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LGF Archives: June 2005

Thursday, June 30, 2005

The Truth About Kyoto

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 8:37:32 pm PDT

President Bush told the simple truth to a Danish television station today: Kyoto Would Have ‘Wrecked’ Economy. President Bush said in a Danish TV interview aired Thursday that adhering to the Kyoto treaty on climate change would have “wrecked” the U.S. economy, and he called U.S. dependence on Gulf oil a ...

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Daily Kos Promotes the Rathergate Lie

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 8:17:55 pm PDT

The Daily Kos “political encyclopedia” entry for “Bill Burkett” is good for a belly laugh, as the Kos Kidz continue to promote an obvious falsehood, carrying the torch for CBS News long after CBS, on advice from legal counsel, has dropped it: Bill Burkett - dKosopedia. UPDATE at 7/1/05 10:29:28 am: The ...

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Iowahawk: The War of the Worlds

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 7:05:35 pm PDT

Iowahawk has a real scoop tonight; the first draft of Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast: War of the Worlds: The Lost Version. “War of the Worlds” Aladdin Radio Theater of the Air CBS, Sunday October 30, 1938 Radioplay First Draft ANNOUNCER The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations present Orson Welles and the Aladdin ...

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Thursday Night Globe

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 6:23:13 pm PDT

My globe is a little out of date.

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LA Times Love Note to the PFLP

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 6:10:02 pm PDT

Here’s a very lengthy love letter from the Los Angeles Times to the local collaborators of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist Palestinian group widely acknowledged as pioneers in the crowded field of international terrorism: 18 Years Waiting for a Gavel to Fall. (Hat tip: ...

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A Quiz with a Point

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 5:32:00 pm PDT

Was Karl Rove talking about you? Take the quiz and find out!

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Belgians Stand Up For Their Culture

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 4:06:10 pm PDT

This is another one from Reuters’ “Odd News” file, and I think we’re supposed to be ruefully amused at the quaint Belgians who love beer so much they canceled a lunch meeting with an Iranian delegation: No beer? No lunch! BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A lunch meeting between a leading parliamentarian in ...

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Seattle P-I Staggers

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 3:15:17 pm PDT

One of the most left-wing big city newspapers in existence, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, may be on the verge of closing down: P-I Dealt Blow in Seattle Times Legal Spat. (Hat tip: Lazarus.) OLYMPIA, Wash. - The state Supreme Court on Thursday dealt The Seattle Times a major victory in its efforts ...

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Understatement of the Year

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 2:24:13 pm PDT

For anyone who’s been paying attention to the daily stream of reports of murders, stabbings, attempted suicide bombings, mortar attacks, rocket attacks, weapons smuggling, heavily armed terrorists parading around openly in rallies, etc. etc. etc. ... This story comes under the heading of “Duh.” White House: Palestinian Security Lacking. WASHINGTON - With ...

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Most Iraq Suicide Bombs by Foreigners

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 2:09:30 pm PDT

Most Iraq Suicide Bombs by Foreigners. (Hat tip: Daniel.) BAGHDAD, Iraq - The vast majority of suicide attackers in Iraq are thought to be foreigners — mostly Saudis and other Gulf Arabs — and the trend has become more pronounced this year with North Africans also streaming in to carry out ...

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Swedish Ex-Hostage: Two Down...

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 2:00:50 pm PDT

At the Stockholm Spectator blog, Billy McCormac has more on the story of Ulf Hjertström, the Swedish ex-hostage who has hired bounty hunters to track down the holy warriors who kidnapped him: Two down ... Hjertström, an oil broker whose career took him to Iraq 25 years ago, makes no ...

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Islamic Terrorists Kill 3 More in Thailand

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 1:14:38 pm PDT

Three Buddhists shot dead, teachers’ homes attacked in Thai south. (Hat tip: Tom.) PATTANI, Thailand : Three Buddhists including a mute labourer were shot and killed and teachers’ homes were attacked in southern Thailand, police said, as authorities vowed to boost security funding to counter rampaging violence. Srang Saewong, 56, a ...

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Dem Adviser Admits Anti-War Strategy

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:49:37 pm PDT

At the Huffington Post, Democratic adviser and Berkeley linguistics professor George Lakoff openly admits that turning Americans against the war is a goal of the Democrat party. (Hat tip: Model4.) For a while last week, the Democrats were doing better at framing the issues. The poll numbers showed that Bush’s approval ...

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Thursday Morning Miscellany

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 8:36:43 am PDT

An open thread for a foggy Thursday...

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Palestinians Kidnap Israeli Soldiers?

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 8:32:36 am PDT

Palestinian forces search for Israelis - source. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian security forces were searching for Israelis in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday after a militant faction first said it had killed two soldiers then said they were being held alive. A police officer ...

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Oh, Canada

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 8:24:16 am PDT

Ottawa issued travel visas to Syrian general’s family. (Hat tip: Amy.) OTTAWA — The daughter and daughter-in-law of a hard-line Syrian general have received visitor’s visas from the Canadian embassy in Damascus to allow them to give birth in Canada and confer citizenship on the general’s grandchildren, sources say. Zeina Khair and ...

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Churchill Advocates Murder

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 8:03:35 am PDT

Trey Jackson has video of the Bill O’Reilly show, on which he played a tape of University of Colorado professor Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill advocating that US soldiers murder their officers. Churchill: “For those of you who do, as a matter of principle, oppose war in any form, the idea of ...

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What Media Bias?

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 7:51:02 am PDT

Nothing like a gratuitous slap at the United States to spice up some “Odd News” from Reuters: World’s oldest person celebrates 115th birthday. (Hat tip: MosheK.) AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch woman who swears by a daily helping of herring for a healthy life celebrated her 115th birthday on Wednesday as ...

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LGF in Philly Inquirer

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 7:34:47 am PDT

LGF’s recent post on Iran’s Manhattan Project was featured in yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer, along with a selection of reader comments: Blog Cabin. (Hat tip: Murqtaad.)

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UN Springs Into Action, Begs US for Help

Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 7:32:13 am PDT

The Secretary General of the United Nations actively obstructs the efforts of the US in Iraq, but expects us to run to his aid when the UN fails miserably to keep the peace in Haiti: Annan Makes Plea For Troops in Haiti. (Hat tip: Frank.) UNITED NATIONS, June 29 — United ...

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Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Wednesday Night Pilings

Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 6:36:38 pm PDT

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Iran: "A New Islamic Revolution Has Arisen"

Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 6:15:25 pm PDT

Iran’s new “president,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says his “election victory” marked the start of a new Islamic revolution that will soon conquer the world: President invokes new Islamic wave. (Hat tip: All Things Conservative.) “Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution of ...

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Army Exceeds Recruitment Goals

Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 5:50:47 pm PDT

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Richard Myers announced tonight that the Army has exceeded its recruitment goals for the month of June: Army reverses series of recruitment shortfalls. (Hat tip: Ethel.) PENTAGON—After months of declining enlistment, the Army has more than met its recruitment goals for the month of June. Joint Chiefs ...

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Lodi Imam Fired by Mosque

Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 5:48:15 pm PDT

One of the “religious leaders” detained in the Lodi terror investigation has been fired by his mosque’s board of directors: California Mosque Fires Islamic Leader. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) LODI, Calif. - A mosque has fired a religious leader accused of speaking out against the United States and supporting Osama bin ...

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Ex-Hostage Hires Bounty Hunters

Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 3:49:26 pm PDT

The holy warriors messed with the wrong hostage this time: Ex-hostage hires bounty hunters. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A HOSTAGE held alongside Australian Douglas Wood in Iraq has hired bounty hunters to track down his former captors, promising to eliminate them one by one. Swede Ulf Hjertstrom, who was held for several ...

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Another Beheading in Thailand

Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 3:18:45 pm PDT

The jihad is gathering force in southern Thailand, where another Buddhist was decapitated by local representatives of the RoP: Local official beheaded in southern Thailand by suspected Muslim militants, say police. Suspected Muslim insurgents shot and then beheaded a local official in southern Thailand on Wednesday in an attack believed to ...

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Islamic Group Demands Permanent UN Security Council Seat

Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 3:08:24 pm PDT

In Sanaa, Yemen, representatives of the Organization of the Islamic Conference demanded a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) SANAA (AFP) - Foreign ministers of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) opened a meeting with a call for a Muslim permanent seat on the UN ...

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Blair: No Predetermination for Iraq War

Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 2:52:26 pm PDT

The latest mind-numbingly silly cause celebre of the anti-war crowd is definitively laid to rest by Tony Blair: No Predetermination for Iraq War. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday the “Downing Street memos” paint a distorted picture, and he insisted that the Iraq war ...

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British Students Get "Know Islam" Kits

Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 1:36:19 pm PDT

The Muslim Council of Britain has convinced Britain’s Department of Education and Skills to distribute Islamist propaganda to primary school students: British Students Get “Know Islam” Kits. CAIRO, June 28, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – A British council has presented resource packs covering the basic teachings of Islam to primary schools across the ...

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The Wednesday Open

Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 8:50:28 am PDT

What’s the frequency of the open thread, Kenneth?

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Shari'a Barbarism

Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 8:36:43 am PDT

Shari’a law in action: Iranian court orders man to be blinded. (Hat tip: Joel.) An Iranian court has sentenced a man to have his eyes surgically removed for a crime he committed as a teenager 12 years ago. Amnesty International has condemned the sentence, reported in the Iranian daily Etemaad, but ...

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From Hostage-Taker to President

Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 7:44:17 am PDT

The newly “elected” president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was a key figure in the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran; here’s a photograph of Ahmadinejad holding the arm of a blindfolded American hostage: AP Photo shows Iran’s new President as 1979 US hostage-taker. (Hat tip: Gateway Pundit.) UPDATE at ...

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Cease Fire, Palestinian Style

Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 7:25:18 am PDT

IDF foils attack on Gaza settlement. Palestinians fire 3 mortars at Netzarim in n. Gaza. Israel seizes arms on Gaza-Egypt border. (Hat tip: Ethel.)

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It's All About 9/11

Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 7:06:55 am PDT

Andrew C. McCarthy has a good piece on the President’s speech, asking why all the usual lefties and Democrats seem so blithely unconcerned about the Saddam Hussein regime’s links to international terror: It’s All About 9/11. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The president should know he hit the sweet spot during his ...

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Tuesday Evening Fences

Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 6:14:39 pm PDT

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The President's Iraq Speech

Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 4:58:10 pm PDT

The President’s speech will be broadcast over the web at the White House site, and also on C-SPAN3 at this page (use the ‘Watch’ links in the right sidebar for C-SPAN3). UPDATE at 6/28/05 5:29:03 pm: Here’s the web site just mentioned by the President: America Supports You. UPDATE at 6/28/05 5:45:25 pm: LGF ...

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UN Official: "Very Very Serious" Rumors

Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 4:51:12 pm PDT

Immediately before the President’s speech on Iraq, a United Nations tool in Austria releases (through Agence France Presse, natch) a breathless report of secret prisons! on warships! The horror! These are very very serious, well-based allegations, that must be investigated right away! Well, they’re rumors, actually. But horrible rumors! US suspected of keeping secret prisoners ...

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"The White House Will Become the Muslim House"

Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 4:25:22 pm PDT

Dr. Ahmad Dwidar is imam of the Islamic Center in New York and a lecturer at Manhattan University; on June 9, 2005, he did an interview with the Middle East Broadcasting Centre (MBC), captured and translated by MEMRI TV: [Video] Dwidar: In 1995 I heard some sermons, saying that Muslims should march ...

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An Important Speech Tonight

Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 2:30:27 pm PDT

The President’s speech at Fort Bragg on Iraq and the War on Terrorism will start at 8 pm Eastern, and it’s being broadcast live over the web on C-SPAN 3. We’ll be live-blogging and commenting as it happens.

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AP Transcends Space, Time

Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 2:11:40 pm PDT

Associated Press writer Jennifer Loven files a dispatch from the future: Bush: Bloodshed in Iraq Is ‘Worth It’. (Hat tip: NC.) FORT BRAGG, N.C. - President Bush on Tuesday appealed for the nation’s patience for “difficult and dangerous” work ahead in Iraq, hoping a backdrop of U.S. troops and a reminder ...

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Poetic Justice

Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 1:21:13 pm PDT

The Kelo decision may have a very immediate, very personal effect on one of the Supreme Court justices who voted for it. (Hat tip: Mike.) Weare, New Hampshire (PRWEB) Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme ...

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The Tuesday Open

Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 8:25:51 am PDT

Ask not for whom the open thread tolls; it tolls for thee.

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Daily Kos Prepares the Next Lie

Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 8:03:26 am PDT

Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga of Daily Kos desperately tries to “frame the issues” so that the Kos Kidz don’t look like a bunch of weak, whining stoners: Two ways to address the war. (Hat tip: Chrenkoff.) Democrats have been loathe to talk about Iraq, as their palpable fear get in ...

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The Loser Speaks

Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 7:53:22 am PDT

In an example of truly monumental chutzpah, John F. Kerry’s editorial for the New York Times spews the same nonsense that lost him the election, laughably dictating to the elected President what he should say in tonight’s speech: The Speech the President Should Give. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

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Dan Rather: US Media Not Biased

Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 7:40:48 am PDT

Disgraced CBS newsman Dan Rather insists that mainstream media is not biased. Against Israel: ‘U.S. media support Israel’. (Hat tip: Zevy.) There are Israelis who claim that the foreign media is biased against Israel. “No, I haven’t seen that at all. I recognize there is a widespread perception among some people, but it’s ...

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Monday, June 27, 2005

NCC's Fourth of July Message

Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 7:38:55 pm PDT

This Fourth of July is shaping up to be a real humdinger, as every anti-American group grabs the opportunity to grandstand; the National Council of Churches leads the way: A Call to Speak Out. (Hat tip: Split Level Head.) Declaring that the time has come to say no to leaders “who ...

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Monday Night Open Sea

Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 6:40:12 pm PDT

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What I Saw at Gitmo

Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 4:28:19 pm PDT

Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu toured the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, and here’s what he saw. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) After speaking with soldiers, sailors, and civilians who collectively staff Gitmo, I left convinced that abuse definitely exists at the detention facilities, and it typically fails to receive the press attention it ...

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Moronic Convergence in Istanbul

Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 2:37:24 pm PDT

The transnational left gathered in Istanbul over the weekend to put the United States and Britain on trial and express support for the head-chopping holy warriors, in a freakshow modeled after philosopher Bertrand Russell’s Vietnam-era International War Crimes Tribunal: World Tribunal on Iraq Condemns U.S. and Britain, Recognizes Right of ...

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Freed Hostage Witnessed Murders

Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 1:34:46 pm PDT

Douglas Wood, the Australian hostage freed after 47 days of captivity by Islamic “holy warriors,” told Australian TV that he witnessed killings. Douglas Wood, 63, also told Channel Ten of his efforts to retain his sanity during his captivity by replaying his life, the BBC reported Sunday. Wood, who was bound and ...

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The Anglicans Lose Their Way

Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:29:02 pm PDT

Melanie Phillips, on the Church of England’s disgraceful divestment vote: The Anglicans lose their way. (Hat tip: Tom.) It is a defining moment. With last Friday’s vote by the Anglican Consultative Council to ‘commend’ divestment from companies supporting Israel’s polices, based on a travesty of a report on Israel by the ...

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Israeli Soldier Guilty in ISM Manslaughter

Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:02:01 pm PDT

The Israeli Arab soldier who shot British ISM terror enabler Tom Hurndall in 2003 has been convicted of manslaughter by an Israeli military court: Israeli Soldier Guilty in Activist’s Death. CASTINA MILITARY BASE, Israel - A military court convicted an Israeli soldier of manslaughter Monday in the killing of a pro-Palestinian ...

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The Iraq Panic

Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:32:14 am PDT

An excellent, clearly argued editorial at the Wall Street Journal has the subheadline, “Zarqawi’s bombs hit their target in Washington:” The Iraq Panic. “It’s like they’re just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we’re losing in Iraq.”—Senator Chuck Hagel (R., Neb.), June 27, 2005, U.S. ...

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The Chinese Dragon Awakens

Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 10:32:01 am PDT

Here’s a disturbing Special Report by Bill Gertz on the awakening Chinese dragon. China is building its military forces faster than U.S. intelligence and military analysts expected, prompting fears that Beijing will attack Taiwan in the next two years, according to Pentagon officials. U.S. defense and intelligence officials say all the signs ...

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Monday Morning Miscellany

Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 9:33:12 am PDT

The Monday thread of openness...

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NYT Alarmed by Gov. Pataki

Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 8:18:56 am PDT

On Friday, New York’s Governor Pataki said he would do everything in his power to prevent anti-American exhibits at Ground Zero. Today the New York Times comes out against Pataki, whose statement they find “alarming:” Freedom and Ground Zero. Gov. George Pataki’s decision to side with increasingly vocal critics of the cultural ...

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Same Story, Different Spins

Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 7:54:30 am PDT

A new Pew poll shows that people are losing trust in mainstream media, and the way MSM covers it, ironically, demonstrates exactly why. First, at Yahoo News we find a story with the headline: Growing Numbers Question Media’s Fairness, which seems a fairly accurate way to describe the findings of the ...

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Sunday, June 26, 2005

Sunday Night Fence Thread

Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 7:07:46 pm PDT

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We Came, We Saw, We Shredded

Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 6:16:32 pm PDT

Here’s a very creative and perfectly legal way to turn the tables on the anti-war protesters, from a group of LGF readers in Columbia, Missouri: Memorial Day is a day of remembrance and honor for the majority of people. For a select few, those committed to a “peace at any price” ...

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Outrage of the Day

Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 5:51:10 pm PDT

Davids Medienkritik reports the Outrage of the Day; not only is the Berlin city government preparing to demolish the Checkpoint Charlie memorial, dedicated to the brave people who died trying to cross the Berlin Wall, they’re going to do it on the Fourth of July: Berlin Outrage: Checkpoint Charlie Monument ...

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Darth Spencer

Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 5:41:20 pm PDT

The Islamic Thinkers Society shows the depth of their Islamic thought, with their latest inadvertently hilarious attack on Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer: Darth Spencer, Master of the Dark Side.

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Jawdropper of the Day

Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 4:29:15 pm PDT

You may think you’ve seen the ultimate absurd dead end of touchy-feely politically correct inverted thinking, but in Australia’s Herald Sun, Andrew Bolt describes a left-wing Aussie editor-in-chief’s reaction to freed hostage Douglas Wood that you are not going to believe: How the Left gets loonier. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.) ...

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Iran's Manhattan Project to Continue

Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 2:21:23 pm PDT

Iran’s Ahmadinejad committed to nuclear program. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Hardline president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday Iran would press ahead with its controversial nuclear program and said the Islamic Republic had no real need for ties with arch-foe, the United States. The only question left at this point is whether Iran ...

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CMS Battle Royale

Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 1:32:30 pm PDT

I know LGF has a lot of technically adept readers, and I want to throw open a topic for discussion to our resident IT geeks: as part of a top-secret project (OK, it’s PJ Media), I’ve been researching high-end professional content management systems, and I’d like any recommendations, opinions, warnings, ...

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Sunday Morning Miscellany

Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 8:36:00 am PDT

I think that I shall never see, a poem lovely as an open thread...

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JihadTV to Make Documentary on US Border

Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 8:26:52 am PDT

Here’s some news that will make you feel really safe; Al Jazeera is producing a documentary on the shabby state of American border security: Al-Jazeera to look at open U.S. border. (Hat tip: RJ_in_Reno.) The Arab TV news network criticized by the new Iraqi government and others for its anti-American bias ...

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Religion of Caning

Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 8:07:58 am PDT

Following Friday prayers at a mosque in the Indonesian province of Aceh, fifteen people were caned in public according to shari’a law: Aceh gamblers caned in public. (Hat tip: Ethel.) The Indonesian province of Aceh has held its first public caning, under the region’s special Islamic laws. Fifteen people were caned ...

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Don't Worry About Old Glory

Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 7:42:33 am PDT

Returning to the flag-burning amendment passed last week by the House of Representatives, Mark Steyn and I agree that it’s a counter-productive, grandstanding distraction: Don’t worry, Old Glory can take the heat. For my own part, I believe that, if someone wishes to burn a flag, he should be free to ...

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Anti-Americanism at Aussie Colleges

Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 7:16:51 am PDT

Australia’s Sunday Times has a report on US exchange students being harassed by moonbat America-haters at Australian universities: Students quit over anti-US slurs. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) One university has launched an investigation into claims an American student returned to the US after suffering six months of abuse at a residential ...

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Saturday, June 25, 2005

Saturday Night Fences

Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 7:22:43 pm PDT

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MSM Ignores Durbin, Pounces on Rove

Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 6:26:34 pm PDT

I think I’m getting cynical, perish the thought, because this Washington Times account of insanely biased mainstream media reporting just seems like business as usual: Press pounces on Rove’s remarks. Major news outlets that largely ignored the controversial comments of the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate last week immediately reported ...

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Re: Registration

Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 5:57:35 pm PDT

People keep emailing, asking when registration will open and why it isn’t open; I get at least 5 or 6 of these emails a day. The reason I can’t simply leave it open: our database is getting quite large, with more than 12,000 registered commenters, and I’m constrained by various ...

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Politicians Tour Gitmo, No Torture Discovered

Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 5:05:29 pm PDT

Republican and Democrat politicians toured Guantanamo Bay today, and even the looniest of the bunch (i.e. Sheila Jackson Lee) had to grudgingly admit it didn’t seem all that bad: Pols: Gitmo Conditions Have Improved. (Hat tip: efuseakay.) GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Progress has been made to improve conditions and protect ...

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Hats Off to Gov. Pataki

Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 2:29:06 pm PDT

Great news from New York, where Governor Pataki has come out with a strong statement against the left’s sneaky plans to coopt Ground Zero: Nutty 9/11 art nixed. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Gov. Pataki drew a line in the sand yesterday, declaring he will tolerate no America-bashing on the sacred soil ...

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Saturday Morning Miscellany

Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 8:24:38 am PDT

Don’t look now, but it’s an open thread... UPDATE at 6/25/05 8:29:54 am: Bumper stickers seen yesterday in a Trader Joe’s parking lot: “Impeachment is Patriotic!” and “Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam!”

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VDH: Asymmetry in the Slurs

Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 8:16:22 am PDT

Victor Davis Hanson is fed up with the absurdly inverted rhetoric coming from the left: Asymmetry in the slurs. (Hat tip: Newsbeat 1.) Since September 11, we have had midterm and national elections, both referenda on the so-called war against terror. Those on the left have lost the majority of state ...

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Muslims Make Up 70% of French Prisoners?

Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 8:04:03 am PDT

An article at Islam Online about Muslim chaplains in French prisons contains a rather amazing statistic. (Hat tip: Kate McMillan.) Ammar Al-Asfar, an official in charge of the CFCM’s Muslim chaplains’ department, welcomed the Justice Ministry’s move to appoint a Muslim chaplain to address the religious needs of the Muslim prisoners. “The ...

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History's Largest WMD Trial

Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 7:33:28 am PDT

Gateway Pundit has a round-up of news about the Jordanian Al Qaeda trial, in which a gang of Islamic thugs is charged with trying to perpetrate a chemical attack that could have killed 80,000 people: History’s Largest WMD Trial Begins. LGF may have been the first blog to notice this story, ...

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Unreal for 30 Days

Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 7:12:29 am PDT

As Debbie Schlussel discovered when she agreed to appear in a documentary by Michael Moore wannabe Morgan Spurlock, Hollywood isn’t just shying away from the entire topic of radical Islam—they’re actively engaged in concealing the truth from Americans: Unreal for 30 Days. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Last year, I received a ...

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Friday, June 24, 2005

"Hardliners" Win Sham Election

Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 8:42:18 pm PDT

A tragic joke, aided and abetted by mainstream media: Hardline Mayor Wins Iran Presidential Race. TEHRAN, Iran - The hardline Tehran mayor steamrolled over one of Iran’s best known statesman to win the presidency Saturday in a landslide election victory that cements conservative control over nation’s political leadership. The outcome capped a ...

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Friday Evening Hawk

Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 7:35:50 pm PDT

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The Moment of Realization

Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 6:55:37 pm PDT

Here’s a photo sequence of the would-be female suicide bomber who tried to pass through an Israeli checkpoint this week, on a mission to blow herself up and commit mass murder in an Israeli hospital, as she disrobes, searches for the detonation button, then realizes she’s not going to explode: Follow ...

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Religion of Still More Decapitations in Thailand

Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 5:52:25 pm PDT

Islamic extremists are getting incredibly bold in southern Thailand, hacking the heads off people every few days, often in public in front of audiences, and world media yawns: Buddhist couple beheaded. (Hat tip: Ethel.) Bangkok - The bodies of a Buddhist couple were found shot and nearly decapitated on Friday in ...

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Iranians Boycott Run-Off Vote

Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 5:33:20 pm PDT

Here’s another must-read post from Publius Pundit, a round-up of the truth about the Iranian sham elections—that the Iranian public again boycotted the “run-off” voting, even as the majority of world media reported otherwise: The Iranians boycotted again, take notice! Last week, I wrote about how the media got the story ...

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Friday Night Kaption Kontest

Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 5:16:00 pm PDT

If ever a photo was screaming, “Caption me, please!” ...

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Religion of Misogyny

Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 5:06:47 pm PDT

Do not miss this post at Steven Vincent’s blog: In the Red Zone: Morals Authority. (Hat tip: The Shape of Days.) A few months ago, the student continued, a young man and woman were ambling down a narrow path at the university when black-shirted militiamen accosted them, accusing the couple of ...

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The Reality of Gitmo

Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 3:03:10 pm PDT

Tennessee Army National Guard Major John Krenson spent a year in Afghanistan as an intelligence expert, dealing with the kind of people who are imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay: Up close, these are the nastiest of prisoners. (Hat tip: Alone in NY.) “I worked with people who had worked at Gitmo earlier, ...

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PMW Report: USAID Funds Terrorism

Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 1:42:39 pm PDT

A new report from Palestinian Media Watch draws long-overdue attention to the problem of USAID support for Palestinian institutions that promote terrorism: Report: U.S. Government Funds Terrorism. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) WASHINGTON - An Israeli watchdog group alleges that American aid to Palestinian universities and cities promotes terrorism. A report to be ...

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Friday Flotsam

Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 11:27:31 am PDT

Here’s an end of the week open thread...

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Moonbat Petition Watch

Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 10:37:42 am PDT

If you think Karl Rove needs to be fired for his comments on the “liberal vs. conservative” dichotomy, here’s a meaningless internet petition you can sign: Fire Karl Rove - Signatures. Of course, you can also sign it if you don’t want him fired, and it will be equally meaningless.

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VDH: The Politics of American Wars

Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 9:28:25 am PDT

This Friday’s Victor Davis Hanson column has a spot-on observation about Islamist exploitation of the cult of victimhood: The Politics of American Wars. As September 11 faded in our collective memory, Muslim extremists were insidiously but systematically reinvented in our elite presentations as near underprivileged victims, and themselves often adept critics ...

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Terrorists Kill Israeli Teenager

Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 8:37:32 am PDT

Another sneak attack by Palestinian Arabs has killed an Israeli teenager and wounded several others: Israeli killed in West Bank. Palestinian terrorists opened fire on a group of Israeli youths waiting Friday afternoon at a hitchhiking post outside the West bank settlement of Beit Haggai, southwest of Hebron. A 17-year-old was ...

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"God Has Ordered Us to Take Care"

Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 8:15:58 am PDT

The noble mujahideen of Islamic Jihad are cowering like scared rats, after Israel pledged to resume wiping them out. Of course, they’re only hiding because Allah told them to. Otherwise, they’d be out there fighting, right behind their kids. BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Islamic Jihad activists marched on Friday, vowing ...

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We Got Mail!

Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 8:04:27 am PDT

I received several very nice emails from French readers, letting me know that the interview I recorded with France 2 finally aired last night, as a small part of a show on US bloggers. I also received two not-so-nice emails from French readers who must have found LGF after watching the ...

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US Failing the Global Test

Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 7:42:32 am PDT

Agence France Presse can barely conceal their glee as they report that according to the latest Pew Global Test, the world (surprise!) hates us: US struggles to repair image around the world: poll. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) WASHINGTON (AFP) - Anti-US sentiment is firmly entrenched around the world, mainly because of ...

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Islamic Hatred in Mainstream Aussie Mosques

Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 7:15:36 am PDT

In the same Australian state where two Christians have been convicted of “religious vilification” thoughtcrimes for criticizing Islam, the so-called “mainstream” Brunswick Mosque is preaching Islamic supremacism and Dark Ages hatred of infidels and Jews: Muslim books of hate sold. (Hat tip: A Western Heart.) LITERATURE filled with hatred of Christians, ...

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Thursday, June 23, 2005

Stone the Unfaithful Monkey

Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 9:08:58 pm PDT

On Saudi Arabia’s Iqra TV, Sheik Al-Mutawa instructs the faithful on the lessons to be learned from the animal kingdom: [Video] Sheik Al-Mutawa: I have conducted a search on a number of web sites about sexual relations among animals and I have discovered that among many animals if the male wants to ...

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Thursday Evening Otter

Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 7:36:39 pm PDT

The news has been a little depressing today, so here’s a photo of an incredibly cute baby sea otter. Come on, admit it. You feel better now.

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Wiesenthal Center Appeals to UCC

Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 7:30:00 pm PDT

The Simon Wiesenthal Center appeals to the United Church of Christ: Wiesenthal Center Letter to United Church of Christ on Divestment. Dear Rev. Thomas, In the name of more than 400,000 member families of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, we express our deep concern and dismay regarding resolutions to be considered at ...

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The Disastrous Kelo Decision

Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 6:23:57 pm PDT

If you need to get up to speed on the Kelo decision by the Supremes, which extends the government’s right of eminent domain in ways that should concern us all, Glenn Reynolds is the authoritative voice. Start at the top and read downwards.

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The Moral Disinvestment of the Church of England

Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 5:12:04 pm PDT

Tomorrow, the Church of England will debate whether they should plunge into the moral abyss and divest from the state of Israel. To even consider such a thing shows that they already have one foot in the hole. Melanie Phillips explores the moral disinvestment of the Church of England. Tomorrow, a report ...

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RNC Responds to Dem Hyperventilation

Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 4:52:47 pm PDT

Don’t miss RNC chairman Ken Mehlman’s statement on the left’s hyperventilating, hysterical attacks on Karl Rove’s rather unexceptional comments. It consists of almost two dozen verbatim quotes from leftists and Democrats, showing that Rove’s remarks were nothing but simple truth. Their own words betray them. As Hugh Hewitt aptly puts it: Wasn’t that ...

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Rove Drives the Left Crazy (A Short Drive)

Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 3:44:06 pm PDT

The inmates of Daily Kos are amazingly lathered up about Karl Rove today; man, does he have their number. I count at least four screechy front page posts about Rove’s comments: Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our ...

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Steve Bell Hits Bottom, Digs

Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 3:35:15 pm PDT

This is what passes for sophisticated political cartooning in the Guardian: Cartoons | 23.06.2005: US policy in Iraq. (Hat tip: NC.)

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Religion of Nihilism

Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 2:40:12 pm PDT

Senator Dick Durbin compares US soldiers to the Khmer Rouge, while the true heirs of the Khmer Rouge’s evil, nihilistic, dystopian nightmare run amok in the Islamic world: Armed Men Set Afghan Girls’ School on Fire. (Hat tip: Hulugu.) PADKHWAI RAGHANI, Afghanistan - Armed men broke into a girls’ school south ...

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Palestinian Civil War Watch

Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 2:17:16 pm PDT

Palestinian gunmen kill Palestinian policeman. But how do they tell who’s who? JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian gunman shot dead a Palestinian policeman in the West Bank on Thursday, only hours after the Palestinian Authority agreed to give jobs to hundreds of militants in a bid to end growing lawlessness. Ziad ...

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Koran Abused in Nashville, Seething Erupts

Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 1:01:52 pm PDT

From this tale of Koran abuse in Nashville, we learn two important things: 1) the Islamic community considers “ill treatment” of the Koran to be a “grave act of aggression,” and 2) Muslims love the Koran more than they love their own families: Defaced Koran angers Nashville Muslims. (Hat tip: ...

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UN Springs Into Action, Condemns US

Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 9:10:49 am PDT

Get a load of this outrageous AP headline: U.N. Uncovers Torture at Guantanamo Bay. Just like that. It’s a fact. The UN has uncovered torture. Isn’t it odd how the mainstream media completely forgets about words like “alleged,” or rhetorical devices like quotes, when the time comes to bash the US? GENEVA - ...

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Got a Terror Leader in Iraq

Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 8:52:16 am PDT

The Associated Press actually uses the T word in this headline; it’s good news from Iraq, where a major Al Qaeda terrorist was apparently killed, but naturally AP mixes it all up with as much negative slant as they can cram into one story: Saudi Terror Suspect Said Killed in ...

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Thursday Morning Miscellany

Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 8:44:11 am PDT

This is the thread of openness...

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Fallaci: Citizen of the World

Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 7:25:56 am PDT

Oriana Fallaci is interviewed in today’s OpinionJournal by Tunku Varadarajan: Citizen of the World. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder,” the historian Arnold Toynbee wrote, and these words could certainly be Ms. Fallaci’s. She is in a black gloom about Europe and its future: “The increased ...

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Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Religion of Misogyny in Michigan

Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 9:29:44 pm PDT

The 15-year old girl in this case is lucky to be alive: Parents of son charged in beating may lose girl. (Hat tip: D.C. Watson.) MADISON HEIGHTS — The Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday will attempt to permanently end the parental rights of a Madison Heights couple who police say ...

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Dan Rather at the Islamic Center of SoCal

Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 8:37:30 pm PDT

Several readers have emailed about this very special event taking place next Sunday, June 26, at the Islamic Center of Southern California, featuring a well-known purveyor of fake but accurate news: Here is an event you should not miss. WHAT? An unprecedented event, entitled “Speaking for Peace from Jerusalem and Washington: The ...

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Wednesday Night Launch

Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 8:09:32 pm PDT

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For So Many Reasons

Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 7:10:29 pm PDT

As much as I respect my country and its symbols, I need to say that I’m not co-signing this: House Approves Move to Outlaw Flag Burning. We all benefit when people who publicly burn the US flag reveal themselves and their agendae. In the age of the internet, this is more ...

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Saddam's Humanization

Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 6:37:49 pm PDT

LGF reader Haider Ajina emailed today: “After three days of listening to most of the mainstream media reporting on Saddam I had to write the following:” Saddam’s Humanization Recently most of the mainstream media have been promoting a human side to Saddam. Poor old Uncle Saddam, as it were. If this goes ...

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Baja Jihad

Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 6:21:43 pm PDT

Mexico Detains Man Thought Tied to Terror. CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico - A Lebanese-born man detained this week on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula is believed linked to extremist organizations with ties to the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Mexican prosecutors said. Amer Haykel told acquaintances he was a pilot who was wandering the ...

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70% Say Gitmo Prisoners Treated Well

Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 3:47:16 pm PDT

A new Rasmussen poll shows that 70% of Americans believe the Gitmo Bay terrorists have been treated “better than they deserve” (36%) or “about right” (34%). (Hat tip: scott in east bay.) The survey also found that just 14% agree with people who say that prisoner treatment at Guantanamo Bay is ...

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Open Media 100 Invaded by Lizards

Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 3:41:12 pm PDT

Hey! Who let all these pajama people and lizardoids into the AO/Technorati Open Media 100? AlwaysOn and Technorati are pleased to present the first annual “Open Media 100,” the power list of bloggers, social networkers, tool smiths, and investors leading the Open Media Revolution. If you fancy Vanity Fair’s annual New ...

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Kos Kidz Launch Groundbreaking Anti-American Effort

Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 3:15:37 pm PDT

Those Kooky Kos Kidz are keeping themselves busy with a new project; they’re going to comb through the thousands of Guantanamo Bay documents obtained by the ACLU, looking for more ammunition to use against the War on Terror and the Bush administration: Wiki Reviews Guantanamo Docs. (Hat tip: maui.) Earlier this ...

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Palestinian Civil War Watch

Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 1:59:04 pm PDT

Gunmen Disrupt Lecture by Palestinian PM. BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank - Gunmen in a refugee camp opened fire Wednesday, disrupting a lecture from the Palestinian prime minister about the need to end violence. The brazen shooting highlighted the difficulty of his task. “This country needs order, needs quiet,” Prime Minister Ahmed ...

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Wednesday Miscellaneous Stuff

Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 9:32:29 am PDT

Into the great wide open thread ...

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Radical Islam Takes Root Near Ground Zero

Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 9:30:13 am PDT

Suddenly this morning, two stories appear in mainstream media about the Islamic Thinkers Society, covered two weeks ago at LGF; the first is in the New York Times, where the headline stresses the group’s claim that they are “non-violent:” Queens Muslim Group Says It Opposes Violence, and America. The young Muslim ...

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Hizballah Drug Cartel in Ecuador

Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 8:38:18 am PDT

‘Hezbollah drugs ring’ broken up. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) Police in Ecuador say they have broken up an international drugs ring which was raising money for the Islamic militant group, Hezbollah. The authorities have declined to give details of the gang’s alleged links with the group, but say it was sending Hezbollah ...

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Religion of Decapitation in Thailand

Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 8:22:15 am PDT

Man beheaded in Thailand teashop. (Hat tip: Abu Maven.) Suspected Muslim militants have beheaded a man in southern Thailand in front of customers in a teashop. Police said the man, a travelling salesman, was shot twice and then decapitated in the shop in Narathiwat province, in the middle of the day. It ...

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Ritter Incites the Arab Street at JihadTV

Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 8:02:14 am PDT

American turncoat Scott Ritter writes for JihadTV: The US war with Iran has already begun. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Given the fact that the bulk of the logistical support and command and control capability required to wage a war with Iran is already forward deployed in the region thanks to the ...

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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Media Matters Issues Talking Points

Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:05:56 pm PDT

George Soros-funded propaganda organ Media Matters cites LGF tonight, in a piece about the unsourced Downing Street memos: Limbaugh baselessly suggested ... etc. Limbaugh’s assertion appears to be based on claims circulating on the Internet following a June 18 post on the conservative weblog Little Green Footballs. The claims — which ...

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Echoes of Nazism from Seattle MSM

Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 9:24:29 pm PDT

The “eugenics” trope was used by Nazi Germany to dehumanize Jews and other groups deemed “subhuman,” by nature of their “defective” genetic material. And now the American far left, given a voice by mainstream media in Seattle and supported by “studies” from leftist “think tanks,” has come up with their own ...

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Aussie Thoughtcrime Victims

Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 8:43:39 pm PDT

Heads up, Britain: Australian leftists managed to get a “Racial and Religious Tolerance” thoughtcrime law passed, and (surprise!) it’s being used by Muslim advocacy groups against critics of Islam: Pastors ordered to apologise for Muslim comments. (Hat tip: unclebubba.) A Victorian Tribunal has ordered a Christian group to publicly apologise for ...

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Durbin Plays Crocodile

Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 3:18:44 pm PDT

Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) issues the now depressingly familiar, patented non-apology apology: Sen. Durbin Apologizes for Gitmo Remarks. WASHINGTON - Under fire from Republicans and some fellow Democrats, Sen. Dick Durbin apologized Tuesday for comparing American interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to Nazis and other historically infamous figures. “Some may ...

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Terror Gangs Seething Over Sharon-Abbas Meeting

Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 1:43:43 pm PDT

I don’t know; this just doesn’t seem like the sort of rhetoric we should be hearing from people who are ready to build their own peaceful sovereign state: Palestinian hardliners slam Abbas for meeting Sharon in Jerusalem. The radical Islamist movement Hamas said Abbas’s decision would only help legitimise Israel’s sovereignty ...

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Condoleezza Needles the Oil Ticks

Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:27:46 am PDT

The House of Saud had a very muted public reaction to Condi Rice’s criticism of their apartheid society, but we can only imagine what they’re saying in their tents: Saudis dismiss Rice’s criticism. Saudi Arabia has played down an appeal by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for democratic reform and ...

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Tuesday Miscellany

Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 8:20:16 am PDT

I love the smell of an open thread in the morning...

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Another Anti-Syrian Assassinated

Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 8:07:02 am PDT

It’s now quite obvious that Syria is methodically murdering their high-profile Lebanese opponents: Anti-Syrian Critic Killed in Lebanon Blast. BEIRUT, Lebanon - A bomb Tuesday killed a politician who was a harsh critic of Syria’s power in Lebanon, police said, the second slaying of an anti-Syrian figure this month. The explosion that ...

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Star-Tribune: Gitmo = Hellhole

Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 7:29:28 am PDT

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has nothing but praise for Senator Dick “US Soldiers are Nazis” Durbin: Durbin’s message/U.S. must end prisoner abuse. The left has gone completely off the rails on this issue, and this sentence from the editorial shows how deranged they’ve become: It’s not too late, as Durbin said of ...

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Got One in Manchester

Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 7:19:35 am PDT

UK police probe Iraq suicide attack, arrest one. MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - British police on Tuesday arrested the former house-mate of a 41-year-old French man they suspect of traveling from the UK to Iraq and blowing himself up in a suicide attack on U.S.-led forces. It was the third European anti-terrorism raid ...

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French Imam Advocates Wife-Beating, Wins Trial

Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 7:14:04 am PDT

In Lyon, France, radical Salafist Imam Abdelkader Bouziane has been released by the correctional court where he was being tried for advocating wife-beating and polygamy; here’s a rough translation from French of the article, which can’t be found in US media: Remarks favorable to the punishment of the women. (Hat ...

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Monday, June 20, 2005

Kerry's Form 180 at Power Line

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 8:36:06 pm PDT

Power Line has images of John F. Kerry’s Form 180 documents.

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Democratic Obstructionism: UN Status Quo

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 7:36:15 pm PDT

Democrats have blocked the confirmation of John Bolton again, and the Associated Press (via the SF Chronicle) couldn’t be more pleased: Democrats Block Attempt to Confirm Bolton. (Hat tip: zombie.) Senate Democrats blocked John Bolton’s confirmation as U.N. ambassador for the second time Monday and President Bush left open the possibility ...

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Photojournalism At Its Finest

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 6:19:43 pm PDT

These two moments of pro-Palestinian propaganda are brought to you by al-Reuters photographer Majed Jaber. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) Abu Khalil, 80-year-old living in Jordan holds keys to his pre-1948 Palestine house at the al-Hussein refugee camp in Amman June 20, 2005. United Nations is marking World Refugee Day on June ...

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Talking Points Spread Throughout Lefty Blogosphere

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 5:43:21 pm PDT

Hey, look everybody! We’re part of the “Radical Right Wing Agenda!” Right-Wing Downing Street Rumor Discredited. Booga booga!

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Pakistan Honor Killing Watch

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 5:37:38 pm PDT

Another horrific tale of shame, honor, and murder from Pakistan: Wife dies in ‘honour killing’. (Hat tip: Right Wing Conspirator.) A PAKISTANI poured kerosene over his sleeping wife and daughter and burned them to death in the country’s latest example of so-called honour killings, police said today. The 45-year-old man, named as ...

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Monday Night Cove

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 5:06:23 pm PDT

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BBC Interviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 2:04:17 pm PDT

The BBC has an interesting interview with Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali. (Hat tip: piniella.) Her outspoken views on Islam and multiculturalism have made her many enemies and last year she had to go into hiding following the murder of the filmmaker Theo Van Gogh with whom she had made ‘Submission’ ...

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Koran Abuse in Miami Dirty Bomb Case

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 1:56:24 pm PDT

Lawyers for two Al Qaeda-linked terror suspects in Miami have asked that the indictment against their clients be dismissed, because a jailer tossed a Koran onto a bunk bed: Lawyers for 2 in ‘dirty bomb’ terror case allege misconduct at jail. (Hat tip: unclebubba.) Yes, it really has come to this. MIAMI ...

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Photos from IFC Rally

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 1:48:06 pm PDT

The Nautical File has pictures from today’s rally against the International Freedom Center’s ill-conceived Ground Zero memorial. UPDATE at 6/20/05 8:01:56 pm: Riding Sun has more photos: Take Back the Memorial protest. UPDATE at 6/20/05 9:01:48 pm: From LGF reader “Stop Hillary:”

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Dick Durbin: Fake But Accurate?

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 1:34:55 pm PDT

The saga of Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) gets even more outrageous, as the possibility arises that he fabricated most of the “FBI memo” he quoted in his now-infamous Senate speech: Durbin Revises and Extends Gitmo Remarks. (Hat tip: Myopic Zeal.) One knowledgeable official familiar with the memo cited by Durbin as well ...

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Ledeen: Manny, Moe & Rafsanjani

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:33:46 am PDT

Michael Ledeen looks at the pending outcome of the Iranian sham election, and concludes with another intriguing possibility: Manny, Moe & Rafsanjani. The “reformers” are going to back Rafsanjani, and the “hard liners” will go all out for their man Ahmadinejad. As I have said before, the presidency of the ...

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"Palestinian Womb is a Factory for the Conflict"

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:06:19 am PDT

In an interview for Syrian TV on June 15, 2005, Syrian historian and author Dr. Georgette ’Attiyya explained how the death cult works: [Video] Dr. Attiyya: The Palestinian woman’s womb is a factory for the conflict; it produces fighting children. After this fighting child is produced, he is taught: “This is your ...

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The Scourge of Frankenitis

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 10:23:03 am PDT

Brian Maloney says it may be time to quarantine the headquarters of loony left radio network Air America, because Frankenitis seems to be contagious.

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Aussie Muslim Leader: Hostage Rescue "Irresponsible"

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 9:38:30 am PDT

Muslim cleric says raid to save Australian hostage ‘irresponsible’. The Muslim cleric who travelled to Iraq on a mercy mission to save Australian hostage Douglas Wood, has described last week’s rescue raid as irresponsible. Mr Wood, 63, was rescued during the raid on a Baghdad house after being held for 47 days ...

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Saddam Hates Froot Loops

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 9:26:12 am PDT

GQ magazine has interviewed five US soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein, and got to know the softer side of this brutal mass-murdering dictator without a conscience. Drudge has an advance look. New York, NY – June 20, 2005 – Following the announcement that former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein will soon be ...

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Steyn: Facing the Music

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 8:51:07 am PDT

Mark Steyn has the last word on Dick Durbin and the Democratic Party’s lemming-like rush over the cliff: Facing the Music. Judging from the way he’s dug himself in, Dick Durbin, the Number Two Democrat in the US Senate, genuinely believes Gitmo is analogous to Belsen, the gulags and the killing ...

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Dems Sign Up With Antisemites

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 8:45:44 am PDT

This article by Richard Baehr at The American Thinker is a must-read, a look at how far out the Democratic Party has gone in recent months: The Democrats sign up with the anti-Semites. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) So the Democrats in Congress are now giving voice and credibility to the view ...

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Monday Morning Miscellany

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 8:39:33 am PDT

A wide open thread...

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Take Back the Memorial

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 8:27:36 am PDT

Remember, folks, if you’re in New York, today is the rally against the International Freedom Center’s plan to install a “Why the World Hates America” exhibit at Ground Zero, influenced by the ACLU, Human Rights First, radical leftist Columbia professors, and George Soros. 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong ...

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Cease Fire, Palestinian Style

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 8:14:53 am PDT

Palestinian Wafa Samir Ibraim Bas had an appointment for a checkup at Soroka hospital in the Israeli town of Be’er Sheva. The perfect opportunity to commit mass murder: Female bomber nabbed. (Hat tip: manker.) GAZA – Major attack thwarted: A 21-year-old would-be suicide bomber was detained by security forces at Gaza’s Erez ...

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Palestinian Cops = Palestinian Terrorists

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 7:45:45 am PDT

The leader of the terror gang Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in Jenin, Zakariya Zubeidi, whose face is disfigured by powder burns from close proximity to numerous explosions, will become a Palestinian policeman: Al-Aksa leader Zubeidi to join PA police. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) 495 fugitives and armed combatants from Jenin - ...

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Sunday, June 19, 2005

Michael Smith Strikes Again

Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 8:52:33 pm PDT

Is British reporter Michael Smith, who broke the Downing Street memo story (after re-typing and destroying the originals), the same Michael Smith who was hired by Mary Mapes as a CBS assistant producer in the Rathergate scandal? Scylla & Charybdis notices the connection: Michael Smith Strikes Again.

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Australia: Friends in Need

Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 8:06:42 pm PDT

The rest of the world may (or may not) hate us, but we have no better ally than Australia, as demonstrated by freed hostage Douglas Wood: Freed Australian hostage reunited with family. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Freed Australian hostage, Douglas Wood, has been reunited with his family in the Australian city ...

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'Take Back the Memorial' Rally Tomorrow

Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 7:46:21 pm PDT

There will be a very important press conference and rally tomorrow at 12 noon, at the corner of Church & Liberty in Manhattan: “TAKE BACK THE MEMORIAL” RALLY. Dear Families, Friends and Supporters: For three long years we have played by the rules as set forth by Governor Pataki, Mayor Bloomberg and ...

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Sunday Night Fog Thread

Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 7:16:31 pm PDT

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Getting That Message Together

Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 5:47:51 pm PDT

Senator Dick Durbin apparently got told to stay on message and refuse to back down: Defiant Durbin: No Apology Necessary. “It’s not that my remarks were wrong or that there’s any need for apology,” Durbin told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Friday. “It’s the fact that [my critics] have successfully twisted ...

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Hate Like an Egyptian

Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 5:27:29 pm PDT

Leading Egyptian government daily Al-Akhbar seems to be trying to out-crazy John Conyers and Dick Durbin; but it probably won’t be long before some previously unassuming Democrat stands up on the Senate floor and announces that Abu Mus’ab Al-Zarqawi is working for America. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) “All the evidence proves ...

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Tortured by Jihadists

Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 3:57:02 pm PDT

Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as torture. Despite the incredible cheapening and trivialization of the word by the likes of Amnesty International and Dick Durbin, this is what real torture looks like—and it’s being dispensed by the people Michael Moore compared to “Minutemen:” Iraqis Found in Torture House Tell ...

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Palestinians Desecrate Korans

Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 3:24:14 pm PDT

Earlier this month, Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s high-security Megiddo prison claimed that guards had ripped pages out of Korans while searching cells. Today Ynet reports that—imagine my shock—the prisoners tore the pages themselves: Palestinian prisoner destroyed Quran. (Hat tip: amir.) The incident, which was compared to reports of Qurans that had allegedly ...

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Religion of Beheadings in Thailand

Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 3:08:50 pm PDT

Decapitation is becoming the murder method of choice for militant Muslims in southern Thailand: Lao Buddhist workers beheaded in Thai Muslim south. (Hat tip: Ethel.) BANGKOK (Reuters) - Muslim militants have beheaded two Lao migrant workers in Thailand’s mainly Muslim south, police said on Sunday, believing it may be the same ...

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Dog Bites Man: Iranian Elections Rigged

Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 1:55:06 pm PDT

The only surprising thing about this New York Times report on the Iranian sham “election” is that there are apparently people who believe it wasn’t rigged: Iran Moderate Says Hard-Liners Rigged Election. TEHRAN, June 18 - The race for the presidency in Iran was thrown into turmoil on Saturday when the ...

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Things That Make You Go Hmmm

Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 1:03:57 pm PDT

Google Maps: “Gaza Strip” and “West Bank” ... but no Israel? You’ll have to zoom in twice before it appears. What does it mean? Maybe nothing. It could just be an artifact of the software that generates the maps. But it’s curious that there’s room for two regions that are not ...

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Sunday Morning Miscellany

Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 8:43:15 am PDT

Here we see the wild open thread in its natural habitat...

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Durbin Slanders His Own Country

Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 8:14:07 am PDT

Mark Steyn: Durbin slanders his own country. The senator from Illinois’ comparisons are as tired as they’re grotesque. They add nothing useful to the debate. But around the planet, folks naturally figure that, if only 100 people out of nearly 300 million get to be senators, the position must be a ...

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Conyers Thanks Democratic Underground

Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 7:42:26 am PDT

At his blog, Congressman John Conyers, Jr., the Democrat from Michigan who sponsored Thursday’s disgraceful, antisemitic mock impeachment hearing, is thanking the “activists” at Democratic Underground—the most openly anti-American far left site on the web, notorious for its sheer insanity. (Hat tip: Jheka.) And you won’t believe the comments from ...

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Real Torture by Holy Warriors

Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 7:22:29 am PDT

Turning off the air conditioning and playing loud rap music has House Democrats and loony left morons like Kos screaming “torture!” But don’t expect these Bush-hating cretins to even notice things like this: Arraf: Marines rescue tortured hostages as battle rages. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Jane Arraf, CNN’s senior Baghdad correspondent, is ...

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Saturday, June 18, 2005

British Dhimmitude Watch

Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 8:20:02 pm PDT

Radical Islam wins a big victory in Britain, as MCB leader Iqbal Sacranie is knighted. Aarrgghh. The Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain says he will not dilute criticism of the establishment because he has received a knighthood. Sir Iqbal Sacranie told Sky’s Sunday with Adam Boulton the honour would ...

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ABC News Senses a Vast Inchoate Conspiracy

Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 5:43:08 pm PDT

Amazing. It actually seems to be an ABC News editorial opinion that the various controversies triggered by Howard Dean’s logorrhea may be the result of clever machinations by you-know-who: Frame Up? Dems, Dean Hit in Message War. (Hat tip: In Vino Veritas.) Does ABC sense the sinister hand of Rove behind ...

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Saturday Night Volleyball

Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 5:22:41 pm PDT

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Cycle of Violence: Clear Spot

Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 4:52:13 pm PDT

Today’s ride: 48 miles, under one of the bluest Southern California skies I’ve seen in a very long time. The weather was absolutely perfect for cycling; a light breeze with a little ocean chill in it kept the sun from getting overpowering. No huge climbs today, but I took the ...

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Reuters: "Nuke Israel" = Pragmatism

Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 3:09:20 pm PDT

Al-Reuters has a new slant on Iran’s sham elections; now they’re portraying Akbar Hashemi “Nuke the Jews” Rafsanjani as a “pragmatic moderate” who wants better ties with the West, up against sinister “hard-liners:” Rafsanjani faces run-off vote against hard-liner. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Pragmatic cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani narrowly clinched top spot ...

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Recycled News, Anonymous Sources, No Originals

Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 2:37:34 pm PDT

The Downing Street memos: fake but accurate. The eight memos — all labeled “secret” or “confidential” — were first obtained by British reporter Michael Smith, who has written about them in The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times. Smith told AP he protected the identity of the source he had obtained the ...

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Luxembourg Snaps at Britain

Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 2:23:19 pm PDT

First, the European Constitution collapses under its own bloat. Now the budget is on the rocks. The European Union is falling apart, and the unelected bureaucrats are twitching and snapping at each other: Bitter recriminations fly fast and furious after EU budget breakdown. BRUSSELS (AFP) - Talks had hardly finished over ...

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Palestinian Family Moment

Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 8:36:37 am PDT

Click to expand picture.

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Saturday Morning Miscellany

Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 8:29:38 am PDT

An open thread for a sunny Saturday morning...

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Zawahri: "Fighting for God's Sake"

Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 8:27:38 am PDT

The Associated Press puts a very weird, semi-sympathetic headline on their account of Egyptian terror doctor Ayman Al-Zawahri’s latest pronouncement: Al-Qaida No. 2 Disparages U.S. on Reform. “The removal of the Crusader and Jewish invaders won’t occur by peaceful demonstrations,” he said in a brief clip shown on the pan-Arab network. ...

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Torture at Oregon University

Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 8:14:58 am PDT

The University of Oregon is conducting research into new, more efficient forms of torture. (Hat tip: n.) A new research tool will allow University of Oregon scientists to replicate an extreme range of environmental conditions in their quest to test and understand the human body’s response to everyday stresses. Researchers today unveiled ...

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Gulag Survivors: Amnesty International Wants You!

Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 8:03:16 am PDT

Amnesty International is now actively seeking a Soviet Gulag survivor who will denounce the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, and back up their assertion that Gitmo is “the Gulag of our time.” No luck so far: No American ‘Gulag’. (Hat tip: Mudville Gazette.) Several days ago I received a telephone call from an ...

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Not Quite a Flying Pig

Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 7:49:25 am PDT

Dean Condemns ‘Anti-Semitic Literature’. WASHINGTON - A handful of people at Democratic National Headquarters distributed material critical of Israel during a public forum questioning the Bush administration’s Iraq policy, drawing an angry response and charges of anti-Semitism from party chairman Howard Dean on Friday. “We disavow the anti-Semitic literature, and the Democratic ...

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Friday, June 17, 2005

Durbin Warfare

Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 7:05:07 pm PDT

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons, of course.

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Now on C-SPAN: Mock Impeachment Hearing

Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 5:24:37 pm PDT

The ridiculously insane (or insanely ridiculous?) House Democrats’ mock impeachment hearing is now on C-SPAN: Watch LIVE.

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Israel to Build Undersea Barrier

Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 5:02:21 pm PDT

Israel will build a half-mile underwater barrier off the coast of Gaza, to prevent Palestinian mass murderers from swimming into Israel after the Gaza pullout: Israel to Build Undersea Barrier Off Gaza. Palestinian spokesliar and long time Yasser Arafat crony Saeb Erekat, naturally, would prefer that Israel leave everything wide open, ...

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From the Desk of Senator Dick

Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 4:40:23 pm PDT

Iowahawk keeps telling me he’s trying to quit, but he’s been dumpster diving again, outside the house of Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) this time, and he unearthed a goldmine of crumpled, coffee-stained letters featuring more of the Senator’s trademarked creative metaphors: From the Desk of Senator Dick. Mr. Hector Gutierrez Gutierrez Bros. ...

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Dems Stage Mock Impeachment

Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 1:13:31 pm PDT

Yesterday, House Democrats staged a mock impeachment hearing for George W. Bush—and the loonies came out to play. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The session took an awkward turn when witness Ray McGovern, a former intelligence analyst, declared that the United States went to war in Iraq for oil, Israel and military ...

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The Miscellaneous Links of Friday

Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 9:35:55 am PDT

Here’s an open thread for links to interesting stuff not covered in an existing topic...

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BBC Lauds Akbar "Nuke the Jews" Rafsanjani

Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 8:33:38 am PDT

Here’s an incredible example of the BBC’s infatuation with Jew-hating, terror-supporting Islamic dictatorships, in an obscene puff piece about Iran’s “elections:” Iran’s politicians get image savvy. (Hat tip: Occasional Reader.) “I’m in Club Rafsanjani!” jokes a young girl on her mobile telephone to her mother in Fereshteh, an affluent area of ...

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Durbin Unhinged

Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 8:13:45 am PDT

Trey Jackson has video of this week’s unhinged Democratic Senator, Dick Durbin, making his bizarre charges on the floor of the Senate: Video: Durbin Unhinged. UPDATE at 6/17/05 8:18:55 am: The Chicago Tribune gives three cheers for Durbin: Dick Durbin’s passion ignites foes’ ire. WASHINGTON — With his unassuming Midwestern demeanor and genial ...

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UA Grad Student Arrested on Terror Charges

Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 8:00:49 am PDT

A University of Arkansas graduate student has been arrested after telling a professor he was going to “Palestine” to “fight for freedom, peace and justice”—the Orwellian leftist code words that mean “murder Jews.” (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A University of Arkansas graduate student who told a university professor and ...

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VDH: The Sorry Bunch

Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 7:52:58 am PDT

Victor Davis Hanson observes that the Western Left and radical Islamists are perfectly aligned: The Sorry Bunch. Free-thinking Arabs refute all the premises of Western Leftists who claim that colonialism, racism, and exploitation have created terrorists, hold back Arab development, and are the backdrops to this war. Indeed, it is far worse ...

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Thursday, June 16, 2005

Three Imams Ordered to Leave Holland

Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:19:09 pm PDT

Holland’s Immigration Minister has ordered three Islamic preachers (imams) to leave the Netherlands. (Hat tip: Ethel.) AMSTERDAM — Immigration and Integration Minister Rita Verdonk has ordered three imams accused of being a threat to public order and national security to get out of the Netherlands. The trio have been accused of ...

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Thursday Evening Beach Thread

Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:23:25 pm PDT

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Reuters: "US Double Standard"

Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 8:41:29 pm PDT

I thought I’d seen media bias at its very worst. Little did I know that the Reuters wire service was preparing to release—in “Top News,” not in their opinion section—a piece about Condoleezza Rice’s upcoming trip to the Middle East that’s so blatantly slanted it sets a new benchmark. Starting with the ...

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Downing Street Memo Debunked

Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 7:55:13 pm PDT

Bill Crawford makes a simple yet essential point about the so-called “Downing Street Memo,” now being touted by the Bush-hating left as proof that the administration had already decided on war with Iraq by early 2002, and pulled strings and pressured foreign governments to make it happen: Update: Downing Street ...

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AP Shills for Corrie Tour

Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:40:25 pm PDT

The Associated Press shills for the parents of International Solidarity Movement “martyr” Rachel Corrie: Victim’s Parents Tour U.S. to Raise Money. OLYMPIA, Wash. - When 23-year-old American Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza, she was protesting the impending demolition of a Palestinian home. More than ...

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Fighting Against the War on Terror

Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:25:01 am PDT

Here’s a must-read piece by Rocco DiPippo on the forces behind the effort to give Guantanamo detainees access to the US legal system: Michael Ratner and CCR: Fighting Against the War on Terror. In order to fully understand CCR’s publicly stated reasons for advocating for prisoners at Guantanamo, which center on ...

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Got a Big Fish in Iraq

Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:10:49 am PDT

Top Zarqawi aide captured in Iraq’s Mosul: US. MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) - A top aide to Al-Qaeda frontman Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been captured in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, the US military revealed. Mohammed Khalaf Shakar, also known as Abu Talha, is “Zarqawi’s most trusted operations agent in all of Iraq,” ...

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Saudis Get a Nuclear Free Pass

Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 9:50:17 am PDT

The blind, toothless nuclear “watchdog” known as the IAEA has signed off on a deal allowing Saudi Arabia to be exempt from nuclear inspections. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Board members of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency approved a deal Thursday that exempts Saudi Arabia from nuclear inspections, ...

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Thursday Morning Miscellany

Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 9:06:43 am PDT

Here’s an open thread for linkage and miscellany...

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JihadTV Recognizes an Ally

Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 8:32:56 am PDT

JihadTV loves Dick Durbin: Aljazeera.Net - US senator stands by Nazi remark. Of course Al Jazeera is ecstatic; Senator Durbin’s rhetoric is identical to what you find in Arab media.

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Kos Pounds the Torture Drum

Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 8:11:16 am PDT

Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga of Daily Kos, who had no sympathy at all for his four fellow Americans who were burned alive, torn apart, and their body parts hung from a bridge in Fallujah, is absolutely horrified that the US is turning the air conditioning off and inflicting Christina ...

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Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Wednesday Horizon Thread

Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 8:32:56 pm PDT

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Texas A&M President: Morgan Reynolds "Beyond the Pale"

Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 7:26:54 pm PDT

The President of Texas A&M University has issued an embarrassed statement about A&M professor emeritus Morgan Reynolds. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The following is a statement from Texas A&M University regarding recent news reports about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Dr. Morgan Reynolds is retired from Texas A&M ...

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Spicoli Understands "Death to America"

Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 6:45:01 pm PDT

Sean Penn sounds more and more like he’s doing outtakes from Team America; here he exudes understanding and apologizes for his dumb, unenlightened American cousins who take things so literally—things like “Death to America.” He told a film student during a visit to Iran’s Film Museum in Tehran on Monday that ...

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Good News from Iraq, Reuters Despairs

Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 1:13:23 pm PDT

You might think the rescue of Australian hostage Douglas Wood would merit its own article, but al-Reuters combines it with a heaping helping of bad news and serves up a good example of MSM “Big But” journalism: Australian freed in Iraq; bombs kill nearly 40. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi troops found ...

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The Multi-Million Dollar 9/11 Insult, Cont'd

Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:44:36 pm PDT

The International Freedom Center, now notorious for their plan to install a large “Why The World Hates America” exhibit at the site of the former World Trade Center with input from Human Rights First, the ACLU, and radical leftist Columbia professors, has issued a new statement that makes their agenda ...

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Durbin Compares US Soldiers to Nazis, KGB, Pol Pot

Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:14:17 pm PDT

Last night on the Senate floor during a debate on the Energy Bill, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill) suddenly launched into a bizarre rant comparing the American military to Nazis, the Soviet KGB, and Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge. (Hat tip: Right Wing Conspirator.) If I read this to you and did not ...

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Klocek Sues DePaul University

Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:51:51 am PDT

Former DePaul University instructor Thomas Klocek, fired because of complaints from Muslim student groups, has filed a defamation lawsuit against the school. (Hat tip: Mark.) The 14-year part-time instructor hasn’t worked at the school since the September incident. Klocek and students from two Muslim groups say they got in a heated ...

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Wednesday Miscellaneous Links

Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 8:24:43 am PDT

An open thread for links to interesting stuff...

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Teenage Death Cult Gang Busted

Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 8:10:19 am PDT

More debased behavior from the Palestinian terror gangs, recruiting children to commit mass murder: Nablus terror ring smashed. The Shin Bet and IDF have arrested in recent weeks four Palestinian minors, aged 15 and 16, who were recruited by the Fatah Tanzim to blow up in Israel, details released for publication ...

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What Media Bias?

Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 7:55:39 am PDT

Lots of LGF readers emailed about this photograph from al-Reuters, featured in a Yahoo Republican Party slideshow. Can you guess why this picture made it onto the news wire?

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Google News is Broken

Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 7:45:42 am PDT

Honest Reporting publicizes a story from China’s Xinhuanet, about a Palestinian official who claimed that Israel was selling “carcinogenic juice” to consumers in Gaza: ‘Koran Rippings’ and ‘Cancer Juice’. Again, we find that stories like this are selected by Google News and featured in their list of headlines. As Honest Reporting ...

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Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Tuesday Cliff Thread

Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 9:45:46 pm PDT

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Hizballah in Dearborn

Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 7:09:14 pm PDT

Man Gets 4 1/2 Years for Aiding Hezbollah. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) An illegal immigrant from Lebanon was sentenced Tuesday to 4 1/2 years in prison for conspiring to raise money for the Islamic militant group Hezbollah, which the United States has designated a terrorist group. Mahmoud Youssef Kourani, 34, pleaded guilty in ...

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EU Could Lose US Money

Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 6:45:19 pm PDT

Don’t look now, but someone’s trying to talk sense into the America-hating moonbats of Europe: EU could lose U.S. money. LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union risks losing U.S. investment if anti-business sentiment goes unchecked, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said in an interview published on Wednesday. “American business people are going ...

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Ironic Story of the Day

Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 6:09:13 pm PDT

Adel Smith, president of the Muslim Union of Italy, who has brought charges against Italian author Oriana Fallaci for defaming Islam, has been sentenced to six months in prison—for defaming the Catholic Church. (AGI) - Padua, Italy, Jun 14 - Adel Smith, President of the Union of Italian Muslims, was sentenced ...

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Kofi's Smoking Memo

Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 5:32:52 pm PDT

Kofi Annan may have finally landed in very hot water, as a newly revealed memo indicates he may have known more than he admitted about his son Kojo’s dealings with Swiss firm Cotecna: Memo raises questions on Annan role in UN contract. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A ...

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Mounties Uncover Al Qaeda Cache

Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 2:42:56 pm PDT

Mounties uncover ‘Al Qaeda’ cache. (Hat tip: philopundit.) OTTAWA—The RCMP and Canadian military believe they’ve discovered a vital cache of information on Al Qaeda that includes the whereabouts of wanted members and details of attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan. The information is allegedly contained in a laptop, dozens of DVDs, audiocassettes ...

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Morgan Reynolds: Economist, Moonbat

Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 1:15:05 pm PDT

A former chief economist for the Department of Labor is now a full-time member of the Tin-Foil Hat Brigade. (Hat tip: andthenblammo.) A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Former chief economist for the ...

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Tuesday Miscellaneous Links Thread

Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 8:30:20 am PDT

Here’s an open thread for miscellaneous linkage...

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Dhimmitude in Vermont

Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 8:07:57 am PDT

A Vermont high school will change its team name, out of fear that it may offend Muslims: School looking for mascot to replace Crusaders. HINESBURG, Vt. Champlain Valley Union High School just graduated its last Crusaders, with the School Board set to pick a new name for the school’s teams by ...

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N. Korea Helping Iran's Manhattan Project

Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 8:03:38 am PDT

North Korea to help Iran dig secret missile bunkers. (Hat tip: GeoPoliticalReview.) Iran is secretly negotiating with North Korea to build a network of underground bunkers to conceal its clandestine nuclear weapons project. A team of construction experts has arrived in Teheran to conduct a survey of Iranian requirements. It included a ...

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Palestinians Murdered Innocent "Collaborators"

Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 7:52:48 am PDT

Fatah admits murdered Bethlehem ‘collaborators’ were innocent. (Hat tip: Amy.) Fatah gunmen admitted over the weekend that nine Palestinians who were murdered in Bethlehem on suspicion of collaboration with Israel were actually innocent victims of lawlessness. The suspected “collaborators” were executed by members of Fatah’s armed wing, Aksa Martyrs Brigades, shortly before ...

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The Charges Against Oriana

Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 7:43:37 am PDT

Italian author Oriana Fallaci will be put on trial for the thoughtcrime of “defaming Islam,” and Robert Spencer takes an in-depth look at the charges against her: Muslim Target. The complaint comes from Adel Smith, president of the Muslim Union of Italy, who was never charged with defaming Christianity after he ...

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Monday, June 13, 2005

Monday Night Pier

Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 7:59:41 pm PDT

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Uncle Sam's Muslim Brotherhood

Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 5:56:50 pm PDT

Egyptian blogger The Big Pharaoh weighs in on Uncle Sam’s Muslim Brotherhood, as promoted by TIME Magazine. I couldn’t stop laughing when I read Time’s account of the Universal School in Bridgeview, Illinois. My fingers got swollen from typing the blog posts that foretold the changes I expect to occur in ...

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Breaking: 7.9 Earthquake in Chile

Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 5:24:21 pm PDT

Magnitude 7.9 - TARAPACA, CHILE.

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Not Much of a Leap

Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 3:59:34 pm PDT

CNN anchor Riz Khan has taken a position with JihadTV: Why I’m Joining Al Jazeera. (Hat tip: rick.) I’m fully aware of the negative image of the Al Jazeera brand in the U.S., especially at the government level, but I think part of that comes from a misunderstanding of the strong ...

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Monday Open Thread

Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 1:27:39 pm PDT

Here’s an open topic for Monday afternoon which will almost certainly be about the Michael Jackson verdict, to be announced shortly. UPDATE at 6/13/05 2:20:55 pm: And Jackson will moon-walk out of the courtroom.

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AP Finds the T Word

Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:56:32 pm PDT

Kidnap and behead Westerners, or bomb schools, and the Associated Press will call you an “insurgent.” At worst, a “militant.” But attack a dictatorial Ba’athist regime and suddenly you’re a terrorist, sans scare quotes: Report: Syria Foils Planned Terror Attacks. Syrian forces raided a suspected terrorist hideout near the capital, killing two ...

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Google News At It Again

Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:44:03 am PDT

Accompanied by a photo of Dick Cheney from Al Jazeera, here’s a current featured headline at Google News: USVP Cheney Says Torture Facility Will Stay Open. (Hat tip: Mike.) A screenshot: Interestingly, if you click through to the article at DailyIndia.com, you find their headline uses the word “alleged:” U.S. V.P. Cheney ...

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TIME Magazine's Model Islamic School

Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 9:48:15 am PDT

In the same issue with TIME Magazine’s exposé of the shockingly brutal puppet shows inflicted on Gitmo detainees, we have a frothy puff-piece, with accompanying Islamic Learning Photo Essay, about the Universal School in Bridgeview, Illinois: The Model School, Islamic Style. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Here’s an LGF search for Bridgeview, ...

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Not the Puppets! I'll Talk!

Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 9:16:07 am PDT

Lileks just rips TIME Magazine’s latest breathless scoop on the horrors of Gitmo: The true horror of American Torture has been revealed.

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A Win for the Jihad Spin Doctors

Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 9:00:59 am PDT

Once again, Mark Steyn’s aim is true: Quran desecration crock a win for Jihad spin docs. Why would an organization in the human rights business want to trivialize the murder of millions in totalitarian death camps by comparing them with a non-death camp that flatters every aspect of the inmates’ culture? ...

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Monday Miscellany

Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 8:52:05 am PDT

Every Monday morning needs an open thread...

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Jihad in Australia

Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 8:36:57 am PDT

Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald has a story about former Qantas baggage handler Bilal Khazal, one of the tiny minority of extremists who don’t understand that jihad is a peaceful internal struggle for self-improvement: Jihad text gave rules for killers, court told. A former Qantas baggage handler who compiled a book outlining ...

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Amnesty International Silent?

Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 7:36:18 am PDT

Any word about this from Amnesty International? Palestinian Authority Executes Four Men. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The Palestinian Authority carried out its first executions since 2002 on Sunday, killing four convicted murderers as part of a new campaign to rein in lawlessness and chaos, an Interior ...

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Religion of High Explosives

Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 7:12:28 am PDT

Deadly blast near Kashmir school. At least 14 people, including two school pupils and three soldiers, have been killed by in a bomb attack in Indian-administered Kashmir. The blast occurred outside a government-run high school in the town of Pulwama, some 30km (18 miles) south of the summer capital, Srinagar. The attack ...

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Sunday, June 12, 2005

All Abu Ghraib, All the Time

Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 8:30:34 pm PDT

The Abu Ghraib story was on the New York Times’ front page for 34 days straight. (Hat tip: Doss.)

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Koran Kraziness Kontinues

Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 7:45:33 pm PDT

Militants Display Pictures of Torn Qurans. JERUSALEM - The militant Islamic Jihad on Wednesday presented pictures of torn copies of the Islamic holy book, the Quran, claimed they were taken inside an Israeli prison and said soldiers were responsible for the desecration. Israel denied the charge and said the pictures were ...

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Mullahs Confiscate Spicoli's Camera

Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 6:52:09 pm PDT

Sean Penn ran right up against the totalitarian boot today; his camera was confiscated by the mullahs’ thugs: Camera of Sean Penn, Journalist, Confiscated in Iran. NEW YORK Iran was rocked by bombings on Sunday, killing at least nine and wounding more than 30, as dozens of journalists from around the ...

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Girl Abuses Koran, Goes Canine

Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 4:47:47 pm PDT

Several readers emailed this story to me, and by now I’m probably the last blogger in the Western Hemisphere to pick it up, but it does need to be here: ‘Allah turned girl into dog’. TAIBEH – Harsh punishment? A Muslim girl from Taibeh was punished by Allah and turned ...

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NYT Buries Huge Pro-Bush Story

Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 4:29:57 pm PDT

George W. Bush joins with Tony Blair to cause the World Bank and IMF to forgive 40 BILLION DOLLARS of debt owed by poor African countries, and Bummerdietz found the story in the New York Times—nowhere near the front page: NY Times Buries Year’s Top Story: Too Pro-Bush.

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Gitmo Aguilera Torment

Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 3:31:10 pm PDT

The true horror of Guantanamo Bay is only now being revealed: The Aguilera horror. Dripping Water or Playing Christina Aguilera Music: After the new measures are approved, the mood in al-Qahtani’s interrogation booth changes dramatically. The interrogation sessions lengthen. The quizzing now starts at midnight, and when Detainee 063 dozes off, ...

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Jihad In California

Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 8:47:47 am PDT

Newsweek’s Michael “Koran in a Commode” Isikoff has a new article about the Lodi terrorism investigation, dripping with skepticism about the government’s case: Storm Clouds In California. (Hat tip: Hulugu.) The arrest of the Hayats, followed the next day with the arrests of two local imams on immigration charges, was portrayed ...

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Sunday Miscellaneous Links Thread

Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 8:26:06 am PDT

Zut alors! It ees zee open thread, for ze posting of, how you say, linkage miscellaneous?

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Field Trip to the Fever Swamp

Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 8:00:15 am PDT

Here’s an absolutely hilarious Idiotarian Manifesto by a spelling-challenged “urban guerilla,” at Seattle Indymedia: uglf communique 05.01.2005. (Hat tip: FlyingTigress.) greetings people of the world, this communique comes to from the very people you depend on we connect your calls, we fix your food, we drive you in your cars. in ...

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Arabs vs Persians?

Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 7:46:55 am PDT

Bomb Explosions Target Iranian Elections. TEHRAN, Iran - Four bombs exploded in the capital of an oil-rich province on the Iranian border with Iraq on Sunday, killing at least eight people and wounding at least 36 in the deadliest explosions in the nation in more than a decade, state-run television reported. At ...

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Train Bombed in Moscow

Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 7:40:39 am PDT

Suspected Bomb Derails Moscow-Bound Train. (Hat tip: Ethel.) Buddhists are not suspected. MOSCOW - An explosion believed caused by a terrorist bomb derailed a train traveling from Chechnya to Moscow during Sunday’s national holiday, injuring at least 15 people, officials said. The blast occurred on the Day of Russia just hours before President ...

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Muslim in Nazareth Takes on Holocaust

Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 7:37:14 am PDT

We hear constantly from politicians and media that it’s a “tiny minority” of Muslims who support terrorism, as an article of faith that we’re all supposed to accept without question. But the Washington Times Insider has an AP story about an Israeli Arab Muslim who truly does belong to a tiny ...

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Saturday, June 11, 2005

Religion of Peace in Gaza

Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 8:39:02 pm PDT

Click to expand picture.

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NYT Parodies Self

Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 8:00:01 pm PDT

Here’s yet another lengthy, repetitive New York Times article focusing on Abu Ghraib and the allegations of systematic torture and human rights abuse by the US military. I know. Ho hum. Same old same old. But this one’s different ... because it proudly features photographs by none other than Andres Serrano. The creator ...

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Cycle of Violence: June Gloom

Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 6:55:57 pm PDT

Today’s ride: 40.97 miles. OK, we’ll call it 41. The dreary (possibly fascist) Southern California phenomenon known as “June Gloom” has set in with a vengeance, and mornings are fog-bound and chilly. The Palos Verdes peninsula was completely socked in, and we decided not to get cold and miserable; instead ...

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Pajamas Media Demographic Survey

Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 5:42:02 pm PDT

Here’s a reminder, since the first post has scrolled down the page: if you have a couple of minutes, please fill out our first Pajamas Media Demographic Survey. It’s for LGF only right now, but soon to appear on other blogs. We promise that you will never receive spam as a ...

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Another Hater at Huffington

Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 4:27:58 pm PDT

No need to click over to Counterpunch or IslamOnline; The Huffington Post has become your one-stop shop for antisemitism: Our Israel-centric Foreign Policy. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) The author of this nasty little piece, Paul Findley, was previously featured at LGF, for a disgusting work of Jew-hatred published in ArabNews: lgf: The ...

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Terror Supporter Seethes Over Nonexistent Koran Abuse

Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 4:21:47 pm PDT

In the Detroit News, here’s another op-ed by a Muslim leader, Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, whining and seething about Koran “desecration” and demanding apologies, new laws, and punishment for the nonexistent perpetrators: Abuse of Quran hurts U.S. democracy push. (Hat tip: Alex.) No need to quote it; by now most LGF ...

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Saturday Miscellaneous Links

Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 8:43:33 am PDT

An open thread for links to interesting stuff not already covered in an existing topic...

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Dearborn Muslims Demand Apologies

Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 8:37:49 am PDT

Oh brother. Yesterday Muslims and dhimmis in Dearborn, Michigan, indulged in another whine and seethe festival about a nonexistent policy of Koran “desecration:” Faiths join in objecting to abuse of the Koran. (Hat tip: nova.) Notice how the Detroit Free Press states as an unchallenged fact that deliberate “desecration” took place ...

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Saudi Slavery in Colorado

Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 8:17:12 am PDT

Our friends the Saudis keep slaves in their home country, and now they’re bringing them to the US as well: Indictment: Saudi Pair in Colo. Kept Slave. (Hat tip: J S.) AURORA, Colo. - A Saudi Arabian couple was in custody Friday, accused of turning a young Indonesian woman into a ...

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Palestinian Prisoner Shell Game

Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 8:00:52 am PDT

Holocaust-denying Palestinian “president” Abu Mazen released a couple of mass murderers yesterday, as a “conciliatory gesture” to the terrorist gangs he’s inviting into the Palestinian “government:” Palestinians Release Two Islamic Militants. JERUSALEM - The Palestinian Authority released two militants jailed in connection with a Tel Aviv suicide bombing, making a conciliatory ...

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Patriot Act Hearing Closed, Sensenbrenner Walks

Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 7:39:11 am PDT

Rep. James Sensenbrenner closed Friday’s House hearing on the Patriot Act and walked out, after Amnesty International, Muslim groups, and Democrats ignored the topic of the hearing and kept launching into rants about Guantanamo Bay: Sensenbrenner Bolts Patriot Act Hearing. WASHINGTON — The Republican chairman walked off with the gavel, leaving ...

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Friday, June 10, 2005

Religion of Misogyny

Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 9:27:11 pm PDT

Pakistani man accused of killing two daughters for failing to serve him water. A farmer fatally shot two of his teenage daughters in a remote Pakistan village after one did not immediately serve him a glass of water when he returned from working in the fields, police said Friday. The 47-year-old man ...

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Friday Night Fence

Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 8:30:59 pm PDT

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Pajamas Media Demographic Survey

Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 6:43:31 pm PDT

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Penn Scribbles as RoP Chants "Death to America"

Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 5:37:06 pm PDT

Actor in new role at Friday Prayers in Tehran. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Actor Sean Penn, adopting the role of a journalist, scribbled in his notebook as Friday prayer worshippers in Tehran chanted “Death to America.” Penn, 44, in Iran on a brief assignment for the San Francisco Chronicle ahead of presidential elections ...

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A Hater in Huffington's House

Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 5:29:35 pm PDT

I guess we all know Arianna Huffington is a shameless panderer to controversy, with no political or moral center. But I must admit, I didn’t think she would descend to the point of inviting antisemites into her den. I was wrong.

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The Dutch-Muslim Culture War

Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 4:23:05 pm PDT

The Nation’s Deborah Scroggins would apparently like us to believe that the Islamic radicalization of Europe (and specifically of the Netherlands) might somehow be the fault of Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Dutch-Muslim Culture War. (Hat tip: zms.) In the United States, where few people have had the chance to ...

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Spicoli Parties with the Mullahs

Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:30:41 am PDT

Did you know that Sean Penn is now visiting the Islamic dictatorship of Iran, to report on their “elections” for the San Francisco Chronicle? Getty Images has photos of Spicoli grooving on the Friday prayers at Tehran University. (Hat tip: sharona.)

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Friday Miscellaneous Links Thread

Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 9:09:03 am PDT

An open thread for miscellaneous linkage...

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Take Back The Memorial

Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 8:39:27 am PDT

Debra Burlingame, who blew the whistle on radical leftists’ plans to install a “Why They Hate Us” memorial at Ground Zero in Manhattan, has a web site: Take Back The Memorial.

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Oakland Tribune Quotes Hatem 'Intifada' Bazian

Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 8:28:01 am PDT

The Oakland Tribune has a soothing, go-back-to-sleep piece about the Lodi Islamic terrorist arrests (by staff writer Sajid Farooq), and amazingly, appallingly, they quote as an impartial, reliable source none other than UC Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian: Area Muslims say mosques should not engender fear. (Hat tip: Daniel.) But despite suspicions ...

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Teaching Islam in Schools

Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 8:10:27 am PDT

At a site apparently connected with the Islamic Society of North America called the Islamic Networks Group, speakers are trained in Presenting Islam in Schools & Other Public Institutions. (Hat tip: Paul.)

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Lodi Muslims Afraid of Persecution

Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 7:52:05 am PDT

An apparent ring of terrorists has been uncovered in Lodi, California, and the FBI warns that the investigation will widen. But according to the SF Chronicle, Muslims in the area are more worried about a “backlash” than they are about the fact that terrorists are living and plotting among them: LODI ...

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The Multi-Million Dollar 9/11 Insult, Cont'd

Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 7:46:03 am PDT

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons, where Allen Forkum has these comments: Keep in mind the context here: the “Guantanamo is a gulag” ACLU and other leftists groups are involved in the memorial. How can the memorial be “respectful of the victims of September 11” if, like the ACLU, we do ...

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Thursday, June 09, 2005

World Gone Nuts

Thu, Jun 9, 2005 at 9:33:21 pm PDT

The House Judiciary Committee will hear testimony tomorrow on the Patriot Act—from Amnesty International, who has called for the President of the US to be arrested and tried for war crimes: U.S. Muslims called to Patriot Act hearing. (Hat tip: Ethel.) Washington, DC, Jun. 9 (UPI) — A Muslim civil rights ...

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Indonesia Terror Warning

Thu, Jun 9, 2005 at 8:42:27 pm PDT

Indonesia terror plans advanced, Australia warns. CANBERRA (Reuters) - Terrorists are in the “very advanced stages” of planning attacks in Indonesia, Australia warned on Friday. “We continue to receive a stream of credible reporting suggesting that terrorists are in the very advanced stages of planning attacks in Indonesia,” the Australian Department of ...

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Thursday Pole Thread

Thu, Jun 9, 2005 at 8:09:53 pm PDT

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Guess Who's Coming to LA

Thu, Jun 9, 2005 at 6:30:02 pm PDT

This just in, from the vast lizardoid network: Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:42:01 -0700 To: Women in Black-LA Subject: [WIB-LA] [Fwd: MON. 6/13: Rachel Corrie’s Parents & Family Who Lived in Gaza Home She Died to Protect] PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY: [No problem! —ed.] Unprecedented U.S. Tour Comes to LA FOR JUST ADDED EVENT ...

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Thanks from Australia

Thu, Jun 9, 2005 at 5:24:15 pm PDT

Here’s a great post from Australian blogger Paul Edwards, the Anti-Subjugator: Thanks, America. Where do I start? I’ve wanted to say this for a long time. It is unbelievable that America gets badmouthed all the time. America has helped the cause of freedom more than anyone else. First of all ...

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Amnesty International's Call for US Leaders to be Arrested

Thu, Jun 9, 2005 at 1:52:02 pm PDT

Ed Morrissey notes a John Leo column in which Leo points out that Amnesty International, in addition to labeling Guantanamo Bay “the gulag of our time,” recently called for foreign governments to arrest the President of the US, Donald Rumsfeld, and other top officials, and prosecute them for war crimes ...

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Accused Kenya Bombers Go Free

Thu, Jun 9, 2005 at 8:10:34 am PDT

Four acquitted of 2002 Kenya hotel suicide blast. (Hat tip: Renna.) NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan judge on Thursday acquitted four men charged in the 2002 suicide bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel that killed 15 people, saying prosecutors had failed to link them to the bombers or al Qaeda. Human rights groups ...

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Thursday Miscellaneous Links

Thu, Jun 9, 2005 at 8:01:19 am PDT

An open topic for miscellaneous linkage...

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IFC Responds to Ground Zero Memorial Outrage

Thu, Jun 9, 2005 at 7:39:34 am PDT

The president of the International Freedom Center, Richard Tofel, tries a little sleight of hand and misdirection in today’s OpinionJournal: A Fitting Place at Ground Zero. This article is an attempt to soothe the critics, by tossing out a bunch of happy-sounding phrases about memory, loss, courage, etc. — without once ...

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Did Kerry Really Release Navy Records?

Thu, Jun 9, 2005 at 7:04:29 am PDT

Thomas Lipscomb looks at John F. Kerry’s much-ballyhooed release of records—and discovers that like so much to do with Kerry, it’s a shell game: Did Kerry really release Navy records? Swift Boat Veterans for Truth head John O’Neill, who raised many of the charges against Kerry during the campaign, was challenged ...

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Religious Thoughtcrime Law Unveiled in UK

Thu, Jun 9, 2005 at 7:00:18 am PDT

The Islamist front groups of Britain are pushing hard to get thoughtcrime legislation passed: Religious hatred bill published. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The government says the legislation is a response to the concerns of faith groups, particularly Muslims. The Muslim Council of Britain has welcomed the move, arguing that the courts have ...

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Wednesday, June 08, 2005

The Last Man Standing

Wed, Jun 8, 2005 at 8:35:32 pm PDT

The conclusion of the two-part story of a Canadian man’s escape from the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 is now available without a subscription at the Saskatoon Star Phoenix: The last man standing.

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UN Loses Nuke Manual

Wed, Jun 8, 2005 at 8:07:20 pm PDT

The United Nations seems to have lost track of a comprehensive nuclear weapons instruction manual: UN alert as nuclear plans go missing. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Electronic drawings that give comprehensive details of how to build and test equipment essential for making nuclear bombs have vanished and could be put up ...

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Gallic Genius!

Wed, Jun 8, 2005 at 7:08:11 pm PDT

Dominique de Villepin (who is a man) says Gallic genius will save France. (Hat tip: NC.) France’s new prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, refused yesterday to push the country down the road towards free-market reform, saying “Gallic genius” would help put back on its feet a “suffering, impatient and angry” nation ...

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US Muslims Desecrate American Flag

Wed, Jun 8, 2005 at 1:44:33 pm PDT

Here is a video (no longer available) of a New York-based Muslim group called The Islamic Thinkers Society (an American offshoot of the British Al-Muhajiroun gang), in which they step on and rip apart an American flag (on a street apparently somewhere in Brooklyn or Queens), while chanting “Allahu akbar!” ...

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Wednesday Miscellaneous Links

Wed, Jun 8, 2005 at 12:32:07 pm PDT

A topic for links to interesting stuff not covered by an existing thread.

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Iraq’s Jihad: Past as Prologue

Wed, Jun 8, 2005 at 12:31:21 pm PDT

Andrew Bostom has a very interesting piece at the American Thinker, on the writings of turn-of-the-century archaeologist and explorer Gertrude Bell and her observations on the nature of the jihad: Iraq’s Jihad: Past as Prologue.

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Caterpillar Still Not Stopped

Wed, Jun 8, 2005 at 10:48:08 am PDT

Hey, moonbats! How’s that “Stop Caterpillar” campaign going? Caterpillar declares 2-for-1 stock split, ups div 22%. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Caterpillar Inc. on Wednesday announced a two-for-one stock split and increased its quarterly dividend by 22% to 50 cents a share from 41 cents a share on a pre-split ...

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The Multi-Million Dollar 9/11 Insult, Cont'd

Wed, Jun 8, 2005 at 9:54:24 am PDT

Jeff Jarvis is righteously angry about radical leftist plans to install a “Why The World Hates Us” memorial at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. This cannot be allowed to happen; but we need to keep the heat on or it will. Contact information for the parties concerned is in this post. UPDATE ...

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WaPo: "Syria Became the Hub"

Wed, Jun 8, 2005 at 9:40:54 am PDT

The Washington Post has a fascinating report about a Syrian jihadi smuggler: Outside Iraq but Deep in the Fight. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) ALEPPO, Syria — When the Americans led the invasion of Iraq, the men of Abu Ibrahim’s family gathered in the courtyard of their shared home in the far ...

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CBC Television Guilty of Anti-American Bias

Wed, Jun 8, 2005 at 8:41:24 am PDT

It will come as no surprise to regular LGF readers, but a new study released by the Fraser Institute concludes that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is overwhelmingly biased against the United States, and is at least partly responsible for fueling and sustaining anti-Americanism in Canada: CBC Television News Guilty of ...

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Galloway Vote Fraud Investigated

Wed, Jun 8, 2005 at 7:48:32 am PDT

Hatemongering British MP George Galloway’s election may be in dispute, as allegations of vote fraud surface: Police Probe Votes ‘Fraud’ in Galloway Seat. (Hat tip: Ed Lasky.) Police are investigating an allegation of electoral fraud in George Galloway’s constituency, Scotland Yard said today. Thousands of fraudulent postal votes were cast in ...

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Weapons Found in Abandoned Iraqi Embassy

Wed, Jun 8, 2005 at 7:45:07 am PDT

Iraqi embassy weapons cache found. A cache of weapons was found at the Iraqi embassy in London after the Baghdad regime change, it has emerged. The new Iraqi ambassador made the discovery, along with other evidence of espionage activities, in a safe inside the building, BBC News has learned. The embassy ...

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Vulgar, Primitive Behavior

Wed, Jun 8, 2005 at 7:32:00 am PDT

Palestinian prisoners are a little slow to catch on, but they’ve now hit on the idea of emulating their big Al Qaeda brothers in Gitmo: It’s Guantanamo 2! (Hat tip: Carl.) Incensed Palestinian security detainees from Megiddo prison announced plans to begin a hunger strike Wednesday morning. The detainees had accused Prisons ...

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Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Apartheid Kingdom Denies the Obvious

Tue, Jun 7, 2005 at 9:33:55 pm PDT

Saudis Deny Persecuting Christians. (Hat tip: Ethel.) CAIRO, Egypt - A Saudi official denied allegations that the kingdom has arrested and tortured Christians, saying such actions run counter to Islamic tolerance. The remarks to the official Saudi Press Agency came in response to reports in Iranian papers of recent arrests. The official, who ...

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Al Qaeda: Stuck in Lodi?

Tue, Jun 7, 2005 at 9:17:51 pm PDT

Two Muslim men have been arrested and two others detained in Lodi for suspected al Qaeda ties. (hat tip: zombie and madawaskan.) Federal officials believe they have broken up an al Qaeda terror cell operating in Lodi and have arrested two men and detained two others as part of a wide-ranging ...

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Tuesday Night Beach View

Tue, Jun 7, 2005 at 8:58:35 pm PDT

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Smearing the Lens of History

Tue, Jun 7, 2005 at 8:39:53 pm PDT

The Guardian refers to LGF’s contributions to the CBS Memogate scandal, and even shamelessly steals our title, all without crediting us directly: The bloggers have all the best news. (Hat tip: Kent.) In an effort to test that hypothesis, researchers from the respected Pew Internet & American Life Project have conducted ...

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The 21st Century Lord Haw Haw

Tue, Jun 7, 2005 at 8:14:21 pm PDT

British MP George Galloway gave another interview to Al Jazeera on June 1, 2005, doing his best to incite the Arab street (and its Western alleyways) into a killing frenzy for the G8 summit. [Video] Galloway: I am speaking for tens of millions, and maybe more, around the world, who know the ...

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Ex-President Wants Heads to Roll

Tue, Jun 7, 2005 at 6:19:05 pm PDT

Look who pops up like a jack-in-the-box, the malaise peddler himself: Carter Calls on U.S. to Shut Down Gitmo. ATLANTA - Former President Carter on Tuesday called for the United States to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison to demonstrate its commitment to human rights. “The U.S. continues to suffer terrible embarrassment ...

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DNC Chairman Dean: GOP a "White Christian Party"

Tue, Jun 7, 2005 at 5:51:07 pm PDT

Howard Dean continues his very prolonged, very public meltdown: In S.F., Dean calls GOP ‘a white Christian party’. (Hat tip: zombie.) Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, unapologetic in the face of recent criticism that he has been too tough on his political opposition, said in San Francisco this week that ...

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The Multi-Million Dollar 9/11 Insult

Tue, Jun 7, 2005 at 3:46:39 pm PDT

On September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists hijacked airplanes and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing almost 3,000 people and horrifying the world. (Except those parts of the world where they danced and celebrated.) Now radical leftists have hijacked the Ground Zero Memorial at the World Trade ...

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Amnesty International Hits Bottom, Digs

Tue, Jun 7, 2005 at 12:50:35 pm PDT

Now featured at the Amnesty International web site, a press information page titled: USA: Betraying human rights. (Hat tip: ChicagoBoyz.) The first item on the page is a video interview with ... wait for it ... Noam Chomsky.

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Aznar: "Europeans Prefer Appeasement"

Tue, Jun 7, 2005 at 8:55:48 am PDT

Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar tells it like it is: Spain’s ex-PM to Israel: Ignore Europe. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Israel need not pay much attention to Europe, which is using its Middle East policy to separate itself from the US, has a tendency toward appeasement and is largely ...

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Tuesday Miscellaneous Links Thread

Tue, Jun 7, 2005 at 8:42:36 am PDT

Here’s an open thread, for links to interesting stuff not already covered by another post.

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Kerry: A Lackluster Student

Tue, Jun 7, 2005 at 8:32:29 am PDT

John F. Kerry has finally released some of his records, and the left’s shining light, the genius who was so much smarter than George W. Bush, actually had slightly worse grades in college: Kerry, Bush had similar grades. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) — Sen. John F. Kerry’s grade ...

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Outrage of the Day

Tue, Jun 7, 2005 at 7:44:05 am PDT

In today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription only) Debra Burlingame (sister of Charles F. “Chic” Burlingame III, the pilot of American Airlines fight 77 when it was flown into the Pentagon by Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001) has a highly disturbing piece about New York’s “Ground Zero” memorial. The principal tenant ...

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Monday, June 06, 2005

Foggy Bottom Metrosexuality

Mon, Jun 6, 2005 at 9:30:00 pm PDT

You are not going to believe what the US State Department thinks is the best way to promote America’s image to the Arab world: Real men moisturize. (Hat tip: Ringo.) “Real Men Moisturize.” So begins an article on “Sharp Dressed Men” that appeared in a State Department funded magazine aimed at ...

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Connelly: "There Have Been Many Homicides of Prisoners"

Mon, Jun 6, 2005 at 9:24:30 pm PDT

Astoundingly, Fox News contributor Cici Connelly asserted today that the United States has murdered “close to 100” detainees. She was not challenged. Trey Jackson has the video: Connelly - ‘Close to 100’.

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Monday Evening Coast Thread

Mon, Jun 6, 2005 at 8:28:45 pm PDT

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Sending Care Packages to US Troops

Mon, Jun 6, 2005 at 6:44:32 pm PDT

Carolyn Blashek’s Operation Gratitude is doing an amazing thing, and they deserve far more publicity than they’ve received.

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RoP Burns Gov't Building in Nigeria

Mon, Jun 6, 2005 at 6:28:19 pm PDT

It’s Sunni vs. Shi’ite in northern Nigeria, where the two main sects of the Religion of Peace™ are battling for dominion: Armed police patrol northern city after violence by Muslim groups. (Hat tip: Ringo.) KANO, 6 June (IRIN) - Hundreds of armed riot police have been deployed in Nigeria’s northern city ...

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The Death Games of Gaza Children

Mon, Jun 6, 2005 at 5:20:37 pm PDT

From a report that aired on Al-Arabiya TV (one of the Arab world’s most popular satellite channels) on June 1, 2005, here’s a film clip that may turn your stomach—as children rehearse for a short life of murder and violence by playing martyrdom games. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Reporter: Abd ...

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Gitmo Guards Tell of Prisoner Attack

Mon, Jun 6, 2005 at 3:24:52 pm PDT

These are the people the New York Times and ACLU want to release as soon as possible: Guantanamo guards tell of prisoner attack. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) U.S. NAVAL BASE GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — Army “block guards” were making their daily walk through the stifling heat of the cellblocks inside the ...

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You'll Have Had Your Riot

Mon, Jun 6, 2005 at 1:04:32 pm PDT

Blogger David Farrer lives in Edinburgh, and he’s worried about the armada of G8 protesters soon to descend on the city: Freedom and Whisky. As recently as last Thursday Edinburgh hadn’t realised what’s about to hit us. I casually asked the head of an organisation in the centre of town whether ...

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No Courts Martial for "Koran Abuse" Perps

Mon, Jun 6, 2005 at 12:46:28 pm PDT

While visiting Malaysia, Gen. Richard Myers told reporters that the US military does not usually court martial soldiers for abusing a book. (Hat tip: Hulugu.) KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The United States military is unlikely to hold court-martial proceedings in three cases of deliberate mishandling of the Koran at Guantanamo Bay ...

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Live 8

Mon, Jun 6, 2005 at 11:42:45 am PDT

I’ve just taken part in a conference call put together by Joe Trippi and John Hinderaker of Power Line, with who-knows-how-many bloggers and Sir Bob Geldof of LIVE 8, the new drive to make an impact on the disaster of Africa. Despite my skepticism (rock stars with causes, oh boy), ...

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Cease Fire, Palestinian Style

Mon, Jun 6, 2005 at 9:28:41 am PDT

Israeli soldiers arrest Palestinian with explosives. NABLUS, West Bank (AFP) - Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian man carrying explosives needed to make a homemade bomb at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank. The man was detained at the western exit of the Palestinian city of Nablus. Palestinian witnesses said soldiers destroyed ...

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Monday Miscellaneous Links Thread

Mon, Jun 6, 2005 at 9:25:48 am PDT

Here’s an open thread for links to articles not covered by an existing topic...

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Religion of Peace Stones Jews at Temple Mount

Mon, Jun 6, 2005 at 9:11:16 am PDT

When a small group of Jews visited the Temple Mount (Judaism’s most revered site) today on the 38th anniversary of the liberation of Jerusalem, hundreds of Palestinians poured out of the Al Aqsa Mosque with murderous intent: Police disperse Palestinians at Jerusalem mosque compound. JERUSALEM (APF) - Police stormed into Jerusalem’s ...

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Terror Gang Wins Lebanese Election

Mon, Jun 6, 2005 at 8:38:01 am PDT

Terrorists have a big win in southern Lebanon: Hezbollah, Allies Sweep Vote in Lebanon. BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah, the armed group considered a terrorist organization by the United States, and its allies swept voting in southern Lebanon during the second round of nationwide parliamentary elections, the interior minister said Monday. Israel, ...

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Blind AP Bias

Mon, Jun 6, 2005 at 8:24:16 am PDT

Here’s a stunning example of mainstream media’s selective bias, as Associated Press writer Tarek El-Tablawy praises an Arab designer for her “non-political” line of “cheeky” T-shirts: Arab-American Designers Show Off Wares. (Hat tip: Laurence Simon.) NEW YORK Jun 5, 2005 — T-shirts with tongue-in-cheek expressions such as “Palestinian Princess” and “Got Falafel” shared ...

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Investigative Journalists Applaud Dan Rather

Mon, Jun 6, 2005 at 7:59:42 am PDT

Dan Rather received standing ovations for his speech at the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference over the weekend; apparently none of these investigative journalists were troubled by Rather’s use of blatantly phony documents to try to tilt a presidential election: Journo’s Rather contrite. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Rather, who choked up ...

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Egypt Wants Heads to Roll

Mon, Jun 6, 2005 at 7:53:21 am PDT

The sleazy foreign minister of a state that persecutes Christians and Jews and supplies Palestinian terrorists with weapons jumps on the “Koran apocalypse” bandwagon: Egypt Condemns Guards for Quran Incidents. (Hat tip: Ethel.) CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt’s Foreign Minister on Sunday condemned U.S. military guards and interrogators who desecrated the Quran ...

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Sunday, June 05, 2005

Breaking: OIC Wants Heads to Roll

Sun, Jun 5, 2005 at 8:11:30 pm PDT

This just in: the Organization of the Islamic Conference urgently demands that the United States harshly punish anyone who looks cross-eyed at a Koran: PRESS RELEASE. (Hat tip: Pennies for Patriots.) PRESS RELEASE OIC URGES THE UNITED STATES TO LIVE UP TO ITS RESPONSIBILITY AND NOT SHOW LENIENCY TO PERPETRATORS ...

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The Logic of Suicide Terrorism

Sun, Jun 5, 2005 at 7:09:29 pm PDT

TigerHawk answers University of Chicago Professor Richard Pape’s claim that suicide terrorism is a direct function of “foreign occupation.”

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A US Shift on Hamas?

Sun, Jun 5, 2005 at 6:39:47 pm PDT

If true, and if it really does represent a shift in the US position toward Hamas, this may be the new century’s worst idea so far: Reluctant US shows signs of shift on Hamas. But please note that it’s a report from al-Reuters, citing unnamed “officials,” “diplomats,” and “experts.” CRAWFORD, Texas ...

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Sunday Night Green Thread

Sun, Jun 5, 2005 at 6:12:25 pm PDT

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J'Accuse

Sun, Jun 5, 2005 at 5:27:46 pm PDT

It’s an indicator of how bad things have gotten that a French court actually found Le Monde, the paramount French newspaper, guilty of “racist defamation” against Israel and against Jews. In truth, Le Monde has been found guilty of antisemitism; the French legal system simply refuses to use the correct word. And ...

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A Policy of Rape

Sun, Jun 5, 2005 at 4:57:11 pm PDT

Nicholas Kristof underlines the craven hypocrisy of groups like Amnesty International, who make condemning the United States the number one item on their agenda while horrors like this take place in the world: A Policy of Rape. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) All countries have rapes, of course. But here in the ...

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Amnesty International "Doesn't Know"

Sun, Jun 5, 2005 at 2:58:51 pm PDT

The head of Amnesty International now says that despite their outrageous comparison of Gitmo to the Soviet Gulag, they really don’t know what’s going on there: ‘Don’t know for sure’ about Guantanamo: Amnesty USA. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) And despite their accusation that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is “a high-level architect ...

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New York Times: Shut Down Guantanamo

Sun, Jun 5, 2005 at 2:23:03 pm PDT

The New York Times defends Amnesty International’s comparison of Guantanamo Bay (where 600 unlawful combatants are held) with the Soviet Gulag (where more than 20 million innocent Russian citizens were imprisoned, and millions killed): Un-American by Any Name. As a solution to this towering injustice, the editors of the Times call ...

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Sunday Miscellaneous Links Thread

Sun, Jun 5, 2005 at 9:35:14 am PDT

Here’s Sunday morn’s open thread.

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Palestinian Civil War Watch

Sun, Jun 5, 2005 at 8:30:03 am PDT

Palestinian militants storm Nablus offices to denounce Abbas. NABLUS, West Bank (AFP) - Militants loosely affiliated to the Fatah party of Mahmud Abbas stormed public offices in Nablus under a hail of gunfire, accusing the Palestinian leader of failing to honour security promises. The band of 20 militants from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ ...

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Associated Press Smears John Bolton, Bush

Sun, Jun 5, 2005 at 8:05:08 am PDT

The latest Associated Press push to discredit John Bolton is one of the sleaziest, most biased pieces of work I’ve read in quite some time: Bolton Said to Orchestrate Unlawful Firing. (Hat tip: zombie.) The point of this article is that John Bolton was the Bush administration’s bully boy, helping them ...

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Last Man Out, Part Two, Subscribers Only

Sun, Jun 5, 2005 at 7:46:19 am PDT

Yesterday we linked to part one of the compelling 9/11 story of Ron DiFrancesco, who escaped from above the impact zone in the World Trade Center’s South Tower. I was looking forward to reading part two (as I’m sure many of you were), but the Ottawa Citizen has made this article ...

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Saturday, June 04, 2005

Huge Madrid Rally Against ETA Talks

Sat, Jun 4, 2005 at 9:17:02 pm PDT

Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards took to the streets of Madrid today, to protest the Zapatero government’s plan to “negotiate” with Basque terror group ETA: Huge Madrid rally against ETA talks. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) MADRID, Spain (AP) — Hundred of thousands of people, including relatives of those killed or wounded ...

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Texas Guard Unit Searches for IEDs

Sat, Jun 4, 2005 at 7:21:17 pm PDT

At the Dallas Morning News, Vernon Smith Jr. has a riveting report on the dirty and dangerous job being done by the 56th Brigade Combat Team of the Texas Army National Guard, as they search for improvised explosive devices: Texas guard unit on an explosive mission. (Hat tip: jlfintx.) AD DIWANIYAH, ...

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Sacked Oil-for-Food Staffer: I'm a Patsy

Sat, Jun 4, 2005 at 6:42:28 pm PDT

Joseph Stephanides, the Oil-for-Food official fired on June 1 by Kofi Annan, says he was sacked to take the heat off Annan and other United Nations kingpins: Sacked Oil-for-Food Staffer: I’m a Patsy. (Hat tip: Newsbeat 1.) Coming out swinging two days after his client was canned, the lawyer for Cypriot ...

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Explore the Quran

Sat, Jun 4, 2005 at 6:32:38 pm PDT

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is helpfully offering free copies of the Koran, to anyone who feels comfortable about giving them a mailing address: CAIR | Explore the Quran. (Hat tip: sarahconnor.)

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US Uncovers Vast Hide-Out of Iraqi "Rebels"

Sat, Jun 4, 2005 at 5:54:07 pm PDT

As the US uncovers a vast complex of underground bunkers in Iraq used by the head-chopping holy warriors, it’s obvious that the “rebels” (in the New York Times’ terminology) are being very generously supplied and supported by ... someone. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 4 - American marines have ...

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The Funeral of a Targeted Journalist

Sat, Jun 4, 2005 at 3:15:43 pm PDT

Hundreds turned out in Lebanon for the funeral of murdered anti-Syrian journalist Samir Kassir. BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hundreds of mourners, including key opposition leaders, flocked to the funeral of a slain anti-Syrian Lebanese journalist on Saturday amid intensifying calls for an international inquiry into his assassination. Waving Lebanese flags, many mourners wept ...

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Got a Hammer?

Sat, Jun 4, 2005 at 11:37:40 am PDT

Here’s a great post from Greyhawk, telling the story that American media won’t: the ongoing rebuilding of Iraq.

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Thousands Rally for Freedom in Azerbaijan

Sat, Jun 4, 2005 at 11:00:44 am PDT

Gateway Pundit has a post about the extraordinary protests in Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan Demands Freedom!

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Saturday Open Thread

Sat, Jun 4, 2005 at 10:18:25 am PDT

Here’s an open thread for a cloudy Saturday morning.

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Last Man Out: Part One

Sat, Jun 4, 2005 at 10:12:05 am PDT

Today’s must-read is the story of Ron DiFrancesco, the last person to escape from the South Tower on September 11, from above the central impact zone on the 81st floor: Last Man Out: Part One. (Hat tip: wadikitty.)

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CNN Gets One Right

Sat, Jun 4, 2005 at 9:26:10 am PDT

Amazingly, one of the “Koran apocalypse” stories at CNN actually has a headline that focuses on the important fact about yesterday’s Pentagon statements: Detainees, not soldiers, flushed Quran. (Hat tip: Michelle Malkin.) UPDATE at 6/4/05 6:54:19 pm: Who wrote that headline? Pajamas Media has a job for you.

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Palestinian Elections Put on Indefinite Hold

Sat, Jun 4, 2005 at 9:15:33 am PDT

Holocaust-denying Palestinian “president” Mahmoud Abbas/Abu Mazen has postponed Palestinian parliamentary elections ... indefinitely. Citing the need to hold further consultations with various Palestinian factions, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday decided to postpone parliamentary elections indefinitely. Hamas responded by threatening to call off the nonexistent cease fire. The decision has drawn ...

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Media Hysteria Climbs to New Heights

Sat, Jun 4, 2005 at 7:57:07 am PDT

Mainstream media is indulging in a hysterical orgy of bias and incitement over the Pentagon’s announcement of five cases of Koran mishandling (out of tens of thousands of interrogations); the worst example I’ve seen yet is this blatantly dishonest headline from al-Reuters: Jailers splashed Koran with urine - Pentagon. (Hat ...

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NYT Legitimizes CAIR (Again)

Sat, Jun 4, 2005 at 7:37:59 am PDT

Islamist front group CAIR organized another whine-and-seethe festival in Brooklyn on Thursday evening, for Muslims to complain to the FBI: You Can’t Talk to an F.B.I. Agent That Way, or Can You? (Hat tip: Van Impe.) Dressed in a navy suit and red tie, his hair parted neatly on the side, ...

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Friday, June 03, 2005

Friday Night Hub

Fri, Jun 3, 2005 at 8:34:20 pm PDT

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Gallup Poll: US Trusts Military, Distrusts MSM

Fri, Jun 3, 2005 at 6:29:47 pm PDT

Here’s some very compelling evidence that the mainstream media is drastically out of step with the majority of the American public: Military Tops Public Confidence List in New Gallup Poll. (Hat tip: ratherdashing.) WASHINGTON, June 3, 2005 – The American public has more confidence in the military than in any other ...

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It's Riotin' Time

Fri, Jun 3, 2005 at 6:00:13 pm PDT

And the media beat goes on: US Confirms Gitmo Soldier Kicked Quran. Consider, if you will, the untold amounts of money wasted on this utterly inconsequential, excruciatingly trivial story. WASHINGTON - The Pentagon on Friday released new details about mishandling of the Quran at the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects, confirming ...

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The Summer Camps of the Infidel

Fri, Jun 3, 2005 at 3:46:27 pm PDT

As spring segues into summer, the imams, muftis, and sheikhs caution Islamic youth to avoid the summer camps of the infidel: Mixed Summer Camps. (Hat tip: secretsnowflake.) Question: Dear scholars, as-Salamu `alaykum. My University holds annual mixed summer camps. I was there last summer but never committed anything violating the dictates ...

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Indonesia Terror Warning

Fri, Jun 3, 2005 at 3:24:50 pm PDT

The US embassy has issued a warning of plans by Islamic terrorists to attack hotel lobbies in Jakarta: US embassy in Indonesia warns of possible hotel attacks. JAKARTA, (AFP) - The United States issued the latest in a series of security alerts, warning its citizens in Indonesia of plans by extremists ...

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Cease Fire, Palestinian Style

Fri, Jun 3, 2005 at 2:24:12 pm PDT

Two would-be bombers nabbed. Two Islamic Jihad members who had planned to blow themselves up in a twin suicide bombing in Jerusalem were arrested Thursday at West Bank checkpoints. A third member of the cell was also apprehended. Five other members of the cell, already in detention, have confirmed that they tried ...

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Palestinian Peace Exercises

Fri, Jun 3, 2005 at 2:03:38 pm PDT

Click to expand photo. A militant of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militia linked to the ruling Fatah movement, jumps over a tire on fire during a public display of a training exercise in Gaza City, Friday June 3, 2005. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

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Europe's Young Terrorists

Fri, Jun 3, 2005 at 12:05:57 pm PDT

Here’s a report from UPI on Europe’s new generation of Islamic terrorists. LONDON — European counterterrorism officials say they are facing a new, more dangerous generation of Islamic extremists, who are younger and more radical than their forebears, and in some cases trained and battle-hardened in Iraq. Judge Balthazar Garzon, an investigating ...

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Rather: "We Don't Know if the Documents Were Fraudulent"

Fri, Jun 3, 2005 at 11:20:53 am PDT

Pathetically, Dan Rather continues to insist that those fraudulent National Guard memos might be genuine, somehow, in some alternate universe where CBS never got caught and John Kerry is president. The Political Teen has video of Rather’s disconnected, rambling appearance on Larry King.

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Friday Miscellaneous Links Thread

Fri, Jun 3, 2005 at 9:23:23 am PDT

Here’s our open thread for links to interesting stuff not already covered in another topic...

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Krauthammer: Enough Gitmo Groveling

Fri, Jun 3, 2005 at 9:02:12 am PDT

Charles Krauthammer says it all in his Friday column: Gitmo Grovel: Enough Already. (Hat tip: Carolina Girl.) The self-flagellation has gone far enough. We know that al Qaeda operatives are trained to charge torture when they are in detention, and specifically to charge abuse of the Koran to inflame fellow prisoners ...

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VDH: Our Strange War

Fri, Jun 3, 2005 at 8:52:00 am PDT

It’s Friday, and that means another excellent Victor Davis Hanson column, delineating the strengths and weaknesses of Islamic fascism—and of too-comfortable Western society: Our Strange War. After 40 years of multiculturalism and moral equivalence — the wages of wealth and freedom unmatched in the history of civilization — many in the ...

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UN: Nonexistent WMD Equipment Missing

Fri, Jun 3, 2005 at 8:16:14 am PDT

I don’t get it. How can WMD material be missing from Iraq, when it never really existed? UN: Weapons Equipment Missing in Iraq. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) UNITED NATIONS - U.N. satellite imagery experts have determined that material that could be used to make biological or chemical weapons and banned long-range ...

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Breaking: Virgin Airlines Flight Sends Hijack Signal

Fri, Jun 3, 2005 at 7:48:22 am PDT

Virgin Atlantic Flight Sending Out Hijack Signal. WASHINGTON — Canadian fighter jets are scrambling to intercept a Virgin Atlantic flight from London’s Heathrow Airport to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport that is sending out a hijack code, FOX News has confirmed. Virgin Atlantic Flight 45 has been diverted to New Brunswick, Canada. ...

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CAIR Distributes Quran Banned as Antisemitic

Fri, Jun 3, 2005 at 7:43:39 am PDT

As a goodwill response to the Newsweek “Koran desecration” fiasco, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is distributing free copies of the Koran—an edition of the Koran that was previously banned by the LA School District because it contains openly antisemitic commentary, courtesy of our friends the Saudis: CAIR distributes ...

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ACLU Readies Another Assault on Military

Fri, Jun 3, 2005 at 7:25:36 am PDT

At this point, the ACLU might as well just launch their own 24-hour television station, and call it the Abu Ghraib Channel: Judge: Release Abu Ghraib Videos, Photos. NEW YORK — A judge has ordered the government to release four videos from Abu Ghraib prison and dozens of photographs from the ...

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Thursday, June 02, 2005

Thursday Evening Open Thread

Thu, Jun 2, 2005 at 9:19:11 pm PDT

Here’s an open thread for a warm Thursday evening.

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Ben Stein: Deep Throat and Genocide

Thu, Jun 2, 2005 at 6:07:23 pm PDT

The front page of the Washington Post waxes maudlin about Watergate, but Ben Stein has a very different take on the recent news that former FBI agent Mark Felt was “Deep Throat:” Deep Throat and Genocide. Can anyone even remember now what Nixon did that was so terrible? He ended the ...

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Thursday Blue Thread

Thu, Jun 2, 2005 at 4:59:55 pm PDT

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Iranian Online Shari'a

Thu, Jun 2, 2005 at 4:57:11 pm PDT

Islamic clerics in the Iranian city of Qom are net-savvy: In Iran’s dotQom, cyber clerics and e-ayatollahs have the answers. (Hat tip: Kolumbo.) QOM, Iran (AFP) - Want to have breast implants but worried they may not be so pleasing to God? Wondering if the marketing campaign devised to boost your ...

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Australian: Corruption Rampant in Nation's Airports

Thu, Jun 2, 2005 at 4:31:23 pm PDT

It’s not like there haven’t been warning signs before now, but The Australian reports that the Crime Commission has called for a major investigation into dangerously rampant corruption at Australia’s airports: Baggage handlers face inquiry. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) THE Australian Crime Commission is to hold a royal commission-style probe into ...

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EU Constitution Sinking Faster

Thu, Jun 2, 2005 at 4:16:20 pm PDT

Europe’s elite struggle to salvage treaty. (Hat tip: Scaramouche.) Britain now seems certain to shelve plans to hold its own referendum on the draft EU Constitution, after it was emphatically rejected by the Dutch and the French. Senior Foreign Office sources said today that Jack Straw will tell MPs on Monday that the ...

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Dean: Republicans Have Never Made an Honest Living

Thu, Jun 2, 2005 at 4:10:08 pm PDT

Howard Dean has been diagnosed with terminal foot-in-mouth disease, and the prognosis is not good. Trey Jackson has video of Dean exhibiting his symptoms: Dean- Republicans ‘have never made an honest living’. “You think people can work all day and then pick up their kids at child care or wherever and ...

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"Driving By Women Leads to Evil"

Thu, Jun 2, 2005 at 1:17:44 pm PDT

All of Saudi Arabia is seething over “a proposal to discuss the possibility of conducting a study into the feasibility of reversing the ban on women drivers:” Saudis Outraged Over Women-Drive Proposal. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - He just wanted his colleagues in the government’s legislative arm to ...

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More Google News Insanity

Thu, Jun 2, 2005 at 10:42:15 am PDT

Blogger Dan Lovejoy has discovered yet another example of Google News insanity, a virulently racist site that pops up on a news search for Janice Rogers Brown.

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Thursday Miscellaneous Links

Thu, Jun 2, 2005 at 10:32:59 am PDT

Here’s an open thread for links to interesting stuff not covered by other topics...

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"It Is Good that Americans Have Been Taught a Lesson"

Thu, Jun 2, 2005 at 9:32:33 am PDT

The National Review’s Jim Geraghty has a conversation in a Turkish restaurant with a well-educated, Al Qaeda-sympathizing Turkish fan of Michael Moore: “It Is Good that Americans Have Been Taught a Lesson.” (Hat tip: Terp Mole.)

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Amnesty International Defends "Gulag" Absurdity

Thu, Jun 2, 2005 at 8:51:53 am PDT

Amnesty International secretary general Irene Zubaida Khan held a press conference to defend her absurd equation of Guantanamo Bay with the Soviet gulag: Amnesty defends ‘gulag,’ urges Guantanamo access. “The administration’s response has been that our report is absurd, that our allegations have no basis, and our answer is very simple: ...

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Anti-Syrian Journalist Killed in Beirut

Thu, Jun 2, 2005 at 8:07:12 am PDT

Syria may have withdrawn their troops and intelligence operatives from Lebanon, but that doesn’t mean they’ve given up: Anti-Syrian journalist killed in Beirut. (Hat tip: BabbaZee.) A prominent anti-Syrian journalist has died after a bomb destroyed his car as he started the engine in a Christian district of Beirut. The killing of ...

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What Amnesty International Bias?

Thu, Jun 2, 2005 at 7:39:41 am PDT

They claim to be a non-partisan group, but the top officials of Amnesty International donated the maximum personal amount to the campaign of John F. Kerry: Amnesty leadership aided Kerry. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The top leadership of Amnesty International USA, which unleashed a blistering attack last week on the Bush ...

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Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Kofi Fires Someone

Wed, Jun 1, 2005 at 6:39:32 pm PDT

On the first day of June, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has fired Oil-for-Food official Joseph Stephanides. (Hat tip: many LGF readers.) June 1 (Bloomberg) — United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday fired Joseph Stephanides, an official in the Iraq oil-for-food program, for misconduct in the awarding of a contract to ...

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The Radical Islamic Hit List

Wed, Jun 1, 2005 at 6:13:22 pm PDT

Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer is apparently on a radical Islamic hit list, according to posters at RevivingIslam.com. A reader of the site comments: “we make dua Allah allows your blood to spill over our hands.” UPDATE at 6/1/05 6:45:55 pm: Internet Haganah digs further into RevivingIslam.com, with very interesting results.

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LGF Technical Note

Wed, Jun 1, 2005 at 5:57:37 pm PDT

Several readers have emailed to ask what camera I’ve been using to take the “open thread” photos; it’s the (now outdated of course) Sony Cybershot DSCP100. The Zeiss optics really do make a difference. And the manual override for shutter speed and other settings is very useful. And it fits neatly ...

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Scottish Dhimmitude Watch

Wed, Jun 1, 2005 at 4:41:28 pm PDT

I never would have thought it possible, but the Rangers football club (soccer to Yanks) has removed a beer logo from their official shirt: Rangers drop Carling shirt logo for its Muslim supporters. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) RANGERS have dropped the Carling logo from their replica shirts - for Muslim fans. The ...

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Wednesday Wrapping Thread

Wed, Jun 1, 2005 at 2:34:01 pm PDT

One of those days when everything seemed to be wrapped too tight...

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Beslan Terrorist Trial in Ossetia

Wed, Jun 1, 2005 at 1:37:16 pm PDT

The only surviving Islamic terrorist from the appalling Beslan grade school massacre is on trial in Ossetia, and Gateway Pundit has a report with photographs.

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EU Constitution Sinking Fast

Wed, Jun 1, 2005 at 12:24:38 pm PDT

Dutch Voters Reject EU Constitution. AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Dutch voters rejected the European constitution Wednesday by an overwhelming 63 to 37 percent, according to an exit poll projection broadcast by Dutch NOS television. The turnout was 62 percent, exceeding all expectations, the state-financed broadcaster said. The vote came three days after French ...

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Voodoo Antisemitism in Saudi Arabia

Wed, Jun 1, 2005 at 10:48:21 am PDT

Journey with us now to the bizarre world of Middle Eastern soap operas, won’t you? Today, courtesy of MEMRI TV, we have clips from a show titled “Stories from Before the Verses Came Down.” Produced in Jordan and aired on Saudi Arabia’s Iqra TV in February 2005, this soap opera chronicles ...

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Not-So-Beautiful Dreamers

Wed, Jun 1, 2005 at 9:18:41 am PDT

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll gasp in amazement, as inmates of Democratic Underground envision the 2006 elections with that special mix of childish fantasy and vindictive mean-spiritedness that defines the modern “progressive” movement: GOP Swept from Power in 2006; Impeachment Looms. (Hat tip: sngnsgt.)

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The Anti-American Academy

Wed, Jun 1, 2005 at 9:02:17 am PDT

Omri Ceren has a post about the pro-jihad, anti-American rhetoric at the University of California, Irvine: UC Irvine Course Description: American Unilateralism Responsible For Islamist Barbarism. Earlier this week, Michelle Malkin linked to a story about violent pro-OBL protests in Orange County. The situation in that area is getting pretty dire. ...

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Wednesday Miscellaneous Links

Wed, Jun 1, 2005 at 8:41:57 am PDT

Here’s an open thread for links to stories and articles...

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France Will Help Libya Develop "Peaceful" Nuclear Power

Wed, Jun 1, 2005 at 7:31:57 am PDT

France—the Arab world’s nuclear Santa Claus: France proposes nuclear cooperation deal to Libya. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) France will “soon” offer Libya a cooperation agreement to help Tripoli develop its civilian nuclear energy program, the French foreign ministry said Tuesday. “The principle of cooperation in the area of peaceful applications of nuclear ...

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