LGF Archives: April 2005
Galloway's Muslim Wife Wants a Divorce
Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 8:53:29 pm PDT
George Galloway, the pro-Arab, pro-Saddam, pro-terrorist British MP who formed a party called “Respect,” is being sued for divorce by his Palestinian wife on the eve of the election. (Hat tip: NY Nana.) GEORGE GALLOWAY, the controversial leader of the Respect party, is facing a damaging divorce action on the eve ...
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LA Times Shills for Giuliana Sgrena
Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 7:13:36 pm PDT
Patterico has caught the Los Angeles Times red-handed, deliberately editing a Reuters report about the Giuliana Sgrena checkpoint shooting incident to remove critical facts supporting the US position. Why would the major newspaper of one of America’s largest cities do something like this? Well, Sgrena is a self-acknowledged radical Communist. Need ...
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UN Peacekeepers Sexually Abused Liberian Girls
Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 6:57:02 pm PDT
The left is seething mad about the appointment of John Bolton as the US ambassador to the United Nations. They’re worried that the dictators, cronies, and bag men of the UN may not like us if our ambassador (gasp!) tells the truth. But if you need any more evidence that ...
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Qatar is Paying Off Al Qaeda
Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 6:20:18 pm PDT
According to the Sunday Times, the government of Qatar—home of Al Jazeera—is paying protection money to Islamic terrorists. (Hat tip: Scaramouche.) THE government of Qatar is paying millions of pounds a year to Al-Qaeda in return for an undertaking to spare it from further terrorist attacks, official sources in the wealthy ...
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Cycle of Violence: Back on the Horse
Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 6:09:11 pm PDT
Today’s ride: 51.1 miles, from one end of the sunny bike path to the other, at a nice steady upper aerobic pace most of the way—except through the Hermosa Strand, where they’ve instituted a fascist 8 mph speed limit that I found extremely humiliating. (Although it does help with girl-watching. ...
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The Power of Nonsense
Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 4:35:55 pm PDT
The latest assault on our collective sanity comes from the BBC, who produced an amazingly twisted “documentary” called “The Power of Nightmares” claiming that Al Qaeda and the War on Terror are nothing but gigantic facades to enable fascist governments (like America) to dominate the world. It goes well beyond ...
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Saddam's Atrocities
Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 4:08:36 pm PDT
US investigators at the most recently discovered mass grave in Iraq have exhumed 113 bodies so far—almost all of them women and children: 113 Kurds Are Found In Mass Grave. (Hat tip: jrdroll.) BAGHDAD, April 29 — U.S. investigators have exhumed the remains of 113 people — all but five of ...
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What the Hell is Going On at Google News?
Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 2:49:36 pm PDT
If you think you’ve seen the worst that Google News has to offer, think again. In their search results for conspiracy planet, Google News is currently featuring the following sick, blatantly antisemitic illustration. (Hat tip: Only In Israel.) There is something really, really rotten at Google News. They allow this from a ...
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Bat Ye'or on Book TV
Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 8:51:24 am PDT
Today at noon, Bat Ye’or will be on Book TV to discuss her latest book “Eurabia.” Later today, Book TV will be repeating their coverage of the Los Angeles Book Fair from last weekend; I have it on good authority that the Fair was swarming with moonbats, so this might be ...
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Another Islamic Terror Attack in Cairo
Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 8:28:17 am PDT
Two Women Open Fire on Cairo Tourist Bus. CAIRO (Reuters) - Two veiled women opened fire on a tourist bus in southern Cairo on Saturday but missed, Cairo Security Director Nabil el-Azabi said. Security officers at the scene said one of the attackers then shot dead the other, before shooting and wounding ...
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Bomb in Turkish Resort Town
Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 8:14:07 am PDT
One policeman killed, four injured in Turkish resort bomb blast. (Hat tip: Solomon X.) ANKARA (AFP) - One police officer was killed and four others were injured when a parcel bomb exploded in the hands of a bomb disposal expert in a seaside resort town in western Turkey, a local official ...
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Religion of Misogyny
Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 7:56:27 am PDT
The barbarism of shari’a law is about to claim another victim in Yemen, but the London Times completely ignores the Islamic context: Mother, 21, faces firing squad. (Hat tip: The Roth Report.) EUROPEAN leaders are making desperate pleas to spare the life of a 21-year-old mother who is expected to face ...
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Breaking: Bombs in Cairo Tourist Areas
Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 7:28:05 am PDT
Two Explosions in Two Hours Rock Cairo. CAIRO, Egypt - A bomb was thrown from a bridge to the street below not far from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, killing an Arab man and injuring four foreigners, police said. A second explosion hit the capital less than two hours later. Senior police ...
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A Sorry Bunch of Nuts
Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 8:56:27 pm PDT
The moonbats responsible for the site sorryeverybody.com show that they’re not immune to the siren song of capitalism, by turning their self-loathing insanity into a book with a foreword by crackhead cartoonist Ted Rall, now available at a deeply discounted price at Amazon: Sorry, Everybody : An Apology to the ...
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SF Chronicle Digs Communism
Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 7:17:12 pm PDT
You have got to be kidding me. The San Francisco Chronicle, a supposedly respectable mainstream newspaper (well, sort of) publishes a surrealistically adulatory review of the latest book by a psychotic street-dwelling Marxist: Berkeley: Memoir follows author’s road to communism. (Hat tip: zombie.) Bob Avakian has devoted his life to the one ...
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Khamenei: Human Rights a Weapon Against Islam
Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 7:05:56 pm PDT
Last Wednesday, the “supreme leader” of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, said: “Human rights” are a weapon against Islam. It’s hard to argue with that. Tehran, 27 April (AKI) - The Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said that “human rights, are a weapon in the ...
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Muslims Seething in Britain
Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 6:31:43 pm PDT
Father wants Islamic food served in school. Ahmad Ghazoini, of Second Avenue, Acton, believes Berrymede Infant and Nursery School in Park Road North, Acton, should provide the option of halal meals for Muslim pupils as he believes 70 per cent of the school’s population belong to the Islamic faith. Mr Ghazoini, who ...
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We Got Mail!
Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 5:38:21 pm PDT
Tonight’s interesting hate mail was sent using our contact form, with the evocatively misspelled return address “f*ckyou@facists.com,” and the subject: “One word describes you neo-republicans.” FACISTS... Theocracy, Militarized police states, Controlled media (’liberal media’ is a joke), Propaganda, And last but not least the sheep following the herd which is where you people ...
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Sgrena's Car Was Going Faster than 60 MPH
Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 2:58:16 pm PDT
A US intelligence satellite recorded the Giuliana Sgrena shooting incident last month in Iraq—and it proves beyond a doubt that Sgrena was (and is) lying: US satellite recorded checkpoint shooting, shows speed of Italian car. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US satellite reportedly recorded a checkpoint shooting ...
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Religious Apartheid in the Land of the Oil Ticks
Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 1:06:05 pm PDT
In the home of the Religion of Peace and Tolerance™, 40 men, women, and children were arrested recently by the religious police for practicing Christianity. On April 23, 2005, Saudi newspapers reported that 40 Pakistanis were arrested by the Saudi religious police in a Riyadh apartment for conducting Christian religious activity. ...
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The Ummah is Seething
Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:52:20 am PDT
The ummah.com Islamofascist forum is raging and seething over the infiltration of their site by lizardoid minions, and they have sworn a solemn vow to block all further intrusions: LGF are banned and censored from ummah.com. salams anyone wanted to post links to LGF, you wont be able to they are censored ...
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British Academic Insanity Watch
Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:31:14 am PDT
In case you haven’t seen it yet, this is the web site of one of the prime movers in the British Association of University Teachers’ antisemitic boycott of Israeli colleges; you’re not gonna believe how gleefully insane this woman is: Sue Blackwell’s links on Palestine and Israel. Currently at the top ...
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The Cirque du PA
Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:16:29 am PDT
From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.
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Portland Quits Anti-Terrorism Task Force
Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 10:57:10 am PDT
The Portland Oregonian was so giddy about their City Council’s decision to bail out of the war on terror that they couldn’t even be bothered to spell the word “gallery” correctly in their headline: Joy in galley as Portland quits FBI task force. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) They may not have ...
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Columbia's Israel Studies Chair
Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 9:53:07 am PDT
Martin Kramer has a piece about Columbia University’s new “Israel Studies” chair, whose search committee absurdly includes two Israel-hating Columbia Arabists: Searching for Israel in All the Wrong Places. Last month, Columbia University announced with much fanfare that it would establish a chair of Israel studies. Four generous trustees threw in ...
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Bloggin' with Gwynniex
Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 9:40:09 am PDT
The surprise of the day is that someone at the Guardian actually has a sense of humor, in a “preview” of the new Arianna Huffington celebrity blog project: With friends like these ... (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
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VDH: On Being Disliked
Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 9:21:02 am PDT
Another excellent essay from Victor Davis Hanson, who says it’s not necessarily a bad thing to be hated by some entities: On Being Disliked. Last year the hysteria about the hostility toward the United States reached a fevered pitch. Everyone from Jimmy Carter to our Hollywood elite lamented that America had ...
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Jihad Watch on the Radio
Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 9:04:19 am PDT
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch will be the host tonight on the Laurie Roth Show, from 7 pm to 10 pm Pacific. This should be a good one; if you want to call in, the number is 1-800-837-9680.
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An Arsenal of Cruelest Quotes
Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 8:34:57 am PDT
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. exposes one of the VRWC’s most insidious dirty tricks: An arsenal of cruelest quotes. (Hat tip: Geepers.) Allow me to point out that “the right” not only indulges in jarring invective but also has adopted very disturbing polemical techniques. For several years, its writers have engaged in discrediting ...
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Osama Still Not Dead
Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 7:30:10 am PDT
Reports of the death of Osama bin Laden have been greatly exaggerated. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) An Islamist website has inadvertently triggered rumours that Osama bin Laden is dead. The article about the al Qaeda leader carried a headline suggesting the Saudi fugitive had died. It prompted flutters on the financial ...
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An Open Letter from PJ Media
Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 7:24:36 am PDT
In An Open Letter to All Bloggers, Roger L. Simon spills the beans about a new venture we’re planning: Charles Johnson, Marc Danziger and I have been sneaking around over the last few months, trying to turn blogs into a business. We have enlisted some others with names familiar to you ...
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Zell Miller Ill, Democratic Underground Celebrates
Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 8:27:33 pm PDT
Zell Miller went to the hospital tonight, after apparently feeling faint during a speech in Gainesville, Georgia. No word on his condition yet. At Democratic Underground, they can barely contain their glee. (Hat tip: freedomplow.)
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Thursday Ocean Thread
Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 7:08:19 pm PDT
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Warren: Hand-Holding
Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 6:35:30 pm PDT
A brilliant column from David Warren on our Saudi “allies,” and the US government’s continuing deal-making and hand-holding with a religious supremacist ideology dedicated to the destruction of the American way of life. We could summarize the less obtuse journalistic comments on President Bush’s meeting with Crown Prince Abdullah at his ...
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Death Penalty for Hasan Akbar
Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 6:10:51 pm PDT
Hasan Akbar, the American Muslim who murdered his fellow soldiers at the start of the Iraq invasion, has been sentenced to death. FORT BRAGG, N.C. - A military jury sentenced a soldier to death Thursday for a deadly grenade and rifle attack on his own comrades during the opening days of ...
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VDH: Casting the First Stone
Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 5:54:10 pm PDT
Victor Davis Hanson, on the John Bolton nomination hearings: Casting the first stone. The marathon confirmation hearings of John Bolton to be the American ambassador to the United Nations have become pathetic. Bolton is supposedly discourteous to subordinates. He was a hands-on-his-hips boss! Heaven forbid, he sometimes bellowed. The “disclosure” of these ...
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Iraq Has a Government, Reuters Isn't Impressed
Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 5:17:34 pm PDT
Iraq has a new government, and al-Reuters’ disappointment is palpable in an article that focuses almost exclusively on whatever negative aspects they can dredge up: Iraq Forms Government Three Months After Polls. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq formed its first democratically elected government in more than 50 years on Thursday, ending three ...
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Presidential Press Conference
Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 5:04:58 pm PDT
The President’s press conference is now taking place; you can watch live over the web at C-SPAN. (Note: it’s on C-SPAN 3.)
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Hebron Incident Update
Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 4:44:41 pm PDT
Sergeant Major Tziki Eyal, the IDF soldier reported by Reuters on Tuesday to have been killed by a Palestinian taxi driver, was actually a victim of friendly fire, as fellow soldiers fired on the taxi after it ran him over: Autopsy confirms reservist was killed by friendly fire. On Monday evening, ...
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Feinstein Horrified at Possibility of Enemy Casualties
Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 3:05:09 pm PDT
The Bush administration wants to perform research into nuclear bunker busting weapons, that could be used as a last resort to take out deeply buried, highly fortified command centers. Democrats are blindly opposed to any nuclear weapons research, of course, and Senator Dianne Feinstein shows the deep confusion these people have ...
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Jihad in New Orleans
Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 2:37:44 pm PDT
At a public hearing in New Orleans, a man named Salaam Jihad (possibly a Buddhist?) threatened to walk into a police station and “open fire on everyone”—and members of the audience applauded: Residents blast NOPD in heated forum. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) For much of a public hearing Wednesday night on ...
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Philippines Terror Threat Rising
Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 2:24:33 pm PDT
The Philippines is becoming a center of organization and training for the global jihad: Anti-US Terror Threat Grows in Philippines. (Hat tip: Ed Mahmoud.) MANILA, Philippines — Security experts see growing signs of a link between Al Qaeda and home-grown terrorists in the Philippines, raising fears that attacks against the United States could ...
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Cease Fire, Palestinian Style
Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 9:44:06 am PDT
Palestinians fire anti-tank missile at IDF post. Security guard and soldier have guns stolen. Soldiers arrest Fatah terrorist in West Bank. Palestinian gunmen fire mortar bomb at troops, no casualties reported. Palestinians fire at IDF outpost in Gaza; no injuries reported. All from today. (Hat tip: manker.)
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Abu Mazen Says...
Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 9:15:56 am PDT
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Germans Implicated in Oil-For-Food
Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 8:29:12 am PDT
The true extent of the United Nations Oil-For-Food scam is just beginning to be seen; now comes news that German companies were also involved in the kickback schemes: Corruption: UN Probes German Companies in Oil for Food Scandal. (Hat tip: madawaskan.) German companies are also involved in the kickback scandal looming ...
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Religion of Peace Mourns Death Cult Leader
Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 7:49:42 am PDT
It’s been a bit more than a year since the “spiritual leader” of the Hamas death cult, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, was blown to bits by an Israeli missile. Over at ummah.com, another tiny minority of extremists is crying over Yassin’s extinction: the 1st anniversary : NEVER Forget!! The first post is a ...
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Antisemitism in Turkish Media
Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 8:38:42 pm PDT
Nauseating antisemitism running rampant in Turkish media, translated by MEMRI: Antisemitism in the Turkish Media: Part 1. “It is the Jews Who Should Read Mein Kampf” Columnist Arslan Tekin of the nationalist-Islamic daily Yenicag, wrote in an article titled ‘Yes, Mein Kampf should be taught in schools:’ “Everybody should read it, and ...
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Religion of Killing Americans
Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 8:13:29 pm PDT
Saudi Arabian “chief justice” Sheik Saleh Al Luhaidan says it’s “religiously permissible” for Muslims to kill Americans: Saudi chief justice urges fighting US. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) “If someone knows that he is capable of entering Iraq in order to join the fight, and if his intention is to raise up ...
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Gore Leads the Way
Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 6:21:49 pm PDT
In a speech to the wacko-leftist group MoveOn.org, Al Gore showed that the Democratic party has moved on from those primitive “Bush=Hitler” talking points, and now believes the best way to appeal to the base is by portraying “right-wing religious zealots” as a monolithic threat, far more dangerous than Islamic ...
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Israel Gets Bunker Busters
Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 5:53:48 pm PDT
Good morning, Tehran! This is your wakeup call: U.S. OKs Bunker Buster Bombs for Israel. Have a nice day! (Hat tip: LGF readers.) WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has authorized the sale of as many as 100 large bunker-buster bombs to Israel. One expert said the move should serve as a ...
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Obsessive Compulsive Media Disorder
Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 5:06:22 pm PDT
The great thing about claiming to be a man known only for having a hood over your head is that there’s no way for anyone to prove otherwise—and PBS will still give you all the air time you need to spread anti-American propaganda:
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Al-Timimi Supporters Seething
Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:35:22 am PDT
Supporters of Ali al-Timimi, the Islamic scholar convicted of leading a jihad gang in Virginia, are making the usual claims of discrimination and suppression of “free speech:” Prosecution Called ‘Overzealous’. Yesterday, after he was found guilty in U.S. District Court in Alexandria on charges that he encouraged followers to join the ...
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Spanish 9/11 Trial Farce
Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:02:04 am PDT
The Islamic terrorists on trial in Spain have apparently decided on their strategy—dissembling as if their lives depended on it: Terror Suspect Takes Stand in 9/11 Trial. Unfortunately, they’re on trial in Spain where there is no death penalty, so their lives don’t depend on it. In fact, there’s a good ...
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Millennium Bomber Faces Sentencing
Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:36:58 am PDT
The Los Angeles Times has a detailed report on Ahmed Ressam, the Islamic terrorist who planned to commit mass murder at Los Angeles International Airport. Ressam has been very helpful to investigators in the past (although he has clammed up recently), and defense lawyers are trying to use his cooperation ...
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Would-Be Missile Broker Convicted
Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:10:46 am PDT
Another terrorism conviction in New Jersey: British Businessman Found Guilty in U.S. Weapons Case. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) NEWARK, N.J. (Reuters) - A British man was found guilty of trying to provide material support to terrorists on Wednesday for selling a shoulder-launched missile to an undercover FBI informant posing as an Islamic ...
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Firefighters Discover Brooklyn Terrorist Sympathizers
Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 9:23:46 am PDT
When firefighters conducted a routine inspection of a market in Brooklyn, they discovered a cache of stolen airbags—and walls covered with newspaper clippings about Osama bin Laden and beheadings. Don’t worry, though. Authorities say there is no evidence of terrorism. April 27, 2005 — Firefighters found more than 200 vehicle airbags believed ...
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Cease Fire, Palestinian Style
Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 9:09:38 am PDT
Two more boy bombers nabbed in W. Bank. In the fourth attempt in recent months to use children or teenagers to perpetrate terror attacks, two Palestinian ‘boy bombers’, aged 15 and 16, were arrested at the Jalama checkpoint near Jenin in the West Bank on Wednesday. In their possession, IDF troops found ...
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British Academics Protest Israel Boycott
Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 8:07:01 am PDT
A small piece of good news: the boycott of Israeli universities by the British AUT is not going down well with academics who still have a sense of decency and aren’t blinded by hate and propaganda. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The Association of University Teachers (AUT) has received a flood of ...
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Bolton Accuser a Serial Plagiarist
Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 7:52:51 am PDT
Yesterday we noted a post at Daily Kos from John Bolton accuser Melody Townsel, in which she admitted committing plagiarism while working at the Abilene Christian University student newspaper, the Optimist. The ACU Optimist has a report on this today, with the revelation that Townsel was also involved in another plagiarism ...
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Air America Investigated by Secret Service
Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 7:37:44 am PDT
Loony left talk radio network Air America let their irrational hatred of the President go a bit too far this time. (Hat tip: Right Brain.) The red-hot rhetoric over Social Security on liberal talkradio network AIR AMERICA has caught the attention of the Secret Service, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. Government officials ...
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Islamic Proselytization in US Public Schools
Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 9:23:15 pm PDT
The Islamic agenda for America is spelled out in plain language for all to see, on this page at a web site with an address in Carpentersville, Illinois: DawaNet—to link to serve: Dawa in public schools. Dawa through the school newspaper The school newspaper is another effective way of doing Dawa. ...
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Spanish Al Qaeda Leader Practices Taqiyah
Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 9:13:40 pm PDT
Taqiyah (alternate spelling: taqqiyeh) is the Islamic da’wa (proselytization) strategy of deliberate falsehood and denial of religious affiliations, when faced with an overpowering enemy. It might be a good idea to remember this when reading the following: Spain’s Top Qaeda Suspect Condemns Sept. 11 Attacks. (Hat tip: Egfrow.) MADRID (Reuters) - ...
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"I Punched Saddam in the Mouth"
Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 8:12:26 pm PDT
Here’s a toast to Samir, an Iraqi now living in St. Louis, who had a chance to serve up a very personal sort of justice to a mass-murdering dictator: “I Punched Saddam in the Mouth.” (Hat tip: LGF readers.) In a south-city Saint Louis Bread Co., a young auto mechanic named ...
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Giuliana Sgrena Pitches a Fit
Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 6:51:17 pm PDT
Q: How can you tell when an Italian communist “journalist” is lying? A: When her fingers are typing: Italian hostage blasts US report. Ms Sgrena described the conclusion of the leaked report as a “slap in the face”. “The greatest disappointment would be if our authorities were to accept this insult without reacting,” ...
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Kennedy: Torture, Torture, Torture
Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 6:36:48 pm PDT
The ever-disgraceful Ted Kennedy gave a very special speech today, using the word “torture” 38 times: On the Anniversary of the Abu Ghraib Scandal. His gloating relish in recounting tales of America’s transgressions, seared into his memory just like John F. Kerry’s mythical Christmas voyage to Cambodia, is almost as ...
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Cycle of Violence: Tire Biter
Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 5:25:57 pm PDT
Today’s ride: 42.2 miles, in exemplary Southern California weather. Did the PV golf course climb at an easy/moderate pace, zoomed down PV Drive North as fast as the cars, then headed back to point A. On the way home, I had a slight mishap; a kid about 8 or 9 ...
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Breitbart Statement
Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 4:39:33 pm PDT
Andrew Breitbart has long been the unseen partner at the Drudge Report, and his plan to leave Drudge and start a new web site for Arianna Huffington (featuring celebrity bloggers like Walter Cronkite and Warren Beatty among many others) has drawn a lot of attention. Andrew has issued a statement ...
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The Damned of the West 3
Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 4:22:37 pm PDT
Rusty Shackleford has posted part 3 of his series of interviews with the family of Roy Hallums, the civilian contractor abducted in Baghdad in November 2004, whose whereabouts are still unknown: The Damned of the West 3.
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The Case of the Exploding German Toads
Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 3:48:36 pm PDT
Science is baffled. Mystery of the German exploding toads. (Hat tip: Beagle.) Toads in an area of northern Germany are being killed off by a mysterious disease - they are exploding. Thousands of the amphibians have died in recent days in a pond in Hamburg’s Altona district, with their bodies swelling ...
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Islamic Scholar Convicted on All Counts
Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 2:18:33 pm PDT
Muslim Man Convicted of Urging Holy War. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Islamic scholar who prosecutors said enjoyed “rock star” status among a group of young Muslim men in Virginia was convicted Tuesday of exhorting his followers in the days after Sept. 11 to join the Taliban ...
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CAIR Approves of Crusader Film
Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 1:25:28 pm PDT
Radical Islamic front group CAIR, one of whose founding members was just convicted of terrorist financing, really likes Ridley Scott’s new film: Muslims Call New Fox Crusader Film ‘Balanced’; CAIR Says ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ Avoids Negative Stereotypes. (Hat tip: Baldy.) WASHINGTON, April 25 /U.S. Newswire/ — A prominent national Islamic ...
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Bolton Accuser Admits Plagiarism at Daily Kos
Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 8:23:02 am PDT
The movement to smear and discredit John Bolton is melting down. Bolton accuser Melody Townsel, former leader of Mothers Opposing Bush, is about to get outed as a plagiarizer, and she’s whining about it to the people who understand her best—the lunatics at Daily Kos: Important Melody Townsel revelation—PLEASE DISSEMINATE. ...
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Nazi-Islamist Hatefest in Florida
Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 7:56:37 am PDT
The Nazi-Islamist alliance is thriving in Boca Raton, Florida, where notorious white supremacist antisemite William Baker will speak at an event sponsored by the radical Assidiq Islamic Educational Foundation. On April 30, the Assidiq Islamic Educational Foundation (AIEF), an Islamic center in Boca Raton, is hosting an event commemorating the “prophet” ...
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What Media Bias?
Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 7:40:35 am PDT
Al-Reuters demonstrates their expertise in the art of the morally equivalent headline, in which the murderer and his victim are described in the same neutral tones: Palestinian, Israeli Killed at West Bank Roadblock. HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - A Palestinian driver ran over and killed an Israeli at an army checkpoint ...
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Does Washington Get Radical Islam?
Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 7:37:08 am PDT
Daniel Pipes thinks Washington Finally Gets It on Radical Islam. I’m not so sure, but Pipes backs up his argument with examples: Does the Bush administration really believe, as its leadership has kept repeating since right after 9/11, that Islam is a “religion of peace” not connected to the problem of terrorism? ...
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Support for Beheadings in the Ivy League
Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 8:58:44 pm PDT
Brown University student Liz Sperber supports the Iraqi “resistance” unconditionally; and in case you had doubts about what that means and how far Ms Sperber is willing to go, her article for the College Hill Independent is accompanied by a cartoon representation of hostage Eugene Armstrong shortly before his beheading: ...
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Got Zarqawi's Computer
Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 8:30:46 pm PDT
Head head-chopper Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had another close call recently; he escaped again, but this time he had to leave behind a computer with a “very big hard drive:” Zarqawi Eludes Capture; Computer Discovered. (Hat tip: lykeios.) Apr. 25, 2005 - Jordanian rebel Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — Iraq’s most wanted fugitive ...
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Monday Night Open Thread
Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 7:39:38 pm PDT
The open thread for this Monday evening features a picture of my front brake; the most important one.
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Jordanian Honor Killing Watch
Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 6:10:39 pm PDT
There are no words: Sister shot for phone photo. Amman - A Jordanian man shot dead his divorced sister after seeing her photo on his friend’s camera-equipped cellphone in the latest “honour” killing in the kingdom, hospital officials said Monday. The unidentified man shot the 31-year-old mother twice in the head Sunday ...
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US Troops Cleared in Sgrena Shooting
Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 6:02:20 pm PDT
Here’s a (seemingly rare) victory for truth over leftist propaganda; the American troops who fired on the car carrying Italian communist Giuliana Sgrena, killing Italian intelligence officer Nicola Calipari, will not be disciplined because they were following standard operating procedures. (Hat tip: Jheka.) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. investigators have found ...
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Elections Are for Terrorists Too
Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 4:54:49 pm PDT
Here are some interesting pictures at Getty Images that for some reason were never picked up by the wire services: a through-the-looking-glass set of photos showing Hamas election workers preparing campaign posters and other paraphernalia. Here’s a good shot of the candidates.
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Iran Testing EMP Weapon?
Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 1:54:59 pm PDT
Is Iran testing a missile intended to carry an electromagnetic pulse weapon? WorldNetDaily’s Joseph Farah says so: Iran plans to knock out U.S. with 1 nuclear bomb. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) WASHINGTON — Iran is not only covertly developing nuclear weapons, it is already testing ballistic missiles specifically designed to destroy ...
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JihadTV: The Enemy on Our Airwaves
Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 1:19:10 pm PDT
It’s long been obvious that Al Jazeera (aka “JihadTV”) must have some sort of quid pro quo relationship with Islamic terrorist groups, and it’s been frustrating to see our mainstream Western media turn a blind eye to this while continuing to uncritically use the footage JihadTV supplies—often directly from the ...
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Syria Withdraws from Lebanon
Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 12:09:42 pm PDT
Here’s another disaster we can blame on the evil, scheming Chimpy McHalliBush: Syrian withdrawal enters final phase. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BEIRUT: Syria completed the final phase of its withdrawal Sunday, with a symbolic presence to remain until Tuesday, when a ceremony will be held to bid farewell to the heads ...
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Abu Mazen Says...
Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:47:52 am PDT
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Punch a Woman for Peace
Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:22:22 am PDT
Peace activists who use violence: Peace activist faces trial after crossing the line of civility. (Hat tip: Todd.) Rita Preckshot went to a peace rally, and a fight broke out. It started out as a typical Wednesday for Preckshot, a 49-year-old who stands about 5-foot-2 and has hearing aids in both ...
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Internet Haganah in WaPo
Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:13:47 am PDT
Aaron Weisburd of Internet Haganah gets a nice writeup in today’s Washington Post: Watchdogs Seek Out The Web’s Bad Side.
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No Antisemitism at Columbia
Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 9:56:23 am PDT
Alyssa Lappen exposes a meeting of radical leftists, Islamists, and Columbia University professor Joseph Massad, marked by conspiracy theories and victocratic paranoia: Columbia’s Anti-Jewish Conspiracy Theorist. “There is a new blacklist across the country which is having a chilling effect on campuses everywhere,” exclaimed Monique Dols, a student of Columbia University ...
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Who Threatens Columbia?
Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 9:28:09 am PDT
In the wake of Columbia University’s whitewash of the problems in their Middle East Studies department, Martin Kramer discovers more evidence of back room dealing: Who threatens Columbia? In Professor Joseph Massad’s mid-March statement to the ad hoc committee investigating faculty intimidation of students at Columbia, he listed the support he’d ...
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Phillips: British Jews Under Siege
Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 8:19:25 am PDT
Melanie Phillips is righteously angry about the appalling decision by the British Association of University Teachers to boycott Israeli colleges: Under siege. The vote has drawn immediate protests at the denial of academic freedom that it embodies. I have already commented in posts below on this particular aspect, along with the ...
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The Forgotten Rachels
Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 7:55:37 am PDT
As British theatergoers attend sell-out performances of a disgraceful play celebrating the life of hate-filled terrorist supporter Rachel Corrie, Tom Gross commemorates the victims of Corrie’s murderous puppetmasters: The forgotten Rachels. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) My Name Is Rachel Thaler is not the title of a play likely to be produced ...
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Saudi Star Arrested for Indecency
Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 9:39:25 pm PDT
The star of an Arab “reality” TV show got a reminder that the Dark Ages are never far away in apartheid Saudi Arabia: Saudi star riles clerics. Religious authorities in Riyadh briefly detained Saudi singer Hisham Abdel Rahman for causing an indecent scene, a police official in the Saudi capital said ...
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Anti-Israel Play a Hit in London
Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 7:23:34 pm PDT
Britain’s Observer actually uses the Islamofascist’s favorite word “martyr” to describe terror-enabling International Solidarity Movement member Rachel Corrie, as they report that the distorted agitprop play about her diary is one of the hottest theater tickets in London: Diary of an American martyr inspires a young audience in theatre’s hit ...
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ANZAC Day
Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 6:42:14 pm PDT
A great post from Tim Blair commemorates Australia’s ANZAC Day. If you’re an American, you probably haven’t been told much about this day (named after the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps), but it’s worth the effort to learn.
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Annie Jacobsen Gets a Visit from the Feds
Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 5:54:04 pm PDT
A fascinating and disturbing new installment of Annie Jacobsen’s Terror in the Skies series reveals that the Department of Homeland Security is still very interested in the possible terrorist dry run aboard Northwest flight 327; four federal agents made a special trip to LA to interview Jacobsen about the incident: ...
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Hubble's 15th Anniversary
Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 5:11:17 pm PDT
On the 15th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA has released two stunning new pictures. (Hat tip: The New Editor.) Here’s one: the spiral galaxy M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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Bush, the Telecomm Hitler
Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 2:30:24 pm PDT
Here’s a story at TIME Magazine saying that the Bush administration has bumped several delegates to an international telecommunications meeting in Guatemala, because they were Kerry supporters: Any Kerry Supporters On The Line? The Inter-American Telecommunication Commission meets three times a year in various cities across the Americas to discuss such ...
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IslamOnline Seethes, Whines, Rewrites
Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 1:57:20 pm PDT
This Agence France Presse article about the new pope’s inauguration statements didn’t contain enough Jew-hatred, so Wahhabi propaganda site IslamOnline did some rewriting: Pope Pays Homage to Jews, Ignores Muslims. Some observers fear that Jewish lobbies might blackmail the new pope for his wartime membership – which he confirms was enforced ...
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Eagleburger on Bolton
Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 10:33:41 am PDT
Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger comes out strongly in favor of John Bolton: Blunt but Effective. President Bush’s nomination of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has generated a bad case of dyspepsia among a number of senators, who keep putting off a confirmation vote. That hesitation ...
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Hollywood Denies Terrorism, Praises Corruption
Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 10:06:46 am PDT
Here are two good pieces about the Sean Penn film The Interpreter, another example of Hollywood’s politically correct self-imposed blindness. First, Greg Crosby at Jewish World Review: Terrorist denial. The terrorists in the story, as originally written by two screenwriters, were to have come from a fictional Middle Eastern country. Throughout the ...
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Monkey Business in DC
Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 9:03:31 am PDT
The Democrats have devolved into an obstructionist party that will do and say anything to stand in the way of the policies of the Bush administration, and Mark Steyn completely nails the absurdity of the John Bolton nomination hearings: Republican joins Bolton hearing monkey biz. (Hat tip: Captain Dubious.) Britain’s Daily ...
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The Jihad Genocide of the Armenians
Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 8:52:09 am PDT
At The American Thinker, Andrew Bostom remembers The Jihad Genocide of the Armenians by Turkish Muslims. I attended a banquet in New York City April 2, 2005, celebrating Professor Vahakn Dadrian’s distinguished career, most notably, his singular contributions to the study of the Armenian genocide. Dadrian’s scholarship is characterized by ...
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Actress in 9/11 Film: It Was Our Fault
Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 8:18:40 am PDT
Hollywood is beginning to make movies about September 11. And if that fills you with dread, because you expect these films to be politically slanted to the point of sheer lunacy, you would be right: Actress: 9/11 our fault. (Hat tip: agom11.) Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, star of a new flick about the ...
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AFP Shills for Palestinian Puppets
Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 8:13:29 am PDT
Everyone knows Agence France Presse is little more than a shill for Palestinian and Arab causes. But do they have to make it so slobberingly obvious? Abbas asserts control over security services with revamp. RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas moved to stamp his authority on the security ...
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Haters Plan to Disrupt Israeli Soccer Match
Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 8:01:49 am PDT
At the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign web site, Jew-haters discuss how to disrupt the Israel-Ireland World Cup soccer match: Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign :: View topic - Stop All Racist Tours. (Hat tip: gill.) Mick Napier Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 8 Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 10:16 am Post subject: ...
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BBC Caught Red-Handed Manufacturing News
Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 8:47:38 pm PDT
The BBC has crossed all kinds of lines with this bizarre stunt: Tory fury as BBC sends hecklers to bait Howard. (Hat tip: Shiplord Kirel.) The Tories have made an official protest after the hecklers, who were given the microphones by producers, were caught at a party event in the North ...
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Palestinian Revolving Prison Door
Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 8:34:05 pm PDT
As usual, Palestinian “police” looked the other way while terrorists “escaped” from prison today: Stage bombing suspects ‘escape’ PA jail. (Hat tip: ddd.) Two Palestinians suspected of involvement in the February 25 suicide bombing of Tel Aviv’s ‘The Stage’ nightclub escaped from prison today. Shakif Abdel Rani and Ahmed Zaki, members of ...
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Mind-Bending Photo of the Day
Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 6:56:16 pm PDT
Somebody please notify the ACLU that their nemesis, the evil non-inclusive Boy Scouts Organization, has managed to establish a base in the Palestinian Authority. And they’re playing bagpipes. This may cause a schism between the ACLU and CAIR. Palestinian scouts play music in front of the Dome of the Rock mosque as they ...
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UN Human Wrongs Commission
Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 6:25:02 pm PDT
Arthur Chrenkoff reports an astounding act of appeasement at a meeting of the hopelessly compromised United Nations Commission on Human Rights, at which Reverend Bob Fu, an advocate for persecuted Christians in China, was bullied out of the UN complex by the Chinese delegate: UN Commission on Human Rights caves ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 5:34:57 pm PDT
Masked Palestinian Hamas terrorists march during a rally in the town of Rafah in southern Gaza Strip April 19, 2005. Hundreds of Palestinian terrorists from the Hamas gang marched in a rally marking the first anniversary of the death of the Pediatrician of Death Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, who was executed ...
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AP Cameraman Killed
Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 5:27:24 pm PDT
Associated Press cameraman Saleh Ibrahim has been killed in a shootout in Iraq. (Hat tip: efuseakay.) BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — A television cameraman working for The Associated Press was killed Saturday when gunfire broke out after an explosion in the northern city of Mosul. An AP photographer was wounded in ...
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Light Entertainment in Lebanon
Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 3:53:54 pm PDT
I’ve read this unsettling review of a play about decapitation in Lebanon’s Daily Star twice now, and I still have no idea what to make of it: ‘Life is short’ makes audience complicit in murder. (Hat tip: Frisco Patriot.) “Life is short” is a minimalist production. The players perform without speaking ...
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Copter Shooting Terrorists Caught
Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 2:10:05 pm PDT
I’m sure this will come as a big disappointment to the anti-American ghouls at Democratic Underground and Daily Kos: U.S. Detains Six in Iraq Copter Shooting. BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military said Saturday it had detained six men suspected of shooting down a Russian-made helicopter carrying 11 civilians — including ...
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Saturday Morning Open Thread
Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 8:30:21 am PDT
Rain is moving in later today, but here’s a photo of a sunny day at the bay.
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A Graduation Photo
Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 8:05:56 am PDT
Here’s a picture from one of the Israeli universities now being boycotted by the British Association of University Teachers: Boycott of Israeli university. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
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Plot Mass Murder, Walk Out of Jail in 8 Years
Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 7:46:07 am PDT
For planning to commit mass murder in the name of Islam, Muslim “scholar” Saajid Badat was sentenced yesterday to 13 years in prison, but he’ll probably be released in eight. LONDON - A British judge sentenced a Muslim scholar to 13 years in prison Friday after he admitted conspiring with shoebomber ...
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Army Officers Cleared of Bogus Charges
Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 7:06:00 am PDT
Four of the five Army officers accused of wrongdoing in the Abu Ghraib media scandal have been cleared. WASHINGTON, April 22 - A high-level Army investigation has cleared four of the five top Army officers overseeing prison policies and operations in Iraq of responsibility for the abuse of detainees there, Congressional ...
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Nothing "Definitive" on NK Nuke Tests
Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 7:00:23 pm PDT
North Korea may be preparing to openly test a nuclear weapon. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has not seen certain evidence that North Korea is preparing for a nuclear weapons test although it has seen “lots of stuff suggesting interesting activity,” a senior administration official said on Friday. The official, who ...
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Seipp vs. the LAT "Ideas Correspondent"
Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 6:24:21 pm PDT
I think Cathy Seipp is beginning to get a bit cynical: The Difficult Life of David Shaw. Somebody stop her. I must be getting cynical, if you can believe that, because when I read Los Angeles Times media critic David Shaw’s infamous rant against bloggers a few weeks ago my first ...
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LGF Oakland Meetup
Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 6:01:21 pm PDT
LGF lizardoid minion SkippyMoment sent me a Microsoft Word document (with photos!) detailing the goings-on and damage done at the recent LGF meeting in Oakland, California, attended by many of our most feared commenters. [Doc removed.]
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Friday Evening Open Thread
Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 4:37:45 pm PDT
If you look really close, you can see me out there on the sand.
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Moussaoui Planned to Fly Plane into White House
Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 3:55:23 pm PDT
Moussaoui Pleads Guilty in 9/11 Conspiracy. Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring with the Sept. 11 hijackers to kill Americans and declared he was personally chosen by Osama bin Laden to fly a plane into the White House during a later attack. Moussaoui admitted guilt in front of a packed courtroom ...
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VDH: Winning the War
Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 3:17:51 pm PDT
Another Friday means another column from Victor Davis Hanson, insightful as always: Winning the War. Do not look for logic and consistency in the Middle East where they are not to be found. It makes no sense to be frustrated that Arab intellectuals and reformers damn us for removing Saddam and ...
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Religion of Death Threats
Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 1:23:31 pm PDT
Norwegian preacher kindles religious strife. Celebrity Pentecostal preacher Runar Søgaard is under protection by Swedish police after receiving death threats. A high-profile sermon where Søgaard called the prophet Mohammed “a confused pedophile” has triggered fears of religious war. Søgaard, 37, enjoys celebrity status in Sweden after his marriage to recording star and ...
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Kudlow Hosts Rosett, Bay, and Simon
Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:53:28 am PDT
This should be an interesting discussion of the UN Oil-For-Food scam: Claudia Rosett, Austin Bay, and Roger L. Simon today on the Kudlow & Co. show at 5:40 Eastern on CNBC.
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JibJab's Matzah
Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:42:05 am PDT
JibJab has a very funny new short animation, just right for Passover: Matzah.
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Antisemitic Resolutions at UCC
Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:02:35 am PDT
In another senseless act of bigotry, the United Church of Christ is about to join the academics of Britain’s AUT, and vote on a major Israel divestment resolution—and it will probably be approved. UCCTruths.com has more information and links to the actual resolutions, and moderator James Hutchins contributes this commentary: Proposed ...
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US: Annan Isn't Exonerated
Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 10:10:17 am PDT
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is claiming that an interim report on the Oil-For-Food scam exonerated him, but the US begs to differ. A U.S. State Department official said Thursday that an interim report on corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program did not exonerate Kofi Annan as the secretary-general had claimed. The ...
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Canadian Bank Apologizes Like Good Dhimmis
Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 9:41:11 am PDT
An official at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce wrote something accurate in a CIBC publication. As a result he has been disciplined by the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations, his offensive words have been expunged, and he will undergo re-education to prevent further occurrences of thought crime: Bank Apologizes ...
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British Academic Antisemitism
Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 8:29:52 am PDT
The Jew-haters who run Britain’s AUT have voted to boycott Israeli universities: Israel universities - statement by AUT general secretary Sally Hunt. (Hat tip: Jonny.) AUT Council today decided to boycott Haifa University and the Bar-Ilan University. The executive committee will issue guidance to AUT members on these decisions. Council delegates also ...
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The Ghouls of Democratic Underground
Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 8:11:12 am PDT
The swinish inmates of Democratic Underground are ecstatic over the murders of Blackwater contractors in Iraq: Helicopter downed in Iraq, nine dead - US sources. (Hat tip: Jheka.) FlemingsGhost (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-21-05 10:21 PM 71. Incinerated to dust. Bitch of an occupational hazard, huh? Rejoice! There are ...
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Moore's Venal, Vindictive Scholarship
Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 7:54:11 am PDT
Michael Moore is lashing out at a university that canceled his talk, by setting up a scholarship specifically for troublemakers: Moore Sets Up Scholarship for Rebels. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Filmmaker and Michigan native Michael Moore has established a scholarship for students who defy the administration at California State University, San Marcos ...
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Al Awda Convention at UCLA
Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 8:46:29 pm PDT
LGF reader LAchica sent us photos and videos from the pro-Palestinian Al Awda (“Right of Return”) convention held at UCLA this past weekend, and I assembled it all into a web page: Al Awda Convention, UCLA, April 15-17, 2005. A convergence of moronic Marxists and idiotic Islamists.
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Army Sgt. Haab Won't Be Prosecuted
Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 7:13:36 pm PDT
Arizona residents have the right to make a citizen’s arrest, and the reservist who held migrants at gunpoint won’t be prosecuted. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas won’t prosecute an Army reservist who held seven Mexican men at gunpoint at a southwestern Arizona rest stop. Thomas says Sergeant Patrick ...
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Monsters
Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 7:00:33 pm PDT
Monsters. Video Purports to Show Crewman’s Killing. The video begins with an unseen cameraman breathing heavily and running with the camera toward burning wreckage. Two bodies are visible, one of them severely charred, nearly all its clothes burned away. “Look at that filth,” someone says in Arabic at the sight of the body. ...
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We Got Mail!
Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 6:53:59 pm PDT
Tonight’s RoP hate mail is from Australia, with the usual phony Hotmail return address and a subject line that sets a record for length and incoherence: misuse of the word ‘anti-semitism’ - semite refers to all arabs and jewsih popel alike, hence, and arab cannot be antisemetic, maybe just anti-jewsih, get ...
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Daily Kos' Elusive "Screw Them" Comment
Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 6:33:37 pm PDT
Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of Daily Kos has done his best to make it hard to find the comment he posted on April 1, 2004, about the Americans who were torn apart and hung from a bridge in Fallujah. He erased it from the Google cache and the Internet Archive, and ...
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Hasan Akbar Convicted
Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 5:51:51 pm PDT
Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar has been convicted of murder: Military Jury Convicts Sergeant of Murder. An Army sergeant was convicted Thursday by a military jury of premeditated murder and attempted murder in a grenade and rifle attack that killed two of his comrades and wounded 14 others in Kuwait during the ...
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Arab Bank Major Supporter of Terrorism
Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 3:30:44 pm PDT
The tiny minority of extremist Muslims apparently had the Arab world’s largest bank on their side: Arab Bank funded Hamas, al-Qaida. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The New York branch of the Arab Bank was instrumental in financing Hamas, Al-Qaida and dozens of other terrorist groups, and some of those transactions were ...
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Kos Kidz Gloat Over Blackwater Contractors' Deaths
Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 1:17:48 pm PDT
The Kos Kidz are absolutely disgusting in this topic at Daily Kos, crowing over the deaths of more Blackwater contractors in Iraq: Copter shot down in Iraq; six Blackwater U.S. contractors among 11 dead. One of the sickest, most un-American (yes, I wrote “un-American,” and I meant it) commenters echoes their ...
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France Backs China
Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 9:06:40 am PDT
France will support China if they attack Taiwan: France Backs China on Taiwan. (Hat tip: Ringo.) During a state visit to China, French Premier Raffarin threw support behind a law allowing China to attack Taiwan and continued to push for a lift of the EU arms embargo. At the outset of a ...
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"Allah Be Praised ... the Hatred Festers"
Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 8:25:57 am PDT
An Iranian television preacher asks (and answers) the question, “Who would Jesus hate?” Hojjat Al-Eslam Yahya Ja’fari: As you know, the biggest problem of the Islamic world today is global Zionism and the Great Satan – America. They are our enemies, especially the enemies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. They ...
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Truce, Palestinian Style
Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 7:56:52 am PDT
Al-Reuters Palestinian propagandist Nidal al-Mughrabi uncorks a headline packed with rich, fragrant cognitive dissonance: Bomb Blast Wounds Israeli Soldier Despite Truce. GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militants set off a bomb near an Israeli army jeep in Gaza on Thursday, wounding a soldier and jarring a ceasefire that has helped smooth ...
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Howard Dean: Picture of Class
Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 7:40:04 am PDT
In Minnesota, Howard Dean showed once again the sense of dignity and class that makes him the perfect man to lead the Democratic Party. Between a speech he delivered without notes and a question-answer session, Dean regaled an appreciative audience for nearly 90 minutes without once raising his voice, as he ...
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Death Cult Child Abuse
Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 7:34:11 am PDT
A lovely demonstration of the Religion of Peace™ in Iran, where hundreds of Muslims pledged their willingness to commit suicidal mass murder—with their children. An Iranian child wearing headband with the inscription ‘There is no God but Allah’ attends a registration meeting indicating her readiness for martyrdom to support Palestinians, in ...
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Bloggers: The Light at the End of the Media Tunnel
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 9:04:54 pm PDT
Arizona Republic editor Phil Boas has a great article for journalist trade publication The Masthead: Bloggers: The light at the end of the newspaper’s tunnel. (Hat tip: Power Line.) The Power Line bloggers deserve and got much credit for becoming the information clearinghouse that ultimately exposed the fake memos behind the ...
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Moussaoui Will Plead Guilty
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 8:38:11 pm PDT
In the conclusion to a farcical parody of a trial, Moussaoui Could Face the Death Penalty as he prepares to plead guilty to involvement in the 9/11 terror attacks. Let’s hope this Islamist fanatic has already given up whatever information he possessed. WASHINGTON - Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person in the ...
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ACLU Joins Forces with CAIR
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 7:47:36 pm PDT
The ACLU joins hands with radical Islamic front group CAIR to sue the US Department of Homeland Security for “racial profiling:” Muslim-Americans Sue Govt for Racial Profiling. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The suit charged the Muslim-Americans were taken aside after being asked if they attended the religious conference and were ...
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UN Springing Leaks
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 7:10:31 pm PDT
Another Top UN Aide Steps Aside During Oil-For-Food Probe. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Canadian Maurice Strong, an influential entrepreneur, withdrew as U.N. envoy for Korea on Wednesday while investigators probed his ties to a lobbyist suspected of bribing U.N. officials with Iraqi funds. Strong, who has served in a variety of U.N. ...
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EU Parliament Cancels Screening of 'Submission'
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 7:01:31 pm PDT
The European Parliament canceled a scheduled screening of murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh’s short film Submission today: Screening of Dutch Van Gogh Film Scrapped. BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Parliament said Wednesday it had scrapped the screening of murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh’s short film criticizing the treatment of ...
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BBC Mideast Correspondent Drops the Mask
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 6:45:59 pm PDT
Terror-enabling web site Electronic Intifada really slipped up with this article, an interview with the BBC’s former Middle East correspondent Tim Llewellyn in which he excuses Syria’s occupation of Lebanon... Lately, news from the region has shifted to the Levant as thousands of people swarmed the streets of Beirut to protest ...
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Wednesday Night Twig
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 5:40:53 pm PDT
Here’s a mid-week open thread featuring a photo of a twig:
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AP: Oil-For-Food Investigators Resign
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 4:12:13 pm PDT
The Associated Press now has the story broken earlier today by Roger Simon: Oil-For-Food Investigators Resign. UNITED NATIONS _ - Two senior investigators with the committee probing corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program have resigned in protest, saying they believe a report that cleared Kofi Annan of meddling in the $64 ...
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Islamic Lynch Mob Kills Blasphemer
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:23:46 pm PDT
Al-Reuters files this one under “Oddly Enough:” Man Accused of Blasphemy Shot Dead. (Hat tip: Jill.) ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani man accused of desecrating the Koran was shot dead Wednesday after being chased by an angry crowd. Ashiq Nabi, in his thirties, was accused of being disrespectful to Islam’s holy book ...
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Caterpillar Not Stopped
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:21:44 am PDT
Caterpillar Posts Record Profits on Sales. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) PEORIA, Ill. - Heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc. posted record first-quarter profits Wednesday, riding an ongoing sales surge that outpaced Wall Street’s expectations and boosted the company’s earnings estimates for the year. The deluded moonbats of Stop Caterpillar will be celebrating ...
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Schwarzenegger: "Close the Borders"
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:23:51 am PDT
Yesterday California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said the United States needs to close the southern border—but his office immediately “clarified,” i.e., backpedaled: Schwarzenegger talks tough on illegal immigration. (Hat tip: Rayra.) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the nation’s policy on preventing illegal immigration is too lax, telling a group ...
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Good News from the Land o' Lakes
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:12:35 am PDT
Church bells ring in Minneapolis, winged cherubs strew flower petals, and the whole world seems fresh and new, because Lileks is bleating again.
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UN Oil-For-Food Investigators Resign
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:00:20 am PDT
Roger L. Simon has now confirmed his scoop that two senior members of the Volcker Committee investigating the UN Oil-For-Food scandal have resigned because information was not being followed up—and he names names. This has major implications for Kofi Annan.
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Soros' New Plan: The Phoenix Group
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 9:45:48 am PDT
At a highly secretive meeting of “progressives” in Scottsdale, Arizona, George Soros began laying long-term plans to use his vast wealth to tilt US politics to the far left: Soros says be patient. George Soros told a carefully vetted gathering of 70 likeminded millionaires and billionaires last weekend that they ...
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Followup on Small Town Jihad
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 9:26:12 am PDT
I’m not sure why, but some LGF readers expressed skepticism about Laura Mansfield’s account of Islamic radicalism in a small town mosque: Jihad Comes to Small Town, USA. It seemed obvious to me that Manfield had held back some details of her story out of concern for her safety. Rand Simberg’s ...
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Saudis Want to Block Nuclear Probes
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 8:47:46 am PDT
Here’s another success story for the United Nations and their blind, toothless nuclear watchdog the IAEA: Saudis in Talks on Nuclear Agreement. (Hat tip: Ethel.) VIENNA, Austria - Saudi Arabia has quietly begun talks on a U.N.-sanctioned agreement that could curtail any outside probe of its atomic intentions - a move ...
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Reports Reveal Zarqawi Nuclear Threat
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 8:37:37 am PDT
Bill Gertz reports that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may possess some kind of nuclear device. Recurrent intelligence reports say al Qaeda terrorist Abu Musab Zarqawi has obtained a nuclear device or is preparing a radiological explosive — or dirty bomb — for an attack, according to U.S. officials, who also say analysts ...
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Pope Benedict XVI: Enemy of Jihad
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 8:12:15 am PDT
Robert Spencer says the new Pope may be Europe’s last, best hope: Pope Benedict XVI: Enemy of Jihad. In line with his call to Europeans to recover their own spiritual heritage, the new Pope opposes Turkey’s proposed entrance into the European Union: “Turkey,” he has declared, “has always represented a different ...
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Radical Islam Gets Bolder in Britain
Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 8:00:12 am PDT
British MP George Galloway has been one of the most disgusting panderers to radical Islam on the British political scene. But, oddly, the objects of Galloway’s affection don’t seem to be responding as expected: Hate mob attacks Galloway. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The bitter election battle in the East End has spilled ...
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The Damned of the West
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 9:00:12 pm PDT
At The Jawa Report, Part One of a moving interview with the family of Roy Hallums, abducted from his temporary Baghdad home on November 1st, 2004: The Damned of the West (part 1): Interview With Susan Hallums.
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Tuesday Night Open Thread
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 7:46:37 pm PDT
The single-syllable object featured in this Tuesday night open thread is a square arch.
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The Death of the Alphabet
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 7:06:18 pm PDT
Ladies and lizardoids, Sam Donaldson has pronounced: network news is dead. Donaldson: Network News Dead. (This bulletin brought to you by LGF readers.) Former ABC News reporter/anchor Sam Donaldson is ready to say the last rites for network news because it will soon lose its dominant position as Americans’ primary source ...
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Conspiracy Madness of the Day
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 6:36:49 pm PDT
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Daily Cardinal gives an entirely too credulous reading to an event sponsored by an Islamist front group, featuring a “theologist” who claimed the 9/11 attacks were engineered by the Bush administration: Theologist suggests Sept. 11 conspiracy. (Hat tip: Ann Althouse, via Bryan Smith.) Theorists bent on exposing ...
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WhatReallyHappened at Yahoo News
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 4:56:03 pm PDT
I’ve posted many entries about Google News and their apparent attraction to anti-American, conspiracy, and radical Islamic sites; and we’re not talking simply about alternate points of view, but downright insane places that were formerly found only on the lunatic fringe. But Google’s isn’t the only news service engaged in this ...
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Nazis in Kansas City Airport
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 3:53:22 pm PDT
Here’s an update to the story from earlier today, about a fight in Kansas City International Airport between Rabbi David S. Fine and Nazi Steven T. Boswell. It turns out that the swastika-sporting Boswell was at the airport to drop off none other than Jacques Pluss, the white supremacist professor recently ...
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Muslim Politicians Ran 'Vote Rigging Factory'
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 3:19:53 pm PDT
Muslim politicians commit vote fraud in Britain. (Hat tip: Ringo.) Beneath the veneer of an apparently democratic local election campaign the battle to control areas of Birmingham involved allegations of death threats, intimidation and bribery. In scenes more reminiscent of a gangster movie, party members used nefarious tactics to ensure a clean ...
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Columbia Mideast Institute Honors Antisemitic Poet
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 2:58:06 pm PDT
Columbia University’s Middle East Institute, fresh from being exonerated of antisemitism by a shamefully whitewashed investigation, recently held a special event—to honor antisemitic poet Amiri Baraka: Columbia University’s Middle East Institute Sends Invitations for Event Honoring Notorious Anti-Semite Amiri Baraka. Sponsored by several groups (the Radius of Arab American Writers, the ...
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Underground Islamic Hatred Revealed in Norway
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 2:01:28 pm PDT
Another case of Islamic hate speech against a host country, in Norway: Book calls Norwegians “Satan’s sons”. (Hat tip: Jill.) A book that’s quietly being distributed within Norway’s Muslim community refers to Norwegians as the sons of Satan. The book, written by an anonymous author, has been turned over to police ...
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Militants Storm Muslim Council of Britain
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 1:21:09 pm PDT
Here’s a very disturbing story from Britain, where the radical Islamic fifth column came out in public today and ruined a press conference by the “moderate” Muslim Council of Britain: Militants storm meeting. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Militants disrupted a Muslim Council of Britain press conference today, condemning the organisation as ...
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DePaul's Jihad Against Academic Freedom
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:17:16 pm PDT
At the American Thinker, Richard Baehr has a piece on the jihad-friendly atmosphere of DePaul University. DePaul University in Chicago is one of the fastest growing universities in the country. It has become the largest Catholic-affiliated university in America. Muslim and Arab students are one of the segments of DePaul’s student ...
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Olympian Greens Visualize Peace Port
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:25:43 am PDT
The unfortunately not-rare Olympian Green Moonbats in Washington are circulating a petition to have the Port of Olympia renamed to ... wait for it ... “Peace Port.” (Hat tip: FlyingTigress.) The Port of Olympia could become the Peace Port of Thurston County under a petition planned by the Green Party of ...
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EU: Hamas Will Stay on Terror List
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:51:03 am PDT
Here’s a real shock, a European Union official with some guts: EU: Hamas will not be removed from list of terror organizations. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) The European Union will not consider removing Hamas from its list of terrorist organizations so long as it refrains from demonstrating “respect for human rights,” European ...
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They Hate Me - They Really Hate Me
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:09:43 am PDT
As mainstream media publishes one hagiography after another about anti-war activist Marla Ruzicka, the lefty blogosphere is seething with anger at yours truly (again) because I dared to note that she was a George Soros employee, was published at the World Socialist Web Site, was an admirer of Fidel Castro, ...
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New Pope Elected on Second Day
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 9:35:52 am PDT
A new pope has been elected. VATICAN CITY (AP) - White smoke poured from a chimney at the Vatican and bells tolled on Tuesday evening, announcing to the world that a new pope was elected in the first papal conclave of the new millennium. Crowds in St. Peter’s Square chanted: “Viva il ...
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Lance Goes for Seven
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 9:22:43 am PDT
Lance Armstrong is going for a seventh Tour de France, and then retiring. Lance Armstrong is retiring after this year’s Tour de France, ending a cycling career in which he inspired millions by overcoming testicular cancer to win his sport’s signature event a record six straight times. Armstrong said he remains “fully ...
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Relax at Beautiful Club Med Gaza
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 9:10:45 am PDT
This is not a joke (at least not an intentional one); Shimon Peres, architect of the Oslo failure, says that an abandoned settlement in the Gaza Strip could be converted into a Club Med. I guess he hasn’t heard about the Palestinians’ looting plans. Israellycool has an idea for the Gaza Club ...
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Jihad Comes to Small Town, USA
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 8:35:06 am PDT
Here’s a very unsettling account by Laura Mansfield of her experience at a “special informational presentation on God and family values” held in a small mosque in the deep South: Jihad comes to Small Town, USA. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.) Mansfield speaks Arabic, but the imam assumed she didn’t. I checked the ...
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Rabbi vs. Nazi
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 7:56:04 am PDT
Rabbi, Man Wearing Swastika Trade Blows At Airport. (Hat tip: Sojourner.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A rabbi wearing a yarmulke and a man wearing swastikas got into a fight at Kansas City International Airport Sunday evening. According to a police report, Rabbi David Fine, 36, of Overland Park, was in the KCI ...
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Google News High Standards, Exhibit J for Jihad
Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 7:29:25 am PDT
Google has a new Video Search feature—and Internet Haganah has discovered that the jihadis are already getting excited at the prospect of a free host for their Islamic snuff films. Speaking of Google News, here’s another site called India Daily that has passed through Google’s stringent approval process and is included ...
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Moussaoui Plans to Admit 9/11 Role
Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 8:10:23 pm PDT
The Washington Post has big news in the trial of alleged 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui: Moussaoui Planning To Admit 9/11 Role. Zacarias Moussaoui has notified the government that he intends to plead guilty to his alleged role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and could enter the plea as ...
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Monday Night Open Thread
Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 7:23:12 pm PDT
The open thread for this Monday evening features a photo of a blue bench:
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Passengers on KLM Flight Linked to 9/11
Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 6:03:47 pm PDT
An update to our post from April 10 about the KLM flight that was barred from entering US airspace on a flight from Amsterdam to Mexico City; the two passengers who caused the incident had connections to the 9/11 terror attacks: Passengers on blocked KLM flight linked to 9/11 ...
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"Woman's Rights Have No Legitimacy in Islam"
Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 5:20:14 pm PDT
Hang onto your hats as we take a wild rollercoaster ride on the Radical Islamic Illogic Express; our conductor this trip is Yamin Zakaria, a Graduate in Chemistry from London University, who argues that ‘Woman’s Rights’ Have No Legitimacy in Islam. (Hat tip: NC.) Post 9/11, the firepower of the West ...
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Florida Islamic Group Invites Nazi to Speak
Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 1:48:07 pm PDT
An Islamic advocacy group in Boca Raton, Florida, has invited notorious neo-Nazi William Baker to speak at a banquet: Boca Islamic group under scrutiny for neo-Nazi ties. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) Local Jewish and civic leaders said Friday they were alarmed that the Assadiq Islamic Education Foundation, whose headquarters are listed at ...
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Seekers of Truth Threatened by Evil Right Wing Fox
Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 12:28:04 pm PDT
Here’s one for the “you’ve gotta be kidding” file, as the Washington Post’s William Raspberry frets about the threat posed by Fox News to the authoritative “seekers of truth” at the Post and the New York Times: Fox’s Sandstorm. (Hat tip: Froggy.) So why would I consider Fox such a generalized ...
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Arabs Seething Over Israel, Looking Forward to Looting
Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:27:30 am PDT
Two items of interest at MEMRI; first, an account of a speech given by Arab League Ambassador to Britain Ali Muhsen Hamid at the Houses of Parliament, in which he blames all the problems of the Arab world on ... guess who? 9/11 Was Not a Good Justification For Enmity ...
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Holy Warriors Make Critical Error
Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:01:04 am PDT
Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Butler thwarted a massive attack on a US base at the Iraqi-Syrian border, featuring a reinforced fire truck packed with explosives: Pa. native thwarts car-bomb attack. (Hat tip: N. O’Brain.) The base commander at Camp Gannon, a former Iraqi customs and immigration post at the edge of ...
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"One Day I Will Enjoy Sucking Their Blood"
Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 10:07:23 am PDT
As civil rights groups and left wing legal organizations push harder to have the inmates of Guantanamo Bay treated as common criminals in federal courts, new details have been released about the prisoners in an apparent attempt to counter some of the propaganda: Military Report on Guantanamo Highlights Danger of ...
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Lebanon's Pulse of Freedom
Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 9:14:55 am PDT
Lebanon’s Cedar Revolution is blogging: Nabad AlHorriye: Pulse of Freedom.
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Britain Fears Election Terror Attack
Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 9:01:18 am PDT
Britain ‘At Greatest Ever Risk of Terror Attack’. (Hat tip: Dave Ray.) Britain remains at the greatest ever risk of terrorist attack amid concerns that Islamic militants will attempt to target the General Election, an annual risk assessment claimed today. The study, which said the country has an “elevated” chance of a ...
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1000 Lashes for Cameraphone Abuse
Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 8:42:45 am PDT
The apartheid monarchy of Saudi Arabia doesn’t like cameraphones. (Hat tip: Jon.) The Saudi government is clamping down on the distribution of pornographic images using a mobile phone, proposing 1,000 lashes, twelve years in jail, or a USD 26,000 fine for anyone found guilty of committing such acts. Arab states have ...
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Bizarre Incident on British Airways 0215
Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 8:31:38 am PDT
Earlier this month we noted a report by the blog Cynical Nation, on a possible terrorist situation at Britain’s Heathrow Airport: Breaking: Incident at Heathrow Airport. Nothing ever showed up in mainstream media, and British Airways didn’t seem to want to talk about it. But now Annie Jacobsen at Women’s Wall ...
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Blogosphere Faves
Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 8:13:28 am PDT
Right Wing News has compiled an interesting list of the favorite blogs of the big dog bloggers.
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Indonesian Muslims Hate Israel
Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 9:22:02 pm PDT
Responding to a call from the terrorist organization Hamas, thousands of Indonesian Muslims marched to show their hatred of Jews today: Massive anti-Israel protests hits several Indonesian cities. (Hat tip: The Roth Report.) JAKARTA : Tens of thousands of Muslim Indonesians held a “peaceful” anti-Israel protest and rallied outside the US ...
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Anti-War Activist Killed By Car Bomb
Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 6:58:57 pm PDT
An American anti-war “activist” was one of the victims of a terrorist car bomb in Baghdad: Iraq Car Bomb Kills American Activist. (Hat tip: NC.) SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who founded a humanitarian group to aid civilian casualties in Iraq has died in a car bombing in Baghdad, officials said ...
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Mac OS Geek Topic of the Day
Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 5:44:36 pm PDT
I installed the latest version of Mac OS X (10.3.9) today and was pleasantly surprised at the improvements in the Safari web browser, especially because some of them have a direct impact on the LGF blog application. Brian Tiemann noticed one of the bug fixes; previous versions of Safari stripped ...
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Amusing MSM Moment of the Day
Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 5:05:00 pm PDT
Ann Coulter makes the cover of TIME Magazine next week, an earthshaking event that will go down in the annals of history. (Hyperbole alert.) But in their accompanying photo series, the professional journalists at TIME fell hook, line, and sinker for a satirical poster of Ann by Communists for Kerry: ...
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Too Hip for the Room
Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 4:00:38 pm PDT
Another good column from Mark Steyn, on the tiresomely familiar posturing of Democratic Senators at John Bolton’s confirmation hearings: Bolton’s just too hip for scaredy-cat Dems. If the Senate poseurs and the media wanted to mount a trenchant critique of Bolton’s geopolitical philosophy, that would be reasonable enough. But there’s not ...
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Cycle of Violence: Respect the Snake
Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 3:47:13 pm PDT
Yesterday’s ride: 62.3 miles, down the coast through Palos Verdes, with a couple of miles of climbing around the estates areas where the rattlesnakes are important members of the community. On the way down PV Drive North to the coast, the wind was just right and I reached a top ...
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London Tribute to Terror Sympathizer
Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 11:23:00 am PDT
Currently at the Royal Court in London, a play written and directed by terror enabling actor Alan Rickman: My Name is Rachel Corrie. We noted this work of propaganda for useful idiots when it was in the planning stages last December. Tom Gross remembers other Rachels who haven’t been honored yet with ...
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Lobbying, Palestinian Style
Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 10:48:21 am PDT
The Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades went on a rampage in the “City of the Bombers,” Jenin, threatening to murder Palestinian officials if they didn’t provide jobs: Gunmen threaten to kill Palestinian MPs. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Palestinian gunmen shut down a government building on Sunday and threatened to kill members of ...
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Please Don't Disturb the Friendly Rattlesnakes
Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 10:19:44 am PDT
In California, even the rattlesnake warning signs are politically correct:
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Anarchists Preparing for G8 Summit
Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 9:18:49 am PDT
The next G8 summit meeting will be held in Scotland, and the London Times has an undercover report on preparations by anarchists to cause chaos and violence: Inside the secret world of anarchists preparing for G8 summit. Who needs terrorists when you have these people in your country? A REMOTE farm in ...
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Heathrow Express Terror Plan
Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 9:01:37 am PDT
The Islamic terrorist recently sentenced to 17 years in prison planned to use ricin poison to murder thousands of people on the Heathrow Express rail link. A poison attack planned by al-Qa’eda-trained operatives was aimed at the busy Heathrow Express rail link and would have been “our September 11”, the Metropolitan ...
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The Billionaire Who Bought the Press
Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 8:33:47 am PDT
Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid identifies the reason why mainstream media is so willing to give a pass to George Soros: George Soros and the Press. (Hat tip: Beagle.) One possible reason for the gentle media coverage of Soros is the influence that Soros exercises over media groups through his money. ...
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Antisemitic Barrage in Los Angeles
Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 7:42:57 pm PDT
Jewish residents of Los Angeles have been receiving a torrent of hate mail. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Dozens of Jewish residents, businesses and synagogues in the Los Angeles area have been barraged by hate mail in recent weeks. The FBI, US Postal Service and Los Angeles police are investigating the large manila envelopes, ...
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Army Reservist Charged for Doing the Right Thing
Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 7:29:30 pm PDT
Army Reservist Patrick Haab has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon—for detaining a group of illegal aliens until the police arrived: Swell of support for reservist who held migrants at gunpoint. (Hat tip: Marty.) Haab, who turned 24 this month, said Friday that he was not trying to ...
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Another Lefty Smear Job
Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 5:49:51 pm PDT
Idiotblogger “Digby” has a piece of “writing” in the left wing journal In These Times, in which he states boldly that I was “wrong as to the details” of the faked CBS National Guard memos—but completely fails to demonstrate why: The Blogosphere: Insiders vs. Outsiders. (Hat tip: NC.) The point ...
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The Stickers of Kos
Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 4:56:29 pm PDT
Arch political consultant and rising Democratic Party star Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga of Daily Kos was interviewed on C-SPAN’s Q & A last Sunday, and proudly displayed his laptop computer—a revealing demonstration of the mean-spirited, foul-mouthed, debased state of the modern left.
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More Mass Graves in Iraq
Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 4:26:42 pm PDT
Last week more mass graves were discovered in Iraq, containing thousands more victims of Saddam’s thugocracy. According to the New York Times, this brings the total to at least 290 grave sites holding the remains of around 300,000 people: Iraqis Find Graves Thought to Hold Hussein’s Victims. (Hat tip: LGF ...
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This Ain't No Disco
Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 3:45:07 pm PDT
Malaysia’s prime minister says their Dark Ages Islamic “morality laws” are here to stay. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Malaysia’s prime minister wants enforcement of Islamic morality laws to continue despite a public outcry over a raid early this year on a disco by religious department officials, a news report said Saturday. “There is ...
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Honor Killing in Amsterdam
Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 8:21:00 am PDT
An Iraqi-Kurdish Muslim living in Amsterdam was upset that his sister had fallen away from Islam, and had a baby by a non-Muslim. So, fifteen days after the birth of her child, he allegedly murdered her to protect the family honor. AMSTERDAM — An Iraqi-Kurdish man, 21, is suspected of murdering ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 8:01:17 am PDT
A Palestinian boy jumps through a ring of fire in front of U.S. and Israeli flags during an Islamic Jihad movement anti-Israel rally, in Gaza, April 15,2005. Thousands of Palestinians attended the Islamic Jihad rally in Gaza. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
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Get Me Rewrite!
Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 7:52:12 am PDT
Here’s a good one from Mark Steyn on mainstream media’s shameful doomsaying, using the report that AP will produce two different versions of reality as a jumping-off point: Get me rewrite! (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The other day, as their latest contribution to the death spiral of American journalism, the Associated ...
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IDF Officer Cleared in Death of Brit Journalist
Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 7:40:27 am PDT
Agence France Presse goes ballistic because the IDF has cleared an Israeli officer involved in the war-zone shooting of a pro-Palestinian British journalist: No punishment for Israeli officer over shooting of British journalist. Lots of quotes from Israel-haters in this one, and almost no explanation of the IDF’s position. JERUSALEM (AFP) ...
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Anti-Semitic Studies
Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 6:18:36 pm PDT
At Britain’s Spectator (home of one of the most intrusive, buggy sign-up procedures I’ve ever endured), a terrific answer to the divestment hooligans by Douglas Davis: Anti-Semitic studies. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Pay attention, Professor. If you support the proposed academic boycott of Israel — and if you are to remain ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 6:04:30 pm PDT
Palestinian Islamic Jihad suporters, including a young boy, raise their hands as they shant [sic] Islamic slogans during a rally at the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, April 15, 2005. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) A Palestinian boy marches during an Islamic Jihad movement anti-Israel rally in Gaza April 15, ...
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Seattle U Takes Anti-Killdozer Case
Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 5:50:14 pm PDT
Seattle University’s “human rights law clinic” is rushing to the aid of Rachel Corrie’s parents in their frivolous lawsuit against Caterpillar: SU law clinic takes Corrie versus Caterpillar, Inc. case. Just before the two year anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s death — resulting from a bulldozer during a nonviolent protest — her ...
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Carter: We're Stingy and We Don't Give a Damn
Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 4:55:07 pm PDT
America’s most disgraceful ex-president bashes his own country again: Carter: Rich States ‘Don’t Give a Damn’ About Poor. (Hat tip: Kyer.) ATLANTA (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Thursday harshly criticized his own country and other wealthy states for being stingy with foreign aid and said in rich countries ...
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The Friday Pig Triathlon
Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 4:15:52 pm PDT
It’s been a day of delusional moonbats, Mapesian vilification, canine Zionist infiltrators, ethically challenged Congressmen, Rumsfeld Dowdification, and the coming Muslim conquest of the Vatican. Now it’s time for ... Pigs! It’s a pig triathlon! Except for the cycling part. Pigs don’t cycle very well. But man, they sure can swim! Pigs compete swimming race at ...
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Embattled Left Wing Losers Struggle On
Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 3:42:26 pm PDT
Ramsey Clark’s radical left wing International Action Center will be hosting a conference tomorrow at Public School 41 in Manhattan, to fight a nonexistent draft and work out effective strategies for sedition: National Conference Against the Draft & Military Recruiting. (Hat tip: NC.) National Conference Against the Draft & Military Recruiting Saturday, ...
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Mapes: I'm a Victim of a Wilding
Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:48:33 pm PDT
The Anchoress claims to have gotten hold of excerpts from discredited CBS producer Mary Mapes’ book treatment; in this one Mapes equates “conservative bloggers” (is that supposed to be ... moi?) with a gang of rapists. (Hat tip: Thoughts Online.) “Conservative bloggers are part of the story. They have vilified me, ...
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Give Me a Break
Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:20:52 am PDT
Lebanon captures Zionist infiltrators. (Hat tip: Laurence Simon.) Lebanese authorities captured two dogs that crossed the border from Israel and were checking whether they were booby-trapped or carried electronic implants that could be used for spying, Lebanese security officials said Friday. The two dogs “infiltrated” Lebanon on Thursday through an opening in ...
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Abu Mazen Says...
Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:52:30 am PDT
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VDH: Our Not-So-Wise Experts
Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:37:28 am PDT
Time for our Friday dose of clear thinking from Victor Davis Hanson: Our Not-So-Wise Experts. Brent Scowcroft predicted on the eve of the Iraqi elections that voting there would increase the risk of civil war. Indeed, he foresaw “a great potential for deepening the conflict.” He also once assured us that ...
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Moonbats of a Feather
Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:28:13 am PDT
Congressman Jim McDermott (Moonbat-Seattle), who disgracefully aligned himself with Saddam Hussein and against the US in the run-up to the Iraq War, and was recently given a public official of the year award by radical Islamic front group CAIR, now has his own Daily Kos diary. UPDATE at 4/15/05 11:09:10 am: Since ...
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"The Challenges of Immigration Enforcement"
Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:04:03 am PDT
Yesterday: 11 illegal aliens caught, then released in Fairfax. (Hat tip: Geepers.) Federal authorities released 11 illegal aliens who were detained during a traffic stop in Annandale because immigration officials said they did not pose a threat to the public. “The 11 passengers were processed and released,” said Ernestine Fobbs, a spokeswoman ...
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What Media Bias?
Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 9:52:33 am PDT
Get a load of the headline on this story: U.S. Has No Exit Strategy for Iraq, Rumsfeld Says. And then have a look at what Donald Rumsfeld actually said: “We don’t have an exit strategy, we have a victory strategy,” Rumsfeld told soldiers during a surprise visit to Baghdad, according to a ...
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Chirac: 'No' Vote Benefits US
Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 8:49:23 am PDT
Head weasel Jacques Chirac is trying to scare the French into voting for the bloated, nonsensical EU constitution, because voting “no” would help the United States. (Hat tip: ploome.) PARIS, April 14 (UPI) — A “no” vote to the European Constitution would weaken the EU and benefit the United States, warned ...
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Vatican Is Rethinking Relations With Islam
Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 8:24:40 am PDT
Liberal pundits and Italian communists may want the next Pope to “reach out” to Islam, but the Vatican is having second thoughts. (Hat tip: Mom of 9.) ROME, April 12 — After two decades of contact and dialogue with the Islamic world under Pope John Paul II, the Vatican is rethinking ...
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The Coming Muslim Conquest of the Vatican
Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 8:00:28 am PDT
We’ve been told by the usual suspects that the next Pope must “reach out” to Muslims and build bridges between the Catholic Church and Islam. The highest authorities in Islam, however, seem to have a different sort of “reaching out” in mind: The Next Pope and Islamic Prophecy. Saudi Sheikh Muhammad bin ...
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Kofi Lashes Out, UK Hits Back
Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 7:33:31 am PDT
The execrable United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is feeling persecuted. Yesterday he blamed the Oil-For-Food scandal on the United States and Britain, and Britain isn’t happy about it: UK hits back at oil scandal claims. Britain has hit back at UN claims that it turned a blind eye to illegal ...
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Reuters Reports Nonexistent Bus Bombings in Israel
Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 9:56:04 pm PDT
Here’s a very weird report from Reuters about twin suicide bombings on Israeli buses that supposedly took place last Tuesday—and somehow escaped being reported by every media service in the world: Twin suicide bombings on Israeli buses kill 16. (Hat tip: Kragar.) Something is seriously amiss here. There are enough details ...
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Akbar Planned to Kill Fellow Soldiers
Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 9:34:18 pm PDT
Sgt. Hasan Akbar, the American Muslim accused of murdering two officers and injuring 15 others in Kuwait, wrote about killing fellow soldiers in his diary. “I suppose they want to punk me or just humiliate me. Perhaps they feel that I will not do anything about that. They are right about ...
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Danish Queen: "We Have to Show Our Opposition to Islam"
Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 7:07:48 pm PDT
An amazing statement from Denmark’s queen: Danish queen warns against rise of Islamic fundamentalism. (Hat tip: numerous LGF readers in Denmark and elsewhere.) COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II warned against the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Denmark and the world in a new book out, saying people must on ...
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Sudanese Ambassador Confronted by Students
Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 6:27:46 pm PDT
One of the best stories I’ve read today is this account of the confrontation at Belmont University in Nashville between anti-idiotarian students and the ambassador from Sudan’s “Islamic republic:” Sudan’s envoy gets hostile reception at Belmont. (Hat tip: Bill Hobbs.) An unusual gathering at Belmont University featured the ambassador of Sudan, ...
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An Undercover Piano Player
Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 6:06:46 pm PDT
Immigrant piano player honored by police for undercover ‘kills’. (Hat tip: Alain.) A Russian immigrant turned Israeli policeman has won the Jewish state’s second-highest military honor. Known only by his initial, Y., the commander of the Border Police undercover unit called Yasam was awarded the Ribbon of Valor on Tuesday for a ...
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British Take Down Al Qaeda Network
Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 5:32:52 pm PDT
Good news from Britain, where the left wing Independent reports that a massive ring of Algerian Islamic terrorists has been dismantled since 2002: Police made 100 arrests to smash al-Qa’ida network. (Hat tip: Jheka.) A British-based network of Algerian terrorists with links to al-Qa’ida are suspected of being behind the plot ...
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Does Israel Want Arab Democracy?
Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 5:27:02 pm PDT
Jeff Jacoby makes some excellent points in his column about the Bush-Sharon meeting: Does Israel want Arab democracy? (Hat tip: Carl in Jerusalem.) DURING THEIR press conference in Crawford, Texas, this week, President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon referred several times to Palestinian democracy. Bush, for example, mentioned his ...
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Day of the Short Knives
Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 5:03:00 pm PDT
Never let it be said that Moroccans don’t know how to party: Thousands Circumcised in Morocco. (Hat tip: PDM.) FES, Morocco - The infant son of King Mohammed VI was circumcised Thursday, and thousands of Moroccans also went through the procedure in a massive show of solidarity for the prince, a ...
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Caterpillar Rejects Moonbat Demands 97-3
Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 3:39:03 pm PDT
Caterpillar shareholders overwhelmingly rejected the moronic moonbat campaign that wanted Caterpillar to stop selling killdozers to Israel. The measure was defeated 97 percent to 3 percent. But this AP article focuses almost entirely on the moonbats and their evil divestment agenda: Caterpillar Won’t Probe Bulldozers’ Use. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) CHICAGO (AP) ...
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Religion of Misogyny
Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 2:33:09 pm PDT
Speaking to an appreciative audience at the Bankstown Town Hall in Sydney, Sheikh Feiz Muhammad proved that he isn’t big on women’s lib. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.) “Every minute in the world a woman is raped, and she has no one to blame but herself, for she has displayed her beauty ...
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West Point's Combating Terrorism Center
Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 1:40:19 pm PDT
Here’s a good site for information and analyses of world terrorism, the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point strives to develop an internationally recognized center for terrorism studies to understand better the foreign and domestic terrorist threats to security, to educate leaders who will ...
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EU Supports Hamas
Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 8:06:02 am PDT
How disgusting is the European Union, really? EU shocker: Hamas are ‘freedom fighters’. (Hat tip: Elle Plater.) A top European Union official held a secret meeting in Gaza with the leaders of Hamas, in spite of EU denials to the contrary, in which he praised the terror organization’s work, blamed terrorism ...
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Report Clears US in Sgrena Incident
Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 8:02:30 am PDT
Last night, 60 Minutes Wednesday had a very sympathetic interview with Italian communist Giuliana Sgrena, letting her spew well-rehearsed lies about the friendly fire incident that killed an Italian agent and slightly wounded her, without bothering to point out that her story is as full of holes as her car ...
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Oil-For-Food Indictments
Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 7:55:03 am PDT
The first indictments over the United Nations Oil-For-Food scam do not include Kofi Annan: Three charged over oil-for-food. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A Texas businessman, a Bulgarian and a Briton have been indicted over the UN oil-for-food programme, US federal prosecutors have said. They are accused of taking part in an alleged ...
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An Anti-Muslim Witch Hunt?
Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 7:42:42 am PDT
In the wake of yesterday’s convictions of a founding member of the Council on American Islamic Relations and his brothers on terrorism charges, it’s very ... revealing to take a trip down memory lane and see what Muslim groups were saying about the arrests of these people when they first ...
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CAIR Founder Convicted of Terrorism
Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:38:20 pm PDT
The Elashi brothers are taking the fall for their Hamas fundraising: Brothers Found Guilty of Terrorism Support. DALLAS - Three Dallas-area brothers were convicted Wednesday of supporting terrorism by funneling money to a high-ranking official in the militant Palestinian group Hamas. Ghassan and Bayan Elashi and their company were found guilty of ...
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Google News High Standards, Exhibit A for Antisemitic
Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 8:07:20 pm PDT
Here’s another incredibly sick, Jew-hating site that apparently meets Google’s criteria for being a “news source,” featuring the work of New Mexico antisemitic lunatic Kurt Nimmo: Peace, Earth & Justice News. (Hat tip: Frisco Patriot.) Any web site or organization whose name combines the words “peace” and “justice” is almost guaranteed ...
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Stanford Muslim Leaders Enraged, Seething
Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 6:46:32 pm PDT
Leaders of the Muslim campus organizations at Stanford were requested to attend a meeting with Jewish student group Israel at Heart—but walked out when they realized they might be forced to discuss the truth. Senior Rania Eltom, president of the Muslim Students Awareness Network, and sophomore Omar Shakir, co-president of the ...
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The Ugly American Left, Part 3
Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 5:24:00 pm PDT
Now Duncan Black joins in the LGF-bashing fun, and the rabid noxious haters come out to play again in the comments to his post: HaloScan.com - Comments. What’s that called when the same people keep showing up at every discussion about LGF using fake identities, smearing and harassing and inventing sick ...
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LA Times: "Jews" Target Killdozer Day
Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 2:17:20 pm PDT
Once in a while, the LA Times manages to uncork a headline so tone-deaf and subconsciously nasty that it leaves their biases standing revealed. Here’s the headline for Teresa Watanabe’s highly sympathetic coverage of the moonbat campaign against Caterpillar: Jews Target Caterpillar Shareholder Effort. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) Targeting a Caterpillar Inc. ...
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Liars Interviewing Liars About Lies
Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:12:59 am PDT
Tonight on the utterly discredited 60 Minutes Wednesday, Italian communist Giuliana Sgrena is going to say that the US lied. (CBS) Journalist and former hostage Giuliana Sgrena says that the American military is lying about the shooting at a security checkpoint in Iraq that wounded her and killed an Italian intelligence ...
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Cafe Press Pulls Assassination Products
Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:01:45 am PDT
An update to yesterday’s report on a sick “Kill Bush” t-shirt available for sale at Cafe Press; they’ve pulled the product from their site, and the link is now being redirected to a Pro-Bush page. But you can still see an image of the shirt here. UPDATE at 4/13/05 11:52:38 am: Power Line ...
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Chirac Pushes EU to Let Iran Have Nukes
Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:47:23 am PDT
Guess who’s pushing the European Union to allow the Iranian mullahs to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons? Chirac pushes EU to drop hard line on Iran. (Hat tip: Regime Change Iran.) VIENNA, April 13 (Reuters) - French President Jacques Chirac has been pushing the EU to drop its refusal to consider ...
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JihadTV Airs New Recruitment Video
Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:28:11 am PDT
The media voice of the global jihad, Al Jazeera, showed another disgusting video from their beloved holy warriors today: Kidnapped American Shown on Video. BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Indiana man, scared and clutching his passport to his chest, was shown at gunpoint on a videotape aired by Al-Jazeera television Wednesday, two ...
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DU Inmates Rave About "Religious Right"
Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 9:02:24 am PDT
The excitable, illiterate inmates of Democratic Underground are working themselves up into a lather again; time to increase the lithium dosage: a war with the religious right is coming, cause that’s what they want. a nation of true believers is what they want, and they don’t want you non believers around ...
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NYT Whitewashes Joseph Massad
Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 8:28:19 am PDT
Several readers emailed about this unbelievable whitewash of radical Arabist, Israel-hating Columbia University professor Joseph Massad, at (where else?) the New York Times—the same newspaper that made a shamefully unethical back room deal with the Columbia administration to suppress the opinions of students abused by this lunatic: At the Center ...
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UN Springs Into Action
Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 8:07:00 am PDT
No need to worry about nuclear terrorism any more; the United Nations has made it illegal: UN Assembly Approves New Nuclear Terrorism Treaty. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The 191-member U.N. General Assembly approved a nuclear terrorism treaty on Wednesday that would oblige governments to punish those who illegally possess atomic devices ...
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Sly Bush=Hitler Reference at SF Chronicle
Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 7:52:47 am PDT
The San Francisco Chronicle shows their hatred for Bush and Sharon with the following caption to a photograph of the two taking a tour of Bush’s Crawford ranch. (Hat tip: zombie.) That corral’s where we keep the liberals: President Bush shows off his Crawford, Texas, ranch to the Israeli prime minister — ...
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German Ruling: Dresden Was a "Holocaust"
Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:44:56 pm PDT
Beyond appalling: German ruling says Dresden was a holocaust. (Hat tip: Ethel.) German prosecutors have provoked outrage by ruling that the 1945 RAF bombing of Dresden can legally be termed a “holocaust”. The decision follows the refusal by the Hamburg public prosecutor’s office to press charges against a Right-wing politician who compared ...
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The Day of the Killdozer
Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:36:32 pm PDT
The deluded moonbats have set tomorrow as Stop Caterpillar Day, in their harebrained quest to make the company stop selling killdozers to Israel.
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Iranian Kidnaps Children in Germany
Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:23:58 pm PDT
An Iranian asylum seeker in Germany took four schoolgirls hostage today and held them for five hours, before being overpowered by police: German SWAT Teams Rescue Kids Held Hostage. ENNEPETAL, Germany - German police commandos slipped into a house where a knife-wielding man was holding four schoolgirls hostage Tuesday, surprising the ...
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Brian Tiemann's Defense
Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:04:28 pm PDT
I missed this from Brian Tiemann when he first posted it on March 22, but after reading it tonight I want to say “thank you” to Brian for an eloquent, beautifully stated defense of LGF, prompted by a typically loony and stalker-infested LGF-bashing session in Jeff Jarvis’ comments: I do ...
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Why We Need John Bolton
Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 8:12:04 pm PDT
Here’s a real jawdropper from the United Nations, as the UN Commission on Human Rights (an august body that includes such paragons of human rights as Zimbabwe and China and Cuba) dances to the tune of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and issues a call to combat the “defamation” ...
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Diversity Mongers Target the Web
Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 7:57:03 pm PDT
National Review has a must-read piece by Heather Mac Donald on the “diversity” thought police and their latest foray against the blogosphere: Diversity Mongers Target the Web. (Hat tip: Hulugu.) Bad move, guys. The “diversity” mongers have just brought up the one thing that they should have stayed far far away ...
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Tuesday Night Open Thread
Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 7:20:50 pm PDT
When I feel stressed out, I ride my bike down to the sea.
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This Is Just Awful
Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 6:18:57 pm PDT
Some people call this “free speech.” (Hat tip: William.) UPDATE at 4/12/05 9:14:01 pm: And then, there is this: Secret Service visits art show at Columbia. (Hat tip: NC.) Organizers of a politically charged art exhibit at Columbia College’s Glass Curtain Gallery thought their show might draw controversy. But they didn’t expect two U.S. ...
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Sudanese Ambassador at Belmont U
Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 6:10:55 pm PDT
The Sudanese ambassador to the United States, Abdel Bagi Kabeir, will be visiting Belmont University in Nashville tomorrow; if you’re in the area, this is your chance to confront a representative of Sudan, an Islamic state where slavery is still practiced and where hundreds of thousands of black Africans have ...
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The Living Legacy of Jihad Slavery
Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 3:48:26 pm PDT
A fascinating piece by Andrew Bostom at The American Thinker examines the historic roots of slavery in the Islamic world: The living legacy of jihad slavery. The fixed linkage between jihad - a permanent, uniquely Islamic institution - and enslavement, provides a very tenable explanation for the unparalleled scale and persistence ...
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Letter from a Marine
Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 3:20:59 pm PDT
Numerous readers emailed about this terrific letter to Ohio University’s Post Online, by a Marine responding to a recent “die-in” organized by spoiled moonbat students: Soldiers face real ‘die-in’ daily in Iraq. It’s a shame that I’m here in Iraq with the Marines right now and not back at Ohio University ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 2:23:03 pm PDT
The Palestinians sent a 15-year old boy through an Israeli checkpoint today carrying five pipe bombs. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) TEL AVIV - A 15-year-old Palestinian boy carrying five pipe bombs was detained by IDF forces at the Hawara roadblock south of the West Bank town of Nablus. The boy, identified ...
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Cole the Poseur
Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 2:05:00 pm PDT
Here’s an excellent takedown of the left’s favorite Israel-hating apologist for radical Islam, John (“Juan”) Cole (who has been especially nasty and dishonest lately), by Tony at Across the Bay: Heeeeere’s Johnny! (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.)
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Three RoP Members Indicted
Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 8:41:21 am PDT
Three Indicted on Terror Charges in US. WASHINGTON - Three men have been indicted on charges they targeted for attack financial institutions in New York, New Jersey and Washington, federal law enforcement officials said Tuesday. The three men, whom U.S. authorities have not yet identified, already are in custody in England. They ...
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Dutch Muslim Politician Drops His Mask
Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 8:29:36 am PDT
Dhimmi Watch has a translation of a report from a Dutch newspaper about a meeting between Christian and Muslim leaders in the Netherlands, in which a reputedly “moderate” Muslim politician let the mask slip: A small Dutch Christian party called ChristenUnie (ChristianUnion) is trying to figure out how to deal with ...
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Colombian Artist Agitprop
Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 8:09:13 am PDT
Here’s another contribution to the mythology of Abu Ghraib from Colombian artist Fernando Botero, creator of a series of idiotically exaggerated paintings: Colombian Artist Depicts Abu Ghraib Abuse. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) BOGOTA, Colombia - In a new series of paintings by famed Colombian artist Fernando Botero, Iraqi detainees are shown being ...
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EU Parliament Asked to Investigate Spain's Deal with Venezuela
Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 7:57:03 am PDT
The European Union parliament has been asked to investigate Spain’s sale of weapons to the thugocracy of Hugo Chavez. 2.04.05 | France | Karl von Wogau, Chairman of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Security and Defence, today urged the EU’s plenary session gathered in Strasbourg to ascertain whether or not the ...
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Another Lefty Blog Attacks, Misfires
Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:22:03 pm PDT
TalkLeft is misrepresenting my post about Kerry’s identification of Fulton Armstrong in today’s hearing: At least one right wing blog [LGF — ed.] is suggesting Sens. John Kerry and Richard Lugar blew the cover of a CIA operative referred to as “Mr. Smith” at today’s Senate Hearing. The person they referred ...
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Springtime for Fairleigh Dickinson
Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 8:47:33 pm PDT
Dean Barnett looks at the strange case of the Nazi at Fairleigh Dickinson University: Springtime for Fairleigh Dickinson. DURING HIS BRIEF AND UNHAPPY tenure as the president of Columbia University, Dwight Eisenhower and the faculty did not always enjoy the warmest of relations. At one particularly contentious meeting, a Columbia scholar ...
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Monday Night Open Thread
Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 7:26:08 pm PDT
As we embark upon another week, here’s an open thread featuring a photo of a high altitude optical ring around the sun, silhouetted against a sea-level concretized building.
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Kerry Blows CIA Agent's Cover - AP
Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 7:10:23 pm PDT
Today, during the nomination hearings for John Bolton, John F. Kerry may have blown the cover of a CIA agent. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) WASHINGTON (AP) - Mr. Smith came to Washington again Monday, as an alias for a Central Intelligence Agency officer who works covertly. Senators, however, may have blown ...
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A Robotic Manhattan Project
Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 7:02:24 pm PDT
The implications of headless laser-guided flies may already have your head spinning, but how about a replacement arm, good as new? (Hat tip: Big Krackers.) Thought-controlled robotic limbs were only the beginning. Scientists have had a string of remarkable successes lately, taking signals from the brains of monkeys and men, and using ...
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BA Flight 0215 update
Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 6:46:48 pm PDT
From Cynical Nation, here’s an update to their account of a possible terrorist incident aboard British Airways flight 0215 on April 3. After initially refusing to comment on the incident, British Airways’ official position is now that a passenger requested permission to deboard the plane prior to takeoff, and, in accordance ...
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Kerry's Source for Vote Suppression Charge: The Onion?
Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 6:05:02 pm PDT
Yesterday John F. Kerry, still moaning about the election, alleged that “leaflets had been handed out” telling Democrats to vote on the wrong day: Kerry also cited examples Sunday of how people were duped into not voting. “Leaflets are handed out saying Democrats vote on Wednesday, Republicans vote on Tuesday. People are ...
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Hamas Islamic Honor Killings
Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 5:57:30 pm PDT
Here’s a glimpse of what would be commonplace in a future Islamic Republic of Palestine, ruled by Hamas: Woman walking with fiance murdered. (Hat tip: noshariaincanada.) Hamas has begun operating a “vice and virtue commando” in the Gaza Strip to safeguard Islamic values, Palestinian security officials and residents told The Jerusalem ...
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Headless Laser-Controlled Zombie Flies
Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 3:25:24 pm PDT
Scientists Create Remote-Controlled Flies. (Hat tip: Bad Penny.) Yale University researchers say their study that used lasers to create remote-controlled fruit flies could lead to a better understanding of overeating and violence in humans. Using the lasers to stimulate specific brain cells, researchers say they were able to make the flies jump, ...
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The Common Thread in Media Awards
Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 2:32:20 pm PDT
It’s been quite a month for mainstream media self-referential back-slapping. First, AP gets a Pulitzer Prize for anonymous photos of terrorists committing murder, taken under suspicious circumstances. Then, Dan Rather and Mary Mapes get a Peabody Award for “breaking” the Abu Ghraib story (which had really been “broken” months previously by the ...
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BBC, CNN Making Deals with Iran
Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:28:24 am PDT
The BBC and CNN are negotiating with the Iranian mullahs to launch a tourism promotion campaign. (Hat tip: Regime Change Iran.) Iran, which long castigated the United States as the “Great Satan”, is to promote its tourist potential on America’s CNN television station and Britain’s BBC, the country’s vice-president for tourism ...
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Bolton Nomination Hearing
Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 8:48:28 am PDT
The nomination hearing for John Bolton to become US Ambassador to the United Nations is on C-SPAN: Watch LIVE. John Kerry is making pouty faces right now.
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Zarqawi Had Close Call with Marines
Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 8:39:45 am PDT
It’s just a matter of time for head-chopping holy warrior Abu Musab Zarqawi, who was nearly captured by Marines recently. (Hat tip: Alone in NY.) Abu Musab Zarqawi, the most-wanted terrorist in Iraq, is on the run in an undeveloped western border region where he was nearly caught in recent weeks, ...
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From the Terrorist's Viewpoint
Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 8:11:08 am PDT
Here’s another Associated Press photographer embedded with terrorist forces. (Hat tip: GNIDAthe#seCond.) Palestinian gunmen take up positions during an Israeli army incursion in the West Bank city of Nablus Monday April 11, 2005. (AP Photos/Nasser Ishtayeh) UPDATE at 4/11/05 9:08:58 am: Al-Reuters also had an embedded cameraman at this scene. (Hat tip: ...
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The Myth of Fahrenheit 9/11
Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 8:02:23 am PDT
In an excerpt from his new book The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, Byron York details how Michael Moore worked to create the false impression that his film Fahrenheit 9/11 was triggering a wave of anti-Bush anger—when in truth, the appeal of Moore’s movie was limited to those who already hated ...
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AP's Conflicting Stories on Haifa Street
Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 7:26:05 am PDT
Power Line has a post with more comments from renowned photographer D. Gorton, on the AP’s Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of terrorists executing Iraqi election workers, taken by an anonymous Iraqi stringer under suspicious circumstances: A postscript from D. Gorton. I believe that the various stories that have been told, thus far, ...
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Muslims Throw Eggs at Jewish MP
Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:40:09 pm PDT
A Jewish MP attending a war memorial in east London was pelted with eggs by Muslim residents of the area. (Hat tip: The Roth Report.) The campaign for what promises to be one of the most bitterly contested parliamentary seats got off to an explosive start yesterday when the MP Oona ...
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Kerry Still Whining
Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 7:58:11 pm PDT
How stupid does John F. Kerry think the American public is? This stupid. (Hat tip: Rayra.) “Leaflets are handed out saying Democrats vote on Wednesday, Republicans vote on Tuesday. People are told in telephone calls that if you’ve ever had a parking ticket, you’re not allowed to vote,” he said.
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Al Qaeda Needs Nukes
Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 7:37:10 pm PDT
The head of the United Nations’ blind, toothless nuclear watchdog has told a Norwegian TV channel that Al Qaeda is seeking nuclear weapons. This is no surprise, of course, but if someone like ElBaradei (who has been strangely ineffective at stopping Iran’s mad rush for nukes) is saying it publicly, ...
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Hillary Hasn't Forgotten the VRWC
Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 6:50:10 pm PDT
Hillary Rodham Clinton is laying out the “moderate” version of the progressive agenda now on C-SPAN at a Minnesota Democratic fundraising dinner.
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Watching America
Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 6:40:48 pm PDT
Here’s a unique new web site I’ve added to our news sources: Watching America, with links to a large number of translated news items about the US written outside the US. This is going to be a daily read.
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Sunday Evening Open Thread
Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 5:22:52 pm PDT
As Markos Moulitsas Zuniga is interviewed on C-SPAN, here’s an open thread for a Sunday evening, featuring an appropriate picture: UPDATE at 4/10/05 7:30:45 pm: On this show, Markos relentlessly disparaged the four brave Americans who were burned alive and dismembered in Fallujah, calling them “mercenaries” over and over, and cloaking himself ...
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US Bars KLM Flight from Airspace
Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 4:22:19 pm PDT
A KLM plane from Amsterdam to Mexico was refused access to US airspace today and had to turn back, because it was carrying two passengers who were on a terrorist watch list. Flight 685 from Amsterdam to Mexico City was denied permission to fly south across the Canada-U.S. border on Friday ...
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Revisiting Haifa Street
Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:59:01 pm PDT
Here’s an interesting post at Power Line about the AP’s Pulitzer Prize-winning anonymous photograph of Iraqi terrorists executing election workers: Murder on Haifa Street: An Update. The Power Line guys sought the expert opinion of former New York Times photographer D. Gorton, and his analysis points up some very serious ...
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Kos on Q & A
Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:26:54 pm PDT
At 8 pm Eastern tonight, you’ll have a chance to call in and ask questions of Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga of Daily Kos, on C-SPAN: Watch LIVE.
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LGF's Military Wing
Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:01:00 pm PDT
The moonbats at San Francisco Bay Indymedia are absolutely terrified by my lizardoid army’s diabolical plans to meet: LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS FORM GANG. (Hat tip: Baldy.) Bwahahahaha! (Good lord. These fools have entered a realm beyond parody.)
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Kevin Drum Ignores the Beam in His Eye
Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:59:59 am PDT
I haven’t been back to this thread of ugliness at The Washington Monthly, but a reader just emailed to let me know that Kevin Drum has posted the following: O.K. LGF children - that’s enough. Charles Johnson has not returned to confirm / deny the charges, so I am shutting down ...
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Earth to Nutty Professors
Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 8:54:19 am PDT
A voice cries out in the academic wilderness: Hey, Profs, Come Back to Earth. (Hat tip: Lolly.) Colleges have long been hotbeds of political agitation, of course. But where it was once students who did the acting out, as they spread their intellectual and philosophical wings, now the professors and administrators ...
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The Gate of Hell
Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 8:12:11 am PDT
Alexander van Straubenzee’s piece for the Telegraph is a disturbing, wrenching account of a British soldier’s encounter with pure evil; as a tide of delusional antisemitism and appeasement sweeps over Europe—again—it’s imperative that we never forget: The gate of Hell. (Hat tip: Ethel.) Sixty years ago, on April 15, 1945, Lieutenant ...
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Eurabian Holy Warriors Acquitted
Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 7:49:55 am PDT
Reuters “security correspondent” Mark Trevelyan says some Europeans are beginning to get a bit concerned that they may be going a little too easy on Islamic terrorism: Two Failed Terrorism Trials Raise Worry in Europe. BERLIN (Reuters) - Failed terrorism prosecutions in Germany and the Netherlands this week have highlighted Europe’s ...
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Saturday Night Open Thread
Sat, Apr 9, 2005 at 8:40:23 pm PDT
An open thread for a very windy (curse you, Karl Rove!) Saturday evening, featuring a photograph of a sunset sky taken through a screen.
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Sat, Apr 9, 2005 at 6:53:02 pm PDT
Notice how the AP caption makes sure to tell us the children’s weapons are “unloaded.” They know this ... how? (Hat tip: Kragar.) Two young Palestinians practice with unloaded weapons during a rally of the Al Aqsa Martyr’s Brigades militant group, in Gaza City Friday April 8, 2005. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) ...
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Daily Kos Hates Power Line
Sat, Apr 9, 2005 at 6:17:46 pm PDT
Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga, owner of Daily Kos, now apparently believes he’s the defender of the blogosphere’s integrity and reputation: Daily Kos :: He’ll always be ‘assrocket’ to us. Please excuse the profanity; I don’t normally put this kind of barely literate ranting on the front page, but it helps ...
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Cycle of Violence: Hegemony of Wind
Sat, Apr 9, 2005 at 5:52:59 pm PDT
Today’s ride: 38.7 miles. The entire way home, I was under occupation by a fascist hegemonic crosswind, reminiscent of the Reichstag fire. (If it had been a crosswind instead of a fire in a big German building.) Humiliated and oppressed, I resisted this meteorological onslaught with only the legs of ...
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Democratic Underground Digs Radical Islam
Sat, Apr 9, 2005 at 4:59:14 pm PDT
The inmates of Democratic Underground are solidly on the side of Muqtada al-Sadr and his Army of the Mahdi: Photos from todays rally to stop the US occupation in Baghdad. This was sent to me by an anonymous coward with a sneer visible even through email, writing: From: washington monthly guy ...
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AP's Bias Erupts Again
Sat, Apr 9, 2005 at 2:52:21 pm PDT
Here’s another anti-Israel article by Associated Press Palestinian propagandist Ibrahim Barzak, with a ridiculously slanted headline: Israeli Troops Kill 3 Palestinian Teens. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli troops fired on a group of Palestinian youths in a Gaza refugee camp Saturday, killing three teenagers in the deadliest incident in the ...
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Spain Sold Chem/Bio Weapons to Venezuela
Sat, Apr 9, 2005 at 2:24:24 pm PDT
Here’s a very disturbing story that has been completely ignored by American media; Spain has been selling chemical and biological weapons to the thugocracy of Hugo Chavez. (Hat tip: Barcepundit.) During the first semester of 2004 Spain sold chemical warfare agents and radioactive materials to Venezuela worth E539.603 according to a ...
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Yale's Brave New Constitution
Sat, Apr 9, 2005 at 8:18:13 am PDT
Power Line reports on a Yale Law School conference that plans to produce a “progressive vision of what the Constitution should be” ... and then collaborate on how to use their influence and judicial power to achieve it. From the conference web site: It is time for progressives to set a constitutional ...
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Jihad in Egypt
Sat, Apr 9, 2005 at 7:33:48 am PDT
The terrorist attack in a Cairo tourist bazaar was committed by an Islamic suicide bomber; don’t be surprised to see a major crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood and their fellow Islamic supremacists, because this time Egypt’s tourist industry is at stake: Egypt Blast Raises Concerns of Insurgency. (Hat tip: Hulugu.) The ...
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A Court Gone Insane
Fri, Apr 8, 2005 at 9:35:46 pm PDT
The 9th Circuit Court has now ruled that threatening to assassinate the President of the United States is protected speech under the First Amendment. (Hat tip: Belize042.) SAN FRANCISCO—A federal appeals court Friday overturned an inmate’s conviction for writing a crude, rambling letter endorsing President Bush’s death at the hands of ...
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An Antisemite in the House of Lords
Fri, Apr 8, 2005 at 9:12:16 pm PDT
The first Muslim ever to hold the title of “Labour life peer” in the British House of Lords hosted a book launch by rabid antisemite Israel Shamir: Lord Ahmed’s unwelcome guest. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Lord Ahmed, who has been a Labour life peer since 1998, is the first Muslim to ...
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Learning to Fly
Fri, Apr 8, 2005 at 7:50:52 pm PDT
Alert issued for ex-flight school student. ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — An anti-terrorism task force headed by the FBI has issued a special alert bulletin concerning a man who authorities said took flight lessons while in the United States illegally. The man, Zayed Christopher Hajaig, has been located in the United Kingdom, said ...
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Would-Be Bomber Drawn to Islam
Fri, Apr 8, 2005 at 6:10:11 pm PDT
According to the New York Times, one of the 16-year old girls arrested on immigration charges in New York (and described by federal agents as a would-be suicide bomber) was increasingly Drawn to Islam. (Hat tip: NC.) For years, the father said, he watched as his daughter, now 16, became more ...
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Friday Evening: Rust Never Sleeps
Fri, Apr 8, 2005 at 4:38:07 pm PDT
Here’s an open thread for a summer-like, somewhat windy West Coast evening, featuring a latch.
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GM Pulls LA Times Ads
Fri, Apr 8, 2005 at 4:09:05 pm PDT
General Motors has yanked its advertisements from the Los Angeles Times, for “factual errors and misrepresentations” in their editorial coverage: GM Pulls L.A. Times Ads. (Hat tip: Greg.) NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Motors Corp.’s decision to yank its advertising from the Los Angeles Times in a dispute over coverage ...
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Iraqi CBS Cameraman Arrested
Fri, Apr 8, 2005 at 2:33:57 pm PDT
A few days ago we saw a report that a freelance Iraqi cameraman working for CBS had been mistakenly shot and wounded by U.S. troops in Iraq. NEW YORK, April 5 (Reuters) - An Iraqi freelance cameraman who works for CBS News was shot and wounded on Tuesday in northern Iraq ...
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The Ugly American Left, Part 2
Fri, Apr 8, 2005 at 12:47:57 pm PDT
I’m posting again about this nasty little discussion at Washington Monthly, because one of the commenters there is now using my name, pretending to be me. This is known as “namejacking” in the blogging business, and it’s the sort of thing that’s only done by those who’ve worked hard to ...
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Totten's Lebanon Blog
Fri, Apr 8, 2005 at 12:21:05 pm PDT
Michael Totten is blogging from Lebanon, with lots of interesting photographs.
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Strikeouts for Troops
Fri, Apr 8, 2005 at 12:19:32 pm PDT
Oakland Athletics pitcher Barry Zito is doing a very cool thing: Strikeouts for Troops. (Hat tip: Scott.)
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Palestinians Threaten Third Intifada
Fri, Apr 8, 2005 at 12:11:15 pm PDT
An Israeli group calling themselves Revava is planning a mass prayer session at Temple Mount in Jerusalem. We can argue the merits of this action; whether it’s a point that needs to be made, or just needlessly provocative. But I don’t think it’s debatable that the Palestinian response to Revava’s plan ...
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The Anti-American Academy Seems Nervous
Fri, Apr 8, 2005 at 11:39:28 am PDT
Radical wacademics are getting very touchy about having their outrageous statements exposed; the latest moonbat to decry the “new McCarthyism” is former Weather Underground member Bernardine Dohrn: The Daily Northwestern - Letters to the Editor. The tone of Guy Benson’s April 5 guest column, “Law Prof Owes Explanation,” is the kind ...
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Yet Another Nutty Professor
Fri, Apr 8, 2005 at 10:06:12 am PDT
We have another candidate for this year’s Nuttiest Professor Award, a Cuban Muslim convert who teaches history at Kent State, with a completely unhinged letter to the Daily Kent Stater supporting Ward Churchill: The world needs more Churchills to speak up. (Hat tip: Jordan.) Dear Editor: Contrary to Daniel Hiester (March 29), ...
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VDH: The Bush Dilemma
Fri, Apr 8, 2005 at 9:09:14 am PDT
Victor Davis Hanson’s new column asks an interesting question: if the president is willing to take risks abroad, why won’t he do it at home? The Bush Dilemma. We are folk of emotion as well as reason, and we simply don’t like seeing our gas prices soar while we borrow money ...
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The Ugly American Left
Fri, Apr 8, 2005 at 8:00:47 am PDT
Kevin Drum kicks off one of the ugliest comment threads I’ve ever seen at Washington Monthly, by telling Hugh Hewitt, Michelle Malkin, and Power Line to “STFU.” Many of the commenters are like foul-mouthed, evil-tempered, malevolent children. LGF stalkers make an appearance, of course, trying to spread the rumor that we’re ...
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Idealizing Gitmo
Thu, Apr 7, 2005 at 6:23:19 pm PDT
A new play appearing in the San Francisco Bay Area: Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom. (Hat tip: Ed Driscoll.) Thursday, April 7 at 8:00 PM Guantanamo : Honor Bound to Defend Freedom If the more than five hundred ‘enemy combabtants [sic]’ detained at Guantanamo Bay feel isolated and forgotten, one new play ...
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The Cult of the Killdozer
Thu, Apr 7, 2005 at 4:49:18 pm PDT
The dim-bulb terror-enabling “peace activist” pals of Rachel Corrie are planning to harass Caterpillar on April 13 in Chicago: Midwest Mobilization for a Day of Action Aganist [sic] Caterpillar. (Hat tip: Dave the...) The Stop CAT Coalition is issuing a call for all Palestine solidarity organizations and activists in the Midwest ...
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Terror Attack in Cairo Tourist Bazaar
Thu, Apr 7, 2005 at 3:21:38 pm PDT
With recent news that the Muslim Brotherhood has been staging rallies and protests in Cairo, we shouldn’t be surprised at this: Bomb in Cairo Tourist Bazaar Kills Two. CAIRO (Reuters) - A man threw a bomb into a crowd of people in a Cairo bazaar popular with tourists on Thursday, killing ...
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Pittsburgh Indymedia: Stop the US
Thu, Apr 7, 2005 at 2:10:48 pm PDT
From Pittsburgh Indymedia: they don’t hate the US and they support our troops. They just want us to lose. Title: How can the U.S. be stopped? Lessons from Vietnam START DATE: 4/9/2005 START TIME: 6:00 PM Duration: 2 Hours Location: Garfield Location Details: Thomas Merton Center 5125 Penn Ave (in Garfield, between Winebiddle & Evaline) Event Topic: War/Militarization Event Type: Meeting DESCRIPTION: How can ...
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Zombie: "Eyes Wide Open" Anti-War Display
Thu, Apr 7, 2005 at 1:18:23 pm PDT
Here’s another good photo essay from LGF operative zombie, on the American Friends Service Committee’s traveling anti-war exhibit, Eyes Wide Open.
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Thursday Afternoon Open Thread
Thu, Apr 7, 2005 at 11:56:09 am PDT
The midday open thread for this Thursday features a picture of crows at dusk.
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Trifkovic: National Review, CAIR, and My Book
Thu, Apr 7, 2005 at 11:46:28 am PDT
Srdja Trifkovic reacts to the CAIR campaign against National Review and Trifkovic’s book The Sword of the Prophet: Caving In to Jihad: National Review, CAIR, and My Book.
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Samir Azzouz Assaults Photographer
Thu, Apr 7, 2005 at 11:31:10 am PDT
The 18-year old Islamic terror suspect released by a Dutch court (even though he had jihad literature, plans of public buildings, and weapons, and associated with the same group that murdered Theo Van Gogh) promptly assaulted a press photographer. So Samir Azzouz didn’t waste a second to knock down a press ...
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LGF on Rightalk.com
Thu, Apr 7, 2005 at 9:11:38 am PDT
I’ll be on Rightalk.com today at about noon Pacific, with Bill Ardolino and Jeff Goldstein for their show “The CITIZEN JOURNALIST Report.” Apparently Oliver “Smirky” Willis will come on near the end to explain to me why I’m such a big old Nazi. After the live stream, you can hear the ...
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The Monstrous Regiment of University Teachers
Thu, Apr 7, 2005 at 8:44:52 am PDT
Melanie Phillips, one of the few sane journalistic voices in Britain, writes about British academia’s appallingly twisted morality: The monstrous regiment of university teachers. If anyone had ever told British academics that there would come a time when they would punish colleagues because of the views they held, and would treat ...
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MSM Congratulates Self on Abu Ghraib
Thu, Apr 7, 2005 at 8:29:50 am PDT
It’s that time of the year when mainstream media congratulates itself on their good work; first, AP claims a Pulitzer Prize for terrorist-aiding photography, and now CBS takes the Peabody Award for Most Effective Enemy Propaganda: CBS Wins Peabody for Abu Ghraib Report. (Hat tip: Lizard by the Bay.) NEW YORK ...
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Two Teenaged Girls Held in Suicide Bomb Plot
Thu, Apr 7, 2005 at 7:22:34 am PDT
Two teenaged Muslim girls have been arrested on immigration charges in New York, and federal agents say they were planning to become suicide bombers: NYC Teens Held in Suicide Bomb Plot. (Hat tip: Semper Gumbi.) The teenagers were arrested March 24 and were being held in a detention center in Leesport, ...
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The Return of the Son of the Horrible Red Binder
Wed, Apr 6, 2005 at 9:36:16 pm PDT
The binder—Arafat’s horrible red binder!—has resurfaced ... in the hands of the dreaded Richard Gere!
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Schiavo Memo Attributed
Wed, Apr 6, 2005 at 8:09:59 pm PDT
The MemoGate II scandal that wasn’t: Schiavo Memo Is Attributed to Senate Aide. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) WASHINGTON, April 6 - Senator Mel Martinez, Republican of Florida, said Wednesday that a senior member of his staff had written an unsigned memorandum about the partisan political advantages of intervening in the case ...
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The Indymedia Murderer
Wed, Apr 6, 2005 at 6:19:51 pm PDT
With a degree from Evergreen State (Rachel Corrie’s alma mater), a trip to the West Bank as a “peace activist,” a history of participation in anarchist anti-globalization protests, and a penchant for posting at moonbat haven Indymedia, Andrew Mickel followed the leftist delusion all the way to its violent conclusion: ...
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Wednesday Night Wheel
Wed, Apr 6, 2005 at 3:48:46 pm PDT
The open thread for tonight is accompanied by a fine old rusty wheel. Probably sat atop a gauge or a pipe at one time.
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Dutch Release 18-Year Old Terror Suspect
Wed, Apr 6, 2005 at 3:04:32 pm PDT
The death of Theo Van Gogh was not enough to wake up the Dutch legal system: Dutch court acquits teen of terrorism. A Dutch court has acquitted teenager Samir Azzouz of plotting terrorist attacks against Dutch landmarks and ordered his release. The 18-year-old was sentenced to three months for illegal possession ...
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Mugged by la Realite
Wed, Apr 6, 2005 at 2:11:25 pm PDT
I’ve seen a few very sketchy accounts of last month’s race riots in Paris, but mainstream media has for the most part ignored this disturbing story. Olivier Guitta has a more complete report on the riots and their implications for France: Mugged by la Realite. (Hat tip: BPP.) On March 8, ...
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NYT Admits Stacking the Deck
Wed, Apr 6, 2005 at 12:08:34 pm PDT
I’ve written several entries about the scandalously whitewashed report from Columbia University that exonerated their Arabist professors, and the even more scandalous back room deal that Columbia cut with the New York Times, to shut out the students who registered the complaints. Today the New York Times admits it. A front-page article ...
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Biased History Book Removed
Wed, Apr 6, 2005 at 11:49:03 am PDT
In February we noted a report that a history textbook being taught in a Scottsdale, Arizona public school contained thinly disguised proselytization for Islam; today we have news that the book in question has been removed from the curriculum after numerous complaints from parents: History book removed as parents complain ...
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RIP, Saul Bellow
Wed, Apr 6, 2005 at 9:45:00 am PDT
One of the great writers of our time, Saul Bellow, has passed away at the age of 89. BOSTON (Reuters) - Saul Bellow, who rose from writing book reviews for $10 apiece to become one of America’s greatest novelists after World War II, passed away on Tuesday at age 89. Friend and ...
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A Worthy President for Iraq
Wed, Apr 6, 2005 at 8:38:50 am PDT
Excellent news from Iraq, where Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani (not an Arab, and not a religious fanatic) has been picked as Iraq’s interim President. (Hat tip: Amir.) BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi parliament picked Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as the country’s new interim president Wednesday, reaching out to the nation’s long-repressed ...
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Churchill's Lawyer: CU = Nazi Germany
Wed, Apr 6, 2005 at 8:09:42 am PDT
Ward Churchill’s lawyer now says the University of Colorado is acting like Nazi Germany. (Hat tip: M. Simon.) DENVER (AP) — A lawyer for the professor whose remarks about Sept. 11 victims touched off a firestorm wants officials to clarify how they intend to prove he is an American Indian, asking ...
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Shocka! Arabs Blame Israel, US for Problems
Wed, Apr 6, 2005 at 7:32:41 am PDT
I know this will probably come as a great shock, but believe it or not, the latest Arab Human Development Report from the United Nations blames the Arab world’s degraded state on ... wait for it ... the US and Israel: UN report blames Israel, US for lack of Arab ...
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Palestinian Civil War Watch
Tue, Apr 5, 2005 at 10:04:43 pm PDT
Holocaust-denying Palestinian president Abu Mazen is failing at everything, and the terror gangs sense weakness: Backing seen weakening for Abbas. (Hat tip: efuseakay.) RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who is being hailed internationally for his peacemaking efforts with Israel, is failing on virtually every important domestic front and ...
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Ariel Sharon's Folly
Tue, Apr 5, 2005 at 6:57:27 pm PDT
A very strong statement against Ariel Sharon’s Gaza disengagement plan, from Daniel Pipes: Ariel Sharon’s Folly. By December 2003, however, Mr. Sharon himself endorsed Mr. Mitzna’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza. While he did so in a spirit very different from the prior Oslo diplomacy, his decision has the same two main ...
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The Triple-Pronged Jihad
Tue, Apr 5, 2005 at 4:22:19 pm PDT
Alyssa Lappen interviews Bat Ye’or at The American Thinker: Triple-pronged Jihad — Military, Economic and Cultural.
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The Milblogger Prize
Tue, Apr 5, 2005 at 4:13:53 pm PDT
The blogosphere needs its own equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize (the “Bloggies” just don’t cut it), and we could start with any of the photographs in this post at Mudville Gazette.
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The Not Quite Flying Pig Open Thread
Tue, Apr 5, 2005 at 4:04:17 pm PDT
After a day of stories about British antisemitic academics, misogynist Islamists in Pakistan, Islamic Jihad psychodramas in Rafah, and the Muslim Brotherhood getting frisky in Egypt, I think we need an open thread featuring a picture of ... Pigs! Jumping! What could be more fun?
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Muslim Brotherhood Acting Up in Egypt
Tue, Apr 5, 2005 at 1:42:42 pm PDT
The BBC headline says: Egypt students rally for reform. Since the demonstrators are Muslim Brotherhood members, their idea of “reform” is an Islamic apartheid state under the brutal boot of shari’a law. This ain’t the Summer of Love. Thousands of Egyptian university students have demonstrated angrily against the government, in the largest such ...
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Islamic Jihad Puts on a Show
Tue, Apr 5, 2005 at 8:25:01 am PDT
Another violent murder fantasy, brought to you by Islamic Jihad: A Palestinian Islamic Jihad masked militant shoots on a mock Israeli settler effigy during a rally held against the plan of Israeli opponents of the planned Gaza Strip evacuation to rally at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound on April 10, at ...
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Religion of Misogyny
Tue, Apr 5, 2005 at 8:18:51 am PDT
Islamists in Pakistan are offended and humiliated by a road race with female participants, and that means violence, of course: Clashes over Pakistan road race. The clashes erupted after supporters of the Islamic religious parties alliance (MMA) attacked the men and women contesting the race with batons and stones, police said. The ...
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A Prize Worthy of Walter Duranty
Tue, Apr 5, 2005 at 7:42:59 am PDT
Riding Sun takes a look at the overwhelming negativity of AP’s Pulitzer Prize winning photographs, which feature several pictures by Arab stringers embedded with terrorist forces: I looked at the twenty photographs and broke them into groups on the basis of content. Here are my results: *U.S. troops injured, dead, or mourning: ...
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Disgusting Story of the Day
Tue, Apr 5, 2005 at 7:29:08 am PDT
Antisemitic British academics show their solidarity with a hate-filled death cult society, by preparing for another big push to delegitimize Israel: Israeli academics may face UK boycott. Israeli academics who refuse to condemn the government’s actions in Palestinian territories risk a boycott by the UK’s leading lecturers’ union, The Guardian reported ...
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The Gore-Google Connection
Mon, Apr 4, 2005 at 9:16:11 pm PDT
Loony Al Gore is teaming up with Google to launch another reactionary leftist media outlet aimed at America’s youth: Gore TV Network to Launch in August, Google Tie-In. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Monday unveiled his new television network, “Current,” which ...
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Australian Shari'a Watch
Mon, Apr 4, 2005 at 8:57:20 pm PDT
Muslim leaders in Australia are pushing for shari’a law to be established within the Australian legal system: Call for Islamic divorce court. (Hat tip: jeather.) A SPECIALIST Islamic court is among proposals Muslim leaders have raised with Howard Government ministers to resolve religious disputes such as divorce within Australian Muslim communities. The ...
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Pulitzer Prize Outrage
Mon, Apr 4, 2005 at 7:44:23 pm PDT
The media establishment puts their thumb in the eye of the blogosphere, awarding a Pulitzer Prize for photography to the Associated Press’s anonymous and very possibly staged photographs of terrorists committing murder on Baghdad’s Haifa Street: 2005 Pulitzer Prizes-BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY, Works. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
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Ward Churchill at UC Berkeley
Mon, Apr 4, 2005 at 6:23:37 pm PDT
LGF operative zombie’s third photo essay about Ward Churchill’s whirlwind tour of San Francisco is not as funny, or weird, as the first two—because Berkeley’s antisemitic nutjobs take center stage in a nauseating display of Jew-hatred masquerading as progressive thought: Ward Churchill at U.C. Berkeley, March 28, 2005. UPDATE at 4/4/05 ...
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Holy Warrior Headline Envy
Mon, Apr 4, 2005 at 5:52:40 pm PDT
Austin Bay has a good analysis of the attacks on Abu Ghraib prison (there was another one today), where the holy warriors and their willing tools in Western media are trying to squeeze another few drops of propaganda juice out of the dry husk of a bogus scandal: Saddam’s Henchmen ...
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Wesley Clark Hangin' with Moonbats
Mon, Apr 4, 2005 at 5:33:19 pm PDT
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Former senior NATO commander Wesley Clark is now hanging out with anti-American moonbat professor Juan Cole and the Kidz of Daily “Screw Them” Kos: General Clark on Iraq. (Hat tip: Soxblog.) What a disgrace.
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Al Qaeda's Grand Strategy
Mon, Apr 4, 2005 at 11:54:57 am PDT
Tigerhawk has a very interesting account of a lecture by Princeton’s Michael Doran on Al Qaeda’s grand strategy.
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Fighting Terror, Palestinian Style
Mon, Apr 4, 2005 at 9:57:53 am PDT
Rather than arresting terrorists, Holocaust-denying Palestinian president Abu Mazen has hit on a novel approach; he wants to put them on the payroll. You mean they weren’t already? (Hat tip: westbankmama.) GAZA, Palestine, April 4,2005 (IPC Agencies)—-Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) issued Sunday a decree to set up two committees ...
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Cease Fire, Palestinian Style
Mon, Apr 4, 2005 at 8:57:31 am PDT
Shin Bet foils bombing, shooting attacks at Latrun museum. (Hat tip: manker.) Security forces have captured the members of a Palestinian terror cell who planned coordinated bombing and shooting attacks at the Latrun junction between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and the killing of soldiers in the Ramallah area. Security forces arrested the ...
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Terror Suspect Francophile
Mon, Apr 4, 2005 at 8:30:02 am PDT
Swiss terror suspect Anwar Al-Jilani, on trial in Yemen, wishes to make it clear that he has nothing against the French: Al-Qaeda suspect denies targeting French Cultural Center. (Hat tip: Baldy.) SANA’A - Al-Qaeda suspect Anwar Al-Jilani, an Iraqi holding Swiss nationality, denied on Monday during his hearing along with other ...
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Canadian Libs Enraged, Seething
Mon, Apr 4, 2005 at 8:05:46 am PDT
Captain Ed has managed to get the entire Canadian government mad at him.
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SF Wants to Regulate Blogging
Mon, Apr 4, 2005 at 7:49:55 am PDT
It figures that the birthplace of the free speech movement would be the first to try to restrict the free speech of bloggers: San Francisco May Regulate Blogging. (Hat tip: Jewels.) Just when you thought the Federal Election Commission had it out for the blogosphere, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors ...
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Arab News: Pope Apologized for Crusades
Sun, Apr 3, 2005 at 9:59:00 pm PDT
The English propaganda voice of the Saudi royal family, Arab News (site of this Nazi-like racist cartoon), says that the Pope apologized to Muslims for the Crusades. (Hat tip: Dhimmi Watch.) Despite President Bush’s typically unfortunate use of the word “crusade” after 9/11, American policy became notably more sensitive toward Islam. ...
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Sunday Evening Open Thread
Sun, Apr 3, 2005 at 8:55:25 pm PDT
Tonight’s open thread features a photograph of a leaf.
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Tiny Minority of Extremists Enraged, Seething
Sun, Apr 3, 2005 at 8:30:34 pm PDT
Islamists are infuriated by Arab media’s semi-sympathetic coverage of the Pope’s death. (Hat tip: Decision ‘08.) DUBAI: The Arab world’s leading satellite television channels have been giving unprecedented coverage of the death throes of Pope John Paul II, provoking anger from Islamic extremists. Qatar-based Al-Jazeera, famed for screening “exclusive” videotapes from ...
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The Armageddon Conspiracy
Sun, Apr 3, 2005 at 5:05:37 pm PDT
The Times of India reports that nuclear black marketeers Abdul Qadeer Khan and Sultan Bashiruddin Mehmood had numerous meetings with Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, and the Pakistani Islamic terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba: Pak N-experts close to al-Qaeda. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) NEW DELHI: Pakistani nuclear scientists A Q Khan and Sultan ...
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The Strange Case of Jacques Pluss
Sun, Apr 3, 2005 at 3:03:11 pm PDT
Adjunct professor at Farleigh Dickinson University Jacques Pluss is an active member of the Nazi Party and a white supremacist, and he was recently fired from the university’s faculty. But he wasn’t sacked because Farleigh Dickinson found it inappropriate to have a Nazi teaching their students. His contract was terminated because he ...
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UN Human Wrongs Commission
Sun, Apr 3, 2005 at 2:11:21 pm PDT
Freedom House has released its annual list of the world’s worst human rights violators, and out of the 18 most repressive regimes, six of them—China, Cuba, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe—are currently members of the United Nations Human Rights Commission. (Hat tip: Photios.)
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AFP's Anti-Israel Bias is Palpable
Sun, Apr 3, 2005 at 1:10:26 pm PDT
The open animosity toward Israel in this uncredited Agence France Presse soccer “feature” story is quite astounding: ‘No Arabs, No Goals’: Arabs save Israel despite racist jibes. JERUSALEM (AFP) - “No Arabs, No Goals,” crowed MP Ahmed Tibi as a second Arab-Israeli footballer smashed the ball into the back of the ...
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Mexico vs. the Minutemen
Sun, Apr 3, 2005 at 12:39:38 pm PDT
The Mexican government is registering diplomatic protests about the “rights” of illegal immigrants to enter the United States: Border-vigil volunteers big in spirit, not number. (Hat tip: Alone in NY.) Meanwhile, the Mexican government yesterday again condemned what it called “vigilantism” along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, demanding the U.S. government ...
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Breaking: Heathrow Incident
Sun, Apr 3, 2005 at 12:08:35 pm PDT
Cynical Nation has updates on the possible terrorist incident at Heathrow Airport. UPDATE: Multiple passengers were removed from the plane by force. My brother-in-law is now off the plane as well, but he has been herded into some special area at Heathrow.... UPDATE: According to the BA website, the flight will be ...
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Middle Class Al Qaeda
Sun, Apr 3, 2005 at 12:00:01 pm PDT
We’ve linked to probably a dozen studies demonstrating that Islamic radicalism is not, as the conventional liberal analysis (read: articles of faith) would have it, bred by poverty and oppression. Every time the subject is seriously investigated the exact opposite is found—that the common denominator is affluence, not poverty. Yet the ...
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Eurabian Holy Warrior Homeboys
Sun, Apr 3, 2005 at 10:30:30 am PDT
Holy warrior homeboys in an increasingly radical Eurabia: Europe’s Boys of Jihad. PARIS — The case file of the French homeboys who joined the Iraqi jihad contains a startling photo. It’s the mug shot of Salah, the alleged point man in Damascus, Syria, who authorities say arranged for guns and safe passage ...
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Breaking: Incident at Heathrow Airport
Sun, Apr 3, 2005 at 10:03:51 am PDT
Cynical Nation reports on a possible terrorist incident at London’s Heathrow Airport: This hasn’t hit the news yet, but my brother-in-law is sitting on a plane in Heathrow Airport as we speak, and there is apparently some action going on. It seems his plane was stormed by agents with machine guns, ...
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Wrong from Head to Toe
Sun, Apr 3, 2005 at 9:53:42 am PDT
Here’s a must-read essay by Theodore Dalrymple, on the British court’s decision to allow a 13-year old Muslim girl to wear the repressive jilbab to school: Wrong from Head to Toe. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) In the long annals of judicial stupidity, there can rarely have been a more idiotic judgment ...
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RoP Strikes in Thailand
Sun, Apr 3, 2005 at 9:34:27 am PDT
Bombs rock airport, city in Thai south, one dead: police. (Hat tip: Ethel.) BANGKOK (AFP) - Two near-simultaneous bombs exploded in southern Thailand, including one at the airport in Hat Yai city killing one person and wounding a dozen, police said. “According to initial reports, one person has died from the bomb ...
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War Criminal Released Early, MSM Yells "Abu Ghraib!"
Sun, Apr 3, 2005 at 8:32:58 am PDT
The Washington Post’s Iraq page has a permanent sidebar, featured prominently at the top, with pictures and stories about the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse: washingtonpost.com: Iraq. (Hat tip: John.) Is there nothing happening in Iraq more noteworthy than a ridiculously overblown, bogus media-driven “scandal” that’s more than a year old? Meanwhile, last ...
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Holy Warriors Attack Abu Ghraib
Sat, Apr 2, 2005 at 9:03:05 pm PST
The mujahideen in Iraq launched a ferocious attack on Abu Ghraib prison today: Iraq’s Abu Ghraib Prison Attacked; 32 Hurt. AGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents attacked the Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad, injuring 20 U.S. forces and 12 prisoners on Saturday while six people were killed elsewhere in Iraq following a ...
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NYT Profiles Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Sat, Apr 2, 2005 at 8:24:09 pm PST
An amazingly sympathetic portrait of Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali at the New York Times: Daughter of the Enlightenment. Read the whole thing, but here’s an excerpt that gives you a sense of this woman’s remarkable courage: Last spring, Ayaan Hirsi Ali took her “Dutch mother” — the woman who taught her ...
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Taliban Online Again
Sat, Apr 2, 2005 at 8:10:09 pm PST
The infamous Al Qaeda site Taliban Online is back on the web. (Hat tip: Fjordman.) Their obviously phony WHOIS information: Domain ID: D6429787-LRMS Domain Name: TALIBAN-ONLINE.INFO Created On: 18-Sep-2004 16: 40: 09 UTC Last Updated On: 17-Mar-2005 02: 35: 13 UTC Expiration Date: 18-Sep-2005 ...
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Why Should the Beautiful Die?
Sat, Apr 2, 2005 at 6:16:03 pm PST
If you pay attention to the “Now Playing” feature in our right sidebar (if you don’t see it, please visit our visitor preferences page), you may have noticed that I’ve been listening to Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster quite a lot recently. The reason is simple. It’s one of ...
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Veiled Threat in Eurabia
Sat, Apr 2, 2005 at 5:20:22 pm PST
Olivier Guitta has a powerfully disturbing look at the horrors faced by some European Muslim women, who are victims of a repressive, misogynous culture deliberately promoted and enforced in a real, honest-to-goodness conspiracy by the Muslim Brotherhood and our friends the Saudis: Veiled Threat. The atrocious treatment of women in ...
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The Jihadis' Master Plan
Sat, Apr 2, 2005 at 4:31:14 pm PST
The jihadis have a plan to destroy America. See, they’re going to blow up the Canary Islands. This will cause a gigantic tsunami which will wipe out the Great Satan. Like all great plans for global catastrophes, it’s diabolically simple. No word on exactly how they’ll blow up the Canary Islands. But ...
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Democratic Underground Wants Blood
Sat, Apr 2, 2005 at 3:13:57 pm PST
The inmates of Democratic Underground mark the pope’s passing in their inimitable fashion, by hoping the President will be next: The psychics were right about the Pope & hopefully will b right about Bush. (Hat tip: NC.) These people really are sick. UPDATE at 4/2/05 4:24:08 pm: Democratic Underground, of course, is a ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Sat, Apr 2, 2005 at 2:57:12 pm PST
A Palestinian boy in military uniform and holding a toy gun is surrounded by Hamas supporters during a march by the militant group in Nosirat refugee camp in Gaza Strip April 1, 2005. Islamic militant group Hamas is discussing whether it might join a Palestinian government after contesting parliamentary elections ...
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RIP, Holy Father
Sat, Apr 2, 2005 at 1:38:55 pm PST
Pope John Paul II Dies at 84. UPDATE at 4/2/05 2:39:07 pm: Trey Jackson has posted the video of George W. Bush’s statement on the passing of John Paul II: Bush - ‘The world has lost a champion of human freedom’.
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Mondale Panders to MAS
Sat, Apr 2, 2005 at 8:25:23 am PST
In Minneapolis, a featured speaker at a convention of the Muslim American Society was former Vice President Walter Mondale: Leaders urge Muslim participation in politics. (Hat tip: Baldy.) One panel at the regional convention of the Muslim American Society — held over the weekend — included former Vice President Walter Mondale. ...
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Violent French Winemakers
Sat, Apr 2, 2005 at 8:02:04 am PST
Let’s hope this doesn’t lead to winemakerphobia among the schoolchildren of France: Depressed French wine producers bomb Government offices. (Hat tip: Geepers.) Terrorist attacks by radical wine producers on government offices in the south of France yesterday served notice that the country’s wine crisis may be spinning out of control. Sticks of ...
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Where Does This Islamophobia Come From?
Sat, Apr 2, 2005 at 7:15:40 am PST
Reading this story at Britain’s left-wing Independent rag, you’re intended to get the impression that there’s a completely irrational mass hysteria taking over the youth of the UK: Fear and hatred of Muslims on increase in young generation. (Hat tip: American Infidel.) Children as young as 13 are displaying signs of ...
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The Slaughter in Sudan
Fri, Apr 1, 2005 at 7:28:11 pm PST
Government-backed Arab militias continue to commit wholesale murder in Sudan: Darfur slaughter on the increase. (Hat tip: Kragar.) A CEASEFIRE monitor who spent six months in Darfur has lifted the lid on the continuing slaughter of civilians by Sudanese government-backed militia - and warned that the death toll is set to ...
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Arab News: "Jews Are Vermin"
Fri, Apr 1, 2005 at 6:33:04 pm PST
The English voice of the Saudi Arabian royal family, Arab News, lets the mask slip in today’s editorial cartoon. (Hat tip: NC.) UPDATE at 4/2/05 7:37:31 am: This vile metaphor, coming to you from Islam’s holiest land, was also a favorite of the Nazis. (Hat tip: Ed Driscoll.)
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Corruption in the Palace of Justice
Fri, Apr 1, 2005 at 6:21:18 pm PST
Another interesting post from Roger L. Simon on the machinations behind the scenes, in the Volcker Commission’s investigation of the UN Oil-for-Food scam: Special Report #3: Corruption in the Palace of Justice.
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Friday Evening Open Thread
Fri, Apr 1, 2005 at 5:07:42 pm PST
As the world holds a vigil for Pope John Paul II, our Friday evening open thread features a photograph of flags.
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Mommy, There's a Terrorist Under My Bed
Fri, Apr 1, 2005 at 4:47:44 pm PST
Here’s a collection of photographs taken by the IDF of Palestinian weapons and terrorists hidden in creative and unusual ways: Inside the IDF Photo Essay: Finding Weapons and Explosives. (Hat tip: westbankmama.) Islamic Jihad terrorist Hosni Hassan Yassin was arrested in a joint military and security services operation near Jenin. He ...
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"The Intelligence Community Knows Disturbingly Little"
Fri, Apr 1, 2005 at 3:37:16 pm PST
The New York Sun has a good piece about the Silverman-Robb commission’s report on US intelligence failures, focusing on two disturbing conclusions: Libya May Be Hiding Germs, Chemicals, Report Warns. (Hat tip: Ethel.) WASHINGTON - Since entering a deal to abandon its nuclear program at the end of 2003, the Libyan ...
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Canada Agreed to Brief Iran on Airline Security
Fri, Apr 1, 2005 at 3:13:33 pm PST
Here’s some news from Canada that, sadly, is not an April Fool’s joke; the day after revelations that Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi was horribly tortured to death by the Iranian government, we learn that Canada planned to allow an Iranian official to be briefed on the new Canadian airline passenger ...
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Another Bombing in Beirut
Fri, Apr 1, 2005 at 1:51:11 pm PST
Another subtle indication that Syria and Hizballah aren’t happy with the direction Lebanon is going: Five wounded in new bomb attack on Christian region near Beirut. BEIRUT (AFP) - Five people were wounded in a bomb attack near the Lebanese capital, the fourth such strike on a Christian area in less ...
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Pope John Paul II Fading
Fri, Apr 1, 2005 at 11:11:28 am PST
Fox News has announced that Italian news sources are reporting the death of Pope John Paul II. Rest in peace, holy father. UPDATE at 4/1/05 11:21:00 am: The report has now been pulled down; apparently the announcement has not yet been made. But from all accounts it won’t be long.
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Holocaust Denial at Yahoo News
Fri, Apr 1, 2005 at 10:52:57 am PST
US forces in Iraq have captured an American citizen, described as a senior associate of terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi: Zarqawi Aide Held by U.S. Military in Iraq. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) But the really disturbing part of this story at Yahoo News is the fact that in their “Full Coverage” sidebar, ...
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VDH: Don't Stop Now
Fri, Apr 1, 2005 at 10:34:50 am PST
This Friday’s Victor Davis Hanson column is a dose of hard-headed realism: Don’t Stop Now. This war was never between good and bad choices, but always a call between something bad and something far worse. The challenge was not about a post-Nazi Germany, which for a decade and a half ruined ...
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Threatened Dutch Politician Gets Safe House
Fri, Apr 1, 2005 at 9:12:40 am PST
Dutch MP Geert Wilders, threatened with death by Islamic extremists in the Netherlands, will receive a new “secured” home provided by the government. (Hat tip: Eric Cartman’s Conscience.) AMSTERDAM — Threatened right-wing MP Geert Wilders will be given a secured home in the Randstad region by the end of April, ending ...
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Pope in Grave Condition
Fri, Apr 1, 2005 at 8:52:44 am PST
Pope John Paul II is in very grave condition today, and has been given last rites.
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Jihad in America's Public Schools
Fri, Apr 1, 2005 at 8:27:05 am PST
A former top official for the District of Columbia’s public schools has been arrested for raising money and recruiting fighters for Islamic terrorist organizations: Former school official faces terrorism charges. Kifah Wael Jayyousi, arrested Sunday at an airport in Detroit, Michigan, was chief facilities director for public schools in Washington from ...
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New York Times Complicit in Columbia U Whitewash
Fri, Apr 1, 2005 at 7:53:03 am PST
At Columbia University’s CampusJ blog, Steven Weiss has more on the shamefully unethical back room deal cut by the New York Times, to avoid interviewing students in exchange for publishing the whitewashed report on Columbia’s Arabist professors: Columbia Spectator Rejected Same Deal As NYT.
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