LGF Archives: February 2009
So Long, Paul Harvey
US News | Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:21:43 pm PST
Now he knows the rest of the story. Rest in peace, Paul Harvey.
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Moussa Abu Marzouk Goes to Gaza, For the First Time in a Long Time
Middle East | Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:34:15 pm PST
Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk, deported from the US in 1997, suddenly feels comfy enough to “secretly” visit Gaza, instead of spewing his bloodthirsty eliminationism from a safe haven in Syria: Top Syria-based Hamas leader secretly visits Gaza. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A top Syria-based Hamas leader secretly crossed ...
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Saturday Afternoon Hopin'
Open | Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:43:50 pm PST
The bark of the hope tree is sour. —Lao Stinky
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Panning Around the Compact Muon Solenoid
Science | Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:20:44 pm PST
Quicktime VR panoramas of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, from photographer Peter McCready: One, two, three, four, five, and six. (Hat tip: Boing Boing.)
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CPAC Live Video 4: Rush Limbaugh
Politics | Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:59:06 pm PST
[Video feed completed.]
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Bolt
Images | Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:42:11 pm PST
Camera: Canon Powershot G10 in macro mode, hand held.
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Obama's Budget Strong in Science Funding
Science | Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:18:35 pm PST
Wired Science lists some of the things in Obama’s budget that are making scientists smile. A $2.7 billion increase in the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget. That’s a 35 percent increase that will push the agency’s budget to $10.5 billion. The EPA also got $7 billion in the stimulus package. The National ...
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Vatican Trying to Reconcile Science and Religion
Religion | Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:36:26 am PST
Here’s a look at the Vatican’s walking-on-eggshells attitude toward Darwin’s theory of evolution, and their apparent dismissal of the “intelligent design” form of creationism: Reconciling Science, Religion. “The ongoing and vigorous engagement of the Catholic Church with evolutionary theory reflects, in my opinion, a fluid and dynamic pathway that combines ...
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CPAC Live Video 3
Politics | Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:21:54 am PST
Ann Coulter is speaking at 12:30 Eastern... [Video feed bumped up...] UPDATE at 2/28/09 10:40:07 am: Outside of a suggestion that Hillary Clinton wants to poison Bill, and a sideways monkey reference, I didn’t hear one of Coulter’s trademark offensive lines this time.
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Dobson Resigns from Focus on the Family
Religion | Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:12:53 am PST
Fundamentalist preacher/talk show host James Dobson has retired from Focus on the Family, the far-right religious-political organization he founded. The official reason given is that Dobson is making way for the next generation. His departure means that Focus recognizes the need to prepare for the post-Dobson era. Dobson turns 73 this ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:13:26 pm PST
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. — H. P. Lovecraft
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Holocaust-Denying Bishop May Be Arrested in Germany
Religion | Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:59:03 pm PST
The “Bishop” Richard Williamson Holocaust denial story is not going away: Bishop’s apology for Holocaust denial fails to placate Vatican and Germany. BISHOP RICHARD Williamson, whose denial of the Holocaust provoked an international outcry, could face further problems in Germany and in his strained relations with the Holy See despite ...
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Friday Afternoon Hubble
Science | Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:33:16 pm PST
NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes teamed up to expose the chaos that baby stars are creating 1,500 light years away in a cosmic cloud called the Orion nebula. This striking composite indicates that four monstrously massive stars, collectively called the “Trapezium,” at the center of the cloud may ...
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CPAC Live Video 2: Ron Paul
Politics | Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:07:24 pm PST
Here’s the live video feed from CPAC, as Ron Paul political coordinator John Tate takes the stage, to introduce the great man. [Live feed closed for the evening.]
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And Now for Some Joe Bonamassa
Video | Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:58:16 pm PST
A killer performance from blues shredder Joe Bonamassa and his band, from Rockpalast. (Excellent audio track on this video too.) The tune is “Takin’ the Hit” from So, It’s Like That. [Video]
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George Will's Climate Change Column, Part 3
Science | Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:09:14 pm PST
Time for the next round in the controversy over George Will’s recent column for the Washington Post on climate change, and results reported/disputed by the University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center. Here’s the relevant section from Will’s new column: As for the anonymous scientists’ unspecified claims about the column’s ...
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Chicago Tea Party Pix
Politics | Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:37:28 am PST
Photos from the Chicago Tea Party at Founding Bloggers. UPDATE at 2/27/09 11:52:49 am: Age of Hooper has a photo from the DC Tea Party. Apparently wasn’t the most exciting political rally ever. I think they really need some giant papier mache puppets to get the crowds pumped up. UPDATE at 2/27/09 1:32:48 ...
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Obama Administration Pulls Out of Durban II
World | Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:03:08 am PST
Here’s a little piece of good news: U.S. pulling out of racism conference. White House aides told Jewish leaders on a conference call today that the United States will boycott the United Nations’ World Conference on Racism over hostility to Israel in draft documents prepared for the April conference. The aides, ...
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Safari 4 Hidden Prefs
Science | Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:07:26 am PST
Here’s a handy list of Safari 4 Hidden Preferences. To change these preferences, you use the Mac OS X Terminal application, located in: Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal If you’ve never used the Terminal before, here’s an introduction.
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Biden To Sell Bankruptcy to the Coal Industry
Politics | Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:24:44 am PST
Joltin’ Joe Biden’s next job: making a case for carbon caps. PHILADELPHIA – The Obama administration is hoping to convince struggling Rust Belt and coal country states that the cap on carbon emissions they have long resisted as a threat to their livelihoods is actually the key to their economic ...
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Now They're Surprised
Middle East | Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:47:12 am PST
Think maybe they should have been actually, you know, paying attention during the campaign, when one Obama anti-Israel associate after another was being revealed? Jewish Leaders Blast Clinton Over Israel Criticism. NEW YORK (CBS) ― In a swift about face from her views as New York’s senator, Secretary of State ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:11:11 pm PST
The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious, it has need of a wise and merry philosophy. — Lin Yutang
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CPAC Live Video 1
Video | Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:36:55 pm PST
Here’s a live video feed from CPAC, via Ustream.tv: [Feed closed for the evening...]
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Video: Skeptic vs. Creationist
Video | Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:14:54 pm PST
Michael Shermer of the Skeptics Society interviews Answers in Genesis’s star young earth creationist Georgia Purdom (who has a Ph.D. in molecular genetics from Ohio State University), at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY on February 18, 2009. Apparently this video may not be on Google video for much longer, so ...
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Safari 4 Ups and Downs
Science | Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:17:46 pm PST
After a couple of days of using the public beta of Safari 4, there are three main points of contention interrupting my workflow. 1) I post to LGF primarily by using a Javascript bookmarklet (a bit of Javascript code that works as a bookmark) that pops up a new window containing ...
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Exorcise the Jindal Deniers!
Politics | Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:29:16 pm PST
Apparently there is a significant faction of hidebound GOP spokesmen who believe that criticizers of Bobby Jindal must be cast into the outer darkness: Rush: If you think Jindal reeked last night, I don’t want to hear from you again.
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That Dreaded T Word
Opinion | Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:38:23 am PST
New York Times correspondent Michael Slackman is convinced he’s figured out the real problem in the Middle East, and pleads with the Obama administration to stop saying the ‘T’ word: Memo From Cairo - Disentangling Layers of a Loaded Term in Search of a Thread of Peace - NYTimes.com. The ...
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Totten: Christopher Hitchens and the Battle of Beirut
Middle East | Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:51:52 am PST
Here’s Michael Totten’s account of Christopher Hitchens and the Battle of Beirut. Christopher was encircled by four or five of them. They were geared up to smash him, and I reached for his hand to pull him away. One of the toughs clawed at my arm and left me with ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:22:31 pm PST
Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately. — Eugène Ionesco
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And Now for Some Pat Metheny
Video | Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:41:39 pm PST
Pat Metheny with the Metropool Orchestra at the 2003 North Sea Jazz Festival: [Video] (Hat tip: Noah.)
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Digging a Little Deeper
Science | Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:20:02 pm PST
Come with us now on a journey into the philosophical implications of ... Intelligent Design? Since Charles over at LGF was kind enough to link to my blog in this article, and identified me as an “anti-intelligent design” blogger, I figured it would be best to write something about the ...
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Volcano Monitors Unite!
Science | Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:46:37 pm PST
At The Volcanism Blog (you knew there had to be one!), they’re not too happy about Governor Bobby Jindal’s “volcano monitoring” slam: Something called ‘volcano monitoring’. The Volcanism Blog does not do politics, any more than it does sport, religion or cookery. In particular, as a blog born and bred ...
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Some Pro-Evolution Bloggers
Science | Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:16:47 pm PST
We weren’t intending to make a big thing of it, but we should have known that as soon as we offered to link to pro-evolution bloggers, the links would start pouring in through the hatches. Here’s the most current list, just to give ‘em all big plugs for standing up ...
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Onion: Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children?
Video | Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:49:26 pm PST
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Stock Market Yo-Yo Watch
Open | Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:37:44 pm PST
The Dow’s down another 80 points after a short lived rally spurred by the student takeover of NYU, so here’s your open afternoon unclenching thread...
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Safari 4 Public Beta
Science | Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:43:52 pm PST
There’s a treat at the Apple website: Apple Releases Beta of Safari 4. Here’s a direct link to the download page. First geeked-out impressions: the Javascript engine is screaming fast. Pages with a lot of Javascript are much quicker. LGF seems to work just dandy, and I haven’t encountered any rendering problems ...
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No We Didn't
Politics | Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:20:03 am PST
What can you say? Obama Thinks America Invented The Automobile.
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New Poll of Muslim World Shows Plenty of Clenching
World | Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:10:23 am PST
The results of a new poll of the Muslim world are highly disturbing. The CFQ (Clenched Fist Quotient) seems to be increasing in many areas. Rusty at the Jawa Report breaks it all down: Poll of Muslim World Gives Few Reasons for Hope.
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York: 'Everyone Seems a Little Embarrassed'
Politics | Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:30:30 am PST
Byron York just got off the phone... I just got off the phone with a very plugged-in Republican strategist who told me that Republican reaction to President Obama’s speech, which the party will roll out in the next few days, will mark the beginning of a new GOP approach to ...
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Conservative Commentators Not Sold on Jindal
Politics | Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:49:15 am PST
Here are some quotes from conservatives reviewing The Two Speeches. On President Obama: Sen. John McCain told a CBS Web cast: “The president gave a very effective speech. I think it was a balance between the size and enormity of the challenges we face, but also an expression of hope and ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:28:06 pm PST
In the midst of the word he was trying to say, In the midst of his laughter and glee, He had softly and suddenly vanished away — For the Snark was a Boojum, you see. — Lewis Carroll
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Connecting Some Dots
Opinion | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:48:09 pm PST
Kejda Gjermani has been researching some Connections.
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Some Anti-Creationism Bloggers
Blogosphere | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:35:50 pm PST
Earlier I mentioned in passing that I’d link to any bloggers who aren’t down with the “intelligent design” creationist movement — conservative/liberal/other. Here are some of the bloggers who’ve responded so far, and it’s not the usual geeks from ScienceBlogs: Defining “Creationism” Down Noblesse Oblige » Which Controversy? Discovery Institute vs ...
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The First LGF Obama-Jindal Poll
Politics | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:14:18 pm PST
[Poll] [Poll]
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Big Speech Wind Down
Politics | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:05:46 pm PST
Was that everything you hoped it would be?
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And Now Governor Jindal, Thread 2
Politics | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:24:37 pm PST
A second thread for Governor Bobby Jindal’s answer to the Obama love fest we just witnessed. UPDATE at 2/24/09 7:39:05 pm: I’ll bet the volcanologists aren’t happy after that. Jindal threw “volcano monitoring” under the bus. You guys in the Pacific Northwest — no “bailouts” for you! It was probably the most specific ...
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And Now Governor Jindal, Thread 1
Politics | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:15:35 pm PST
Next up in the squared circle, Bobby Jindal’s response to the President’s non-SOTU...
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Obama's Non-SOTU SOTU, Thread 4
Politics | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:02:27 pm PST
Another discussion thread, with the previous one approaching 1,000 as Joe Biden keeps a vigilant eye on his Blackberry for the producer’s cues.
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Obama's Non-SOTU SOTU, Thread 3
Politics | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:36:41 pm PST
It’s a love fest! Line of the night for me so far: “I promise you — I get it!” Should have been followed with a big wink and a thumbs-up. Here’s your third thread for the evening... UPDATE at 2/24/09 7:00:30 pm: “For seven years we’ve been a nation at war. NO LONGER WILL WE ...
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Obama's Non-SOTU SOTU, Thread 2
Politics | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:16:12 pm PST
A second thread since the first is already raging out of control... So many smiling politicians as he makes his entrance. Now I’m becoming afraid.
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Obama's Non-SOTU SOTU, Thread 1
Politics | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:51:18 pm PST
They’re not calling it a “State of the Union” speech, because tradition dictates that the first SOTU is given one year after a President’s inauguration. In everything but name, however, that’s what it is. Here’s our first thread to live-blog, criticize, and perhaps even issue a rueful chuckle or two, as ...
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Obama's Representative to Durban II Apologizes
World | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:22:31 pm PST
Please tell me this is some kind of bad dream and we’re all going to wake up soon. Scene 1: The UN committee planning the Durban-2 pro-racism - I mean “anti-racism” - conference. Libya chairs the committee, Iran is the vice-chair, Cuba, the rapporteur, and Russia is presiding. The plan ...
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AP Time Warp
Media | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:42:30 pm PST
This seems to be more and more common: wire service reports on speeches and events that haven’t happened yet. AP Democratic shill Jennifer Loven has filed one of the more egregious examples, lavishing praise on Barack Obama before he’s even said a word: Obama aims for sober honesty, optimism in ...
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Defining "Creationism" Down
Politics | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:46:40 pm PST
Randy Barnett follows up his post on the appalling prevalence of creationists in the GOP, with a point I’ve also been hammering over and over: Defining “Creationism” Down. If your favorite candidate is on record favoring creationism as science to be taught in government schools, he or she has already ...
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WND Promotes Nirtherism in Iraq
Weird | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:15:57 am PST
Oh, for Pete’s sake. World Net Daily continues to promote the world’s stupidest conspiracy theory, with a story about a soldier in Iraq who’s committing insubordination because of his Nirther delusions: Soldier doubts eligibility, defies president’s orders. This link was emailed to me last night by a Nirther who wrote: “Now will ...
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Tuesday Morning Open
Open | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:55:21 am PST
This [the intelligent design movement] isn’t really, and never has been, a debate about science, it’s about religion and philosophy. — Phillip E. Johnson, father of “intelligent design”
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The PLO-Hamas Coalition Sham
Middle East | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:29:09 am PST
The Obama administration seems to think they’ll get around the ban on negotiating with terrorist rogue states by promoting a “coalition government” between the PLO and Hamas. But once again, this idea is painfully naïve. Hamas may play along for a while, but the Islamists have no real interest in ...
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Scientologists: Psychiatry Caused 9/11 and the Holocaust
Weird | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:46:02 am PST
The latest weird science promoted by Scientology in their crusade against psychiatry: Psychiatry causes terrorism. On Two scientology chat shows prominent members of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (a Scientology front group whose overwrought website dedicated to exposing psychiatry as an “Industry of Death” can be seen here) calmly ...
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If the US Has a 'Health Czar,' Who Are the Serfs?
Health | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:30:49 am PST
In The Examiner, Dr. Paul Hsieh asks a good question: Why does America need a “health czar?” The concept of a health czar follows naturally from the welfare statists’ premise that government should guarantee health care to all Americans. Whenever the government attempts to guarantee universal medical care, it must ...
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North Korean Fist Thoroughly Clenched
World | Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:19:50 am PST
Come on now, Kim! Unclench! Pretty please? North Korea says preparing rocket launch. SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Tuesday it was preparing to launch a satellite on one of its rockets, which analysts have said would actually be a test-launch of its longest-range missile. The announcement, which unsettled financial ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:25:49 pm PST
Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover’s kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one’s neck. — W. H. Auden, After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics
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Texas School Board Creationists: Darwin Would Have Liked Us
Science | Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:16:48 pm PST
The latest jaw-dropping spin from the creationists on the Texas State Board of Education: Darwin would have wanted us to teach creationism. Complete with classic out of context, deceptive Darwin quotes! They’re shameless. Darwin himself would not have supported censorship of the scientific weaknesses of his own theory. Indeed he ...
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Kindle 2 Shipping
Lifestyle | Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:49:26 pm PST
Version 2 of Amazon’s excellent E-Book reader is now shipping: Kindle 2: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation). Mine is on the way. Yes, I couldn’t resist. I’ll post a review when it gets here.
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During Financial Crisis, Obama Sends $1B to Gaza
US News | Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:16:29 pm PST
While the United States is in the midst of a serious financial crisis, the Obama administration is handing over another $1 billion to the Hamas-riddled United Nations Relief and Works Agency. It will be used for humanitarian purposes, of course, so that the Hamas “government” can spend all their money ...
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The Obama Administration and Durban II
Middle East | Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:49:01 pm PST
Anyone who didn’t see this coming was not paying attention during the election to Barack Obama’s numerous ties to Palestinian activists and radical anti-Israel academics: The Obama Administration Sacrifices Israel. The Obama administration’s decision to join the planning of the U.N.’s Durban II “anti-racism” conference has just taken a new ...
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Yon on Al Qaeda in Iraq
World | Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:09:18 pm PST
Michael Yon comments on a New Bid to Eradicate al Qaeda. Iraq continues to progress, but still some fighting. Yet these days, al Qaeda in Iraq is like a piranha fish with no scales; it’s still alive and flopping around on shore, but the dwindling piranha school cannot be happy. ...
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Stock Market Free Fall Thread
Business | Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:49:55 am PST
As I write, the Dow index is down more than 140 points, and the INDP is approaching 7,000. The market does not seem to be responding very well to the massive spending bill signed by Barack Obama. Here’s a thread to discuss...
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The GOP and Creationism
Politics | Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:08:08 am PST
For reference, I’m not the only blogger who believes that the GOP’s association with creationism is one of the factors that caused massive losses in the last two elections; Randy Barnett at the Volokh Conspiracy: This is Not Good. And since there are so many people who insist on denying this, ...
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Al Jazeera: The Network That Praises Child Killers
Media | Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:38:53 am PST
In the new era of hope and change, Al Jazeera, the hateful antisemitic voice of the Muslim Brotherhood, is making another push to get US and Canadian cable providers to carry their slick, sanitized, but still hateful English version: Al Jazeera Lobbies Online for U.S. Cable Access. The Middle East ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:13:20 pm PST
Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes — ah, there’s a case Where the most careful scrutiny is needed To tell a voice that’s genuinely good From one that’s base but merely has succeeded. — W. H. Auden
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Open Oscar Thread
Open | Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:57:52 pm PST
I gotta be honest. My interest in the Academy Awards approaches absolute zero. But I know I’m in the minority, so here’s an open thread for the lizard army to dish...
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Name That Baby Gorilla
Science | Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:04:14 pm PST
Remember this unbearably cute baby from the San Francisco Zoo? Well, he’s growing up. And still mind-warpingly cute. And the Zoo is running a contest to give him a name. (Courtesy of ZooBorns.)
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The Top 3 GOP Governors: All Creationists
Politics | Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:11:28 pm PST
Here’s an Associated Press article on three Republican governors who are being looked at as front runners in the 2012 presidential election: Mark Sanford, Tim Pawlenty, and Bobby Jindal. All creationists. Mark Sanford: Newswatch * WIS * TV * January 29, 2006 Host: David Stanton Guest: Gov. Mark Sanford DS: What do you think about ...
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Video: Bum Bum Bum
Video | Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:17:53 pm PST
Some music videos are so incredibly awful that they wrap around, and become works of genius. I’m not sure this one quite makes it to wraparound status, but here’s a 1967 Czech video by Karel Gott, the story of a boy who wants to use a cannon to break down ...
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George Will Misrepresents Climate Change Study, Part Deux
Science | Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:40:40 pm PST
Carl Zimmer has posted an interesting response to the points that were raised repeatedly in yesterday’s comment thread on George Will’s climate change column: A Wrinkle In Ice (or Not). In his reply to me, Chapman explained that the two research centers, NSIDC and ACRC, both use the SSMI satellite ...
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Video: James Randi vs. Dowsing
Science | Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:55:43 am PST
The James Randi Educational Foundation has a standing offer of a million dollars to anyone who can prove that they are able to dowse—the woo-woo practice of detecting hidden objects like water, pipes, wires, etc., with the aid of metal or wooden rods. Here’s Randi’s classic response to a dowser ...
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Third Party Time?
Politics | Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:10:49 am PST
Is it time for The American Tea Party?
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Terror Attack in Cairo
World | Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:52:48 am PST
An explosion in a tourist area in Cairo, Egypt, has killed at least one person and injured 12. At least one person has been killed and 12 injured in a bomb explosion in the Egyptian capital Cairo, police say. They say foreigners were among the victims after the blast outside a ...
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Jindal on Meet the Press
Politics | Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:45:25 am PST
This morning Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was on Meet the Press, and despite the fact that David Gregory’s call for questions on his blog resulted in many suggestions that Gregory ask Jindal about his support for creationism and his other extreme social conservative positions, there wasn’t a single question from ...
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Syrian Fist Shows No Sign of Unclenching
World | Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:35:19 am PST
More evidence was announced Friday that Syria is running a clandestine nuclear program: Syria samples reveal more uranium. The UN nuclear agency says it has found additional particles of uranium in samples taken from the site of an alleged nuclear facility in Syria. Syria denied the site was a nuclear reactor ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:21:30 pm PST
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. — Arthur C. Clarke
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Glenn Beck: The End is Nigh
Weird | Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 7:06:20 pm PST
I’ve been expecting this meltdown since Glenn Beck started talking about the “End Times” on his Fox News show last week, but yesterday he went full-on survivalist. All he needs is a sandwich board reading, “Repent, sinners!” Is it irresponsible for Fox News to be airing this over the top, creepy ...
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Washington State Creationist Wants to Legalize the 'Supreme Ruler of the Universe'
Weird | Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 5:54:25 pm PST
A textbook example of being unclear on the concept of “the separation of church and state.” Kim Struiksma doesn’t think evolution should be taught in schools. So the 25-year-old Blaine resident, along with a group of friends from her church, have fashioned Initiative 1040, which “concerns a supreme ruler of ...
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The Door Opens - Update: The Door Closes
Open | Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:30:00 pm PST
Registration is open for a limited time. Read all the rules before you register. Commit them to memory. Don’t register with a proxy. Don’t register with a throwaway email address. Don’t register more than one account at a time. Don’t be a jerk. Don’t be a troll. Do play nice. And then everything will be groovy. UPDATE at 2/21/09 5:32:51 ...
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George Will Misrepresents Climate Change Study
Science | Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:21:42 pm PST
No matter where you stand on the issue of anthropogenic climate change, surely we can all agree that misrepresenting facts isn’t going to help anyone understand the subject—and calls into question the motives of those who do it: The Sea Ice Affair, Continued. Monday I bemoaned the lack of fact-checking ...
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Hillary Throws Human Rights Under the Bus
World | Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:17:14 am PST
Imagine if this had been said by a Bush administration official: Activists ‘shocked’ at Clinton stance on China rights. WASHINGTON (AFP) – Amnesty International and a pro-Tibet group voiced shock Friday after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed not to let human rights concerns hinder cooperation with China. Paying her ...
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Tennis Star Andy Roddick Won't Play in Dubai
Sports | Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:06:11 am PST
The World Tennis Association has imposed a large fine on organizers of the Dubai tournament for excluding an Israeli player, and US tennis star Andy Roddick has announced he won’t play in the tournament. The WTA yesterday fined Dubai Tennis Championships organizers a record $300,000 - more than double its ...
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Ask Bobby Jindal About His Creationism
Politics | Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:31:36 am PST
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is on Meet the Press this Sunday; David Gregory has a post on his blog asking for questions: The View From Here: I need YOUR thoughts on Jindal. (Hat tip: Cronus.) Thinking about the interview with Governor Bobby Jindal Sunday. He’s thought to be a serious ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:12:42 pm PST
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it.... Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory. — Jimmy Swaggart
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Another Stealth Creationist Bill in New Mexico
Science | Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:27:29 pm PST
Add New Mexico to the lengthening list of states in which Republican politicians are introducing bills intended to sneak the teaching of creationism into science classes, under the deceptive mantle of “academic freedom.” (Hat tip: wrenchwench.) UPDATE at 2/20/09 8:41:10 pm: And again, the creationists at the Discovery Institute provided the model for ...
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The Biggest Gamma Ray Burst Ever Detected
Science | Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:44:31 pm PST
If this had happened a little bit closer to our solar system, we wouldn’t be worrying about the stimulus bill any more: Huge gamma-ray blast spotted 12.2 bln light-years from earth. WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US space agency’s Fermi telescope has detected a massive explosion in space which scientists say ...
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Gradual Change We Can Believe In
Science | Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:38:14 pm PST
A poster that fills me with hope.
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How Not to Memorialize Aqsa Parvez
Blogosphere | Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:11:42 pm PST
The story of one of the most disgusting publicity stunts I think I’ve ever heard of: Chris Selley: How not to memorialize Aqsa Parvez. As the Toronto Sun’s Joe Warmington reported last week, the online campaign to properly memorialize Aqsa has been led by one Pamela Geller, proprietor of the ...
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HuffPo Apologizes for Fake 'Racist' Video
Blogosphere | Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:13:05 pm PST
The Huffington Post has admitted they posted a doctored video intended to make radio host John Gibson look like a racist: Huffpo Red in the Face Over Fox News Hoax. Kudos go to johnny dollar’s place for breaking this story.
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Friday Morning Open
Open | Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:23:58 am PST
According to my careful prosthesis, this thread has been opened...
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British Students Required to Think Like Suicide Bombers
World | Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:30:15 am PST
What could possibly go wrong with this brilliant idea? Pupils told to think like a suicide bomber. The exercise is part of a teaching pack aimed at secondary school pupils that has been adopted by the Department for Children, Schools and Families. It requires children to prepare a presentation on ...
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Robert Spencer Echoes the Islamists He Opposes
Blogosphere | Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:50:27 am PST
Robert Spencer has now graduated to making empty legal threats, sending angry email to a blogger who removed Spencer’s site from his blogroll: Java Zen:Thinking Out Loud » Changes to the Blog Roll. Everything I wrote in this post was purely factual, and easily proven—and Spencer himself has already admitted to ...
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Krauthammer: Obama's 'Kick Me' Diplomacy
Opinion | Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:42:10 am PST
Interestingly, the Washington Post editors apparently toned down the title on Charles Krauthammer’s latest op-ed, from Obama’s ‘Kick Me’ Diplomacy (still visible in the print version) to Obama’s Supine Diplomacy (but they forgot to change the page title). With a grinning Goliath staggering about sporting a “kick me” sign on ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:17:44 pm PST
My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that you can fight City Hall and win; that any action is better than no action, even if it’s the wrong action; that you never reach ...
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Lebo: Using 'Academic Freedom' to Keep God in the Science Classroom
Science | Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:24:15 pm PST
Some LGF readers have been asking, “Hey, why are you opposed to these ‘academic freedom’ bills? Do you hate academic freedom? What’s wrong with teaching kids all sides of the evolution controversy?” Before continuing, this needs to be said: there is no “evolution controversy,” except the bogus one ginned up by ...
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Video: Iraqi Police Get a Motivational Speech
Video | Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:57:53 pm PST
I saw this last week, but it slipped through the cracks. A US Army soldier has some ... special instructions for a group of Iraqi police, who apparently haven’t been sufficiently motivated. (You might expect a language warning for something like this, and you’d be right.) [Video]
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Economic Failure Endorses Stimulus
Business | Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:15:42 pm PST
If there’s anyone still alive with a worse record on addressing economic problems, I don’t know who it would be. Jimmy Carter gives the stimulus bill the Kiss of Death. ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter has voiced support for President Barack Obama’s plan to stimulate the economy. Carter says ...
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Another Stealth Creationist Bill in Missouri
Science | Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:34:14 am PST
Following the lead of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who promoted and signed into law a bill intended to sneak creationism into science classrooms, Republicans in one state after another are trying to do the same thing. The latest example is in Missouri: Antievolution legislation in Missouri. House Bill 656, introduced ...
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Kerry in Dreamland
Middle East | Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:16:48 am PST
Lurch says: “We want Syria to help with the disarmament of Hezbollah.” BEIRUT (AFP) – Senator John Kerry said on Wednesday that the new US administration will press Syria to help disarm Lebanese militant group Hezbollah as it forges ahead with a fresh diplomatic approach in the region. “We want Syria ...
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Obvious Headline of the Day
World | Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:25:13 am PST
The Associated Press helpfully informs us that the Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at President Bush was protesting the war. BAGHDAD – The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush failed to apologize as his trial began Thursday, and instead appealed defiantly to the pride ...
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ElBaradei on the Legitimacy of Arab Public Opinion
World | Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:20:07 am PST
The United Nations’ blind, toothless nuclear “watchdog,” Mohamed ElBaradei, writes another ridiculous article for the International Herald Tribune, to point a finger at the “real reason” why Arab states want nuclear weapons: Israel. The Middle East, home to the world’s most perilous and intractable conflict, will never be at peace ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:10:34 pm PST
The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. — Pat Robertson
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We Got Mail!
Weird | Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:20:40 pm PST
Sometimes the LGF Inbox gets ... weird. Tonight’s message from the Twilight Zone comes from an AOL customer somewhere in Proxyland, USA, titled: “Over Population.” Yes, that’s two separate words, both capitalized for extra emphasis. Evolution and Creation does not matter. Here is what matters. The world’s population is now 6.8 Billion ...
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Coyne: Forbes Debases Journalism and Science
Science | Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:45:20 pm PST
Professor Jerry Coyne reads the scientific riot act to Forbes Magazine, for “balancing” their stories on Charles Darwin’s birthday by giving several of the most benighted creationists in America a platform from which to shout their nonsense: Why Evolution Is True. Far more disturbing is Forbes’ ham-handed policy of “balancing” ...
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Christopher Hitchens Attacked in Beirut
Middle East | Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:41:28 pm PST
Christopher Hitchens is visiting Lebanon, and apparently was attacked and beaten by pro-Syrian neo-Nazis after he wrote some ... unflattering graffiti on an SSNP poster: Hot Air: Report: Hitchens beaten by Syrian thugs in Beirut? Some Hot Air commenters are applauding the SSNP thugs. UPDATE at 2/18/09 2:55:38 pm: Looks like Michael Totten ...
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Shimon Peres Admits He Was Wrong
Middle East | Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:09:12 pm PST
Israeli President Shimon Peres admits he was wrong about withdrawing from Gaza. President Shimon Peres said Wednesday that he had erred in supporting Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza. The revealing remarks come three years after Israel’s evacuation of the volatile coastal strip which has since been seized by Hamas. “Whatever will happen ...
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Eric Holder: 'A Nation of Cowards'
Politics | Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:45:54 am PST
Barack Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, says America is “a nation of cowards.” “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.”
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Wednesday Morning Open
Open | Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:39:14 am PST
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? — Carl Sagan
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Fists Thoroughly Clenched in Indonesia, Despite Hillary's Apologies
World | Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:28:19 am PST
They’re rioting and throwing shoes and holding signs emblazoned with hateful illustrations in Indonesia, as Hillary Clinton arrives to ask them to unclench their fists, and apologize for America’s unwillingness to listen. [Video] (Hat tip: Gateway Pundit.)
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No Fans Allowed When Sweden Hosts Israel
World | Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:32:08 am PST
In the Swedish city of Malmo, tennis matches between Sweden and Israel will be held in an empty arena, because they’re afraid of violence from Muslims. Of course, they don’t put it that way; it’s the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. MALMO, Sweden (AP) ...
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Obama Speaks on Foreclosure Giveaway
Politics | Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:26:07 am PST
The crowd in Arizona is cheering him like a rock star, as Barack Obama prepares to announce a $75 billion giveaway to help people facing foreclosure. Here’s a thread to discuss it...
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Jailhouse Islam Behind Cop Killings in Philadelphia?
US News | Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:52:04 am PST
A disturbing story from Philadelphia: Police Investigate Whether Jailhouse Islam Could Be Behind Cop Killings. PHILADELPHIA - The fact that Rasheed Scrugs allegedly announced he was going to kill a cop and then shot Philadelphia Police Officer John Pawlowski with a gun hidden inside his coat pocket has detectives digging ...
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France Finally Admits Role in Holocaust
World | Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:40:17 am PST
It took them 67 years, but France is finally admitting their responsibility for the deportation of Jews in World War II. France’s highest court has recognised the state’s “responsibility” for the deportation of Jews in World War II. The Council of State said the state had permitted or facilitated deportations that ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:08:16 pm PST
I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God — you just rejected Him from your city. And don’t wonder why He hasn’t helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I’m not saying they will, but ...
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Islamic Scholars with Fists Firmly Clenched Meet in Istanbul to Plot Murder
Middle East | Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:04:50 pm PST
Over the weekend, more than 200 of the top clerics and scholars of the Religion of Peace™ met in “moderate” Istanbul to call for murdering lots more Jews, and to promise their support to the terrorist gang Hamas. At a weekend meeting in Istanbul, 200 religious scholars and clerics met ...
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Colorado Protests the Porkulus
Politics | Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:53:57 pm PST
Colorado Says No To Obama’s Package of Pork. Unfortunately, to no avail.
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Dawkins on the Truth of Evolution
Science | Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:06:37 pm PST
I’m sure it’s going to enrage our creationist contingent even more (if that’s possible) that I’m linking to an article by the satanic atheist Richard Dawkins, but his point on the truth of evolutionary science is compelling and powerful. Just as you entrust your travel to a Boeing 747 rather ...
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Support I Don't Really Need
Blogosphere | Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:08:40 pm PST
There’s nothing like a left-handed compliment from Andrew Sullivan to totally creep you out.
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Chesler on Honor Killings
Religion | Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:04:52 pm PST
Here’s a good essay by Phyllis Chesler on the question: Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence?
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Tuesday Afternoon Open
Open | Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:17:58 pm PST
Here’s a piquant fusion of delicate tastes and pungent spices, prepared with only the finest ingredients by world-class artisans ... in other words, an open thread.
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Obama Speaks Before Signing Spending Bill
Politics | Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:13:06 pm PST
Here’s a thread to discuss President Hopenchange’s speech, before he signs the largest spending bill ever conceived by human beings.
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Mission Statement of the Day
Blogosphere | Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:33:51 am PST
I’ve posted this many times in LGF comments, but with the increasing extremism of the so-called “anti-jihad movement,” it’s time to make it a front page post. If you argue that it’s vitally necessary to deport the entire Muslim population of the United States, you are ADVOCATING MASS MURDER. Yes, I’m shouting. There ...
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Bill Press: The Fairness Doctrine Will Let Me 'Make Money'
Media | Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:08:28 am PST
Leftist radio talk show host Bill Press supports the Fairness Doctrine, because it’s the only way he can make money. I know why I’m interested in it because I get up every morning at 3:45, I do three hours of talk radio every day from six to nine, that’s my ...
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Former Muslim Brotherhood Front Man Running for Office As Democrat in Virginia
US News | Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:47:39 am PST
Look who’s popping up again, running for office as a Democrat in Virginia: Esam Omeish, former president of the Muslim Brotherhood front group MAS. Elections for vacant seats in the House of Delegates are always interesting, but the Democratic nomination fight in the 35th District looks like it’ll be interesting ...
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Shocka! NOW Decries 'Honor Killing'
US News | Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:20:51 am PST
The National Organization for Women shocks us this morning, by actually noticing that the brutal beheading of Aasiya Zubair Hassan by her husband (the founder of Islamist channel Bridges TV) just might be an honor killing. The gruesome death of Orchard Park resident Aasiya Zubair Hassan — who was found decapitated ...
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Major Scientific Society Boycotts Louisiana to Protest Creationism Bill
Science | Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:15:03 am PST
As we noted last Saturday, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, a major scientific organization, is boycotting Louisiana for its 2011 convention, in protest of Governor Bobby Jindal’s promotion and signing of a stealth creationism bill. The New Orleans Times-Picayune has more on the story: National science group boycotting ...
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Tennis Channel Cancels Dubai Event to Protest Exclusion of Israeli Player
Sports | Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:52:26 am PST
Now here’s a truly (sadly) unusual story; a media company with guts and integrity: With Shahar Peer Barred, Tennis Channel Won’t Show Dubai Event. The Tennis Channel will not televise the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships this week to protest the United Arab Emirates’ refusal to grant an entry visa to ...
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Fake US Military Equipment in CBS Video?
Media | Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:49:48 am PST
A CBS News story on US military equipment supposedly “looted” in Afghanistan is apparently bogus, according to The Voice of Warriors: CBS News fooled by Faux military equipment in Pakistan. [Video]
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TIME Throws Daily Kos Under the Bus
Blogosphere | Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:32:23 am PST
The bloom is off the rose for TIME Magazine, as they rate Daily Kos among the five most overrated blogs on the web.
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:20:38 pm PST
And, I know that I’ll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. ...
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Hubble's Next Discovery: You Decide
Science | Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:13:48 pm PST
Have you always wanted to control where to point the Hubble Space Telescope? Now you can: Hubble’s Next Discovery - You Decide. YOU’RE IN CONTROL! In 1609, Galileo turned his telescope on the night sky for the first time. Now, 400 years later, your vote will help make the momentous ...
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Hannity's Scaremonger of the Day
US News | Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:53:12 pm PST
Tonight on the Sean Hannity show, a featured guest was Martin Mawyer, discussing what he says is a network of Islamic terror cells in the United States, planning attacks with weapons of mass destruction. Who is Martin Mawyer? SPLCenter.org: ‘A Mighty Army’. Yes, I know, it’s the Southern Poverty Law Center again; ...
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Pakistan Surrendering
World | Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:02:09 pm PST
This is really, really bad news, as Pakistan capitulates to Taliban terrorists. PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Pakistan agreed Monday to suspend military offensives and impose Islamic law in part of the restive northwest, making a gesture it hopes will help calm the Taliban insurgency while rejecting Washington’s call for tougher measures ...
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Outing a Liar
Blogosphere | Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:55:01 pm PST
Here’s a guy who used to be a registered LGF commenter (“ElKafir”) with a post accusing me of “deceptive malevolence,” and claiming he never wrote a comment I attributed to him: Transsylvania Phoenix: To LGF’s Charles Johnson: You Really Lost It, Pal! Well, unfortunately for this person, when I delete a ...
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Ledeen: We're All Fascists Now
Opinion | Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:33:21 pm PST
Two good posts about the true meaning of “fascism,” and why the current US government course is more “fascist” than “socialist,” by Michael Ledeen: We Are All Fascists Now We’re All Fascists Now II: American Tyranny.
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Missing Link Between Carnivores and Herbivores Discovered in Argentina
Science | Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:00:23 pm PST
Another transitional fossil—an intermediate species that shares characteristics with two distinct groups of animals—has been discovered in Argentina: an omnivorous dinosaur. BUENOS AIRES (AFP) — Scientists have found fossil remains of an omnivorous dinosaur in Argentina — a missing link to the carnivores, a researcher said Monday. “It is an omnivore ...
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President's Day Open
Open | Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:33:38 am PST
Here’s an open thread for the day of the presidents, formerly known as Washington’s birthday...
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Ridiculously Biased Headline of the Day
Media | Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:45:56 am PST
To the al-Reuters news organization, the fact that Hamas kidnapped an Israeli soldier is insignificant; instead, it’s Israel who’s endangering the “truce” by insisting that Hamas free their kidnap victim: Israeli brinkmanship puts Gaza truce in peril. Absolutely open bias in favor of a terrorist group. Just another day for al-Reuters. ...
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IDF Report on Operation Cast Lead Casualties
Middle East | Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:25:48 am PST
Important new information has been released by the IDF about Palestinian casualties during the most recent invasion of Gaza, and as you might have expected, the media and international NGOs have grossly distorted the truth: The Battle for Accuracy in the Media is Engaged: The IDF Weighs in on Casualty ...
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We Got Mail! (And the Door Opens) - Update: The Door Closes
Opinion | Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:02:59 am PST
After my posts on Ann Coulter’s unconscionable defense of a blatantly white supremacist organization, it’s no surprise to find several hate mails in the Inbox this morning. And the usual blogosphere primates are pointing and screeching and throwing feces. But instead of focusing on the reactionaries, I’ll post two emails of ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:38:45 pm PST
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with Man is Man. — James Thurber
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The Return of the Nirthers
Weird | Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 8:59:41 pm PST
Believe it or not, there are still some Republican politicians who refuse to let go of the world’s stupidest conspiracy theory: Lawmakers look dumb for reviving Obama hoax. Four Tennessee state representatives, all Republicans, have signed up to be plaintiffs in a lawsuit against President Barack Obama, aimed at forcing ...
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Ann Coulter and the Council of Conservative Citizens, Part Deux
US News | Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:39:35 pm PST
Here’s another thread to discuss Ann Coulter’s absolutely indefensible defense of a white supremacist group, since the first one is already approaching a thousand comments. (And five hate mails so far.) UPDATE at 2/15/09 8:37:32 pm: For the record, this is what Ann Coulter wrote: Republican politicians who had given speeches to a ...
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Ann Coulter and the Council of Conservative Citizens
US News | Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 3:50:20 pm PST
In her new book, does Ann Coulter actually defend a white supremacist hate group, claiming they’ve been unfairly branded as “racist?” Unfortunately, she really does. I’m not taking the Southern Poverty Law Center’s word for it, either; I have the book and I’ve confirmed that everything they say in this article ...
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Sunday Afternoon Open
Open | Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 1:12:25 pm PST
Here’s your shrink-wrapped, taste-tested, focus-grouped, spindled and mutilated open thread...
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Obama Administration to Help Plan Durban 2
World | Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:51:50 pm PST
The first United Nations conference on “racism” held in Durban, South Africa, turned into an incredibly vile display of antisemitic hatred, notorious as one of the worst travesties in the UN’s travesty-filled history. The Bush administration walked out of it. And now the Obama administration is planning to participate in the ...
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Orwellian Evolution Lawsuit
US News | Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:41:55 am PST
The University of California Museum of Paleontology has a website titled, Understanding Evolution For Teachers, and on that site is a page addressing the oft-repeated fundamentalist claim that evolution and religion are mortal enemies: Misconceptions: Evolution and Religion are Incompatible. The misconception that one always has to choose between science ...
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The Teddy Bear of Terror
Video | Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:10:40 am PST
Hamas has a new genocidal mascot on their children’s TV show, Pioneers of Tomorrow, replacing Assud the giant Jew-eating rabbit who was killed in Operation Cast Lead—Nassur, the Terrorist Teddy Bear. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video]
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We Got Mail!
Opinion | Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 9:27:16 am PST
Sure enough, after my post yesterday on respecting the Constitution and opposing theocracy, the hate mail started pouring in, from self-labeled “Christians.” There are four of them this morning, but I’ll just post this one because the others are banal and uninteresting. (The contact form has an explicit notice: “Messages ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:19:53 pm PST
The Intelligent Design movement starts with the recognition that “In the beginning was the Word,” and “In the beginning God created.” Establishing that point isn’t enough, but it is absolutely essential to the rest of the gospel message. — Phillip E. Johnson, founder of “intelligent design”
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Summing Up
Opinion | Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:54:27 pm PST
Long-time LGF lizard “guftafs” has a cogent summary of the issues surrounding Robert Spencer. And for more background information: Robert Spencer’s Connections: The James Jatras File.
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Mugabe Gets Ready to Bail
World | Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:16:54 pm PST
Like a rat, Robert Mugabe is making preparations to jump the sinking ship of Zimbabwe. The ship that he scuttled. ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace have secretly bought a £4m bolt-hole in the Far East while his country struggles with hyper-inflation, mass unemployment and a cholera epidemic. The ...
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The LGF Cookbook
Lifestyle | Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 4:57:37 pm PST
Several LGF readers have pooled their resources and immense knowledge of the culinary arts, to produce the long-awaited, much-anticipated LGF Cookbook, and it’s now available.
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Something Red
Images | Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 3:57:48 pm PST
Camera: Canon Powershot G10 in macro mode, tripod-mounted, with wireless shutter release.
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Blago's Appointed Senator Admits Lying!
Politics | Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 3:06:59 pm PST
You have got to be kidding me. Burris changes story on Senate seat. U.S. Sen. Roland Burris, who repeatedly denied anyone tied to disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich solicited him for cash in exchange for his seat, now acknowledges Blagojevich’s brother asked him three times to help with fundraising. In an ...
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Louisiana Reaps What It Sowed
Science | Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:34:45 pm PST
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal promoted and signed into law a stealth creationism bill that will allow the teaching of “intelligent design” in the science classrooms of Louisiana public schools, and now the fallout has begun. One of America’s leading scientific organizations, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, has announced that ...
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Obama Killing People in Pakistan
World | Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:53:48 am PST
Q: When do US airstrikes in Pakistan actually kill Al Qaeda and Taliban “fighters,” and not “innocent women and children?” A: When they’re ordered by Barack Obama. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Two missiles fired from American drone aircraft killed more than 30 people, including Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters, near the Pakistani ...
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The Return of the Hinchey-Thing
Politics | Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:29:58 am PST
Look who’s popping up again to advocate the reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, in order to shut down right-wing talk radio: WASHINGTON (CNN) — More and more Democrats in Congress are calling for action that Republicans warn could muzzle right-wing talk radio. Representative Maurice Hinchey, a Democrat from New York is ...
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Silly Mission Statement of the Day
Opinion | Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:09:55 am PST
I’ve received quite a few hate mails from creationists (and I do mean hate mail) freaking out over the posts about Charles Darwin and the deceptive agenda of “intelligent design,” and the post about Mike Huckabee’s claim that the stimulus bill is “anti-religion,” so here’s a quick statement on the ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:02:50 pm PST
Our strategy has been to change the subject a bit so that we can get the issue of intelligent design, which really means the reality of God, before the academic world and into the schools. — Phillip E. Johnson, father of “intelligent design”
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Huckabee on Hannity: The Stimulus Bill Persecutes Christians
US News | Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:03:08 pm PST
Mike Huckabee is appearing on the Sean Hannity show on Fox News tonight, to throw some more red meat to fundamentalist zealots with his cretinous claim that the stimulus bill persecutes Christians. Never mind that pesky Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Huckabee wants to throw ...
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Bridges TV CEO Arrested for Beheading Wife Received Award from CAIR
US News | Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:41:45 pm PST
The founder and CEO of the Islamist channel Bridges TV, arrested today for beheading his wife after she filed for divorce, was given an award in 2007 by the Hamas-linked Council on American Islamic Relations: Muzzammil Hassan receives award from CAIR-PA Chairman Iftekhar Hussain and CAIR National Chairman Parvez Ahmed ...
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Hamid Karzai: Slow Down, Barack
World | Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:26:50 pm PST
Afghan President Hamid Karzai hopes Barack Obama will slow down, and “show better judgment.” Good luck with that.
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Guardian Notices That Hamas Isn't Really Very Nice
Middle East | Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:12:12 pm PST
Now that Amnesty International has broken with their tradition of making excuses for terrorists, even the Guardian’s anti-Israel shill Rory McCarthy is piling on Hamas: Hamas murder campaign in Gaza exposed. New evidence has emerged revealing the extent of the crackdown by Hamas during and after Israel’s war in Gaza ...
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Friday Afternoon Open
Open | Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:37:23 pm PST
Here’s an open thread as we work on some new code to allow lizards to email each other without using that annoying outdated “Safemail” program...
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Onion: Revolutionary New Drug Approved
Video | Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:48:06 pm PST
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Spendulus Passes House
Politics | Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:00:47 pm PST
The largest spending bill in history has passed the House. Here are the Final Vote Results for Roll Call 70.
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Founder of Islamist TV Channel Arrested in New York for Beheading Wife
US News | Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:09:14 am PST
The founder and CEO of Bridges TV, a popular Muslim channel carried by many cable networks, has been arrested in Buffalo, New York, for beheading his wife. Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband — an influential member of the ...
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Obama Administration Notices Iran's Manhattan Project
World | Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:25:34 am PST
Another Obama campaign talking point (“Bush is just fearmongering!”) bites the dust, as his administration faces reality: U.S. now sees Iran as pursuing nuclear bomb. Reporting from Washington — Little more than a year after U.S. spy agencies concluded that Iran had halted work on a nuclear weapon, the Obama ...
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Yon: Photos from Israel
Middle East | Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:23:55 am PST
Michael Yon emailed yesterday, with some photos from Sderot, Israel and the following commentary: Charles, I shot these two photos in Sderot, Israel. The first photo shows a few of the hundreds of rockets that the Sderot police have collected, from the thousands that have been fired into cities. The ...
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Overnight Plan 9
Open | Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:07:04 am PST
Tanna: Eros, do we have to kill them? Eros: Yes. Tanna: It seems such a waste. Eros: Well, wouldn’t it be better to kill a few now than, with their meddling, permit them to destroy the entire universe? Tanna: You’re always right, Eros. Eros: Of course. But those are not my words; those are the ...
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Video: Virginia GOP Chairman Disses Darwin on His Birthday
Video | Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:02:11 pm PST
On Charles Darwin’s birthday, the Chairman of Virginia’s Republican Party stammers out, “Darwin is best known for the theory of evolution, arguing that men are not only, quote, are, are only, not, not created, but they are not equal, as more, as some are more evolved. Whereas Darwin’s theory was ...
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Gallup's Darwin's Birthday Evolution Poll
Science | Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 7:39:46 pm PST
Read it and weep (or if you’re a creationist, throw a party): On Darwin’s Birthday, Only 4 in 10 Believe in Evolution. But if you look at the actual results, that headline’s a little skewed. It doesn’t mean that 60% of Americans reject science; it means that 39% accept the theory ...
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France Loves Creationism (Because It Makes Americans Look Stupid)
Science | Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:24:40 pm PST
The French love stories like this. It gives them an excuse to look down their Gallic noses at Americans, and in this case, they’re infuriatingly right: Creationism going strong on Darwin anniversary. [Video] Forget about dinosaurs, the origins of life, and the birth of the universe. According to Ken Ham, the ...
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Video: Science Geeks Partying for Darwin
Science | Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:39:54 pm PST
My favorite part is the Dover, Pennsylvania science teachers. [Video] Put together by The Society for the Study of Evolution.
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PJTV Hearing: The Stimulus Bill and Health Care
US News | Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:31:59 pm PST
Pajamas TV has posted the video of their hearing on the impact of the stimulus bill on health care (this video is free): Pajamas TV - Specials - DC Stimulus Bill Hearing - Video.
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Gregg Withdraws As Commerce Secretary
Politics | Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:55:21 pm PST
A bit of a blow for President Hopenchange: DRUDGE REPORT: OBAMA BURNED: GREGG WITHDRAWS. Sen. Gregg stated, “I want to thank the President for nominating me to serve in his Cabinet as Secretary of Commerce. This was a great honor, and I had felt that I could bring some views ...
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'Conservatives' Who Want to Ban Books
World | Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:10:03 pm PST
Lots of support for book-banning in the comments at Hot Air, following Allahpundit’s citing my post on Geert Wilders: Geert Wilders: The British government proved they’re “the biggest cowards in Europe today”. (Also lots of hatred directed at little old me. I’m crushed. OK, now I’m over it.)
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The Dishonest Reporting Awards
Media | Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:43:59 am PST
It’s time for the Dishonest Reporting ‘Awards’ 2008. And there are a lot of contenders for the prize.
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Transitional Fossils - They Do Exist
Science | Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:20:34 am PST
One of the enduring falsehoods repeated endlessly by anti-evolution fanatics is that there are no “transitional fossils” — intermediate species that share characteristics with two distinct groups of animals. Here’s a good article at LiveScience on the many examples of transitional fossils that have already been discovered: Fossils Reveal Truth ...
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Lincoln
US News | Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:50:17 am PST
Another world-famous person born on this date 200 years ago: Abraham Lincoln. Powerline has an excellent series of posts paying tribute to (arguably) America’s greatest president: Lincoln at 200.
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Darwin
Video | Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:07:32 am PST
It’s the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the most influential scientists in history, Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution by natural selection is still being vehemently denounced by zealots. Here’s part one of a well done show on Darwin’s breakthroughs and the effects of his work on ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:30:54 am PST
As man advances in civilisation, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is ...
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Olbermann Duped by Anti-Vaccine Wacko
Moonbats | Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:25:45 pm PST
Keith Olbermann: Played for a fool by the antivaccine movement. Tonight Olbermann let himself be played like a fiddle by antivaccine propagandist David Kirby, the man who, with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was instrumental in launching the American version of the MMR scare, namely the thimerosal/mercury scare that roared into ...
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Robert Spencer Joins Genocidal Facebook Group
Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:04:38 pm PST
At Facebook, we find this group: white nationalists who advocate conquering Turkey and expelling/slaughtering the entire Muslim population—150 million people: Facebook | CAMPAIGN FOR THE ‘RECONQUISTA’ IN ANATOLIA! Once the former East Roman capital is recaptured every single brick, pavingstone, copper wire, bolt nut & screw, piece of ceramic, shard ...
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Dr. Death Still Alive?
World | Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:27:43 pm PST
The Simon Wiesenthal Center suspects someone is lying: Nazi hunters doubt ‘Dr. Death’ truly dead. The Simon Wiesenthal Center said on Thursday it had “serious doubts” about reports that Aribert Heim, dubbed ‘Dr. Death’ for killing concentration camp inmates with lethal injections to the heart, died in Cairo in 1992. Efraim ...
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Iowahawk: Largest Number Discovered
Humor | Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:12:53 pm PST
Iowahawk has exclusive details on an incredible scientific discovery. PALO ALTO, CA - An international mathematics research team announced today that they had discovered a new integer that surpasses any previously known value “by a totally mindblowing sh-tload.” Project director Yujin Xiao of Stanford University said the theoretical number, dubbed ...
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When Is an Agreement Not an Agreement?
US News | Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:49:51 pm PST
Congress has reached an agreement on the spendulus bill ... or have they?
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Open Source Communism
Science | Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:23:58 pm PST
Q: What does Little Green Footballs have in common with Cuba? (Besides our Nazi-like suppression of dissent?) A: We’re both running Linux.
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Pope Bashes Intelligent Design
Religion | Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:10:20 pm PST
It’s a constant refrain from people sent into a tailspin by my criticisms of “intelligent design” creationism: I’m “bashing Christians,” they claim. Well, here’s another person who’s “bashing Christians:” Vatican buries the hatchet with Charles Darwin. A leading official declared yesterday that Darwin’s theory of evolution was compatible with Christian faith, ...
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Egyptian Cleric: Valentine's Day is Worse Than AIDS, Ebola, and Cholera
Video | Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:13:12 am PST
Broadcast on Egypt’s Al-Rahma TV on February 6, 2009, Egyptian cleric Hazem Shuman launches into a deranged rant against Valentine’s Day. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Hazem Shuman: In a few days something very important and dangerous will take place in the world of the youth – perhaps even more important ...
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Onion: Obama's New Catchphrase
Humor | Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:29:21 am PST
The horror: Obama Debuts Annoying Catchphrase. WASHINGTON—In an unexpected turn of events that even his most ardent supporters are calling extremely ill-advised, President Obama, known for his simple yet stirring slogan “Yes we can,” debuted a new, extremely annoying catchphrase Monday during an address on proposed economic policy reform, saying, ...
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Gates Considers Lifting Ban on Coffin Photos
US News | Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:51:30 am PST
This is a cause very dear to the hearts of leftists, because they think it will destroy Americans’ support for the military. And in the new age of hope and change even Robert Gates is considering it: Gates open to lifting ban on casket photos.
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:23:24 pm PST
I also don’t think that there is really a theory of intelligent design at the present time to propose as a comparable alternative to the Darwinian theory, which is, whatever errors it might contain, a fully worked out scheme. There is no intelligent design theory that’s comparable. Working out a ...
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Video: Judgment Day - Intelligent Design on Trial
Video | Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:06:59 pm PST
This NOVA show about the landmark Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District creationism trial is a must-see, revealing the deceptive agenda of the “intelligent design” crowd in their own words and actions. Highly recommended. [Video] Also see: The Defeat of ‘Intelligent Design’ in Pennsylvania
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Huckabee Forgets the First Amendment of the US Constitution
US News | Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:06:09 pm PST
Mike Huckabee is at it again, joining Jim DeMint in claiming that the stimulus is ‘anti-religious’. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee warned supporters Tuesday that the $828 billion stimulus package is “anti-religious.” In an e-mail that was also posted on his blog ahead of the Senate’s passage, Huckabee wrote: “The dust ...
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Israeli Elections Too Close to Call, Fighting Over Results Starts
Middle East | Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:35:11 pm PST
The latest news from Israel’s elections: Both parties claim victory and race to form rival coalitions. Both Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s Kadima party and Binyamin Netanyahu’s opposition Likud styled themselves the winners of Tuesday’s elections, after exit polls broadcast on the three television networks showed Kadima would be the largest ...
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Dutch MP Barred from Entering Britain
World | Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:23:15 pm PST
Anti-Islam Dutch MP Geert Wilders has been barred from entering Britain, after a protest was lodged by Muslim House of Lords member Nazir Ahmed. Yes, it’s a disgrace. Geert Wilders has the same right to free speech as anyone else, and the government of Britain is demonstrating once again that they’ve ...
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Support MEMRI
Middle East | Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:55:01 pm PST
The folks at MEMRI asked if I would mind posting about their need for support to continue their efforts; they perform an invaluable service that no one else is doing, so I said I’d be happy to give them a plug. (No, they aren’t paying me.) Here’s the Memri Donation ...
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Amnesty International Criticizes Hamas for Murdering and Maiming Opponents
Middle East | Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:30:01 pm PST
Amnesty International must have felt the heat of public opinion after their ludicrous statement that they ignore Hamas war crimes because they’re so obvious; today they issued a report that, oddly enough, accuses Hamas of eliminating opponents. Is it a genuine change of direction, or an attempt to preempt criticism? Amnesty ...
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Yon: How Much is Afghanistan Worth?
Opinion | Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:40:32 am PST
A question from Michael Yon: How Much is Afghanistan Really Worth to Us?
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Video: Inside Darwin's Mind
Science | Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:28:55 am PST
The 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin is this Thursday, February 12th, and the National Geographic Channel has another interesting show tonight that retraces Darwin’s famous expedition to the Galapagos archipelago in the eastern Pacific Ocean, using his diary and field notes as a travel guide: Darwin’s Secret ...
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Breaking: Senate Passes Stimulus
Business | Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:57:13 am PST
The Senate has passed the largest spending bill in history. And the Dow index slipped below 8,000 this morning. UPDATE at 2/10/09 10:05:45 am: The vote was 61-37. UPDATE at 2/10/09 10:48:02 am: Here’s the roll call: U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home - Votes - Roll Call Vote.
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Israeli Elections 2009
Middle East | Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:49:22 am PST
Dave at Israellycool is Liveblogging the Israeli Elections.
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Obama: No Follow-Up Questions
Politics | Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:35:18 am PST
Craig Crawford points out that Barack Obama is following in the footsteps of George W. Bush, by refusing to take follow-up questions. In last night’s press conference, Obama cut off any attempt by reporters to follow up his answers to their questions. If he intends to maintain this Bush policy, ...
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Stimulating Open
Business | Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:52:50 am PST
The Senate will be voting soon on the largest spending bill in history, so here’s a thread for people to discuss, criticize, and commiserate... UPDATE at 2/10/09 8:55:31 am: The Associated Press is actually criticizing Obama’s claims about the bill.
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Arab Pundit Praises Hitler for the Holocaust
Middle East | Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:44:17 am PST
Another Arab pundit justifies the Holocaust; Essa bin Mohammed Al Zedjali’s take is that the Jews deserved genocide: How Israel became a terrorist state. Absolutely vile. It is illustrative to browse through the relevant pages of history to know the real history of the Jews in Germany. You would then ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:22:21 pm PST
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. — Charles Darwin
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And Now for Some Drive-By Truckers
Video | Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:24:37 pm PST
[Video] Ghost To Most I guess I’ll never grow a sideburn It’s a shame with all I’ve got to go between I hope somebody’s cause takes soon It’s getting hard to find a place a root can sink Mama said a lot of things and be thankful was the one she never minded saying twice Thanks ...
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Obama Speaks 3
Politics | Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:04:22 pm PST
Obama has left the building. Here’s a wrap-up thread. Interesting that the Huffington Post hate site, home of some of the most deranged, vile comments on the web, now has an accredited White House correspondent.
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Obama Speaks 2
Politics | Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:35:04 pm PST
The first thread for Obama’s news conference is already approaching a thousand comments after 30 minutes, so here’s another one... UPDATE at 2/9/09 5:59:09 pm: This thread’s quote of the night: It’s a little hard to take criticism...
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Obama Speaks
Politics | Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:59:34 pm PST
All the networks are interrupting their programming to bring us Barack Obama’s first prime time news conference, and here’s a thread to discuss it... UPDATE at 2/9/09 5:22:32 pm: The line of the night so far: “Now it’s time for Iran to send some signals that it wants to act differently.” Unclench! ...
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More Stealth Creationist Bills in Five More States, As the DI Mask Slips in Virginia
Science | Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:40:38 pm PST
The deceptive “academic freedom” bills inspired and sponsored by the creationists at the Discovery Institute are multiplying out of control. In addition to the bills currently pending or already passed in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida, creationists are also pushing very similar legislation in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Michigan, Missouri, and ...
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Venezuela Arrests Synagogue Attackers
World | Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:58:01 pm PST
After the shocking attacks on a synagogue in Venezuela last month, thug-in-chief Hugo Chavez suggested that the attackers might have been Jews themselves. So you have to wonder what kind of pressure was brought to bear on Chavez to get him to take action: Venezuela detains 11 suspects in synagogue ...
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Monday Afternoon Hopin'
Open | Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:46:02 pm PST
Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign? — T. ...
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British Middle East Expert: 'F--- the Jews'
World | Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:36:46 am PST
An antisemitic meltdown by a high-ranking British diplomat has led to his arrest. A high-ranking diplomat at the Foreign Office has been arrested after allegations that he launched a foul-mouthed anti-Semitic tirade. Middle East expert Rowan Laxton, 47, was watching TV reports of the Israeli attack on Gaza as he used ...
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Michael Totten on the Gaza Border
Middle East | Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:05:54 am PST
Michael J. Totten: A Dispatch from the Border with Gaza.
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Another Islamic Beheading Video
World | Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:58:47 am PST
The brave jihadi warriors of Pakistan have released another video showing the slaughter of a helpless captive: Taliban Release Beheading Video of Polish Hostage.
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Palestinians on the Western Dole
Middle East | Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:43:48 am PST
Is the West subsidizing the Arab war against Israel by keeping the Palestinian population in an endless state of welfare? Ending the West’s Proxy War Against Israel.
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Kindle 2 Released
Science | Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:04:47 am PST
The rumors were accurate; today Amazon announced version 2 of their revolutionary e-book reader, the Kindle. You can pre-order the device now at this page; it begins shipping February 24th: Amazon.com: Kindle 2: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation).
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Holocaust-Denying Bishop Needs 'More Evidence'
Religion | Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:08:36 am PST
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken to Pope Benedict about Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson, but the Pope isn’t budging. Williamson is still being reinstated. (CNN) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel phoned Pope Benedict XVI Sunday over a Holocaust denier whom the pope welcomed back into the Roman Catholic Church last ...
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Overnight Unclench
Open | Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:44:12 pm PST
We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no one understands anything at all about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster. — Carl Sagan
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Kindle 2 Announcement Tomorrow?
Science | Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:28:49 pm PST
Coming tomorrow: Kindle 2. (For sale February 24th.) I absolutely love my version 1 Kindle, and it’s going to be really hard to resist splurging on the new one. This is one of the most-used electronic toys I own. UPDATE at 2/8/09 9:17:40 pm: More details at the NYT’s Bits Blog: Amazon’s Kindle ...
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Sunday Night Open
Open | Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:08:41 pm PST
Here’s an open thread to discuss whatever the heck is on your mind. The Grammys are on! The Grammys are on! (Gotta admit that my interest in this show approaches absolute zero; these awards are supposed to be about merit rather than popularity, but in reality it’s a music industry ...
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Video: Jive Dinosaur Turkeys
Video | Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 3:37:09 pm PST
Here’s another interesting excerpt from the three-part series Morphed, airing tonight on the National Geographic Channel. [Video]
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Obama's Ratings Dropping
Politics | Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 2:38:04 pm PST
According to Rasmussen Reports, Barack Obama’s approval ratings are dropping fast: Daily Presidential Approval Index. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Approval Index for Sunday shows that 36% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing as President. Twenty-five percent (25%) Strongly Disapprove to ...
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Another Stealth Creationist Bill in Florida
Science | Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:47:33 pm PST
The success of the stealth creationist bill promoted and signed into law by Governor Bobby Jindal in Louisiana is encouraging creationists across the country to launch similar efforts. The latest Republican legislator to try to pull this stuff is Sen. Stephen Wise, who has introduced another Orwellian “academic freedom” bill ...
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'Lucy' Goes Digital
Science | Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:47:31 am PST
The Discovery Institute has created a fascinating 3D high-resolution CT scan of the famous “Lucy” fossil (Australopithecus afarensis): Lucy 2.0: Famous Fossil Hominid Goes Digital. Oops, sorry ... did I say “Discovery Institute?” I meant the University of Texas. Everyone knows the Discovery Institute isn’t interested in actually doing scientific research. ...
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Former UNRWA Official Harshly Criticizes Agency
Middle East | Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:37:42 am PST
A former top official in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency has issued a report blasting the agency for politicizing the Palestinian refugee issue—and for allowing Palestinian terrorists to become employees. James Lindsay, who served as UNRWA’s legal advisor and general counsel from 2002 until 2007, said the agency ...
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Anti-War Dems Disillusioned with Obama
Politics | Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 10:29:21 am PST
Pro-surrender Democrats are beginning to worry that Barack Obama won’t capitulate in Afghanistan quickly enough. “Before I support any more troops to Afghanistan, I want to see a strategy that includes an exit plan,” said Rep. Jim McGovern, a Massachusetts liberal who at one point wanted to cut off money ...
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Yemen Releases 170 Al Qaeda Terrorists After They Sign 'Pledges'
World | Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:39:14 am PST
The Islamic extremists who run the country of Yemen have released 170 al-Qaida suspects; but don’t worry, they signed disclaimers that they’re not going to be terrorists any more. SAN’A, Yemen (AP) — Yemen released 170 men it had arrested on suspicion of having ties to al-Qaida, security officials said ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:27:03 pm PST
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with his verb in his mouth. — Mark Twain
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Another Stealth Creationist Bill in Alabama
Science | Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 5:50:34 pm PST
Emboldened by the success of the stealth creationist bill signed into law by Bobby Jindal in Louisiana, creationists in Alabama are making another attempt to sneak their agenda into schools. This is only the latest in a series of bills masquerading under the language of “academic freedom,” that are really ...
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The Scariest Bear Ever
Video | Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:45:21 pm PST
I sure am glad there are none of these things running around the neighborhood at 30 mph any more. (An excerpt from the National Geographic Channel’s three-part series Morphed, airing tomorrow.) [Video]
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Biden Threatens Iran (Kidding)
World | Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:25:26 pm PST
America’s new representative on the world stage, Joe Biden, says the US is ready to act on Iran. MUNICH – Vice President Joe Biden warned Saturday that the U.S. stands ready to take pre-emptive action against Iran if it does not abandon nuclear ambitions and its support for terrorism. But in ...
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Saturday Morning Hopin'
Open | Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:52:10 am PST
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. — Carl Sagan
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Biden: Odds Are 70-30 We'll Screw Up
Politics | Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 9:24:13 am PST
Joltin’ Joe Biden — the gift that keeps on giving — is at it again, inspiring confidence wherever he goes. “If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there’s still a 30 percent chance we’ll get it wrong,” he told the lawmakers at their policy retreat ...
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Flying Pig Alert: UN Notices Hamas Child Abuse
Middle East | Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:42:04 am PST
Ladies and gentlemen, the pig has left the hangar: UN to probe Hamas for use of children. The United Nations is ready to address Hamas’s use of children as human shields during last month’s IDF offensive in Gaza, the UN special representative for children and armed conflict told The Jerusalem ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:21:26 pm PST
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. — Mark Twain
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Texas Governor Perry Reappoints Creationist As Head of Education
US News | Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:08:31 pm PST
Republican Governor Rick Perry has reappointed young earth creationist Don McLeroy as chairman of the Texas State Board of Education. State Board of Education Chairman Don McLeroy was reappointed to a new, two-year term by Gov. Rick Perry on Friday. McLeroy, a Republican from College Station, has been on the ...
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Pakistanis Cheer the Release of Nuclear Proliferator A.Q. Khan
World | Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:24:12 pm PST
Pakistanis applaud the release of nuclear black marketeer Abdul Qadeer Khan, at the Pakistan Cricket Forum: Dr Qadeer released. It’s not a coincidence that this release happened less than a month after Barack Obama took office.
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Politicians Reach Deal to Mortgage America's Future
US News | Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:57:00 pm PST
Yes, the Republicans and Democrats have magically reached a deal right at the end of the day, on a Friday, right before the weekend. Exactly as I predicted last night. Call me Little Green Nostradamus.
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Obama Drops Charges Against USS Cole Bomber
US News | Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:12:02 pm PST
The Barack Obama administration has dropped all charges against the mastermind of the USS Cole bombing. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Barack Obama’s order to freeze military ...
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Iranian Fist Just Won't Unclench
World | Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:58:33 pm PST
How much more nicely can we beg them to unclench? I mean, really. Pretty please? Iran: US must rethink policies for reconciliation. MUNICH (AP) - Iran sternly dismissed decades of U.S. policies targeting Tehran and declared Friday that the new American administration had to admit past wrongs before it could hope ...
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Friday Afternoon Open
Open | Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:56:10 am PST
I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions, like the Cargo Cult of the South Pacific. Practitioners of Cargo Cult believed that manufactured products were created by ancestral spirits, and if they imitated what they had seen the white man do, they could cause airplanes to ...
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White House Press Secretary on Release of AQ Khan
World | Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:31:10 am PST
At today’s press briefing, this was Robert Gibbs’ response to a question about whether Barack Obama is concerned about the release of nuclear black marketeer A.Q. Khan: Q: Is the President concerned that Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan will be a proliferation risk, now that he’s been released from house ...
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Pakistan Frees Nuclear Salesman A.Q. Khan
World | Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:28:33 am PST
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, who ran a black market responsible for spreading nuclear weapons technology throughout the Middle East, has been freed in Pakistan. A court in Pakistan has freed disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan from house arrest. Dr Khan, who has been under tight restrictions since 2004, can now ...
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Death Sentence for Translating the Koran
Religion | Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:01:30 am PST
Is there a difference between the current government of Afghanistan and the Taliban? 2 face death over Quran translation. The book appeared among gifts left for the cleric at a major Kabul mosque after Friday prayers in September 2007. It was a translation of the Quran into one of Afghanistan’s ...
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Krauthammer: The Fierce Urgency of Pork
Opinion | Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:37:32 am PST
Charles Krauthammer cuts through the smokescreen to the real issue: The Fierce Urgency of Pork. It’s not just pages and pages of special-interest tax breaks, giveaways and protections, one of which would set off a ruinous Smoot-Hawley trade war. It’s not just the waste, such as the $88.6 million for ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:09:12 pm PST
I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me. — George Carlin
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Discovery Institute Propaganda Everywhere
Science | Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:58:50 pm PST
Here we go again. As we approach the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, shills for the Discovery Institute’s creationist agenda are popping up all over the place like pseudo-scientific jack-in-the-boxes. Here’s creationist John G. West in Forbes Magazine, blaming the theory of evolution for racism, slavery, welfare, ...
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Obama Tries to Sell the Spendulus
Politics | Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:43:02 pm PST
Barack Obama is speaking to a “retreat” for House Democrats; it’s on all the cable news channels. Here’s a thread to discuss it...
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Democrat Spending Spree Even Worse Than You Think
US News | Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:53:27 pm PST
It’s worse than you think, maybe worse than you could have imagined: 50 De-Stimulating Facts. A trillion dollars in unprecedented handouts, giveaways, leftist causes, and pure pork.
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Pregnant Proto-Whales and Giant Snakes
Science | Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:03:54 pm PST
Amazing paleontological discoveries this week: A new species of early whale, in the form of a pregnant female with a near-term fetus: Laelaps : Maiacetus, the good mother whale. An enormous boa constrictor that lived about 60 million years ago in Colombia, nearly 50 feet long and weighing more than a ton: ...
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Hamas Thugs Caught Smuggling Suitcases Full of Cash (Again)
Middle East | Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:25:24 pm PST
Hamas “negotiators” attended cease-fire talks in Cairo this week, and somehow, mysteriously, ended up with suitcases full of money that they tried to smuggle into Gaza: Hamas negotiators stopped with suitcases of cash. CAIRO – Hamas negotiators left Egypt without a long-term cease-fire with Israel on Thursday — but not ...
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Nazi War Criminal Escaped Justice in Egypt, Converted to Islam
World | Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:39:10 am PST
He was a pious Muslim convert who went to the Al-Azhar mosque daily, living in Cairo, Egypt, until his death in 1992. And he was also one of the most monstrous Nazi war criminals still at large, who performed medical experiments on imprisoned Jews in the Mauthausen concentration camp: Fate of ...
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Thursday Midday Hopin'
Open | Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:58:14 am PST
As afternoon rushes toward us like the hot kiss at the end of a wet fist, here’s a midday open thread...
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Barack Obama Sets Up Straw Men, Knocks 'Em Down in the Washington Post
Politics | Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:57:03 am PST
Barack Obama promotes his gigantic spending bill in the Washington Post, with a string of straw man attacks against critics: Barack Obama - The Action Americans Need. In recent days, there have been misguided criticisms of this plan that echo the failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis ...
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American Muslim Teenager Murdered by Ex-Gitmo Detainee
Middle East | Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:38:37 am PST
An American Muslim teenager killed in a bombing by an ex-Gitmo detainee—ignored by mainstream media.
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Michael Yon on Hamas Rockets: It's Raining
Middle East | Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:29:52 am PST
Instapundit has a report from Michael Yon on the Hamas rockets that continue to terrorize Israeli citizens: It’s Raining.
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Human Rights Groups: We Ignore Hamas War Crimes Because They're So Obvious
Middle East | Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:07:59 am PST
Human rights groups including Amnesty International have come up with an innovative excuse for ignoring Hamas war crimes: They’re Too Blatant And Savage. Yes, really. Human rights groups argued Wednesday that a detailed probe into Hamas’s firing of Kassam rockets at Israeli communities is not necessary, because it constitutes such a ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:17:29 pm PST
Intelligent Design’s backers have sought to avoid the scientific scrutiny which we have now determined that it cannot withstand by advocating that the controversy, but not ID itself, should be taught in science class. This tactic is at best disingenuous, and at worst a canard. The goal of the IDM ...
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And Now for Some Andy
Video | Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:18:46 pm PST
Andy McKee blazes through a Don Ross composition, titled Tight Trite Night. [Video]
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Collapse of a Texas Quote Mine
Science | Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:15:49 pm PST
When the Texas State Board of Education met to consider a draft of their new science standards (tainted with the influence of the Discovery Institute, who managed to plant two DI shills on the panel), board chairman Don McLeroy—a young earth creationist—read into the record a long list of quotes ...
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Pepsi Goes Nuts for the Big O
Images | Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:23:00 pm PST
Pepsi-Cola goes wacky with Obama-love on the DC Metro: Inauguration’s Aftermath ...
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Hamas Steals Aid, UN Actually Notices
Middle East | Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:10:29 pm PST
The thugs of Hamas have been stealing food and blankets and other aid meant for needy Palestinians for a long time, and it’s finally gotten so obvious that not even the United Nations can keep quiet about it any more. JERUSALEM – A U.N. spokesman says Hamas police in Gaza ...
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Video: Blagojevich Apologizes
Video | Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:26:57 pm PST
Well, sort of. [Video]
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ABC's Stephanopoulos Violating Journalistic Ethics?
Media | Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:29:16 pm PST
Media corruption at its most brazen: Bozell to ABC President: You Must Publicly Address Stephanopoulos’ Apparent Conflict of Interest. Alexandria, VA – Media Research Center (MRC) President L. Brent Bozell, III has written a letter to ABC News President David Westin calling on him to publicly address and resolve what ...
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Which is Smarter: Nancy Pelosi or a Blue Soap Dish?
Politics | Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:00:38 pm PST
Did you know that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi believes that 500 million people are losing jobs in America every month? No? That’s because the media are doing their best to ignore it.
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Death Cult Mom
Middle East | Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:41:47 am PST
A mother of six, arrested by Iraqi security forces in January, is revealing the disgusting tactics of Islamic terrorists in Iraq—who use rape as a recruitment tool. BAGHDAD (AP) — A woman accused of helping recruit dozens of female suicide bombers looked into the camera and described the process: trolling ...
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Vatican: Holocaust Denying Bishop Must 'Recant'
Religion | Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:44:54 am PST
It took a worldwide outcry, but the Vatican is now saying that Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson must recant. VATICAN CITY – The Vatican on Wednesday demanded that a prelate who denied the Holocaust recant his positions before being fully admitted as a bishop into the Roman Catholic Church. It also said ...
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More Innocent Torture Victims Suddenly Become Jihad Warriors
World | Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:29:08 am PST
More freed Guantanamo detainees return to terrorism. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Eleven Saudis who were released from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and then passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists are now believed to have fled the country and joined terrorist groups abroad, Saudi officials said Tuesday. The ...
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Yon: Afghanistan is a Thorny Bush
Opinion | Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:13:37 am PST
Michael Yon is deeply pessimistic about Afghanistan: A Dream That Will Not Come True.
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Cheney: WMD Attack on Obama's Watch 'Highly Probable'
US News | Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:41:09 am PST
Watching the signals of weakness being thrown off by the Obama administration, former Vice President Dick Cheney is worried. Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:16:24 pm PST
Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them. — John Hodgman
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Ben Stein Withdraws As UVM Commencement Speaker
Science | Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:56:53 pm PST
Creationist Ben Stein has withdrawn as the commencement speaker at the University of Vermont, after a huge outcry erupted over his support for the pseudo-science promoted by the Discovery Institute, and his ludicrous, highly dishonest anti-evolution film “Expelled.” And now, of course, he’s complaining that he’s being treated unfairly and suppressed ...
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Morphed
Science | Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:54:50 pm PST
Coming up this weekend on the National Geographic Channel, Morphed, a show about the documented evolutionary changes that gradually transformed land-dwelling mammals into whales, dinosaurs into turkeys, and bears into ... better bears. The website for the show has some very cool graphics and videos. Set your TiVos and EyeTVs. ...
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North Korean Fist Also Clenched
World | Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:41:23 pm PST
If Barack Obama is tired now, just wait until the North Koreans test their long-range ballistic missile. SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea appears to be preparing to test-launch its longest range ballistic missile, media reports said on Tuesday, stoking tensions just days after the reclusive state warned that the Korean ...
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Obama's Tired of Being in the White House
Politics | Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:52:49 pm PST
He’s only been there for two weeks, but already Barack Obama is “tired of being in the White House.” Probably the first President in history to utter those words. WASHINGTON (AP) - On the rockiest day of his young administration, President Barack Obama did what surely made him happy for a ...
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Now Clinton Begs Iran to Unclench
World | Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:45:35 pm PST
Oh, for Pete’s sake. When did this kind of touchy-feely, please-don’t-hurt-me, infantile pleading to “unclench your fist” become the basis of America’s foreign policy? Never mind, I know: January 20, 2009. Clinton Repeats Obama on Iran: ‘Reaching Out a Hand, but the Fist Has to Unclench’. Secretary Hillary Clinton repeated President Barack ...
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Palestinians Murdering and Maiming Palestinians
Middle East | Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:09:33 pm PST
The terrorist group Fatah has released a list of 181 Palestinians murdered or maimed by the terrorist group Hamas. Ramallah – Ma’an – A senior leader within Fatah slammed what he called “Hamas crimes against patriotic people” in the Gaza Strip Monday. The comments come after a string of reports ...
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Tuesday Afternoon Hope-a-Dope
Open | Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:44:43 am PST
Reluctantly crouched at the starting line, it’s the ancestral midday open thread...
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Iran Launches Satellite into Orbit
World | Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:38:08 am PST
This is very bad news, and by all accounts it does not seem to be a false claim: Iran has launched a satellite into Earth orbit. [Video] I know. Maybe we should ask them again to “unclench their fist?”
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Merkel Calls on Pope to 'Clarify' Holocaust Stance
Religion | Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:14:32 am PST
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling on Pope Benedict to clarify his Holocaust stance, as the controversy over Bishop Richard Williamson’s Holocaust denial refuses to go away. Her demand came amid increasing outrage among Germany’s Roman Catholic leaders over the pope’s decision to lift the excommunication of British-born Richard Williamson, ...
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Scenes from an Iraqi Election
Middle East | Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:31:30 am PST
Great photos and reports from military service members on the Iraqi election, at North Shore Journal: Iraqi Provincial Elections Succeed.
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Stephens: Iraq Is Obama's Mideast Pillar
Middle East | Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:08:51 am PST
Bret Stephens has a good piece in the Wall Street Journal, with a question for Barack Obama: Iraq Is Obama’s Mideast Pillar. So what are you going to do about the one bright spot on your map — an Arab country that is genuinely democratic, increasingly secular and secure, anti-Iranian ...
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Top Islamic Cleric Wishes for Another Holocaust at the Hands of Muslims
Video | Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:38:08 am PST
As Al Jazeera continues trying to push their way onto US cable networks, with a cleaned-up, sanitized English version that keeps its disgusting Jew-hatred masked, here’s what they’re showing to the people in Arabic-speaking countries. Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradawi, one of the most influential Sunni Muslim clerics in the world, says “Allah ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:24:49 pm PST
Hello seeker! Now don’t feel alone here in the New Age, because there’s a seeker born every minute. — Firesign Theatre
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'Jeffrey Dahmer Believed in Evolution'
Science | Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:13:43 pm PST
Creationists on the Texas State Board of Education are no longer satisfied with simply preaching that Darwin’s theories lead to atheism and Nazism and killing people; the latest email making the rounds in Texas blames the theory of evolution for cannibalism: ‘Jeffrey Dahmer Believed in Evolution’.
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Hamas in Minnesota
US News | Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:48:55 pm PST
Very bad craziness in Minnesota, where Hamas supporters burned an Israeli flag on the steps of the state capitol. This is horrifying. [Video] (Hat tip: Power Line.)
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Bill O'Reilly and the 'White Christian Male Power Structure'
Media | Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:59:24 pm PST
Did Bill O’Reilly really say, “They want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure?” Well, yes. He did. So why did he play part of this video on tonight’s show, but stop before the statement in question? [Video] O’Reilly railed against the New York Times, and implied that he was being ...
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Video: Mac vs. PC
Video | Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:35:14 pm PST
Great effects and funny bits in this video from Nick Greenlee. [Video] (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
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Fuzzy Purple Trident
Images | Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:06:13 pm PST
Camera: Canon Powershot G10 in macro mode, tripod-mounted, with wireless shutter release.
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Khaled Abu Toameh on the West Bank and Gaza
Middle East | Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:41:14 pm PST
A must-read presentation by Jerusalem Post journalist Khaled Abu Toameh, at Totten’s place: A Minority Report from the West Bank and Gaza. There are so many things that are obvious in this part of the world that international leaders, diplomats, all these people in the West who are dealing with ...
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Obama Suddenly Worried About Freeing Gitmo Terrorists
US News | Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:38:26 am PST
Oh. So now Barack Obama is suddenly concerned that freed Guantanamo detainees might attack America again. After signing orders that will free them. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on Monday he worried that detainees freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo, Cuba, might resume ...
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ElBaradei: 'I'm Not Taking Sides' on the Destruction of Israel
World | Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:28:17 am PST
In an interview with the Washington Post, the leader of the UN’s blind, toothless International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei (on whose watch Iran’s nuclear weapons program has been able to advance almost unhindered), compares Iran to Japan and asks, “Why isn’t the world worried about Japan?” So you think ...
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David Duke - A Racist 'Republican'?
Media | Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:37:53 am PST
At his Politico blog, Ben Smith casually smears the Republican Party by associating it with hatemonger David Duke, in a post on racist hatred for Michael Steele: Ben Smith’s Blog: Steele’s appeal (but not to David Duke). One immediate consequence of Steele’s ascent, though: Real hysteria on the racist fringe ...
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9/11 Trutherism on 'Rescue Me'
US News | Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:13:17 am PST
Coming soon on FX: 9/11 Trutherism for the masses, promoted by a cretinous actor who is a genuine, in-real-life Troofer. Disgusting. A coming episode of the acclaimed FX drama “Rescue Me” will tackle what may sound like a far-fetched plot line: that the attacks of Sept. 11 were an “inside ...
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American Kidnapped in Pakistan
World | Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:47:07 am PST
An American worker for the United Nations has been kidnapped in Pakistan, by people whose fists are apparently tightly clenched. QUETTA, Pakistan – Authorities searched for an American U.N. worker kidnapped Monday in southwestern Pakistan in an attack that underscored the security threats in the country as it battles al-Qaida ...
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Overnight Hope-a-Dope
Open | Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:26:37 pm PST
Morality has nothing in common with politics. — Bob Dylan
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Britain Has Neocons? Who Knew? - Update: 'It Is Vital to Have Nothing to Do with Parties Like the Vlaams Belang'
Opinion | Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 6:38:13 pm PST
Here’s a fascinating interview with top British Neoconservative commentator Douglas Murray. Edward - You mention in your book that a room full of Neoconservatives would be as likely to argue amongst each other as agree, except for a few basic but important points. What are these fundamental beliefs of “Neoconservatism”? Douglas ...
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Charles Darwin's Sacred Cause
Science | Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:36:30 pm PST
As creationists continue trying to connect Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to every evil thing they can imagine (including but not limited to the Third Reich), here’s a review of two new books showing conclusively that Darwin himself was vehemently opposed to slavery: ‘Darwin’s Sacred Cause’ and ‘Angels and Ages’. ...
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Palin Snubs Repubs
Politics | Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:17:22 pm PST
Is there a little bit of friction between the RNC and Sarah Palin, perhaps? Palin stiffs the House Republicans. ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports: When House Republicans planned their annual winter retreat, they extended an invitation to Alaska Gov. Sara Palin, hoping the party’s 2008 vice presidential nominee would give ...
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Sign of the Apocalypse: LGF Agrees with Balloon Juice
Blogosphere | Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:50:13 am PST
I’ve had serious differences with John Cole of Balloon Juice in the past, and probably will in the future, but in this post on the closing of PJ Media’s ad network he gets it exactly right: The Obligatory PJ Media Post. I understand there is an inordinate amount of bad ...
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Midday Hopin'
Open | Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:20:19 am PST
Here’s your traditional Sunday open thread...
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Iranian Fist Still Clenched
World | Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 10:04:05 am PST
Iran is giving Hamas thug Khaled Meshaal a hero’s welcome, on a whirlwind tour that includes meetings with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal met with Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday, and provided Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a detailed account of Hamas’ ...
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Obama Expanding Rendition, Kos Kids Freak Out
US News | Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:50:59 am PST
The international left labeled the practice as “outsourcing torture,” and the media spent oceans of ink denouncing it. And now the hopey changey Obama administration is expanding rendition programs. WASHINGTON - The CIA’s secret prisons are being closed. Harsh interrogation techniques are off-limits. And Guantanamo Bay will eventually go back to ...
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AP: There's No Use Fighting Them
Media | Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:08:33 am PST
It doesn’t matter to the media how badly Hamas was smacked in Operation Cast Lead, or how many top officials they lost, or how many bomb-makers were killed, or how many smuggling tunnels were destroyed. Nope. To the Associated Press, Hamas is even stronger now: Hard-liners strengthened by Gaza war. This ...
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Overnight Hope-a-Dope
Open | Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:15:21 pm PST
Q: Why did the dinosaur cross the road? A: Chickens hadn’t evolved yet. — Anonymous
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