

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The Sound of Silence

Tue, Jan 7, 2003 at 4:03:11 pm PST

North Korea is beating the war drum. Surely the Not In Our Name crowd will bravely make their opposition known? For more like this, check out “Black & White World.”

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To End the Violence

Tue, Jan 7, 2003 at 12:43:56 pm PST

Daniel Pipes made a prediction early last year that Palestinian support for the intifada would begin to collapse by the end of 2002. He may have been a little optimistic, but there are signs that Israel’s tough response to Palestinian terrorism is showing results: To End the [Palestinian] Violence.

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Safari

Tue, Jan 7, 2003 at 10:26:08 am PST

Steve Jobs just announced an insanely cool new browser from Apple, available today, called Safari. Here’s the streaming Quicktime video from MacWorld: Macworld San Francisco 2003 Keynote.

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Fifth Column Public Policy Institute

Tue, Jan 7, 2003 at 10:03:29 am PST

Look who was behind Sean Penn’s dictator-enabling “fact-finding mission” to Iraq: Norman Solomon’s Institute for Public Accuracy, a Marxist, anti-American, anti-Israel group with ties to Arab extremists: Fifth Column Public Policy Institute. Solomon’s byline appears frequently in the Arab News.

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Moore in the Race Already

Tue, Jan 7, 2003 at 9:01:40 am PST

I think Michael Moore must have heard about his second-place finish in the 2002 Idiotarian of the Year contest, and resolved to be the winner this year. And he’s off to an incredible start, telling British audiences that the passengers on the planes that crashed into the WTC and the ...

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Ricin in London

Tue, Jan 7, 2003 at 8:06:07 am PST

Seven people are under arrest in London after police found traces of ricin—a highly lethal biological poison—in their home. The actual ricin itself has not been found. This BBC story doesn’t mention the nationality of the detained individuals, of course, but a radio report said they are North Africans. (Read: ...

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Monday, January 06, 2003

Quick Search Menus

Mon, Jan 6, 2003 at 7:17:04 pm PST

New feature for news junkies: Google and Yahoo News “quick search” menus, in the right sidebar, with a selection of search terms guaranteed to produce interesting results.

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Syria Lays Blame

Mon, Jan 6, 2003 at 4:36:58 pm PST

According to leading human rights violator and Ba'athist terror state Syria, the violence in the Middle East is totally America’s fault. We’re talking 100%. Syria is an arch foe of Israel and hosts 10 radical Palestinian groups. It also opposes war being fought against Iraq, which the United States accuses ...

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Hizb'Allah Pushing Their Luck

Mon, Jan 6, 2003 at 4:25:59 pm PST

Hizb'Allah is causing more trouble on the Lebanon border. Hizbullah broke nearly a month's quiet when it fired two separate salvoes of anti-aircraft shells over Western Galilee on Monday without causing any casualties or damage.

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The LGF Prayer

Mon, Jan 6, 2003 at 11:02:16 am PST

Oh lord, grant me the serenity to ignore the trolls, the courage to debate with honest opponents, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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Exploiting the Palestinians

Mon, Jan 6, 2003 at 10:48:48 am PST

An excellent article by Max Boot: Exploiting the Palestinians. Whenever the serious issues of the Middle East are raised, from oppression in Saudi Arabia to nuclear weapons development in Iran, the answer one hears from Europeans, Arabs, United Nations functionaries, all sorts of supposedly serious people, is invariably the same: ...

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Troll Alert

Mon, Jan 6, 2003 at 10:15:14 am PST

LGF has been “honored” with links on several loony left and/or anti-Semitic and/or Euro-delusionary websites in the past few days, and therefore we’re seeing the usual influx of half-smart trolloid creatures, looking to bait LGF readers into jumping through hoops for them. The best advice for dealing with these aberrational internet ...

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UN Wheel Spinning

Mon, Jan 6, 2003 at 9:46:19 am PST

The UN’s nuclear agency is sternly shaking an arthritic finger at North Korea: U.N. Nuke Agency Warns N.Korea to Comply. This is their last chance, you see. “Toe the line, or else we’ll ... we’ll ... we’ll report you to the Security Council! See how you like that!” The agency's ...

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Kill Jews, Get a Country

Mon, Jan 6, 2003 at 9:29:48 am PST

Here’s some plain talk from Jackie Mason and Raul Felder: It is about time we realize that public opinion is nothing but publicly expressed anti-Semitism and appeasing public opinion makes as much sense as Chamberlain's appeasement of Adolf Hitler. Jews dying in Israel disturbs them as much as watching your ...

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Splodeydope U Shut Down

Mon, Jan 6, 2003 at 8:37:24 am PST

In response to yesterday’s disgusting Palestinian terror attack against unarmed civilians, Israel has closed three Palestinian universities—and one of them is well-known to long-time LGF readers: An-Najah University in Nablus. It’s about time these schools for suicide killers were shut down; what took so long?

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Islam's Immigrant Invasion of Europe

Mon, Jan 6, 2003 at 8:25:06 am PST

Another sobering article by Serge Trifkovic examines the Islamic diaspora and its implications for Europe: Islam's Immigrant Invasion of Europe. The same problem is present in each and every Western country that has carelessly opened the floodgates to mass immigration from the Muslim world. An early sign of what was ...

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Sunday, January 05, 2003

The Century of Islam

Sun, Jan 5, 2003 at 6:34:24 pm PST

If you’re tempted to retreat into the warm, safe fantasy that what happens in Israel doesn’t impinge on our warm, safe United States cocoon (and if September 11 2001 wasn’t enough to trigger a metamorphosis), read the words of the Pediatrician of Death, lauded by TIME Europe, who makes no ...

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Outrage of an Outrageous Day

Sun, Jan 5, 2003 at 4:53:25 pm PST

It’s been a day of rotten news and rotten behavior from the news media; so damned rotten I turned off the damned idiot box, damn it. Idiot box. A name that has never seemed more appropriate. I just couldn’t watch those blow-dried bubbleheads treating Erekat and Tarazi and other filthy ...

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Palestinian Terrorism

Sun, Jan 5, 2003 at 1:44:09 pm PST

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a complete list of Victims of Palestinian Violence and Terrorism since September 2000. It’s a horrifyingly long list, and now one more atrocity will be added to it. The dual suicide bombing today in Tel Aviv is a craven tactic the Palestinian murderers have used ...

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Religion of Peace Kills 56 in Algeria

Sun, Jan 5, 2003 at 10:45:23 am PST

56 killed in bloody weekend of attacks in Algeria. ALGIERS, Algeria - Islamic militants lying in wait with bombs ambushed a military convoy in northeast Algeria and attacked families near the capital, in a bloody weekend of killings that claimed at least 56 lives, Algerian media reported Sunday. The ambush ...

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Religion of Peace Kills Again

Sun, Jan 5, 2003 at 10:19:38 am PST

Israel Insider reports that more than 17 people are now confirmed dead in the double suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Islamic Jihad has admitted their guilt in the mass murder.

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Savages

Sun, Jan 5, 2003 at 10:09:44 am PST

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And Again

Sun, Jan 5, 2003 at 8:46:50 am PST

Two explosions have occurred at the Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv; early reports say at least 20 people have been injured. UPDATE: AP reports it was a double suicide bombing, and several people are dead. The animals are going to be partying tonight in Gaza. UPDATE: I’m absolutely livid over what’s happening ...

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Saturday, January 04, 2003

Pakistan Passport Forgery

Sat, Jan 4, 2003 at 6:20:25 pm PST

Here’s a disturbing story about the prevalence of passport forgery in Pakistan, especially in the city of Gujrat. (Hat tip: Bala Ambati.) GUJRAT, Pakistan - Walk the windswept streets, and you'll hear the same thing no matter who's talking. There is, they say in Gujrat, an itch — to go ...

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Saudis: Half Billion Dollars for Al Qaeda

Sat, Jan 4, 2003 at 5:50:24 pm PST

A new United Nations report says our tolerant, friendly allies in the House of Saud have given $500 million to Al Qaeda—and that the money never stopped flowing, even after September 11. (Hat tip: Trent Telenko.) The report asserts that the Saudi funds represent the most important source of financing ...

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Trouble in Pakistan

Sat, Jan 4, 2003 at 4:48:12 pm PST

The Times of India reports another clash between Pakistani and US troops near the Afghan border: Pak-US troops exchange fire; Pervez talks to Bush. (Hat tip: NC.) ISLAMABAD: In the second incident of cross-firing within a week, Pakistani and US troops exchanged heavy fire in a tribal area on Pak-Afghan ...

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Hardwiring for Sadism

Sat, Jan 4, 2003 at 9:33:03 am PST

Here’s a frightening article by Lawrence Kelemen (from last November), postulating that a self-perpetuating Arab culture of cruelty, child abuse, and hate may be the true source of Arab-Islamic violence: Hardwiring for sadism. (Hat tip: Paul Stinchfield.)

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The Fiskie Award

Sat, Jan 4, 2003 at 8:11:18 am PST

It is my great honor to announce the winner of the First Annual Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year (Fiskie for short). And the winner is ... the man known to Simpsons fans as “history’s greatest monster” ... the 39th President of the United States ... Jimmy Carter. ...

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Tags: Jimmy Carter, Idiotarian Of The Year, Fiskie Award

Friday, January 03, 2003

Stay Tuned for the First Fiskie

Fri, Jan 3, 2003 at 4:17:56 pm PST

Our readers have spoken. The Idiotarian of the Year contest is over. And we’ll be announcing the winner later tonight, along with a fabulous trophy designed by the talented anti-idiotarian cartoonists, Cox and Forkum.

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WaPo Readers' Favorite Blogs

Fri, Jan 3, 2003 at 3:25:35 pm PST

Wouldn’t you know that the day I rip the Washington Post to shreds for anti-Israel editorial bias is the day WaPo technology reporter Cynthia Webb links to LGF. Thanks, Cynthia! I’d feel a bit sheepish, except that I stand by every word I wrote. Welcome to the wild world of ...

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A Big Pile of Shirts

Fri, Jan 3, 2003 at 3:13:31 pm PST

The LGF T-shirts are here! We’ll have ordering information up soon, probably sometime this weekend. You’ll be able to order with a PayPal shopping cart, or by sending a check or money order to our PO Box. If you indicated your interest with our survey and gave us an email ...

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Shari'a = Misogyny

Fri, Jan 3, 2003 at 9:33:33 am PST

A French businesswoman in Dubai was gang-raped by three men who offered her a ride home from a nightclub. When she reported the crime immediately to the police, they confiscated her French passport and arrested her—for adultery under shari'a law. Touria Tiouli, 39, from Limoges, in France, has had her ...

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A Brutal Distortion

Fri, Jan 3, 2003 at 8:42:51 am PST

Is the Washington Post in an anti-Israel competition with the New York Times? A WaPo editorial this morning starts with one of the most outrageous examples of blatant bias I have ever seen: There has been a lull recently in Palestinian attacks against Israelis... Stop right there. Isn’t the Washington Post ...

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It’s Not the Money, Stupid!

Fri, Jan 3, 2003 at 7:59:38 am PST

Victor Davis Hanson uses the offensive moral equivocation of Senator Patty Murray as a jumping off point for another lucid essay: It’s Not the Money, Stupid! The suburban soccer fields of Seattle are not quite the same type of places as the wilds of Yemen, the palaces of Riyadh, or ...

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Thursday, January 02, 2003

Pakistan Anti-America Parties

Thu, Jan 2, 2003 at 7:26:27 pm PST

Scheduled for tomorrow: hate-America parties in Pakistan. They’re soaking their US flags in gasoline as I write this.

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The Other Axis

Thu, Jan 2, 2003 at 6:05:40 pm PST

It should come as no surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention that China, North Korea, and Pakistan have been involved in the nuclear game for years. Malaysia’s English-language daily The Star has a detailed report: Missile secrets entangle Pakistan, North Korea and China. (Hat tip: Bala Ambati.)

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Arabs Urged to Seek Nuclear Arsenal

Thu, Jan 2, 2003 at 4:32:20 pm PST

A leading Iraqi newspaper owned by Saddam Hussein’s son says the Arab world should follow North Korea’s example and launch a joint effort to acquire nuclear weapons. (Hat tip: Adam.) Washington — The Arab world should follow North Korea's example and arm itself with nuclear weapons to prevent further humiliation ...

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Noble Jihadis Murder 70-Year Old

Thu, Jan 2, 2003 at 2:08:43 pm PST

Massoud Mahlouf Elon, a 70-year old Israeli, often traveled to the Arab village of Tubas to hand out clothes to needy children. That’s where they found his body, inside his burned out car, after the Al Aqsa Maniacs’ Brigades were through with him.

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Lebanon Shuts Down Anti-Saudi Show

Thu, Jan 2, 2003 at 12:44:56 pm PST

Lebanese special forces surrounded a Beirut satellite TV station to prevent it from showing a documentary critical of Saudi Arabia. (Hat tip: M. Simon.) New TV had planned to invite Saudi opposition figures to discuss the Saudi regime, political and economic conditions in Saudi Arabia, and also the use of ...

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Islamic Sedition in Potomac

Thu, Jan 2, 2003 at 11:40:39 am PST

Josh Kraushaar lives near the Islamic Education Center in Potomac, Maryland (a poisonous well of anti-Semitism and anti-US Islamic extremism we wrote about yesterday), and he has quite a bit more disturbing information about what’s going on there. Is it reasonable to ask students at the Muslim Community School in ...

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Got Another One

Thu, Jan 2, 2003 at 11:25:50 am PST

A high-level freakazoid in the Abu Sayyaf terror gang has been nabbed in the Philippines. Merang Abante, who carries a million peso (US$18,800) bounty on his head, was captured by members of the army's intelligence and a special police task force near the port city of Zamboanga, said Lt. Col. ...

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Final Fiskie Run-Off!

Thu, Jan 2, 2003 at 10:25:37 am PST

To establish a clear majority and make sure we get no accusations of hanging chads or invalid absentee ballots, we’re holding a final run-off vote between our top two finalists for the Fiskie Award for Idiotarian of the Year. We had a hard-fought battle for third place, between the United ...

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Palestinians Condemn Child Abuse

Thu, Jan 2, 2003 at 8:24:45 am PST

Yesterday’s death cult party in Gaza was not supposed to happen; the freaks from Fatah were warned by their own leaders not to display weapons and parade their children in suicide bomb belts. But bloodlust and insanity trump common sense every time: Palestinians condemn use of children at Fatah military ...

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Wednesday, January 01, 2003

Hamas Wants WMD

Wed, Jan 1, 2003 at 6:30:09 pm PST

Since Hamas makes no secret of their genocidal goals, it’s not a surprise to learn that they are very interested in chemical and biological weapons.

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Referrer Spamming

Wed, Jan 1, 2003 at 6:03:08 pm PST

If anyone out there has compiled a list of domains that are pulling the referrer spamming scam I wrote about last November, please contact me. We had another one hit us today; the two most common ones so far are: voodoomachine.com and cutemovies.com. And a few more with domain names ...

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Ha'aretz Corroborates DEBKA

Wed, Jan 1, 2003 at 5:13:11 pm PST

Whenever I link to an item at DEBKAfile, the question of their credibility comes up. So please note: today Ha'aretz corroborated Monday’s DEBKAfile report that a massive explosion at a Hizb'Allah base in eastern Lebanon was caused by weapons smuggled from Iraq. Western intelligence analysts believe that an explosion at ...

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Death Cult Photo Album

Wed, Jan 1, 2003 at 3:04:11 pm PST

Today Yasser Arafat “pledged” to stamp out corruption. Whoop de frickin’ do. Meanwhile in Gaza City, his Fatah terror gang held another big rally to strut around with their guns and missiles and suicide bomber costumes, in case anyone still doubted that they’re a bunch of bloodthirsty maniacs who brainwash their ...

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Pakistani Photo Switch

Wed, Jan 1, 2003 at 1:54:53 pm PST

A Pakistani man whose picture was among the five distributed by the FBI last Sunday says he has never visited the United States. An Associated Press photograph of Mohammed Asghar taken at his shop in Lahore on Wednesday was a near-perfect match for the one included on the FBI list ...

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Move Along, No Mind Control Here

Wed, Jan 1, 2003 at 12:09:54 pm PST

Michele thinks I possess Jedi mind control powers. Well, I’m not saying I do, and I’m not saying I don’t. But there is a run-off vote going on now for the most disquietingly intriguing blogger. That’s all I’m saying.

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Doing the Kreskin Thing

Wed, Jan 1, 2003 at 11:42:48 am PST

John Hawkins convinced me and several other web writers to commit to some predictions for 2003.

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Arab Rage = Get Out of Jail Free

Wed, Jan 1, 2003 at 9:13:32 am PST

Hours after signing an agreement that he would not harm his teenage daughter, a 65-year old Jordanian man savagely slaughtered her, stabbing her more than 25 times—because she told him, “It is my life. I am free to do what I want.” The victim had been missing for three weeks ...

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Baby Wipe Billionaire Gets His

Wed, Jan 1, 2003 at 8:21:41 am PST

The screw-loose Photoshop Phreaks of fark.com have outdone themselves in this thread featuring the photo of Yasser Arafat staring in feigned shock at his bed. (Hat tip: Doug Stewart.)

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Another Mohammad

Wed, Jan 1, 2003 at 7:54:01 am PST

The Washington Post has a disturbing story about a radical Islamic cleric connected with the mad mullahs of Iran—who has been spreading his poison in the United States for 20 years, at the Islamic Education Center in Potomac, Maryland: U.S. Keeps Close Tabs on Muslim Cleric. Seven weeks after the ...

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