LGF Archives: February 2008
Berkeley Protester to Marines: 'Live Like Pigs, Die Like Pigs'
Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:40:04 pm PST
Zombie got a picture of one of the most vile Berkeley protest signs yet, from today’s moonbat tantrum outside the Marines Corps office.
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Friday Afternoon Open
Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:14:04 pm PST
If it looks like an open thread, sounds like an open thread, and smells like an open thread, there’s a good chance it’s a Friday afternoon open thread.
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Snapped Shot Snaps Shut After AP Lawyer Letter
Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 3:01:02 pm PST
The Associated Press sent a scary lawyer letter to Brian of Snapped Shot because of his “frequent and systematic” use of their copyrighted photographs, and Brian has shut the site down... developing...
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Tech Note: Link Updates
Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:21:14 pm PST
Today we have two enhancements to the spinoff links and top links: * Your user icon (or tiny football, if you haven’t uploaded an icon) is now a link to your profile page. * The time and date of the link are now shown in a “relative” format, for example, “16 minutes ...
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Ricin in Vegas
Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:38:16 am PST
“A man” (that’s how the media are identifying him right now) is comatose and in critical condition in Las Vegas, and presumptive tests indicate that a substance found in his hotel room is the deadly poison ricin. (CNN) — A man who stayed in a Las Vegas hotel room where ...
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Did We Get Zawahiri?
Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:22:35 am PST
It’s just a rumor now, so don’t start popping champagne corks, but Bill Roggio has the details: Egyptian al Qaeda leader reported killed in South Waziristan airstrike. Pakistani and US intelligence are attempting to sort out the names of the al Qaeda and Taliban operatives killed in yesterday’s airstrike in ...
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Wexler Interprets Obama for the Jewish Community
Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:39:12 am PST
Rep. Robert Wexler is running interference for Barack Obama’s infamous “I’ll talk to Iran’s leaders” position, by trying to reassure the Jewish community that “Iran’s leaders” didn’t necessarily mean, you know, the leader of Iran: Wexler: Obama might not mean Ahmadinejad. Barack Obama does not necessarily have in mind Mahmoud ...
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Israel Preparing to End Hamas Rule?
Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:34:24 am PST
The Israeli government is preparing for a major assault on Gaza, and sources for the Jerusalem Post say it could mean the end of Hamastan: Israel prepares for assault on Gaza. As Hamas drew Ashkelon into the circle of communities coming under heavy rocket attacks, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and ...
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Barack Obama's Double-Dealing on NAFTA
Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:39:26 am PST
Canadian Television has a bombshell story on the hypocrisy and double-dealing of Barack Obama; apparently a senior member of his staff told Canadian officials that Obama’s promise to repeal NAFTA was just “campaign rhetoric,” and should not be taken seriously. Here’s a video clip: [Video] And CTV has published another story this ...
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Friday Early Morning Open
Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 3:43:39 am PST
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point. — Antonio Porchia
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IBD: The Risky Business Of Islamic Finance
Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:00:35 pm PST
Investor’s Business Daily issues a strong warning against The Risky Business Of Islamic Finance. The bottom line: These funds offer little transparency. They fail to disclose either the radical ties of the scholars who are advising and running them or the tenets that dictate the structuring of the investments. The prospectuses ...
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Geldof and Bush
Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 6:04:15 pm PST
Sure, Bob Geldof has moonbattish inclinations, that’s a given. But the article he wrote for TIME magazine about his trip to Africa with President Bush aboard Air Force One is a must-read: Geldof and Bush: Diary From the Road. (And that’s the first time I’ve said that about a TIME magazine ...
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Tech Note: Out-of-Sync Ajax Comments Debugged
Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:07:06 pm PST
Wee-oo wee-oo! Page reload alert! Wee-oo wee-oo! Yes, it’s time to reload the page again, as we install the fix for another annoying bug in our Ajax comments. To be completely sure you’re up to date, you may also want to clear your browser cache before hitting the refresh button. Non-techies may ...
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Thursday Afternoon Open
Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:03:19 pm PST
It is a thread. It is open. It is a thread that is open. It is an open thread. N’est-ce pas?
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Abbas Proud of Past Terrorism, Won't Rule Out Future Terrorism
Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:10:19 pm PST
Here’s Israel’s “partner in peace,” so-called “moderate” Fatah president Mahmoud Abbas, in some amazingly unguarded—meaning truthful—statements to a Jordanian daily: Abbas: ‘Armed resistance not ruled out’. PA President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday said that he does not rule out returning to the path of armed “resistance” against Israel and took ...
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Bobbies Reading the Koran
Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:54:54 pm PST
British police are being trained in sharia law and the Koran, which they seem to think will help counter terror at the local level. In some undefined way. Police will be trained on the importance of sharia law and the Koran to Muslim communities, under new plans to fight extremism. The lessons ...
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Buckley: Goldwater, the John Birch Society, and Me
Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:37:15 am PST
One of William F. Buckley’s last published pieces describes the fight to purge the GOP of the influence of groups like the crackpot John Birch Society: Goldwater, the John Birch Society, and Me. In the early months of 1962, there was restiveness in certain political quarters of the Right. The ...
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Kos Kid: Barack Obama Will Help Us Move Beyond 'Mom and Apple Pie'
Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:23:46 am PST
The Kos Kidz see Barack Obama as a pioneer, challenging outmoded concepts like “patriotism” and “pride in America:” Daily Kos: Cookies, Pride, and Farrakhan: Challenging Apple Pie Memes. Given the way America has treated African Americans throughout much of its history, there are some damn good reasons not to feel ...
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On Hillary's Left Shoulder
Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:26:44 am PST
Heh. More evidence that the media are treating Hillary like a Republican. (A reader emailed: “Hillary stopped by St. Clairsville, OH yesterday at their High School. Someone forgot to tarp up their mascot, however, as it’s a ‘Red Devil’, named after coal miners coming out of the shaft covered in red ...
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Got Six in Scandinavia
Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:10:32 am PST
Norwegian and Swedish police have arrested six non-Buddhists on suspicion of funding terrorism in Somalia. Oslo/Stockholm - Police in Norway and Sweden on Thursday detained six people on suspicion of funding terrorism abroad. The raids were apparently coordinated between police forces in the Nordic neighbours. Swedish security police spokesman Jakob Larsson ...
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Obama Contradicts Himself From One Day to the Next
Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:27:12 am PST
Forget about Barack Obama’s middle name; what matters are his views on foreign policy—and those views are a mixture of idiotarian progressivist cant and embarrassing self-contradiction: Another Obama Foreign Policy Gaffe, MSM Ignores It.
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Emerson: ABC Shills for Radical Islam
Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:58:09 am PST
It’s incredibly frustrating to see American mainstream media continuing to carry water for radical Islamic groups such as CAIR, despite their well-documented history of links to Hamas and other terrorist groups, and their status as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case. Most news reports that cite CAIR ...
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Thursday Early Morning Open
Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:01:01 am PST
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Al Qaeda in Falls Church
Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:33:25 pm PST
Another terror connection to the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia: Imam From Va. Mosque Now Thought to Have Aided Al-Qaeda. This is the same mosque where Muslim American Society leader Esam Omeish is a member of the Board of Directors. Even before the 2001 terrorist attacks, American-born imam Anwar ...
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Wednesday Evening Open
Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:59:35 pm PST
Bill O’Reilly just called Arianna Huffington a Nazi, Mary Katherine wouldn’t co-sign, and that’s a great excuse for an open thread...
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Australian Moonbat Lawyer Raves
Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:06:46 pm PST
The United States isn’t the only country plagued with delusional moonbat attorneys: Jury asked to consider ‘America’s evil’. THE jury in Australia’s largest terrorism case has been asked to consider the “evil” America has done, as a court judges 12 Melbourne men accused of plotting to commit “violent jihad”. Opening the ...
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Rocket Attacks Kill Israeli Student, IAF Strikes Back
Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:46:17 pm PST
Israel finally struck back against the constant rocket attacks from Gaza after a student was murdered today, and the Associated Press article is a study in moral equivalence, starting with the headline: Israelis, militants trade deadly strikes. The IAF hit several of the usual “metal shops” in this one. Gaza City ...
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European Union Punishes Microsoft for Being Better
Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:52:25 pm PST
The European Union is very jealous of Microsoft’s success: EU fines Microsoft record $1.3B. That’s B as in Billion. Maybe the EU should put all that rarefied brainpower of theirs to work and write their own Intel-based operating system and GUI, instead of forcing Microsoft to give away trade secrets to ...
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McCain Slams Swiftboat Vets
Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:19:32 pm PST
Has anyone ever really shown that the allegations made by the Swift Boat Veterans against John F. Kerry were false? If someone has refuted the charges conclusively, I’ve never seen it—which makes John McCain’s continuing antipathy toward the Swiftboaters inexplicable: McCain Scrambles to Control Backers. Speaking to reporters aboard his ...
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Wednesday Technical Open
Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:04:48 am PST
Here’s an open thread, with one of our periodic page reload alerts! That’s right, gold-brickers, it’s time to reload the entire LGF page, instead of sitting on one page using the Ajax features. Some of the code has changed again in our endless quest for a faster-loading site, and you need ...
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RIP, William F. Buckley
Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:09:54 am PST
William F. Buckley has passed away at the age of 82, at his home in Stamford, Connecticut. One of his greatest achievements was to purge the conservative movement of its far-right nut cases, the racists and crackpots who poisoned the well for too long. He’ll be greatly missed. Here’s the last ...
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Palestinian Infant Mortality Rate Lowest in Arab Countries
Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:29:52 am PST
For all of the wailing and screaming over Israel’s brutality toward Palestinians, here’s a chart helpfully provided by Reuters Alertnet showing that infant mortality in the Palestinian Authority is lower than in any of the surrounding Arab countries: Humanitarian stats.
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Britain's Big Problem
Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:55:46 am PST
A network of terrorist training camps in rural Britain. LONDON: Clad in mud-smeared combat fatigues, the young Muslim men trained in picturesque British farmland, hurling imaginary grenades, wielding sticks as mock rifles and chopping watermelons in simulated beheadings. Tourists and others who stumbled across this sight — described by eyewitnesses in ...
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Wednesday Early Morning Open
Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:30:03 am PST
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. — Chinese Proverb
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ABC News Stages 'Islamophobia' Event
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:36:46 pm PST
ABC News does their best to set up the “dumb American bigots” at a roadside Texas bakery, with one actor wearing misogynistic radical Muslim garb and provoking the yokels and another actor pretending to be a Muslim-hater, as a crew films with a hidden camera, all designed and staged to ...
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Harvard Sharia Watch
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:25:39 pm PST
The Harvard University gym is now closed to men for six hours a week, on demand of the Harvard Islamic Society: To accommodate Muslim students, Harvard tries women-only gym hours. Harvard University has moved to make Muslim women more comfortable in the gym by instituting women-only access times six hours ...
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Dems in Cleveland, Thread the Third
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:26:14 pm PST
Another thread for the Dems’ slapfight...
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Dems in Cleveland, Thread the Second
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:32:19 pm PST
Another thread for tonight’s Democrat debate, as MSNBC shows a marked antipathy toward Hillary Clinton. They’re treating her like a Republican.
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Dems in Cleveland, Thread the First
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:41:27 pm PST
Hey, Barack and Hillary are going to vie for the coveted Democratic nomination again tonight on MSNBC, grabbing for the brass ring, smiling for the cameras, spinning like dervishes, singing Kumbaya and Change and Diplomacy and Change and Health Care and Change! Changey-change change! Sing it with me, won’t you? Yes, ...
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Libya to Release Pro-Al Qaeda Terrorists
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:53:18 pm PST
Crazy Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and his son Seif al-Islam al-Gaddafi are pulling an odd maneuver here, planning to release members of the Al Qaeda-linked “Libyan Islamic Fighting Group” even though they once tried to assassinate the elder Gaddafi: Libya to release ‘pro-al-Qaida’ rebels. Libyan security forces are preparing to ...
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Tech Note: More Slowdowns Debugged
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:21:37 pm PST
If you’ve been plagued with a message about an “unresponsive script” when you load LGF, I’m happy to report that the problem is fixed. Non-techies may now proceed to the open thread ... For the techlizards amongst us, here’s the explanation, because it may help someone diagnose a similar problem. I didn’t ...
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Another Photo of Obama Surfaces
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:49:40 pm PST
Another Photo Of Obama In Muslim Garb? Looks like it. And from the Associated Press.
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Pakistan Blocks YouTube - For Everyone
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:19:30 am PST
Pakistan decided to block access to YouTube from Pakistani IP addresses, to protect the ummah from exposure to Dutch MP Geert Wilders’ heinous film of blasphemy, criticizing the Koran. But they ended up blocking access to YouTube for a large part of the world. Oops. Pakistan, YouTube & The Dutch Politician. ...
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Khaled Hamid Continues CAIR's Smear Job
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:46:20 am PST
CAIR’s Khaled Hamid, of course, knows very well that the comments he’s writing about in this post at his blog were deleted almost immediately from LGF, and at least one person was banned, but for some reason that information doesn’t make it into his post: Hooliganism, under the pretense of ...
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Cindy Sheehan, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Muslim American Society
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:54:45 am PST
The Muslim American Society (MAS) continues to lie to the American public and the media, denying links to the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood, and claiming to be a moderate “civil rights” organization. But look who sponsored Cindy Sheehan’s trip to Egypt, specifically to shill for the Muslim Brotherhood: Al Jazeera English ...
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Serbs Attack US Consulate
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:50:09 am PST
Serbs are rioting again over the secession of Kosovo, and attacking the US consulate in Banja Luka: Bosnian Serb protesters try to attack U.S. mission. BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters tried to attack the United States consulate in Bosnia’s Serb Republic on Tuesday, smashing shops in the ...
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Tuesday Early Morning Open
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:13:41 am PST
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. — Dr. Seuss
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Content Wars: The Lizard Strikes Back
Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:25:52 pm PST
Today I received more than a dozen emails from concerned readers, informing me that the content filtering service 8e6 Technologies had suddenly started blocking Little Green Footballs at their workplaces, with a message warning them it was for “Hate & Discrimination.” OK. Well. So I emailed 8e6 Technologies (excuse the bragging, but ...
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ElBaradei's Real Agenda
Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:17:33 pm PST
As Iran’s Manhattan Project rushes ahead, here’s a good piece on IAEA “watchdog” Mohamed ElBaradei’s Real Agenda at the Wall Street Journal, by Danielle Pletka and Michael Rubin. On Friday, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei submitted a report on Iran’s nuclear program to the IAEA’s Board ...
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Monday Afternoon Open
Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:46:22 pm PST
Here’s an open thread for a sunny Monday...
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Farrakhan: Obama is 'Hope of the Entire World'
Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:58:12 am PST
There’s really no doubt that Louis Farrakhan is a preacher of hatred; his antisemitic statements are legendary, he’s a notorious supporter of Saddam Hussein and Robert Mugabe and countless other thuggish dictators, and he toured the Middle East in 2002 giving vicious speeches against Israel and the United States in ...
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Gaza's Culture of Self-Destruction
Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:37:11 am PST
Here’s a well-written opinion piece at PJ Media by Yael Kaynan, on Gaza’s Culture of Self-Destruction.
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Video: Jew-Eating Rabbit Threatens Denmark
Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:46:00 am PST
Yes, it’s Assud the Jew-eating Hamas rabbit, appearing again on the Hamas kid’s show Pioneers of Tomorrow with zombie child host Saraa, urging Palestinian children to boycott Danish products, kill anyone who “insults” Mohammed, and wipe out Israel. Doesn’t that sound like fun, boys and girls? [Video]
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Hamas Protest Flops, Reuters and AP Shill Anyway
Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:29:12 am PST
Hamas was predicting 40,000 to 50,000 demonstrators on the border between Gaza and Israel today; they got less than 5,000. But that’s OK; Reuters Palestinian propagandist Nidal al-Mughrabi calls it a “mass protest” anyway: Gazans stage mass protest against Israeli blockade. Al-Mughrabi also calls it “peaceful,” which it was if you overlook ...
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Monday Early Morning Open
Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:47:21 am PST
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. — Thomas Sowell
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Australian Muslim Students Want to Rearrange Classes
Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:30:09 pm PST
In Australia, Muslim students from Saudi Arabia want universities to reschedule lectures to fit in with prayer times, and establish separate areas for females: Muslims want unis to fit prayer time. It isn’t going over well with the Aussies. MUSLIM university students want lectures to be rescheduled to fit in with ...
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The Inevitable Oscar Thread
Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 5:45:36 pm PST
What the heck — why not an Academy Awards thread? I’m watching it on my Mac, using a nifty broadcast high-definition receiver, the [Amazon Link]. And it looks fabulous, of course. A reminder: if the ‘reply’ or ‘quote’ functions don’t seem to be working right, refresh your page to reload the ...
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Sunday Afternoon Ocean
Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:55:54 pm PST
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NYT Empty Suit Can't Co-Sign
Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:48:22 am PST
You know the New York Times screwed up when even their rubber-stamping “public editor” can’t co-sign: What That McCain Article Didn’t Say. The article was notable for what it did not say: It did not say what convinced the advisers that there was a romance. It did not make clear ...
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Hamas Planning to Storm Gaza Border?
Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:57:54 am PST
There are signs that Hamas may be preparing to attempt a “human wave” attack on the border between Gaza and Israel, similar to their successful storming of the Egyptian border wall: Israel prepares for mass protests at Gaza border. And they’re releasing children from school so they can be on the ...
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Reuters Reporter in Tehran Sees a 'Hijab Problem'
Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:11:45 am PST
Reuters reporter Fredrik Dahl witnesses the thuggish repression of women in the Islamic Republic of Iran. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Wearing a brightly colored headscarf and high-heeled boots, the woman refused to be bundled into the police van without a fight. Protesting loudly and even trying to escape, her standoff with Iranian ...
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Enter the Spoiler
Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:24:32 am PST
Now that The Only Man Who Can Save America has dropped out of the presidential race, the other Only Man Who Can Save America is jumping in: Nader announces new bid for White House. WASHINGTON - Ralph Nader said Sunday he will run for president as a third-party candidate, criticizing ...
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Sunday Early Morning Open
Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 2:24:08 am PST
When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. — Seneca
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Yemen: The Terror-Friendly Nation
Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 9:40:08 pm PST
Jaber Elbaneh, who lived in Lackawanna, New York, before traveling to Afghanistan to train with Osama bin Laden, appeared in court in Yemen today—then walked free. SAN`A, Yemen - A Yemeni-American who is among the FBI’s most wanted terrorism suspects appeared in a Yemeni court Saturday and then walked free, ...
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Serbian Nationalists Blame the US
Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 5:42:17 pm PST
Serbian nationalist leaders are blaming all the violence on the United States: Serbia: US ‘Culprit’ in Kosovo Violence. Serbia’s hard-line leaders on Saturday called the U.S. “the main culprit” in the violence that has broken out since Kosovo declared independence. Several thousand Serbs chanting “Kosovo is Serbia!” and “Russia, Vladimir Putin!” ...
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And Now for Some Keith Jarrett Trio
Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 5:12:26 pm PST
A stellar performance of a classic, by the Keith Jarrett Trio with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, from the out-of-print DVD Standards 2, recorded in Tokyo in 1986. [Video]
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Review: 'Shooter' for Moonbats
Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:54:10 pm PST
The “Bob Lee Swagger” novels of Stephen Hunter are a weakness of mine, so I was looking forward to the movie version of [Amazon Link], renamed “[Amazon Link],” even though it co-starred Castro/Chavez suck-up Danny Glover. Unfortunately Glover’s cruddy politics seem to have leaked all over the script, because near ...
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9/11 Families Respond to Susan Faludi
Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 1:54:15 pm PST
Tim Sumner of the 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America responds eloquently to the nihilist moral equivalence of a new book by Susan Faludi: 9/11 heroes - or victims?
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AP Corrects 'Human Rights Activists' Caption
Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:30:28 am PST
Received this morning, following our post about the AP photo of Pakistani Islamists burning a Danish flag, with a caption labeling them “human rights activists.” The following caption correction moved on the AP wire at 2:14 a.m., referring to a photo that appeared on your site. Thank you, Paul Colford AP Director ...
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Our Friends the Saudis
Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 9:23:59 am PST
In the world center of jihad ideology, our friends the Saudis are taking steps to fight an epidemic of crime: Saudi men arrested for ‘flirting’. Prosecutors in Saudi Arabia have begun investigating 57 young men who were arrested on Thursday for flirting with girls at shopping centres in Mecca. The men ...
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NYT Editor: Why Are You All So Stupid?
Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 8:03:19 am PST
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller has figured out why there was such a negative reaction to their sloppy hit piece on John McCain: their readers are dense. WASHINGTON - The embattled executive editor of the New York Times defended its John McCain story Friday with a novel explanation ...
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Saturday Early Morning Open
Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 2:23:08 am PST
Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. — Edward Albee
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And Now for Some Fingerpicking
Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:02:28 pm PST
Antoine Dufour: Song for Stephen, from his latest album [Amazon Link]. [Video]
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Michelle Obama's Victocratic Thesis
Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:51:37 pm PST
Michelle Obama’s thesis: Racial divide. Institutionalized racism. Oh brother. Michelle Obama thesis was on racial divide. Michelle Obama’s senior year thesis at Princeton University, obtained from the campaign by Politico, shows a document written by a young woman grappling with a society in which a black Princeton alumnus might only be ...
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Video: Bush Busts a Move in Liberia
Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:37:11 pm PST
Well, I have to say... as a dancer, President Bush is a pretty good mountain biker. But who can blame him for cutting loose a little? He’s getting a hero’s welcome in Africa.
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Friday Afternoon Open
Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:15:48 pm PST
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I’m not afraid of falling into my inkpot. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wikipedia Promotes Nonexistent Country
Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:07:19 am PST
Did you know that Wikipedia, normally very scrupulous about maintaining strictly factual content, has a whole special project dedicated to promoting understanding for a completely imaginary country? WikiProject Palestine.
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Iran Could Have a Nuke By the End of the Year
Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:40:47 am PST
But ... but ... the NIE said there was nothing to worry about! Alarming Test Results: Iran Could Have Enough Uranium for a Bomb by Year’s End. New simulations carried out by European Union experts come to an alarming conclusion: Iran could have enough highly enriched uranium to build an ...
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Mainstream Media Malfeasance Day
Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:22:31 am PST
It’s not just the Associated Press labeling Pakistanis burning Danish flags as “human rights activists.” Here are two more especially absurd and egregious examples of MSM malfeasance: At Contentions, Abe Greenwald tracks the mysterious disappearance and subsequent complete rewrite of a Reuters story on Muqtada al-Sadr: Reuters’ Sadr Story Vanishes. And Blackfive exposes ...
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Video: 'Preacher of the Mainstream' Supports Suicide Bombing (Again)
Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:43:08 am PST
From MEMRI TV, Muslim Brotherhood mouthpiece Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradawi reiterates his support for suicide bombing, especially when the targets are Jews. Please note again that this is what Al Jazeera is showing to the Islamic world, while they produce a sanitized version for the West. Al-Qaradawi doesn’t understand why he’s been ...
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Burn a Danish Flag, AP Calls You a 'Human Rights Activist'
Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 8:46:49 am PST
It’s Friday, the Islamic day of prayer, and that means seething, raging, and calling for the death of the Danish cartoonists of blasphemy, all over the world. From Pakistan to the Palestinian Authority, adherents of the Religion of Peace are burning flags and shouting hatred for the West. Because of some ...
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Saddest Story of the Week
Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:16:12 pm PST
And I mean it: Exiled Iraqi clowns cheer refugees. Rahman, Ali and Safi are members of Happy Family Clowns group, established in 2004 to put smiles on the faces of Iraqi children. A few months ago the group started receiving death threats warning them against continuing their show, entitled A Child ...
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Dems in Texas, Thread the First
Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:50:17 pm PST
Oh, that’s right, another debate: Hillary and Barack are trying to tear each other’s faces off, while appearing to be enlightened beings, on CNN. Here’s a thread for the debacle...
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The Door Opens - Update: The Door Swings Shut
Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:43:07 pm PST
Every day I receive plaintive requests to be allowed to register at LGF; some people get so frustrated they send me peevish emails. Some might be described as grumpy. Irascible, even. And I understand the frustration, but there’s a method behind this madness of randomly opening registration—sites with always-open registration always ...
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Video: Star Wars Vindicated
Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:29:52 pm PST
This should put an end to the debate over whether a “Star Wars” anti-missile defense system is possible, as the US Navy shoots down an orbiting satellite. [Video]
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Tech Note: Indexing is Good
Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:53:01 am PST
I’ve just discovered a problem that was causing serious slowdowns at LGF, and fixed it. As soon as I implemented the fix, the site started reacting much faster. So here’s an open thread... (Geek note: I needed to add an index to one of our MySQL database tables, for a very common ...
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Serbs Set Fire to US Embassy
Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:43:44 am PST
Armed Serbian “youths” in Belgrade have attacked the US and German embassies, and the US embassy is on fire. BELGRADE (Reuters) - Scores of protesters broke into the U.S. embassy in Belgrade on Thursday and set some rooms on fire in protest at Kosovo’s independence. Police were not protecting the building ...
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Israeli and Saudi Ambassadors Trade Shots
Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:21:53 am PST
There’s an interesting exchange in the National Post between the Israeli and Saudi ambassadors to Canada, starting with this op-ed by Alan Baker stating some simple facts about: The poisonous myth of ‘Israeli apartheid’. Israel is a liberal democracy, guaranteeing civil, religious and social equality to all its citizens — ...
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A 'Correction' from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch?
Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:07:30 am PST
Here’s an email received from the Assistant Managing Editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, on their uncritical, irresponsible reporting of CAIR propaganda: Dear Mr. Johnson: Copies of your blog postings and your exchange with reporter Tim Townsend have been forwarded to me. First, let me inform you that the following correction will ...
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Thursday Early Morning Thread
Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:32:47 am PST
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don’t embrace trouble; that’s as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you’ll see a ...
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The Definition of Chutzpah
Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:34:11 pm PST
“Gall” does not even begin to describe this outrageous little stunt: Palestinians to report Israeli roadmap violations to US: official. RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - The Palestinians will present monthly reports to the US listing any Israeli violations of the international roadmap peace blueprint, prime minister Salam Fayyad said on ...
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Our Friends the Saudis
Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:07:11 pm PST
In the religious apartheid kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice is defending their Dark Ages thuggery: Virtue Commission Defends Arrest of Businesswoman. RIYADH — The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice yesterday defended its action ...
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Afghan Journalist for CTV Detained by US Forces
Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:36:35 pm PST
An Afghan reporter for Canadian Television (CTV) has been detained by US forces in Afghanistan, for extensive ties to the Taliban; Dr. Rusty has details: Another Enemy Propagandist (Journalist) Detained by U.S. Forces?
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Yahoo News 'Alternative' Source: US is Root Cause of World Terrorism
Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:25:04 pm PST
One of the sections in our right-sidebar RSS feeds is “Terrorism,” and it’s generated by doing a search of Yahoo News for all items matching that word. More and more often, this search is returning unvarnished Iranian propaganda like this, from arabicnews.com: Larijani: US root cause of terrorism worldwide. Iranian ...
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Tech Notes: Time Machine
Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 4:25:54 pm PST
After a few more days with Mac OS 10.5.2, there’s one new feature with a very high Wow Factor: Time Machine. This ultra-cool automatic backup system is the ultimate answer to every computer user’s worst nightmare—an unexpected deletion or file corruption, or worse, hard drive failure. This is how it works: ...
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Ahmadinejad: Israel is a 'Filthy Bacteria'
Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 4:03:29 pm PST
Iran’s thug-in-chief is ramping up his disgusting Nazi-like genocidal rhetoric again: Ahmadinejad: Israel filthy bacteria. In yet another verbal attack against Israel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the Jewish state a “filthy bacteria” whose sole purpose was to oppress the other nations of the region. “The world powers established this filthy ...
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Boxcutter in Hollowed-Out Book at TIA
Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 2:55:48 pm PST
He forgot it was there: TIA Passenger Had Box Cutter In Hollowed-Out Book. TAMPA — A 21-year-old Clearwater man was arrested at Tampa International Airport this weekend after security personnel found a box cutter in a hollowed-out book, authorities said. About 7:30 a.m. Sunday, airport security ran Benjamin Baines Jr.’s backpack ...
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Newsbusters: St. Louis Paper Shills for Islamic Group (Update: Post-Dispatch Forum Loaded with Anti-Muslim Comments)
Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 1:36:32 pm PST
Matthew Sheffield weighs in on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch parroting CAIR propaganda: Bashing LGF, St. Louis Paper Shills for Islamic Group. When it comes to Islam, the approach of too many media outlets seems to be not to question authority. Whether this attitude stems from fear (as in the case ...
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AAH Calls for Ellison to Be Removed from Antisemitism Task Force
Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:43:35 pm PST
Americans Against Hate is calling for Rep. Keith Ellison to be removed from the Congressional Task Force on Anti-Semitism. (Coral Springs, FL) Yesterday, February 19, 2008, the Legislative Director from U.S. Representative Ron Klein’s Washington, D.C. office, Mira Kogen, informed Americans Against Hate (AAH) Chairman Joe Kaufman that Rep. Klein ...
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An Exchange with A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Reporter
Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:01:56 am PST
Here’s a revealing series of emails between myself and St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Tim Townsend, who published a story this morning smearing LGF on CAIR’s behalf, without ever contacting me for my side. Since Townsend used his official Post-Dispatch email account for this, I assume he has no problem with ...
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St. Louis Papers Shill for CAIR
Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:30:56 am PST
Sure enough, this morning the mainstream newspapers of St. Louis are running CAIR’s smear press release without a hint of skepticism, with no context for readers on the history of CAIR as a radical Islamic front group, or their status as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Hamas funding ...
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Wednesday Early Morning Open
Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:11:28 am PST
America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them. — James Michener
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The Wisconsin Primary Thread
Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 6:05:40 pm PST
On the GOP side, John McCain is now the projected winner of the Wisconsin primary. G’bye, Huckabee. On the Dem side, Barack Obama is leading in exit polling, but it’s too soon to count Hillary out.
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When CAIR Attacks
Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 3:13:42 pm PST
Unindicted Hamas co-conspirators CAIR have put out a press release targeting LGF: Hate Site Comments Suggest Violence Against Missouri Mosque. UPDATE at 2/19/08 4:09:21 pm: At Pat Dollard’s place, the Bashman has a few words for CAIR: CAIR Now Targeting Right Wing Conservative Blog Sites ... Bring It Bitches. (Military-grade language warning...) UPDATE at ...
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What Makes Michelle Obama Proud?
Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:15:02 am PST
Hot Air has video of Michelle Obama saying she has not been proud of America in her entire adult life—until now that her husband is running for President: Michelle Obama hasn’t been proud of America in at least 26 years? I wasn’t shocked by the statement; it’s pretty standard “progressive” thinking. ...
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Our Friends the Saudis Threatened Britain
Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:52:35 am PST
This news is from last Friday but is definitely still thread-worthy, as UK court documents have revealed that President Bush’s pal Prince Bandar threatened Britain with terror attacks unless Tony Blair quashed the BAE investigations: BAE: secret papers reveal threats from Saudi prince. Saudi Arabia’s rulers threatened to make it ...
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Newsweek-WaPo: Archbishop of Canterbury Was Right
Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 9:53:29 am PST
The joint Newsweek-Washington Post venture “On Faith” has featured an all-star cast of radical Muslims and blatant antisemites like Arun Gandhi, whitewashing Islamic fundamentalism and attacking Christianity and Judaism, all in the name of “interfaith dialog.” So today it’s no surprise to find them promoting yet another Islamic supremacist, Imam Feisal ...
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Tracking Barack Obama in Indonesia
Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 9:32:09 am PST
An American Expat in Southeast Asia reports on a television series about Barack Obama’s youth as a Muslim in Indonesia: Tracking Barack Obama in Indonesia. In the second part of the video, Zulfan Adi, a former neighborhood playmate of Obama’s who has been cited in numerous news reports claiming that ...
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Danish 'Youths': Police Made Us Riot
Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 9:13:44 am PST
The “youths” who have been rioting in Copenhagen for 9 days have written a letter explaining that they were forced to smash windows and burn cars, by the “brutal, racist, insulting” Danish police: Youths say police harassment triggered unrest in Denmark. COPENHAGEN, Denmark - A group of youths who have ...
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An Islamic Prayer Tower in St. Louis
Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 8:25:42 am PST
Gateway Pundit has the pictures of a huge tower being constructed in St. Louis City, complete with loudspeakers for blaring the adhan: Islamic Prayer Tower Rises in South St. Louis City.
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Castro Bails
Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 8:08:20 am PST
It’s official; Fidel Castro has resigned as Cuba’s president. HAVANA - An ailing, 81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba’s president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when parliament meets Sunday. The end of Castro’s rule — the longest in the world for ...
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Tuesday Early Morning Open
Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:19:37 am PST
If you’re going through hell, keep going. — Winston Churchill
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Bali Bomber's Body Found
Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 8:41:46 pm PST
Dead terrorists are always good news: Philippines says may have found Bali bomber’s body. MANILA, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The Philippine military has exhumed what it believes is the body of Dulmatin, an Indonesian militant wanted for the 2002 Bali bombings that killed over 200 people. “His body was recovered yesterday ...
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The Door Opens - Update: The Door Swings Shut
Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 6:38:02 pm PST
Registration open, limited time, read the instructions, make sure your form is filled out correctly and your spam filters are turned off. As LGF lizard Obi-Wan said, “Play nice.” UPDATE at 2/18/08 7:18:30 pm: 40 minutes, 61 hatchlings. Now closed.
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Canadian Human Rights Investigator Resigns
Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 2:45:46 pm PST
Shire Network News has a podcast interview with Canadian publisher Ezra Levant, who reveals that his chief “human rights” inquisitor has asked to resign from his case: Podcast reveals resignation of State interrogator.
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Weird Science Watch
Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:45:41 pm PST
In this clip from Iraqi TV, “astronomy researcher” Fadhel Al-Sa’d says the Sun is half the size of the Earth, and flat. Just like the Earth. And he flatly rejects all heretical innovations that aren’t covered by the Koran. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) What does the Koran say about TV? [Video] Fadhel ...
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'Bomb and Slaughter the Danes'
Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:23:16 pm PST
Today in Gaza, an emissary of the Religion of Peace™ told demonstrators to “bomb and slaughter Danes” for republishing the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy. Muslims worldwide should bomb Denmark’s embassies and kill its diplomats following last week’s republication of caricatures of Muslim prophet Muhammad, a spokesman for the Popular Resistance ...
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Leaping Leopards, Part 2
Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:13:48 pm PST
Reporting back after two days running the latest Mac OS 10.5.2 (Leopard): very pleased so far. Wireless connections to the Airport base station seem more sturdy, the Time Machine feature is wondrous (takes a while to create the first backup, though), and the new Mail and Safari features are also ...
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Presidents' Day Open Thread
Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:10:23 am PST
It’s Presidents’ Day, and since I know we’re all concerned about the correct spelling of this holiday, here’s the lowdown. Because Presidents Day is not the official name of the federal holiday, there is variation in how it is rendered. Both Presidents Day and Presidents’ Day are today common, ...
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Obama's Lifted Speech?
Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:40:28 am PST
Big Head DC has an interesting catch, with video evidence; I’m not sure “plagiarism” is the right word for it, but on February 16, 2008, Barack Obama does appear to have been rather “liberally inspired” by a 2006 speech by Deval Patrick: Obama Caught Plagiarizing 2006 Speech? UPDATE at 2/18/08 11:03:09 ...
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Totten: The Dungeon of Fallujah
Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 9:40:17 am PST
In Fallujah, Michael Totten gets a glimpse of hell on earth when he visits an Iraqi jail: The Dungeon of Fallujah. FALLUJAH – Next to the Joint Communications Center in downtown Fallujah is a squalid and war-shattered warehouse for human beings. Most detainees are common criminals. Others are captured insurgents ...
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Hizballah = Nazis
Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 8:44:08 am PST
A photo that says everything about the Lebanese terror gang Hizballah, as they pay tribute to dead mass murderer Imad Mughniyeh with a straight-armed Nazi salute. The Associated Press caption, of course, takes no notice of it. Hizbollah militants raise their arms in salute of assassinated Hezbollah top commander Imad ...
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French Police Raid Housing Projects
Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 8:26:21 am PST
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a massive raid on the Muslim housing projects in the suburbs of Paris. VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France - More than 1,000 police, some wearing black hoods, raided housing projects outside Paris in a massive sweep Monday, kicking open doors and detaining 33 people in a search ...
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Monday Early Morning Open
Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 2:18:01 am PST
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
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Britain's 'Islamic Bonds'
Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 8:49:03 pm PST
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s vision of sharia in Britain is quickly coming true: New sharia row over Chancellor’s plans for ‘Islamic bonds’. A new sharia law controversy erupted last night over Government plans to issue special “Islamic bonds” to pay for Gordon Brown’s public-spending programme by raising money from the ...
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Technical Note: Delays Debugged
Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 6:01:30 pm PST
That typing delay problem I mentioned earlier, that showed up in the comment posting form and the link posting forms? It’s history. The excruciatingly technical reason, because some geek somewhere may benefit from it: Turns out that some browsers are much slower at performing the Javascript innerHTML() function than others. I mean, ...
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Kosovo Declares Independence
Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 1:58:34 pm PST
I’m not sure whose side to root for in the ethnic Albanian, Kosovo-Serbia morass—there are killers on all sides—and today’s news from Kosovo leaves me with mixed feelings: Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.
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Technical Note: Debugging Delays
Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:39:40 am PST
This morning I’m working on a problem some lizards have reported, in which there’s a long delay while typing into the comment posting form. I’m flying on instruments here, because I can’t duplicate the problem on any of my testing machines (I think I need a really under-powered PC for ...
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UN Springs Into Action, Notices Palestinian Terrorism
Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 9:07:39 am PST
Nearly a flying pig moment this morning, as a United Nations “humanitarian” functionary condemns Palestinian rocket attacks. But the flying pig stays in the hangar, because at the end of it he just parrots more “peace process” fantasy-think. SDEROT, Israel: A Palestinian rocket struck a house in this southern Israeli border ...
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Sunday Early Morning Open
Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 2:17:01 am PST
An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
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Leaping Leopards
Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 5:26:09 pm PST
Since I’ve posted several times about upgrading to the latest Mac OS, aka Leopard, aka Mac OS 10.5.2, waffling like a House Democrat, I am compelled to report that I finally took the leap and upgraded my Powermac G5 desktop today. It took about two and a half hours total, with ...
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Books for the Weekend
Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 4:35:34 pm PST
I have two new books to read this weekend: Robert Ferrigno’s sequel to his great “Islamic America” novel Prayers for the Assassin, [Amazon Link]. This one promises to be a page-turner; here’s a review by Arthur Chrenkoff. And to follow up, a true story that’s the stuff of nightmares: [Amazon Link], by ...
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Saturday Afternoon Open
Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 3:53:40 pm PST
When it’s coffee pickin’ time in Kona, I’ll come percolatin’ back to you... — Paul Page
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Mughniyeh and Al Qaeda
Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 3:26:10 pm PST
Thomas Joscelyn has an excellent piece on the death of Imad Mughniyeh, and his possible connections to Al Qaeda and the terror attacks of 9/11: Death by Car Bomb in Damascus. Late Tuesday night in Damascus, Imad Mugniyah, senior terrorist of Hezbollah, was killed in a car bomb explosion. It ...
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Danes Won't Apologize
Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 9:56:34 am PST
Danish politicians have canceled a trip to Iran after the mullahs demanded they apologize for the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy. Unyielding stance by Denmark: A group of Danish lawmakers has canceled a trip to Iran because Tehran demanded they condemn the reprinting of Prophet Muhammad cartoons in newspapers, a spokeswoman ...
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Holy Land Foundation Retrial Date Set
Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 9:25:23 am PST
The government is going ahead with a second trial in the Holy Land Foundation case, in which the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) have been named unindicted co-conspirators: Holy Land retrial set for Aug. 18. The retrial of five former Richardson ...
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House Democrats Fail to Protect America
Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 9:03:10 am PST
In his radio address today, President Bush blasted the House Democrats for failing to extend the Protect America Act that authorizes terrorist surveillance. Good morning. At the stroke of midnight tonight, a vital intelligence law that is helping protect our nation will expire. Congress had the power to prevent this ...
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Congressman Concerned About Georgetown University's Saudi Millions
Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 8:35:55 am PST
Rep. Frank Wolf is asking Georgetown University some uncomfortable questions about the huge donations they’ve accepted from the religious totalitarian kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Wolf to Georgetown: Detail Use of Saudi Millions. A U.S. congressman is asking Georgetown University about its academic scrutiny of Saudi Arabia and its use of ...
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Saturday Early Morning Open
Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 2:16:01 am PST
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. — Thomas Jefferson
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Friday Evening Open, with Tech Note
Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:07:01 pm PST
The date range setting of the LinkViewer has been improved tonight. Now there’s only one field instead of two; when you click in the field (or click the little calendar icon) the popup calendar lets you select two dates — the “from” and “to” dates — and automatically reloads the ...
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Obama, Clinton Advisers on Low-Profile Junket to Syria
Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 1:45:27 pm PST
’Realism’ in Syria. What in the world are advisers to both Senators Obama and Clinton doing in Syria in the middle of a presidential campaign — and why are the two campaigns so unforthcoming about the details of the visits? The same week that a terrorist mastermind harbored by the ...
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Zombie: Berkeley Marines Protest, Revised and Expanded
Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:13:19 pm PST
The undead lurking thing known as zombie has greatly expanded its report on the Moronic Convergence in Berkeley earlier this week, with an inside look at the strange mating rituals and ceremonial pseudo-aggressive behavior of the moonbat horde and its aging commissars: Berkeley Marines Protest.
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Fauxtography in Tennessee
Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:34:17 am PST
Bloggers in Tennessee have caught a local “alternative” paper running a doctored photograph of a GOP politician. Rep. Stacey Campfield said he doesn’t mind a little controversy. The Knoxville lawmaker once tried to join the black caucus. So, when he championed the law to not allow homosexual and transgender teaching in ...
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Krauthammer: The Next Great Awakening
Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:26:28 am PST
Charles Krauthammer on the Cult of BHO: The Next Great Awakening. There’s no better path to success than getting people to buy a free commodity. Like the genius who figured out how to get people to pay for water: Bottle it (Aquafina was revealed to be nothing more than reprocessed ...
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Mughniyeh: Killed in a Work Accident?
Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:16:21 am PST
If true, it would be a sort of rough poetic justice; a Kuwaiti newspaper is reporting that Hizballah terrorist Imad Mughniyeh was killed in a “work accident.’ The Kuwaiti daily Awan reported, from a knowledgeable Arab source, that Imad Mughinyua was killed as he was preparing a car bomb. The source ...
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Friday, the Day of Prayer and Rage
Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:58:38 am PST
It’s Friday, the Islamic day of prayer, and “youths” in Denmark are rioting in the streets again because of the latest publication of the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy: 17 arrested after youths riot in Denmark. COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Bands of youths set fire to cars and trash bins overnight ...
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Obama's Global Tax
Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:24:31 am PST
Don’t look now, but Barack Obama has sponsored a bill that’s on the fast track to becoming law, that could impose an enormous global tax on the United States under the control of the United Nations: Barack Obama’s Global Tax Proposal Up for Senate Vote. A nice-sounding bill called the ...
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Friday Early Morning
Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:15:02 am PST
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. — e.e. cummings
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The Door Opens - Update: The Door Swings Shut
Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:36:07 pm PST
Registration is now open. Limited time. Turn off spam filters, read the dire warnings, and play nice. UPDATE at 2/14/08 8:35:04 pm: Now closed, with 243 hatchlings.
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Video: Osama's Kid on Egyptian TV
Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:10:11 pm PST
He’s got his hair all done up in corn rows, a leather jacket, and a line of leftist groupthink; Osama bin Laden’s son Omar seems to be going for the terrorist glamor boy niche. (From Egyptian TV Channel 1, January 28, 2008. Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video]
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And Now for Some XTC
Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:39:00 pm PST
This song captures everything that makes XTC stand out, the wordplay and cutting wit, and the musical inventiveness; it’s always been one of my favorites, and I never knew there was a video until I happened to search YouTube: The Mayor of Simpleton. [Video]
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Thursday Afternoon Open
Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:34:06 pm PST
It’s an open thread for a Thursday afternoon, no more, no less, with a small enhancement to report: if you post a comment in a link thread, it now shows up in the “Latest Comments” drop-down menu in the left sidebar.
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Totten: The Final Mission, Part 3
Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:48:51 pm PST
Another must-read from Michael J. Totten in Iraq: The Final Mission, Part III. No excerpt this time; just go read the whole thing. You’ll be glad you did.
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Our Friends the Saudis
Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:05:02 am PST
Our medieval pals are about to execute a woman for witchcraft. A leading human rights group appealed to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah on Thursday to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft and performing supernatural acts. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement that the kingdom’s ...
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Romney Endorses McCain
Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:51:10 am PST
Here it is: Mitt Romney will endorse John McCain.
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Our Curiously Incurious MSM
Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:22:33 am PST
Does anyone think that if a news crew happened to capture on film a Confederate flag hanging in a John McCain campaign office, the rest of America’s media would just yawn, ignore it, and move on to other things? I’m just asking. MSM Remains Incurious About Obama Volunteer With Che Guevara ...
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NYT Editors Love Apologies
Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:54:48 am PST
The New York Times editorial board just loves it when Western leaders apologize for actions for which they had no responsibility: Removing the Stain on Australias Soul.
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Hizballah Leader Calls for 'Open War' on Israel
Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:50:41 am PST
“Open war.” That would be opposed to the cowardly sneak attack sort of war they have been waging for decades. Hezbollah leader declares ‘open war’ on Israel. BEIRUT (AFP) - Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah declared “open war” on Israel in a fiery speech at the funeral Thursday in the Lebanese ...
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Cindy Sheehan and the Muslim Brotherhood
Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:24:45 am PST
If you’ve wondered how much lower Mama Moonbat could go, after her photo op with Hugo Chavez, wonder no more. Now Cindy Sheehan is shilling for the Muslim Brotherhood: Cindy Sheehan in Egypt for Islamists. CAIRO, Egypt - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan joined a protest Wednesday seeking the support of Egypt’s ...
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Thursday Early Morning Open
Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:14:01 am PST
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance. — Saul Bellow
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We Got Mail!
Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 5:39:47 pm PST
Our post about the Obama-Che Guevara flap was linked yesterday at wacko site rense.com, and as a result we received the following two emails from people who followed that link and became incensed at our description of Che Guevara as a “terrorist mass murderer.” The first is from a gentlething in ...
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Technical Note: Things Are Zippier
Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 4:21:22 pm PST
After bogging down quite a bit today with a flood of traffic, I’m trying a new technique (new for LGF anyway) to cut the size of the files that have to be downloaded in order to display our pages, and improve the page loading speed for all our visitors. Last ...
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Hooray for the Danes
Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:43:33 pm PST
This is a very good sign, and something I hope will spread to the mainstream newspapers and television channels of the rest of the world—because a unified front that refuses to back down is the only way to guarantee freedom of speech for all media outlets, in the face of ...
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Hamas = Nazis
Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:56:40 am PST
Hamas responds to the killing of mass murderer Imad Mughniyeh with language reminiscent of the Nazis: Mughnieh murder ‘Zionist gangsterism’: Hamas. GAZA CITY (AFP) - The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas joined Hezbollah on Wednesday in accusing Israel of murdering one of the top commanders of the Lebanese Shiite movement, saying ...
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Iowahawk's Canterbury Tale
Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:48:14 am PST
When not writing paeans to large spherical objects, the tasteful, cultured Iowahawk sometimes indulges a fondness for Chaucerian pastiche: Heere Bigynneth the Tale of the Asse-Hatte.
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Who Hung the Che Guevara Flag in Obama's Office?
Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:23:16 am PST
The Lone Star Times has found the moonbat culprit.
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Wednesday Morning Open
Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 9:54:38 am PST
If things seem sluggish at LGF today, it’s because of all the incoming links to the Obama-Che Guevara story. As I write we’re showing more than 5,000 people online, and the Linux ‘top’ utility reports a system load that says we should have already crashed. We’re flying on a wing ...
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Mughniyeh Dead, Syria Blames Israel
Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 8:46:20 am PST
Excellent news this morning, as Islamic terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, responsible for hundreds of murders, has been killed by a car bomb in Damascus: Senior Hezbollah militant killed. BEIRUT, Lebanon - Imad Mughniyeh, the suspected mastermind of dramatic attacks on the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Marine barracks that killed hundreds of ...
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Zombie: Berkeley Marines Protest, February 12, 2008
Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:24:07 pm PST
Yes, today we had another massive moronic convergence in that city by the Bay, and the merciless eye of zombie was there, recording dispassionately as the moonbats performed their weird rituals: Berkeley Marines Protest.
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Back From the Shadows Again
Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 9:58:06 pm PST
Well, that was one Apache upgrade that ended up being a little more complicated than intended. We’re back, we weren’t hacked, everything’s fine, and here’s an open thread for the long-suffering lizard army...
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Virginia Primary Thread 2
Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 7:03:43 pm PST
It’s Barack Obama, and John McCain. Buh bye, Hillary.
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Spielberg Bails on China's Games
Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 6:17:51 pm PST
Good for Steven Spielberg; this is the right thing to do. Spielberg Quits As Olympics Adviser. Steven Spielberg is ending his involvement as an artistic adviser for the Beijing Olympics. The film director made the decision Tuesday, hours after actress Mia Farrow and several humanitarian groups assailed him for working with ...
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Leopard Update Fixes Important Issues
Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 5:30:11 pm PST
OK, I may finally be persuaded to use that Leopard OS DVD I bought last year and upgrade my main desktop machine, because it looks like some of the big issues have been addressed with today’s release of OS 10.5.2: Latest Leopard Update Resolves Common Complaints. And also because without Leopard, ...
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Virginia Primary Thread
Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 5:13:05 pm PST
Here’s a thread to discuss the Virginia Primary; as I write, Barack Obama is running away with it on the Democrat side, while John McCain is pretty even with Mike Huckabee....
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Tuesday Afternoon Open
Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 2:04:05 pm PST
An open thread for Tuesday afternoon links and folderol...
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Obama Responds to Che Guevara Flag Flap
Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:12:30 am PST
At least they call the Che Guevara flags “inappropriate:” On Reports of an Inappropriate Flag in a Texas Obama Office. February 12, 2008 From Houston Fox News: “The office featured in this video is funded by volunteers of the Barack Obama Campaign and is not an official headquarters for his campaign.” That’s ...
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Video: Death of a Giant Hamas Killer Bee
Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:57:53 am PST
MEMRI TV brings you the latest death cult children’s propaganda from Hamas, the episode of Pioneers of Tomorrow in which the evil killer bee Nahoul dies, because Israel prevented him from getting treatment for some unspecified giant bee disease. This leads to his replacement by Assud, the giant Jew-eating rabbit. Just ...
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Three Muslims Arrested in Denmark for Cartoon Murder Plot
Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:14:10 am PST
Three Muslims have been arrested in Denmark for plotting to kill one of the dreaded cartoonists of blasphemy: Danes nab suspects in cartoonist plot. COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested three people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad ...
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Outside the Beltway and Off the Rails
Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 9:04:51 am PST
James Joyner is rushing to do damage control for Barack Obama: Obama Che Guevara Flag ‘Scandal’. He takes particular exception to an “insinuation” (his word) he says I made: Johnson’s insinuation is simply beyond the pale: “Barack Obama won’t wear an American flag on his lapel, but on the wall ...
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Tuesday Early Morning Open
Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 3:22:01 am PST
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. — Karl Popper
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'Honor Killing' Epidemic in Britain
Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 6:54:20 pm PST
At least 17,000 women are victims every year. Up to 17,000 women in Britain are being subjected to “honour” related violence, including murder, every year, according to police chiefs. And official figures on forced marriages are the tip of the iceberg, says the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO). It warns ...
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The Google Earth Jihad
Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 5:42:29 pm PST
An Israeli town has filed suit against Google for allowing its Google Earth system to be used by anti-Israel Palestinian propaganda groups to spread misleading claims: Israeli town sues Google over claim it was built on Arab village. The northern town of Kiryat Yam is suing Internet giant Google for ...
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Che Guevara Flags in Obama's Houston Office
Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 4:25:17 pm PST
Barack Obama won’t wear an American flag on his lapel, but on the wall of his Houston campaign office: a Cuban flag with a picture of Communist mass murderer Che Guevara. (Click picture for video.) (Hat tip: LGF readers.) UPDATE at 2/11/08 9:00:00 pm: And that flag is no fluke. Here’s another one. ...
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Hitchens: To Hell With the Archbishop of Canterbury
Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 3:36:52 pm PST
Christopher Hitchens has a good piece on the Archbishop’s sharia idiocy: The archbishop of Canterbury’s dangerous embrace of sharia. Picture the life of a young Urdu-speaking woman brought to Yorkshire from Pakistan to marry a man—quite possibly a close cousin—whom she has never met. He takes her dowry, beats her, ...
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RoP Hates Love
Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 1:24:52 pm PST
The infidel holiday that fills the Islamic world with dread is upon us once again: Kuwait Hardliners Take Aim at Valentine’s Day. KUWAIT CITY — Valentine’s Day is just three days away, but one Muslim politician is heading up a committee to make sure it goes completely ignored. Kuwaiti MP ...
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Video: Hamas' Jew-Eating Rabbit
Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:34:38 am PST
In the Hamas kids’ show Pioneers of Tomorrow, the degenerates responsible for this sick trash have killed off their giant bee character Nahoul (dead because the evil Israelis stopped him from getting medical treatment), and replaced him with a malevolent rabbit that eats Jews. Yes, really. [Video]
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RIP, Tom Lantos
Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:16:14 am PST
Representative Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor ever to be elected to the US Congress and a passionate advocate for the rights of victims of terrorism, has passed away at the age of 80.
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Berkeley Cops: "We're Neutral"
Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 9:06:41 am PST
At the CODEPINK demonstration outside the Marine Corps recruiting office in Berkeley, the Marines are getting no help at all from local police. This video shows the thuggish protesters blocking the doorways, as policemen do nothing. One of the cops tells a counter-protester, “We’re trying to remain neutral.” (Click picture ...
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Got Another Big Taliban Fish
Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 8:48:42 am PST
Another top Taliban operative has been captured in Pakistan: Senior Taliban figure captured. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistani security forces on Monday shot and wounded a well-known Taliban operative in southwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border, the military said. Mullah Mansoor Dadullah, brother of the Taliban’s slain military commander in Afghanistan, ...
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Pentagon Files Charges, Press Goes Nuts
Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 8:22:28 am PST
The Pentagon is filing charges against six of the terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: US to seek death penalty in 9/11 case. As I write, the Washington press corps is relentlessly grilling the Pentagon spokesman about waterboarding and torture, asking the same questions over and over. Of course. ...
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Monday Early Morning Open
Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 2:11:02 am PST
A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Al Qaeda Documents Show They're in Big Trouble
Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 6:03:10 pm PST
There’s new evidence tonight that Al Qaeda in Iraq is falling apart: U.S. Military Says Seized Docs Show Al Qaeda in Iraq Is Weakened. BAGHDAD — A diary and another document seized during U.S. raids show some Al Qaeda in Iraq leaders fear the terror group is crumbling, with many fighters ...
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Technical Note: Top Links Even More Configurable
Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 4:08:31 pm PST
In the “Top Rated Links” area, you can now set how many links you want to display, from 5 to 25, in increments of 5. This value is saved in a cookie, along with the current category, the number of days, and the state of the link area (visible or ...
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Sunday Afternoon Ocean
Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:55:09 pm PST
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Norman Finkelstein: Israel Must Be Defeated
Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 10:44:06 am PST
Disgraced American wacademic Norman Finkelstein goes on Lebanese television, expresses his “solidarity” with Islamofascist terror group Hizballah, and says “Israel has to suffer a defeat.” The term “useful idiot” was invented to describe creatures like Finkelstein. [Video] (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.)
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Baghdad Bureaucrats Blasted
Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 10:12:54 am PST
State Department official Manuel Miranda has harshly criticized the bureaucrats at the US Embassy in Baghdad for undermining the coalition’s efforts in Iraq, through sheer incompetence and inertia; Bill Gertz has more: Bureaucrats in Iraq. “After a year at the embassy, it is my general assessment that the State Department ...
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Phillips: Dhimmi - or Just Dim?
Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 9:28:58 am PST
Melanie Phillips has two excellent posts on the Archbishop of Canterbury at her Spectator blog: The Archbishop’s Speech. Dhimmi — Or Just Dim?
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Saturday Night Open
Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 10:28:46 pm PST
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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Hillary Weeps Again
Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 8:17:50 pm PST
Yes. Again. Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., wipes her eye as she listens to a disabled U.S. veteran in the audience tell his story during a campaign stop at The City of Lewiston Memorial Armory in Lewiston, Maine., Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008.
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Technical Note: Top-Rated Links Now with Intervals
Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 6:30:54 pm PST
One of the issues I considered when implementing the ‘Top-Rated Links’ feature was: how far back should the feature look? A day, two days, more? After some experimentation I settled on one day as a reasonable interval. But this meant that comment threads and conversations would disappear from the listings, ...
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Gadahn Gone?
Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 4:40:24 pm PST
Based on some rather nebulous reports (that have been denied by US authorities) there’s a lot of speculation going around the blogosphere that corpulent turncoat Adam Gadahn may have been killed in the same airstrike that took out Abu Laith al-Libi last month. Hot Air: Fat traitor still missing after a ...
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Saturday Afternoon Open
Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 1:58:31 pm PST
An open thread for an unseasonably warm Saturday afternoon...
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British Journalists Dig Sharia
Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 11:36:45 am PST
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has really stirred up a hornets’ nest of controversy with his statement that sharia law is unavoidable in the UK. As you might expect, most of the commentary is opposed to his ludicrous position, but it’s interesting to see who stands up to defend the ...
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Video: Treatment of Christians in Egypt
Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 9:29:09 am PST
An appalling look at what life is like for Coptic Christians under Muslim rule in Egypt. [Video] There are two more parts to the show: Part Two. Part Three.
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Crazy Uncle Bailing?
Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 9:04:10 am PST
The Only Man Who Can Save America is signaling a possible bail-out: Ron Paul pivots to his reelection.
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Another New York Times Hit Piece with a Shady Writer
Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 8:41:10 am PST
This kind of blatantly biased garbage shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone any more, but the New York Times pulled off another one of their patented wool-over-the-eyes jobs this week, with a story about Guantanamo Bay co-written by a radical leftist British moonbat—unidentified, of course: Worthington Spins, Old Grey Hag ...
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Toledo Mayor to Marines: Please Leave
Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 8:24:44 am PST
San Francisco isn’t the only city with empty-headed moonbats in charge: Mayor to Marines: Leave downtown. A company of Marine Corps Reservists received a cold send-off from downtown Toledo yesterday by order of Mayor Carty Finkbeiner. The 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., ...
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Saturday Early Morning Open
Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 3:21:01 am PST
You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. — Navajo Proverb
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Swiftboating McCain
Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 6:12:39 pm PST
“Swiftboating” John McCain, first out of the gate. ...Information shows that he made over 32 tapes of propaganda for the Vietnamese government...
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Video: The Semi-Annual UC Irvine MSU Hatefest
Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 5:15:30 pm PST
The Muslim Student Union at UC Irvine is at it again, with a poisonous anti-Israel hatefest featuring speakers like this: Muhammad Al-Asi, former head of the Islamic Center in Washington DC, who praises Lebanese terrorist organization Hizballah, compares the Israeli security barrier to the Berlin Wall (invoking Ronald Reagan, if ...
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Jawa Report: American Al Qaeda in Somalia
Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 4:58:05 pm PST
Another American working with Al Qaeda in Somalia?
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Sneaky Moonbat RSS Tricks
Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 2:26:25 pm PST
The headline on the article at CNN’s web site is: Bush: Keep a conservative in White House. But the headline on CNN’s RSS feed, linked to the same article, is: “Bush wants more of same in White House.” Looks like a moonbat sneaked in between the article and the RSS. (And this ...
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Friday Afternoon Open
Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 12:57:37 pm PST
Another week draws to a close, as another thread becomes open...
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IPT: FBI and CIA Hit New Low in Recruitment Drive
Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 11:17:28 am PST
Unbelievable. The worst example of wrong-headed “outreach” yet: Looking Under a Rock: FBI and CIA Hit New Low in Recruitment Drive. In a frightening and bizarre turn, the two chief agencies tapped with safeguarding America’s national security have started advertising in a publication that can only be described as objectively ...
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New Zealand Hijack Updates
Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 10:42:38 am PST
JammieWearingFool has lots of updates and information on the attempted hijacking of a small commuter plane in New Zealand, by a Somali woman who was curiously not identified in early reports.
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Hamas: We're Allowed to Lie
Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 10:33:07 am PST
A distinguishing characteristic of many militant Islamic fanatics is that they’re easily led by pride and ego to reveal things they shouldn’t: Hamas: We’re Allowed to Lie. (IsraelNN.com) Hamas leaders spoke to the Arabic language Ash-Sharq il-Awsat newspaper recently and explained that as Muslims, they are allowed to lie. In ...
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Le Pen Gets a Suspended Sentence
Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 9:45:44 am PST
French neo-fascist Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the National Front and close friend and ally of Filip DeWinter of the Vlaams Belang (who is still being heavily promoted by Gates of Vienna), has been given a three-month suspended sentence for his latest Nazi-sympathizing statements: Suspended sentence for Nazi apologist. FRENCH ...
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Calls for Archbishop to Resign Over 'Sharia' Remark
Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 9:15:51 am PST
The Archbishop of Canterbury has made a lot of fatuous, naïve statements about Islam, but his pronouncement that sharia law is “unavoidable” in Britain may have finally been too much: Archbishop of Canterbury ‘should resign’ over Sharia row. A senior Church of England clergyman called today for the resignation of ...
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American Woman in Saudi Arabia Gets Clue
Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 8:22:45 am PST
Yesterday we posted about the businesswoman in Saudi Arabia who was arrested, strip-searched, and threatened by the Saudi religious police because she was out in public with a male colleague. Today Fox News reports that two weeks before being arrested, the same woman had been boasting about how wonderful things ...
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Friday Early Morning
Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 2:08:02 am PST
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill
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Power Line Book of the Year
Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 8:16:12 pm PST
Power Line has announced their book of the year: Norman Podhoretz’s World War IV.
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The Launch of Atlantis
Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 6:24:50 pm PST
An LGF lizard in Florida emailed this spectacular photo of the shuttle Atlantis taking off this afternoon.
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Possible RoP Hijack Attempt in New Zealand
Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 5:21:51 pm PST
Woman passenger attacks pilots on New Zealand domestic flight. WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A knife-wielding woman stormed the cockpit of a New Zealand domestic flight Friday, stabbed both pilots and threatened to blow up the plane before she was subdued, police said. The Air National flight landed safetly at Christchurch in ...
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Abu Hamza to Be Extradited
Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 2:20:23 pm PST
One-eyed hook-handed hate preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri is coming to America, as a special guest of the US government. LONDON - Britain’s Home Office on Thursday approved the extradition of an Islamic preacher who is accused of trying to establish a terrorist training camp in Oregon, a spokesman said. Abu Hamza ...
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McCain at CPAC, Thread the Second
Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 12:22:50 pm PST
Fox News will be televising John McCain’s speech to a very anxious audience at CPAC... just starting now...
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Iranian Ayatollah: Arab Countries Should Have Chopped Off Bush's Head
Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 11:25:20 am PST
Speaking of President Bush’s sword dance with the Saudis, here’s the Iranian reaction, from Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, Chairman of the Iranian Guardian Council. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati: Death to those who participated in the Annapolis Summit, and who got rewarded for this. Their mouths were stitched up, ...
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McCain at CPAC
Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 10:42:57 am PST
John McCain will be speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference soon, and here’s an open thread for the occasion. Judging from the audience reaction when Mitt Romney exited the race, McCain will be facing a pretty hostile crowd.
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Our Friends the Saudis
Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 10:26:14 am PST
This story is a perfect illustration of why it’s so maddening when Laura Bush puts on the headscarf, or George W. Bush sword-dances with Saudi princes. The United States should be standing up against this Dark Ages barbarism, not pandering to it: Religious police in Saudi Arabia arrest mother for ...
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Romney Bailing?
Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 9:24:50 am PST
Mark Halperin says Mitt Romney’s bailing out. UPDATE at 2/7/08 10:11:53 am: Yes, indeed, it’s buh-bye to Mitt Romney; he just announced his bail-out at CPAC. The GOP race is over, folks, and John McCain is the winner.
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Mohammed Images at Fox News, Gay Mohammed at Reuters
Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 8:56:15 am PST
Quite a few LGF readers emailed about this one, as Fox News publishes images of Mohammed: Muslims Protest Wikipedia Images of Muhammad. Will seething and rage ensue? Stay tuned. But even more astonishing, Reuters—Reuters!—has gone even further and allowed an image of a gay Mohammed to be posted on their web site. I ...
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Archbishop of Canterbury: Sharia in UK is 'Unavoidable'
Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 8:48:55 am PST
The Archbishop of Canterbury is an absolute disgrace, and the very definition of a “dhimmi:” Sharia law in UK is ‘unavoidable’. The Archbishop of Canterbury says the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK “seems unavoidable”. Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4’s World at One that the UK ...
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Thursday Early Morning Open
Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 2:44:01 am PST
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. — Jonathan Swift
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The Six-Word Motto Contest
Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 6:26:46 pm PST
The New York Times’ Freakonomics “blog” is having a little contest: A Six-Word Motto for the U.S.? Imagine my surprise to find that out of almost 700 comments, the vast majority are competing for the most downbeat, defeatist, self-hating motto possible. It’s kind of amazing how much negativity can be crammed ...
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And Now for Some Neo-Acoustic
Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 6:09:49 pm PST
Canadian wizkid Erik Mongrain performs “AirTap.” [Video] More videos at erikmongrain’s Channel.
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Ward Churchill at 'Israeli Apartheid Week'
Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 3:07:04 pm PST
Palestinian front groups and radical Muslim student associations across North America are holding yet another anti-Israel hatefest this week, charmingly dubbed Israeli Apartheid Week 2008. And at the Toronto edition, they’re having a special guest star: malevolent fraud Ward Churchill. Friday, February 8th 7pm Main Lecture NAKBA AND THE RIGHT OF RETURN Ryerson ...
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Wednesday Midday Open
Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 12:55:32 pm PST
He listen, but he do not hear. — Stinky Beaumont
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Pentagon Aide Urged Meetings with Muslim Brotherhood
Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 11:53:55 am PST
According to Steven Emerson, Pentagon aide Hesham Islam scheduled meetings for Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England with the Muslim Brotherhood: Pentagon Aide’s Invitations Contradicted U.S. Policy. At the urging of a subordinate, Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England scheduled at least two meetings with foreign emissaries in direct contradiction ...
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Howard Dean Sends Out the Talking Points
Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 10:21:03 am PST
Just received from the Howard Dean mailing list at democrats.org—the official progressive talking points, titled, “How we’ll beat John McCain.” Expect to hear these over and over. John McCain is a media darling, but don’t trust his carefully-crafted image - he’s worked for years to brand himself. From Iraq to ...
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Video: Al Qaeda Child Abuse
Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 9:41:18 am PST
Here’s another window into the debased mentality of militant Islam, a video discovered in Iraq showing Al Qaeda training very young children to kidnap and murder. No matter how many times you see how they turn their own children into savage terrorist killers, it never fails to disgust. (Hat tip: Rusty ...
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WMD Documents Found in Translator's Brooklyn Apartment
Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 9:03:09 am PST
An Arabic translator for the Army has been discovered in possession of classified documents on suspected WMDs, convoy routes, and known terrorists—and is suspected of having passed the information to the enemy: Mystery Deepens Over WMD Documents. How the classified military documents from Iraq, which named the coordinates of where ...
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Britain Eliminates Islamic Terrorism
Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 8:37:32 am PST
The British government has, amazingly, managed to completely eliminate “Islamic terrorism” and “jihad.” From their vocabulary. ‘Don’t mention Islamic extremists’: Government phrasebook tries to avoid upsetting Muslims. The Government has drawn up a controversial phrasebook on the language of terrorism and is insisting civil servants no longer blame fanatical extremism on Islam, ...
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Wednesday Early Morning Open
Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 3:33:02 am PST
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. — Daniel J. Boorstin
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Super Tuesday Thread 5
Tue, Feb 5, 2008 at 10:00:19 pm PST
McCain wins California Republican presidential vote.
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Super Tuesday Thread 4
Tue, Feb 5, 2008 at 7:25:21 pm PST
Another thread for the Tuesday we’re calling “Super”... California is still too close to call between McCain and Romney on the Republican side... Huckabee showing more strength than expected... On the Democrat side, California seems to be going for Obama...
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Super Tuesday Thread 3
Tue, Feb 5, 2008 at 6:02:46 pm PST
Hillary Clinton has won the New York primary... John McCain has won New Jersey... McCain has 181 delegates so far to Romney’s 91... UPDATE at 2/5/08 6:38:05 pm: McCain wins New York... Hillary Clinton wins New Jersey... McCain has Delaware, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut...lots of delegates there...
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Super Tuesday Thread 2
Tue, Feb 5, 2008 at 4:34:25 pm PST
Here’s another thread for discussion of primary and caucus results; as of this writing, Hillary Clinton is getting her pantsuit kicked in Georgia by Barack Obama.
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IPT: Government Reminds Court of CAIR/MAS Ties to Terrorists
Tue, Feb 5, 2008 at 2:43:35 pm PST
Here’s an interesting report at the Investigative Project on some pushback against the Council on American Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Society: Government Reminds Court of CAIR/MAS Ties to Terrorists. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is demanding that the Air Force Academy alter a panel of speakers slated ...
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Super Tuesday Polls
Tue, Feb 5, 2008 at 1:53:02 pm PST
Here are all of the latest Super Tuesday polls at RealClearPolitics; the GOP race in California is really close, with Reuters actually putting Romney 7 points ahead of McCain at present.
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Tuesday Open
Tue, Feb 5, 2008 at 10:51:49 am PST
An open thread for what’s left of Super Tuesday morning...
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Hamas Bombards Israel with Rockets
Tue, Feb 5, 2008 at 10:38:05 am PST
The Israeli Air Force struck at Hamas today, killing seven terrorists in Gaza, and Hamas retaliated with yet another barrage of rockets into the Israeli town of Sderot: Three people wounded in latest rocket barrage on Sderot. Three people were wounded and several suffered from shock early Tuesday evening as ...
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Yon: Men of Valor, Part VIII
Tue, Feb 5, 2008 at 10:21:04 am PST
Part VIII of Michael Yon’s “Men of Valor” series is packed with stories and photos: Men of Valor: Part VIII of VIII.
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Ron Paul's Military Support?
Tue, Feb 5, 2008 at 10:11:47 am PST
The Lone Star Times looks into Ron Paul’s claim that he has the overwhelming support of the military: Do the Troops Support Ron Paul? (Spoiler: yes, they do—in about the same numbers as the general population.)
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Dreaming of Super Tuesday
Tue, Feb 5, 2008 at 9:11:46 am PST
Super Tuesday is upon us. I tossed and turned all night, haunted by the ghosts of Rudy and Duncan. And when I awoke, it was all not a dream—we really do have to choose between McCain and Romney. Sometime during that unrestful interval, I decided: I’m pulling the lever for Mitt ...
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Tuesday Early Morning Open
Tue, Feb 5, 2008 at 2:49:01 am PST
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. — Edgar Watson Howe
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The Wrath of the Penguins
Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 8:14:21 pm PST
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Odd, Murky Pre-Primary Post
Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 6:40:17 pm PST
The night before not-so-super Tuesday, I still can’t decide who to vote for. I know who I want to vote against: the Hillary-Obama Appeasement Complex. The choice on the Republican side, though, is between a Washington good ole boy, and a guy I just can’t bring myself to totally trust. ...
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Biased Reuters Headline of the Day
Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 4:37:48 pm PST
Every once in a while, Reuters uncorks a headline so stunningly distorted and biased that it stands alone, a shining example of so much that’s wrong with the mainstream media: U.S. says no one too young for Guantanamo court. Read the article; the headline is such a blatant misrepresentation of the ...
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Cal Primary Resources
Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 12:32:01 pm PST
Here’s a page at the LA Times with lots of information on voting in tomorrow’s California primary election, including polling locations and sample ballots: A California primary that matters. Here’s a link through Google News that bypasses the LA Times registration: ‘A California primary that matters’ - Google News. LGF readers are ...
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Monday Afternoon Open
Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 12:12:25 pm PST
An open Monday thread. What else is there to say? It’s open. It’s a thread. It’s Monday.
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Muslims Enraged, Seething at Wikipedia
Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 11:05:25 am PST
Apparently there are a whole lot of Muslims enraged and offended at Wikipedia, because there are ... gasp ... drawings and images of Mohammed in his Wikipedia entry. Blasphemy! So they’re demanding that Wikipedia stop violating their delicate sensibilities and remove the offending images, with an online petition that’s already gathered 82,783 ...
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Totten: The Final Mission, Part 2
Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 10:38:00 am PST
Don’t do anything else today until you read Michael J. Totten’s latest report from Fallujah: The Final Mission, Part II.
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Hillary Crying Again
Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 9:52:07 am PST
Gah. Not again. Hillary Clinton cries in Connecticut. I doubt the crying tactic will work very well with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Sen. Hillary Clinton teared up this morning at an event at the Yale Child Study Center, where she worked while in law school in the early 1970s. Penn ...
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Fatah's 'Armed Wing' Claims Suicide Bombing
Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 9:24:51 am PST
The Palestinian Maan News Agency is reporting that responsibility for the suicide bombing this morning in Dimona is being claimed by several terror groups—including the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the so-called “armed wing” of so-called “moderate” Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party. You know. Israel’s so-called “partner in peace.” Three groups, ...
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RoP Kidnapping in Philippines
Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 8:55:28 am PST
Trying to rescue two kidnap victims, the Philippine Army clashed this morning with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and at least five people were killed, including three Islamic terrorists: Philippine troops clash with Muslim rebels, 5 dead. The MILF degenerates have learned a lesson from their big brothers in Iraq ...
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Palestinians Celebrate Suicide Bombing
Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 8:35:18 am PST
They haven’t stopped trying for one minute, and today the Palestinians managed to sneak two suicide bombers into the Israeli town of Dimona: Suicide bomber kills woman in southern Israel town. DIMONA, Israel (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber from the Gaza Strip killed a woman in southern Israel on ...
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Monday Early Morning Open
Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 4:02:01 am PST
I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding. — Steven Wright
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ElBaradei: Unconcerned
Sun, Feb 3, 2008 at 8:23:29 pm PST
The head of the United Nations’ blind, toothless nuclear watchdog agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, says he doesn’t see any reason to worry about Arab nuclear programs. “All the Arab countries’ nuclear activities will be under agency safeguard systems, so I don’t see a reason why anybody should be concerned about ... ...
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Super Bowl Open
Sun, Feb 3, 2008 at 6:03:22 pm PST
Here’s an open thread for Super Bowl discussion, boasting, and/or remorse, as the game heads into the fourth.
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AFP Shills for Hamas
Sun, Feb 3, 2008 at 5:47:25 pm PST
Oh please. Not this again. Despair as Gazans lose link to outside world. RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AFP) - Seventy-year-old Naim Ahjazi needs just a half-hour — 45 minutes at most — to run across the border to Egypt and pick up the desperately-needed farm supplies that he paid for last ...
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Poll: Which GOP Leader Will You Vote For?
Sun, Feb 3, 2008 at 2:30:55 pm PST
Here’s an LGF poll asking the simple question: [Poll]
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Steyn: It's A Shame One of Them Has to Win
Sun, Feb 3, 2008 at 1:52:47 pm PST
Mark Steyn sums it all up pretty well in this one: It’s a shame one of them has to win. Another colleague of mine, Michael Ledeen, suggests that the rise of McCain through New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida indicates that for many voters “the war” is still the issue, ...
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Sunday Open, with Regular Expression
Sun, Feb 3, 2008 at 11:25:14 am PST
An open thread for a rainy Super Bowl Sunday, in which I will gladly announce that an annoying issue with comments has been fixed: cutting and pasting of non-standard characters will no longer result in unsightly strings of Javascript Unicode (e.g. ‘%u2192’). This problem also showed up in using the ...
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Scotland Yard Bugged Muslim MP
Sun, Feb 3, 2008 at 10:41:24 am PST
The UK’s Sunday Times is leaking information about Scotland Yard anti-terrorism operations today: Police bugged Muslim MP Sadiq Khan. SCOTLAND YARD’S antiterrorist squad secretly bugged a high-profile Labour Muslim MP during private meetings with one of his constituents. Sadiq Khan, now a government whip, was recorded by an electronic listening device ...
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Islamic Terror Group Claims Mauritania Attack
Sun, Feb 3, 2008 at 8:44:15 am PST
To no one’s surprise, responsibility for the attack on the Israeli embassy in Mauritania has been claimed by “Al Qaida in North Africa”—formerly known as the “Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat.” Religion of peace! NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania: An al-Qaida affiliate purportedly claimed responsibility for a shooting attack on the Israeli Embassy ...
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Sunday Early Morning Open
Sun, Feb 3, 2008 at 2:03:01 am PST
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. — Dave Barry
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Zombie: At the Berkeley Marine Corps Front Line
Sat, Feb 2, 2008 at 7:31:02 pm PST
Zombie shows us what’s happpening at the Marine Corps Recruiting Center in Berkeley, and it’s not a pretty picture.
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Guardian Pulling for Qaradawi
Sat, Feb 2, 2008 at 6:23:35 pm PST
The Guardian’s “Comment is Free” section is a goldmine of crazy ideas, well-demonstrated by Sunny Hundal’s piece on the need for Britain to admit yet another Muslim Brotherhood mouthpiece in the name of a funhouse mirror version of “free speech:” Comment is free: Let al-Qaradawi in.
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Saturday Night Semi-Live
Sat, Feb 2, 2008 at 5:57:09 pm PST
Here’s an open thread for a not-so-sunny Saturday night, as Mitt Romney claims victory in the Maine caucus...
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Robert Fisk: Punk'd
Sat, Feb 2, 2008 at 5:12:00 pm PST
My favorite line in this one is when Fisk says he knew someone had forged his name on a biography of Saddam Hussein, because it was “full of the kind of purple passages which I loathe.” You can’t write comedy like that. The curious case of the forged biography. It ...
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Iowahawk TV Classics: Makaniak
Sat, Feb 2, 2008 at 2:29:43 pm PST
It’s another in the Iowahawk series of unreleased, unfilmed, and unreal TV shows from a long-lost era that never was, but might have been just yesterday: TV Classics: ‘Makaniak’.
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More Than 10,000 Links Served
Sat, Feb 2, 2008 at 1:33:16 pm PST
With more than 10,000 links in the database already, less than a month after launch, it looks like the “spinoff links” feature is pleasing to the ravening bloodthirsty hounds of the lizard army. Since the click counter was developed and launched on January 16, we’ve recorded 122,200 total clicks on ...
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Saturday Morning Open
Sat, Feb 2, 2008 at 11:18:55 am PST
An open thread for a sunny Saturday...
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Moonbat of the Day
Sat, Feb 2, 2008 at 9:49:17 am PST
The coveted award for leftist moonbat of the day goes to The Newshoggers, where they applaud the “brilliant” tactic of using women with Down’s Syndrome to perpetrate suicide bombings. For the record, assuming it’s true, I think it’s just horrible that whoever was behind this latest disaster used Down’s ...
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German Muslims Protest Against Self-Defense
Sat, Feb 2, 2008 at 9:16:37 am PST
After a Moroccan thug was stabbed to death in self-defense by a German man he was trying to rob, Muslims in Cologne took to the streets in protest. Apparently, they believe it’s their right to mug Germans, and the Germans should just accept it. And Spiegel Online seems to agree, in ...
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Saturday Early Morning Open
Sat, Feb 2, 2008 at 2:02:02 am PST
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. — Winston Churchill
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The Definition of Irony
Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 6:47:02 pm PST
Baron Bodissey puts out a warning at Gates of Vienna: Changing the Subject. To our regular commenters: I have a request. In many of our recent posts — for reasons that aren’t clear to me — no matter what topic is covered by the original posts, the comment threads are showing ...
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RIP, Netscape
Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 3:05:10 pm PST
Let’s have a moment of silence, please, for the demise of Netscape Navigator. The first browser I ever used. Sob. I’ll miss ... actually, no, I won’t really miss it. It birthed the web as we know it. But February 1 marks the demise of Netscape Navigator, the first commercial web ...
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Video: The Obama-Hillary Lovefest
Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 2:44:51 pm PST
From Mahalo Daily, the condensed version of last night’s syrupy-sweet Democratic lovefest. [Video]
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Crazy Uncle Hires Crazy Adviser
Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 2:38:07 pm PST
Kooky Uncle Ron Paul’s new foreign policy adviser is an America- and Israel-bashing ex-CIA agent who writes for the Huffington Post.
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Simberg: Triumph and Tragedy in Space
Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 1:57:27 pm PST
This month we have a number of noteworthy space exploration anniversaries, and Rand Simberg has a great overview of the triumphs and tragedies we all remember.
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Yon: Men of Valor
Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 1:54:31 pm PST
Michael Yon has another must-read installment in his “Men of Valor” series: Men of Valor: Part VII of VIII.
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Friday Morning Open
Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 11:05:24 am PST
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. — Aesop
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Worst Idea of the Week
Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 10:12:32 am PST
In the name of “sensitivity,” the British government is going to allow Islamic schools to conduct their own inspections. Private Muslim schools have been given the power to police themselves, despite widespread fears over religious segregation, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. In a controversial move, they have won the right to ...
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The End of the Waterboarding Controversy?
Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 9:37:00 am PST
Andrew McCarthy makes a great point about the absurdly inflated waterboarding controversy. Let’s take a step back. Credible reporting — which is not addressed in the attorney general’s letter — indicates that waterboarding has been used on no more than three of the thousands of detainees the United States has ...
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Al Qaeda Uses Handicapped Women in Mass Murder Attack
Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 8:54:53 am PST
It’s an appalling and sickening story, but it’s also an indicator of great desperation on Al Qaeda’s part: Al Qaeda use two ‘Down’s syndrome’ women to blow up 73 people in Baghdad markets. Two women who reportedly had Down’s syndrome may have been unwilling suicide bombers in twin blasts that ...
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CAIR Shilling for Hamas (Again)
Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 8:36:27 am PST
The radical Islamic front group calling itself the Council on American Islamic Relations has been laying low recently, waiting for the publicity over their now-revealed Hamas connections to die down. But it looks like their commanders in the Middle East have told them to get out there and start shilling ...
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Friday Early Morning
Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 3:43:01 am PST
To hold a pen is to be at war. — Voltaire
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