LGF Archives: November 2008
Video: Why Texas Shouldn't Let Creationists Mess with Science Education
Science | Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:59:20 pm PST
Dr. Barbara Forrest is the author (with Paul Gross) of Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design, and here’s a really informative presentation she gave recently at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, on the roots of the intelligent design movement, the personalities and driving forces behind it, and ...
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Live Shuttle Landing Video
Science | Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:56:18 pm PST
NASA TV is streaming live video of the Space Shuttle’s landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California, returning from a successful mission to the International Space Station. Backdropped against Earth’s horizon and the blackness of space, Endeavour’s Canadian-built robot arm appears amidst elements of the International Space Station. Endeavour ...
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Images | Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:16:22 pm PST
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Mumbai Terrorist's Confession
World | Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:55:04 am PST
The confession of Azam Amir Kasav, the only terrorist captured alive in Mumbai, has apparently been leaked to the press. The Malaysian Insider has a detailed report on the story told by Azam, and it’s chilling: Terrorists posed as Malaysian students. Note that Azam claims the terror team was trained by ...
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Muslim-Christian Carnage in Nigeria
World | Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 9:22:38 am PST
Following a disputed local election in Jos, Nigeria, fighting between Christian and Muslim gangs has left at least 400 people dead. JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) – Residents took more bodies to the main mosque in the Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday, bringing the death toll from two days of clashes ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:59:17 pm PST
No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. — Mark Twain
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'They Didn't Spare Women or Children'
World | Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:30:20 pm PST
The murderers who staged the Mumbai attacks were ruthless: Scene of Unimaginable Carnage Inside Taj Majal Hotel. The scene Saturday night inside the Taj Majal hotel was one of unimaginable carnage in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist onslaught across Mumbai. Two Indian commandos told FOX News that 150 bodies still ...
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Finally, the Pressing Issue of Tubers
Video | Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:07:24 pm PST
The headline says it all: USDA Official Takes Courageous Stand Against Interstate Countercyclical Potato Pricing. [Video]
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And Now, the Greatest Man That Ever Lived
Video | Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:32:39 pm PST
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Tech Note: Live Comments, 2
Science | Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:58:09 pm PST
I had to take down the front page live comment updates for a couple of days to figure out why MySQL was deadlocking. We all know how painful that can be. Turns out that MyISAM tables suffer from an obscure problem related to concurrent reads and writes, that’s exacerbated when the ...
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Saturday Afternoon Open
Open | Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:30:51 pm PST
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free. — P.J. O’Rourke
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Rather Defensive
US News | Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:46:57 am PST
As we’ve written previously, the mainstream media seem to be slowly but surely re-legitimizing the “Rathergate” documents, casting doubt on whether they really were fraudulent. Matthew Hoy points out the latest example, a column at the Miami Herald by Edward Wasserman: Dan Rather’s defenders.
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Video: Mumbai Police Cleaning Up
Video | Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:10:48 am PST
Here’s a Reuters video clip on the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks. [Video]
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Mumbai Terrorism Updates
World | Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:41:38 am PST
The terrorist attack in Mumbai is finally over. Indian commandos killed the last remaining gunmen holed up at a luxury Mumbai hotel Saturday, ending a 60-hour rampage that killed 195 people in India’s financial capital, as authorities shifted their focus to who was behind the attacks. A previously unknown Muslim group ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:05:13 pm PST
If your strength is small, don’t carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don’t give advice. — Chinese Proverb
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Breaking: Battle at the Taj Hotel
World | Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:17:03 pm PST
The bottom floors of the Taj Hotel are on fire, and a gun battle is raging at this minute; the IBNLive.com stream is working well here, on a Mac with Flip4Mac installed.
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Keith Jarrett Trio: When You Wish Upon a Star
Video | Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:25:13 pm PST
A song you’ll recognize, gorgeously played by three of the greatest musicians in jazz. [Video]
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Mumbai Terrorism Updates
World | Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 4:52:32 pm PST
IBN reports that there are still three terrorists loose in the Taj Hotel, but all the other attack sites are now secured. Mumbai: India’s financial hub continues to remain under siege. On Friday night – 51 hours into the war-like operation on terror – the National Security Guard said there are ...
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Friday Afternoon Open
Open | Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 1:17:21 pm PST
Not all bits have equal value. — Carl Sagan
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High Res Mumbai Photos
Images | Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:02:35 pm PST
Boston.com has a collection of high resolution wire service images from Mumbai: Mumbai under attack - The Big Picture. Some of the pictures are graphic, but you have to click to view them. Late Wednesday night, Mumbai, India found itself the target of a ferocious terrorist attack, and the situation ...
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Mumbai Terrorism Updates
World | Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 8:30:53 am PST
Bad news from Mumbai about the hostages at the Chabad center, contradicting earlier reports that they had been freed: ’Five hostages killed at Mumbai Chabad House’. Israel’s ZAKA rescue service earlier said five hostages and two gunmen were killed inside the center, one of 10 sites in India’s commercial capital ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:46:31 pm PST
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. — Louis L’Amour
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Breaking: Final Assault in Mumbai Siege
World | Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:50:08 pm PST
There’s an assault going on right now against the terrorists holed up in Chabad’s Nariman House. IBNLive.com has live streaming video in WMV format.
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The Door Opens - Update: The Door Closes
Open | Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:09:37 pm PST
Registration is now open for a Thanksgiving evening. Please read all the rules and commit them to memory, don’t register with a proxy, don’t register with a throwaway email address, don’t register more than one account, don’t be a jerk, do play nice, and everything will be groovy. UPDATE at 11/27/08 ...
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Video: Keith Jarrett - Summertime
Video | Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 4:52:29 pm PST
Another reworking of a classic Gershwin tune, from Keith Jarrett’s 1987 solo concert in Tokyo. [Video]
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A Sale for Gadgetheads
Lifestyle | Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 4:05:23 pm PST
Every once in a great while we point out particularly good deals at Amazon or other sites; it has to be exceptional or we don’t bother mentioning it. Amazon’s Black Friday 2008 is one of those exceptional deals, lots of cool gadgets, camera gear, DVDs and other stuff at 40-50% ...
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Twin Cities Muslim in Somalia Bombing
US News | Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:37:39 pm PST
Shirwa Ahmed, a Somali man who lived in the Twin Cities, apparently blew himself up last week in northern Somalia—and there are almost a dozen others who recently disappeared from the Minneapolis area. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has learned that federal law enforcement sources believe that a Twin Cities man blew ...
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Tech Note: Live Comment Updates
Science | Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:43:17 am PST
We have a new feature on the LGF front page: if you’re registered and logged in, the last comment information that shows at the bottom right of each article is now live. Every 15 seconds an Ajax routine checks the last comment for each article on the front page, and if ...
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Thursday Morning Open
Open | Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:01:06 am PST
A Thanksgiving morning open thread...
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Mumbai Terrorism Updates
World | Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:36:41 am PST
The latest word on the news networks is that eight hostages at that Chabad center in Mumbai have been released. Three terrorists were killed at the Taj Mahal Hotel, but one is still holed up inside. There may still be hostages inside the Oberoi Hotel. The death toll is now ...
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Happy Thanksgiving
US News | Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:25:26 am PST
We wish all LGF readers a happy and safe Thanksgiving Day. “The First Thanksgiving,” by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:58:58 pm PST
Never trust the teller. Trust the tale. — D. H. Lawrence
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Wednesday Night Open
Open | Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:34:59 pm PST
An open thread for a pre-Thanksgiving Wednesday evening. UPDATE at 11/26/08 6:57:33 pm: And by the way, registration is open. Please read all the rules and commit them to memory, don’t register with a proxy, don’t register with a throwaway email address, don’t register more than one account, don’t be a jerk, ...
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IPT Video: Digging Deeper Into the HLF Trial
US News | Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:22:56 pm PST
Here’s a video report from the Investigative Project on some of the key evidence that resulted in terror convictions in the Holy Land Foundation trial. [Video]
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Raw Video of Mumbai Attacks
World | Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:51:32 pm PST
Just in via Reuters video, some raw footage from an Indian source: [Video] UPDATE at 11/26/08 1:54:37 pm: Just reported on CNN: a massive explosion at the Taj Hotel... UPDATE at 11/26/08 2:33:03 pm: IBNLive.com has live streaming video in WMV format.
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Major Terror Attack in India
World | Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:22:24 am PST
A coordinated series of bombings and shootings in the Indian financial center of Mumbai: Terror attacks in Mumbai; 80 dead, over 250 injured-India. MUMBAI: Terror struck the country’s financial capital late on Wednesday night as coordinate serial explosions and indiscriminate firing rocked eight areas across Mumbai including the crowded CST ...
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Terror Threat Against NY Train System
US News | Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:43:06 am PST
An alert has been put out for a possible terror plot targeting the Long Island Railroad. Law enforcement officials tell ABCNews.com, the plot involved a “Madrid-like attack,” a reference to the synchronized bombing of the commuter rail system in Spain in March 2004 that killed 191 people. ... “There is nothing ...
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Bali Bomber Ringtones Hot in Indonesia
World | Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:17:45 am PST
A song recorded by one of the Bali bombers shortly before their execution for mass murder is now being used as a ringtone by members of the Religion of Peace™ in Indonesia. A defiant deathbed song written and recorded by Imam Samudra shortly before his execution has been released on ...
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Another Al Qaeda-Linked Site Hosted in US
US News | Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:22:35 am PST
The website of Al Qaeda’s Somalian affiliate, al-Shabaab, is being hosted by the US-based company Dotster; Rusty has details: Terrorists: Yes, Our Official Website Is Hosted in the U.S., So What?
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:46:42 pm PST
Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth. — Françoise Giroud
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The Door's Been Open... Update: And Now It Shuts
Blogosphere | Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:54:21 pm PST
... for more than 6 hours today, and you have about 30 minutes more to register an LGF account. Before taking this momentous step, please read all the rules and commit them to memory, don’t register with a proxy, don’t register with a throwaway email address, don’t register more than one ...
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PJTV: A Conservative Blog Conference?
Blogosphere | Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:46:01 pm PST
Should there be a conservative bloggers’ conference like the dreaded Yearly Kos?
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Video: Obama Promises Cuts
Video | Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:08:53 pm PST
This is an interesting clip from Reuters on Obama’s latest promises to fix the economy (but it’s also being posted to test some new LGF Blog video management tools). [Video]
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Tuesday Afternoon Open
Open | Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:31:14 pm PST
Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare. — Japanese Proverb
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ElBaradei Springs Into Action, Declares Syria 'Innocent Until Proven Guilty'
World | Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:06:58 am PST
The UN’s blind watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei is pushing hard to continue helping the Syrians build a nuclear reactor, despite new evidence that they were conducting a clandestine nuclear project. ElBaradei says that just like individuals, countries should be considered innocent until proven guilty: ‘Don’t prejudge Syrian nuclear program.’ “There are ...
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IPT on the Holy Land Foundation Convictions
US News | Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:03:03 am PST
The Investigative Project has details on the strategy adjustments that allowed prosecutors to get convictions in the Hamas funding trial of the Holy Land Foundation Islamic charity: HLF Officials Convicted on All Counts. Prosecutors made a series of significant adjustments, from dropping 29 counts each against defendants Mufid Abdulqader and ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:58:44 pm PST
Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precise. — Leo Rosten
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Weather
Images | Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:40:59 pm PST
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And Now, the International Anti-Darwin Essay Contest
Weird | Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:03:57 pm PST
We do have some LGF readers who are creationists, so we would be remiss if we didn’t bring to your attention a chance to win a prize of 100,000 new Turkish lira (about $63,191.14 US at current exchange rates), in a scientific essay contest being held by Turkish creationist Harun ...
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Monday Afternoon Open
Open | Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:29:20 pm PST
The return of the son of the open thread...
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Holy Land Foundation Verdict: Guilty on All Counts
US News | Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:15:39 pm PST
After the first disaster of a trial, this news comes as a pleasant surprise: Holy Land Foundation defendants guilty on all counts. A jury on Monday sided with the prosecution in the Holy Land Foundation trial, determining unanimously on more than two dozen counts that the defendants were guilty of ...
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The End of an Era
Media | Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:34:04 pm PST
His work there is done: Alan Colmes To Leave FNC’s Hannity & Colmes Show. Allahpundit is crushing heavy on Kirsten Powers (yes, again) for Colmes’ replacement. My preference would be a left field oddball like Kinky Friedman. But it looks like Fox is leaning toward a stultifying five-day dose of “Hannity’s ...
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Serving the Underground Economy
US News | Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:47:47 am PST
Here’s a scary little story about the increasing sophistication of online criminals: Hands-off hackers: Crooks opt for surgical strikes. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Internet criminals have been getting more “professional” for years, trying to run their businesses like Big Business to get better and more profitable at selling stolen data ...
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Saviors of the Economy
Business | Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:16:28 am PST
Barack Obama’s economic advisers: Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers. CHICAGO — President Elect Barack Obama selected a Mr. Defense and a Mr. Offense for his economic team Monday, picking Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury and Lawrence Summers as director of the National Economic Council. ... The dual selection set up a formidable tag ...
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Obama's Education Hopes
Politics | Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:32:54 am PST
Barack Obama has promised the world to every special interest group in the US, and now they’re going to want to collect. One area where the promises have been especially extravagant: Experts Say Obama Must Build a Bipartisan Machine to Move Education Law. President-elect Barack Obama has made big promises ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:41:08 pm PST
Paula: You seem to still be up there somewhere. Jeff: Maybe I am. Paula: I don’t think I’ve ever seen you in this mood before. Jeff: I guess it’s because I’ve never been in this mood before. Paula: Something about your flight? Jeff: Yeah. Paula: What happened, Jeff? Jeff: I saw a flying saucer. Paula: A saucer? You ...
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The Rising Creationist Star
US News | Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:34:11 pm PST
Social conservatives are waxing ecstatic over Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal. November 22, 2008—He’s already made history, but does Bobby Jindal want to take on the president-elect who made history just weeks ago? It’s the question on many peoples’ minds as the Louisiana governor made his way across Iowa on Saturday. He ...
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Sunday Evening Open
Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:04:56 pm PST
I happened to catch a few bars of Mike Huckabee’s band playing “Twist and Shout” earlier on Fox News, and it robbed me of the will to live. But I took a bike ride, then a shower, and now I feel better. So here’s a Sunday night open thread on ...
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And Now, the Sheikh of Pop
US News | Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 2:52:04 pm PST
The original source is a British tabloid, so consider it questionable: Report: Pop star Michael Jackson converts to Islam. The American singer Michael Jackson has converted to Islam, the Sun newspaper reported over the weekend. The 50-year-old pop star, who changed his name to Mikaeel, pledged allegiance to the Koran at ...
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Kuwaiti Cleric: 'Death is Too Good for Homosexuals'
Video | Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:19:05 pm PST
Kuwait’s Dr. Sa'd Al-'Inzi must be a lot of fun at parties. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Following are excerpts from an interview with Kuwaiti Islamist Dr. Sa’d Al-’Inzi, which aired on Al-Rai TV on December 10, 2007: Moderator: Doctors and professionals recommend that people should relax. Modern experiments and studies have ...
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Valve
Images | Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:30:38 am PST
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British Fascists and 'Christian' Racism
World | Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:05:25 am PST
Blogger Edmund Standing has some interesting background on connections between the British National Party and extreme right-wing (in fact, wacko-wing) Christian groups, with insight into why the BNP and other Eurofascists claim to be pro-Israel: Gott mit uns: British fascists and ‘Christian’ racism. Following the recent leak of the BNP ...
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Tamil Tigers Announce 'Suicide Bombers Day' in Britain
World | Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:43:11 am PST
Coming soon to the London ExCeL Centre, a special event hosted by Sri Lankan terrorists The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam: Suicide Bombers Day. Despite the proscription of the group in the United Kingdom , the Tamil language radio station, International Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) said in its broadcasts that the ...
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BNP List Linked to Fire Bomb Attack
World | Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:42:24 am PST
Last week a list of members of the fascist British National Party was leaked to the Internet, probably leading to this fire bomb attack in West Yorkshire. Police are investigating a suspected fire bomb near the home of a man whose details were on a list of BNP members published ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:01:25 pm PST
Soldier: Quite a sight, wasn’t it Sir? Col. Edwards: A sight I’d rather not be seeing. Soldier: Are you worried about them, Sir? Col. Edwards: Well, they must have a reason for their visits. Soldier: Visits? Well that would indicate visitors! Are big guns the usual way of welcoming visitors? Col. Edwards: We haven’t always ...
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The Window of Opportunity
Open | Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:52:33 pm PST
The registration door creaks open again. Please read all the rules and commit them to memory, don’t register with a proxy, don’t register with a throwaway email address, don’t register more than one account, don’t be a jerk, do play nice, and everything will be cool. UPDATE at 11/22/08 6:32:20 pm: The ...
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Video: Muto
Video | Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:38:07 pm PST
Here’s an amazing graffiti animation by an Argentinian street artist, Blu. [Video] (Hat tip: Killgore.)
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Saturday Afternoon Open
Open | Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:06:58 pm PST
I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. — T. S. Eliot
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Syrian Economist: JFK Was Killed by the Zionist Lobby
Video | Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:31:45 am PST
In a slice of rancid Syrian antisemitism that aired on October 10, 2008, economist Muhammad Sharif Mazloum calmly explains that the Jews are responsible for the economic crisis. And the Zionist lobby killed JFK, to protect the shekel. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video]
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Bloggers Celebrating Victory in Iraq Day
World | Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:34:42 am PST
It’s not an official day, but a number of bloggers are celebrating Victory in Iraq Day, November 22, 2008. We’re glad to join them, and to say thank you to the men and women of the US military and our coalition partners—and the courageous Iraqis who’ve worked so hard to ...
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Ask AP
Media | Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:19:00 am PST
The Associated Press has a new weekly column in which AP journalists respond to readers’ questions. Here’s their invitation: If you have your own news-related question that you’d like to see answered by an AP reporter or editor, send it to newsquestions@ap.org, with “Ask AP” in the subject line. And please ...
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Carter and Annan Barred from Zimbabwe
World | Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:59:48 am PST
Jimmy Carter was instrumental in putting Robert Mugabe in power, and now he and Kofi Annan have been barred from entering Zimbabwe.
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:01:57 pm PST
Lt. Harper: It was a saucer. Policeman: A flying saucer? Larry: What makes you say that? Lt. Harper: You remember the noise we heard the other night? Larry: We were knocked to the ground, how could I forget? Lt. Harper: Exactly, but you’re not remembering that sound. Larry: There you’re wrong, Lieutenant. I’m with the fact ...
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Board of Education Poised to Embarrass Texas (Again)
Science | Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:46:15 pm PST
An Austin American-Statesman editorial hits the target: State board of education poised to embarrass Texas again. Once again Texas is poised to court national disgrace because of the State Board of Education and the anti-evolution agenda of some of its members. Whether there are enough votes on the 15-member board to ...
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A Simple Gitmo Question 2
US News | Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:57:38 pm PST
A simple question related to future plans for Guantanamo detainees: [Poll]
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A Simple Gitmo Question
US News | Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:22:48 pm PST
[Poll temporarily removed for debugging... in the meantime, here’s an open thread...]
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Space Photo of the Day
Science | Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:01:57 pm PST
Here’s the kind of headline you really don’t like to see if you’re spinning around in a tin can a couple hundred miles up: Space station’s new urine recycler has glitches. But it’s a good (if slightly tacky) excuse to post this photo from NASA TV:
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VDH: What Went Wrong?
Opinion | Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:57:43 pm PST
Here’s Victor Davis Hanson’s take on what conservatives need to learn from this election: What Went Wrong?
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Ringo's Pix: Anti-Prop 8 Demonstration
US News | Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:31:54 pm PST
Ringo the Gringo has a ton of photos from the anti-Proposition 8 demonstration in downtown LA: Anti-Prop 8 Demonstration - Los Angeles, CA on Nov. 15, 2008.
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Friday Morning Open
Open | Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:15:10 am PST
A samurai once asked Zen Master Hakuin where he would go after he died. Hakuin answered “How am I supposed to know?” “How do you not know? You’re a Zen master!” exclaimed the samurai. “Yes, but not a dead one,” Hakuin answered. — Zen proverb
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Germany Bans Al-Manar
World | Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:39:28 am PST
The Hezbollah propaganda channel Al-Manar has finally been banned in Germany. BERLIN – Germany’s Interior Ministry has banned Hezbollah’s television station on grounds that it violates the country’s constitution, a spokesman said Friday. Interior Ministry spokesman Markus Beyer said Al-Manar television programming was forbidden under Article 9 of Germany’s constitution, which ...
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Joe the Plumber Searches Were 'Improper'
Politics | Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:43:39 am PST
The dirtiest kind of dirty politics: Report: Records search on Joe the Plumber improper. TOLEDO, Ohio – An agency director improperly used state computers to find personal information on “Joe the Plumber,” a government watchdog said in a report released Thursday. There was no legitimate business purpose for the head of ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:26:14 pm PST
Little birds sit on your shoulders, All pure and white. Little birds sit on your shoulders, All lovely bright. Men and times of evil, Nothing more is right, Little birds sit on your shoulders, And sing me through the night — Kenneth Patchen
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Texas Board of Education Besieged by Evolutionists
US News | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:20:03 pm PST
Some people complain when we post about creationism, or “intelligent design,” its cleaned-up stepchild. They say we should focus on important subjects, nobody really cares about this creationism stuff. But quite a few Texas residents do care about it, as their state has become the latest front in the Discovery Institute’s ...
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And Now for Some Keith Jarrett, Solo
Video | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:00:43 pm PST
This is from Keith Jarrett’s masterpiece DVD, Tokyo Solo. A beautiful recording in every sense of the word; I believe all the music for this performance was improvised. [Video]
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Financial Crisis Watch
Business | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:11:40 pm PST
Another 440 point drop for the Dow index today, and the American automobile industry is headed for oblivion, as the bad financial craziness shows no sign of bottoming out.
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German Federal Court Prohibits Infamous Neo-Nazi Symbol
World | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:47:04 pm PST
When we first started writing about the symbolism of the international fascist underground, people came out of the woodwork to argue that one symbol in particular (the symbol that’s visible on Vlaams Belang leader Filip DeWinter’s bookshelf in the video on this page), known as the “Celtic Cross” or “Odin’s ...
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LGF: Now with Instant Karma Checking
Science | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:32:04 am PST
If you’re registered and logged in to your account, you can click the icon next to the username in comments to show that commenter’s profile. Now included in the profile information is the “karma,” the sum total of all the “up” ratings Username X received, minus the “down” ratings Username ...
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Fatah 2.0
Science | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:30:07 am PST
The Palestinian Fatah group takes a page from the Barack Obama campaign’s Web 2.0 book, and lets anyone start a WordPress blog in the fateh.net domain: You can have your own Fatah blog!
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IAEA Springs Into Action, Announces Iran Has Enough Nuclear Fuel for a Bomb
World | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:27:10 am PST
But don’t worry, because they’re “not sure” Iran actually knows how to build a weapon: Iran Said to Have Nuclear Fuel for One Weapon. Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:39:12 pm PST
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. — Euripides
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And Now for Some Todd Rundgren
Video | Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:31:10 pm PST
One of Todd Rundgren’s coolest (I won’t say “best” because they’re all great) bands at its tightest, with a song titled Unloved Children. [Video] Must be a factory somewhere Keeps on cranking them out Seems like they travel in pairs Not worth the trouble but too full of clout Somebody must play his game They get ...
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And Now, the Petaflop Computer
Science | Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:08:28 pm PST
More than one quadrillion floating-point calculations per second: Supercomputers Break Petaflop Barrier, Transforming Science. A new crop of supercomputers is breaking down the petaflop speed barrier, pushing high-performance computing into a new realm that could change science more profoundly than at any time since Galileo, leading researchers say. When the Top ...
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Center-Right Nation: Exit Stage Left?
Politics | Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:01:10 pm PST
Tod Lindberg, Hoover Institution fellow and Policy Review editor (and informal foreign policy adviser to the McCain campaign), weighs in on the swirling socialcon controversy: The Center-Right Nation Exits Stage Left. Here’s the stark reality: It is now harder for the Republican presidential candidate to get to 50.1 percent than ...
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Onion: China's Andy Rooney, Poyuan Wei
Video | Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:52:17 pm PST
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Update: Dennis Ross Says No Arab Peace Initiative
World | Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:03:57 pm PST
Barack Obama’s Middle East adviser Dennis Ross says the Times of London’s report that Obama will support the Arab peace plan concocted by Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah is false. Former American peace envoy Dennis Ross, who is a senior advisor to US President-elect Barack Obama on Middle East policy, denied ...
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IAEA Springs Into Action
World | Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:57:52 pm PST
More than a year after an Israeli air strike took care of it, the United Nations’ blind, toothless nuclear watchdog thinks there might have been an illicit nuclear reactor in Syria. VIENNA (Reuters) – A Syrian complex bombed by Israel bore features that would resemble those of an undeclared nuclear ...
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The Seamy Story of the ISB Mosque Project
US News | Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:49:00 pm PST
The Boston Phoenix has a huge new piece on the Islamic Society of Boston’s mosque project, a story of government corruption, Islamic extremism, and piles of cash from oil-rich Arab states: Menino’s mosque. Most locals concede that getting anything of substance accomplished in Boston is a Herculean task. Residents have ...
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Wednesday Afternoon Papaya
Images | Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:27:53 pm PST
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Vlaams Belang Chairman Stripped of EU Immunity
World | Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:03:07 am PST
Frank Vanhecke, chairman of the extreme right Belgian Vlaams Belang party and member of the European Parliament, has been stripped of his EU immunity, leaving him open to prosecution for “incitement” under Belgian law. BRUSSELS (JTA) — The European Parliament waived the parliamentary immunity of a far-right member from Belgium. Frank ...
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Bill Ayers and Sirhan Sirhan
US News | Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:47:40 am PST
In this video clip, Bill Ayers first says he regrets dedicating his Weather Underground manifesto, Prairie Fire, to Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, then tries to deny it, saying “Show me.” [Video] OK. The dedication is on Page 5 of Prairie Fire, mixed in with a lot of other names (including, bizarrely, ...
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Egyptian Physician Insults Barack Obama
World | Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:05:41 am PST
This is the kind of stuff that might actually turn the far left against Al Qaeda, as Ayman al-Zawahri unleashes a racist tirade against Barack Obama: Al-Qaeda No. 2 Calls Obama Dishonorable ‘House Negro’. The No. 2 leader in Al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is dishing out criticism and offering a warning ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:46:25 pm PST
Never express yourself more clearly than you think. — Niels Bohr
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And Now for Some Don Ross
Video | Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:34:18 pm PST
Acoustic guitar virtuoso Don Ross with a right-hand tour de force titled Robot Monster. [Video]
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Video: Obama's Transition Team
Video | Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:13:01 pm PST
This is the same group that did the MSNBC “tigers” spoof, and OK, they take a couple of shots at President Bush, but who cares, it’s teh funny. I’m pretty sure Bush would laugh at it. [Video]
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Tech Note: The New Web Server's Here
Science | Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:05:12 pm PST
Well, not quite here, but it’s set up and ready to migrate everything over from the current one, the one that’s serving the page you’re reading right now. The old one is a dual core Xeon 3.0, the new one is a quad core Xeon 3.4 with hyperthreading, so the processor ...
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Whitman and Bostock: Free the GOP
Politics | Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:30:20 pm PST
Several readers emailed about this Washington Post column by By Christine Todd Whitman and Robert M. Bostock on a subject that’s been responsible for several highly contentious threads at LGF: Free the GOP. Subtitled: “The Party Won’t Win Back the Middle as Long As It’s Hostage to Social Fundamentalists.” Four ...
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Tuesday Afternoon Open
Open | Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:06:00 pm PST
Anger as soon as fed is dead — ‘Tis starving makes it fat. — Emily Dickinson
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Obama's NSA and CIA Picks
Politics | Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:50:21 am PST
Omri Ceren’s headline says it all: Obama’s Top NSA And CIA Picks: Harsh On Israel, Sympathetic To Iran And Hezbollah. Well that was totally unpredictable wasn’t it? General James L. Jones is widely rumored to be Obama’s preferred candidate to be White House National Security Adviser... Jones prepared a report ...
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Germany Antisemitism Watch
World | Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:47:39 am PST
Deutsche Welle reports on yet another incident of antisemitic cemetery desecration in Germany: Germany Condemns Swinish Acts of Antisemitic Vandalism. “Swinish.” There’s a word you don’t see much in US media; it definitely fits. Authorities announced on Tuesday, November 18 that unknown persons had desecrated a pair of Jewish cemeteries ...
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98% of Texas Science Professors Reject 'Intelligent Design'
Science | Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:53:45 am PST
As we noted recently, the Texas State Board of Education has appointed three “intelligent design” creationists to a six-member committee that will review the state’s science curricula for public schools, two of them affiliated with the Discovery Institute—and these two just happen to be authors of an anti-evolution book that ...
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'Censored' Yet Somehow Still Whining
Weird | Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:29:11 am PST
People banned from LGF for supporting fascists and/or being hostile obsessive jerks whine endlessly about being “censored” (with no sense of irony whatsoever) as the Infidel Blogger Awards nominates me for “Biggest Pro-Censorship Ass-Hat.” Apparently, speaking out against Eurofascists, and not letting the LGF comments pages turn into a racist ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:06:38 pm PST
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. — Mark Twain
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Victory in Iraq Day
US News | Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 7:54:43 pm PST
Victory in Iraq Day, November 22, 2008. Put it on your calendars.
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The Window Opens - Update: The Window Slams Shut
Open | Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:19:09 pm PST
The registration window of opportunity has opened for the standard limited time, which may vary according to the motion of the planets or other factors. Please read all the rules and commit them to memory, don’t register with a proxy, don’t register with a throwaway email address, don’t register more ...
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Ayers Reviews Marxist Book from Marxist Perspective
US News | Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:59:17 pm PST
Here’s a look at the kind of scholarship Bill Ayers is producing, a review of an obscure Marxist tract by UCLA professor Peter McLaren, subtitled: “Notes From A Self-Realizing, Sensuous, Species-Being.” This is simply a knotty rehash of the discredited line of the old U.S. Communist Party—“Black and White Unite ...
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Monday Afternoon Open
Open | Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:01:56 pm PST
Many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly. — Robert Louis Stevenson UPDATE at 11/17/08 3:36:32 pm: Registration is now open for the legendary limited time. UPDATE at 11/17/08 4:09:49 pm: Now closed, with 53 hatchlings.
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In the Think Tank for Obama
Politics | Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:08:43 pm PST
The Wall Street Journal has a report on the think tank from which Barack Obama seems to be drawing his top advisers. WASHINGTON — The Center for a New American Security, a small think tank here with generally middle-of-the-road policy views, is rapidly emerging as a top farm team for ...
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Impeach Nixon!
US News | Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:55:52 pm PST
The left-wing veterans’ group called Vets for Peace has been occupying the National Archives in Washington DC. What, you didn’t hear that? Well, they’re occupying a scaffold outside the National Archives anyway. Well, sort of milling around on one level of a scaffold, to be precise. Nobody seems too anxious ...
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Murdoch on the Pajamas Factor
Media | Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:23:13 am PST
Rupert Murdoch says the mainstream media has become contemptuous of its audience: Murdoch to media: You dug yourself a huge hole. To make his point, Murdoch criticized the media reaction after bloggers debunked a “60 Minutes” report by former CBS anchor, Dan Rather, that President Bush had evaded service during ...
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Who's the Anti-Intellectual?
Opinion | Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:40:44 am PST
Timothy Sandefur has an interesting post on the anti-intellectualism of the left. Liberals have lately been making much of the purported anti-intellectualism of conservatives in the late election. No doubt they’re right. But I must say I find it laughable that this charge would come from liberals of all people. ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:17:13 pm PST
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. — Voltaire
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On Losing Votes
Opinion | Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 5:30:50 pm PST
This is a thought-provoking essay by Paul Hsieh, a practicing physician in Denver and long-standing Republican voter: How the GOP lost my vote. After a resounding electoral defeat, in which voters in this once-red state rejected Republicans McCain, Schaffer, and Musgrave, the Colorado Republican Party will undoubtedly be asking themselves, ...
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Sunday Afternoon Open
Open | Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 4:00:27 pm PST
Here’s an open thread, and a note to let you know that we now have printer-friendly pages for each entry. To get there, click the little gray icon that looks like a printed sheet of paper, at the bottom right of each article. The printer pages have a “Print” button ...
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Shrub
Images | Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:08:43 pm PST
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Happy Ex-Terrorists Now Loquacious
US News | Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:07:32 pm PST
Now that Barack Obama’s elected, William Ayers just won’t stop talking. In this clip from the far-left Democracy Now show, Bernardine Dohrn says Obama’s election represents “a rejection of the politics of fear.” [Video] (Hat tip: Allahpundit, via Breitbart.)
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Obama Going Back to the Future of Middle East Peace
World | Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 9:06:23 am PST
According to the Times of London, Barack Obama is going to back the Mideast peace plan originally proposed by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. This plan gives all the land Israel captured in the 1967 war to the Palestinians (whoever that’s supposed to be; Hamas or Fatah?), gives back the ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:22:22 pm PST
Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on. — Dante
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And Now: Fomalhaut B
Science | Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 6:28:04 pm PST
This week astronomers announced the first pictures of planets circling other stars, but if you saw the photos released by the wire services you might have wondered, “Where?” Here’s a good illustration from APOD, showing the planet and its position within the giant ring of dust that surrounds Fomalhaut. They’ve given ...
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Faucet
Images | Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:33:52 pm PST
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Red Sunset
Images | Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 4:58:29 pm PST
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Video: The Future
Video | Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 3:48:33 pm PST
This isn’t an official video for Future from Todd Rundgren’s Liars, but the vintage film clips from the 1964 World’s Fair in New York’s borough of Queens work perfectly with the song. Nostalgia for the future. [Video]
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Onion Panel: Should the Government Stop Dumping Money in a Giant Hole?
Video | Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:43:24 pm PST
Here’s another ground-breaking report from one of the last remaining credible mainstream news sources. [Video]
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Saturday Morning Open
Open | Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:31:07 am PST
Believe it or don’t, it’s another open thread...
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Threats Against Obama Set Disturbing Records
US News | Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:10:07 am PST
With the extreme polarization of this last election, this comes as no surprise: Obama has more threats than other presidents-elect. WASHINGTON – Threats against a new president historically spike right after an election, but from Maine to Idaho law enforcement officials are seeing more against Barack Obama than ever before. ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:30:00 pm PST
If cats could talk, they wouldn’t. — Nan Porter
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And Now for Some Keith Jarrett
Video | Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:51:50 pm PST
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Watch the Shuttle Launch
Science | Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:49:16 pm PST
Here’s the NASA live video feed...
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What is Fascism?
World | Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:25:48 pm PST
As some well-known “anti-jihad” writers and bloggers continue to defend the Belgian Vlaams Belang party against a mountain of well-documented charges that they are a fascist group, it’s very revealing to read the definition of “fascism” that concludes Robert Paxton’s comprehensive scholarly work, The Anatomy of Fascism. The correlation between these ...
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Friday Afternoon Open
Open | Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:07:55 pm PST
You only punch yourself out when you start swinging blind. — Devo
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War's Over, We Won (No Thanks to Barack Obama)
World | Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:20:15 pm PST
If Barack Obama had gotten his way, Iraq would now be in the hands of Islamists, and America’s image would have suffered a crushing blow. He voted to cut off funding for the troops, just when they needed it most, and still refuses to admit he was wrong. Well, he was ...
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Saudi Cleric Denies Wanting Mickey Mouse Dead
Video | Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:01:01 am PST
Syrian-born Saudi cleric Muhammad Al-Munajid responds to the evil Christians, Jews, and other infidels who accused him of calling for Mickey Mouse to be killed. (Courtesy of the evil Jewish infidels at MEMRI TV.) [Video] Interviewer: Arab and Western media accused you of issuing a fatwa about the killing of Mickey ...
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The Evasions of Bill Ayers
Politics | Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:23:44 am PST
ABC News has put Chris Cuomo’s interview with William Ayers online, and it’s exactly as we predicted; he doesn’t deny anything in his past, but claims he was smeared by the “blogosphere.” According to Ayers, he wasn’t a terrorist. He was a hero, fighting injustice, who never intended to hurt ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:12:01 pm PST
Facts don’t cease to exist because they are ignored. — Aldous Huxley
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The Anti-Museum
Science | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:40:51 pm PST
Here’s a highly entertaining account of a trip to the Creation Museum in Kentucky, by Daniel Phelps, president of the Kentucky Paleontological Society: The Anti-Museum. Well, it would be highly entertaining if it weren’t so very sad. The Dragon Theater features a short video on dinosaurs that absurdly argues they were ...
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The Mysteries of the Genome
Science | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:02:02 pm PST
Scientists studying the human genome, with the help of massively parallel arrays of supercomputers, are uncovering a world of information that is far more complex than anyone dreamed—and far more mysterious: Now - The Rest of the Genome. Over the summer, Sonja Prohaska decided to try an experiment. She would ...
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Ayers Book: Obama Was a 'Family Friend'
Politics | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:11:55 pm PST
Former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers describes Barack Obama as “a neighbor and family friend” in the new edition of his book Fugitive Days. Funny how this is only coming out now, isn’t it? In a new afterword to his 2001 book, Bill Ayers, former leader of the 1960s radical group ...
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Senior Vlaams Belang Member on Trial for Holocaust Denial
World | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:52:15 pm PST
Vlaams Belang national party council member Roeland Raes is now on trial in Belgium for Holocaust denial (the decision is supposed to be handed down tomorrow), after a 2001 interview on Dutch TV in which he said: “I doubt the systematism of the extermination of the Jews and I also ...
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Financial Yo-Yo Watch
Business | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:39:00 pm PST
You gotta get down before you get up, and the Dow closed at +552 points today.
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Thursday Morning Open
Open | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:37:35 am PST
As the Dow index plunges again, here’s a Thursday open thread...
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Another Hamas-Linked Islamic Charity
US News | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:08:53 am PST
At some point, we might want to ask if there are any Islamic charities who aren’t financing Hamas: US cracks down on Islamic charity. WASHINGTON – The Bush administration acted Wednesday against an Islamic charity suspected of helping to bankroll Hamas, the militant Palestinian group that the United States considers ...
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Palestinians Attacking Again
World | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:04:36 am PST
Now that Barack Obama is the president-elect, a new wave of peace and tolerance is spreading across the world. Oh, wait: New rocket barrage tests shaky Israel-Hamas truce. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Gaza militants fired a new barrage of rockets and mortars at Israeli border areas on Thursday, prompting Israel ...
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It's Safe for Ayers to Surface Now
US News | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:09:32 am PST
Now that Barack Obama is safely elected, people like Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers no longer have to remain silent, and the media are suddenly interested in them. Former Weather Underground terrorist Ayers will appear tomorrow on Good Morning America.
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Our Friends the Saudis - The Big Push to Criminalize Blasphemy
World | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:56:50 am PST
At a special session of the United Nations General Assembly, the leader of the religious apartheid kingdom of Saudi Arabia will sit down in the same room with an Israeli for the first time. What would bring Abdullah to do this, an act that must be repugnant to him? Answer: ...
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Early Morning Open
Open | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:45:00 am PST
Yawn. Anybody awake in here?
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:27:28 pm PST
Don’t compromise yourself, you’re all you’ve got. — Janis Joplin
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Olbermann's Secret Objectivity-Maintaining Technique
Media | Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:55:14 pm PST
How does 2007’s Idiot of the Year Keith Olbermann maintain his world-famous objectivity? By not voting, of course! I haven’t been particularly clear in expressing myself on what the “symbolism” is. I know it’s very idiosyncratic, but I would feel just a little hesitation, just a little drag on the airflow, ...
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Vlaams Belang Disinvited from Jerusalem Anti-Jihad Conference
World | Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:10:04 pm PST
Nothing on the news wires about it yet, but I just received an email from a reliable source: Vlaams Belang, which was to take part in a major Anti-Jihadist Conference in Jerusalem next month along with Geert Wilders and others, has reportedly been disinvited.
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Wednesday Afternoon Open
Open | Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:36:49 pm PST
If it walks like an open thread, and squawks like an open thread, it’s probably not just whistlin’ Dixie.
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Zombie: Stop Thinking Like an American!
Moonbats | Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:50:17 am PST
Did you think the election of Barack Obama would finally shut up the anti-war moonbats? Silly you! Stop the World Can’t Wait — I want to get off.
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Did the Obama Campaign Hold Secret Talks with Hamas?
World | Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:27:14 am PST
P. David Hornik has a piece at Pajamas Media on the reports in Arab media that the Obama campaign held secret talks with Hamas and asked them not to reveal it: Reported Obama-Hamas Contacts Bode Ill. In an interview published Tuesday in the London-based Al-Hayat, Dr. Ahmad Yousef, political adviser ...
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Blue and Gold
Images | Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:07:46 am PST
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Rahm Emmanuel Laughed About Mandatory National Service
Politics | Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:59:54 am PST
In a 2006 interview with Ben Smith of the NY Daily News, Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama’s White House chief of staff, laughed at and brushed off Smith’s concerns about the Democrats’ plans for mandatory civil service. [Video] UPDATE at 11/12/08 8:37:00 am: The full recording is here at The NY Daily News. UPDATE at ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:08:07 pm PST
The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. — Henry Van Dyke
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And Now for Some Brawling Monks
Video | Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:56:25 pm PST
This isn’t the first time the competing religious groups in charge of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem have broken out in violence, but it’s one of the few times it’s been filmed. [Video]
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President Bush Regrets
Politics | Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:39:18 pm PST
After eight years in office, President George W. Bush is a beaten man: Bush: ‘I regret saying some things I shouldn’t have said’. NEW YORK (CNN) — As his presidency nears its end, a reflective President Bush suggested Tuesday that he regrets some of his more blunt statements on the ...
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Tuesday Evening Free For All
Open | Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:14:38 pm PST
Just another open thread...
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Kooks and Creeps Demand an Anti-War Defense Secretary
Moonbats | Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:31:10 pm PST
Lunatics and antisemites are coming out of the woodwork, and demanding that Barack Obama appoint an anti-war Secretary of Defense. Arms control advocates and anti-war activists are ratcheting up pressure on President-elect Barack Obama to dump Defense Secretary Robert Gates and replace him with a more strident anti-war voice. Nominating Gates ...
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And Now the Leaking Starts
Politics | Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:33:01 pm PST
One thing we have to look forward to: the Obama administration will probably be the leakiest White House in history. Just hours after President Bush and President-elect Obama met in the Oval Office of the White House, details of their confidential conversation began leaking out to the press, igniting anger ...
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Spherical
Images | Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:07:53 pm PST
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IPT: HLF Trial Closing Arguments
US News | Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:40:52 am PST
The retrial of the Hamas-linked Islamic charity known as the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development is in its final phase: Purpose of HLF’s Charity Debated in Closing Arguments. DALLAS – They sang praises to a terrorist group, had telephone access to its leadership and deceived the public about ...
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MSNBC Responds to CNN's Holograms
Humor | Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:01:58 am PST
The cable media war to deliver the most entertaining news is being raised to a whole new level. [Video]
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Obama Adviser (?) Malley at an Anti-Israel Conference
Politics | Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:22:12 am PST
Charles Ryder has a video of Robert Malley (the Obama aide who may or may not be an Obama aide, depending on who you listen to), at the June 2007 American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Conference in Washington DC, sharing the stage with radical anti-Israel academic Sarah Roy and Palestinian diplomat Alif ...
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Google's First Veterans Day
US News | Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:13:45 am PST
The power of Obama has reached out and healed Google.
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Veterans Day
US News | Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:21:00 am PST
On this solemn day, we honor the men and women who defend our country, the true patriots who put their lives and livelihoods on the line.
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:31:00 pm PST
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. — George Orwell
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And Now, Black Helicopter Republicans
Politics | Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:17:59 pm PST
Well, we’ve had eight years of loony left Bush Derangement Syndrome, so I guess it’s time for the loony right to get their derangement on: Georgia congressman warns of Obama dictatorship. “That’s exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it’s exactly what the Soviet Union did,” Broun said. “When ...
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Palin: Bloggers in Their Pajamas
Video | Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:49:29 pm PST
Remember when former CBS executive Jonathan Klein dismissed bloggers as “guys in their pajamas?” Join me now as I savor the sweet, sweet, full-circle irony. [Video] Of course, as I said in 2004, I never wear pajamas. So I’m sure she wasn’t talking about me.
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Audio: The Devil in Dover
Science | Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:13:56 pm PST
Here’s an interesting podcast from the San Francisco Chronicle, featuring an interview with journalist Laurie Lebo, author of The Devil in Dover: An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America. Lebo grew up in a small town near Dover, Pennsylvania, where in 2004 the Board of Education tried to ...
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Vlaams Belang: Friends of Israel?
World | Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:25:36 pm PST
As some well-known bloggers and writers continue to defend the Belgian neo-fascist party Vlaams Belang, here’s an interview with former Vlaams Belang president Frank Vanhecke, in which he claims to be a best friend of Jews and Israel: Belgian far right leader: I am one of Israel’s staunchest defenders. At ...
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Yon: Afghan Quicksand Awaits Obama
World | Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:03:46 pm PST
Michael Yon on one of the biggest problems the new president will have to face: Afghan Quicksand Awaits Obama. President-elect Obama says he is serious about Afghanistan. (Just don’t fumble Iraq, please.) As he must be learning in intelligence briefings, it’s going to be tough stuff. It will be like ...
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Monday Morning Open
Open | Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:06:57 am PST
An open thread for a sunny Monday...
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Obama Lied About Firing Anti-Israel Adviser?
Politics | Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:40:13 am PST
In May of this year, Barack Obama fired Middle East adviser Robert Malley when it was revealed that Malley had been holding secret talks with Hamas. One of Barack Obama’s Middle East policy advisers disclosed yesterday that he had held meetings with the militant Palestinian group Hamas – prompting the ...
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Malone: My Own Personal Media Bubble
Opinion | Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:49:23 am PST
Michael Malone, the ABC columnist who blew the whistle on the astoundingly open and disturbing bias of the media in this last election, has a good piece on what happened after his article was featured at LGF: My Own Personal Media Bubble.
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Happy Birthday, Marines
US News | Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:10:22 am PST
Happy birthday to the United States Marine Corps, on the 233rd anniversary of their founding. Semper fi!
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 9:56:18 pm PST
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. — Samuel Johnson
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Property Boundary
Images | Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 6:10:56 pm PST
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Sunday Afternoon Open
Open | Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:37:45 pm PST
Yes, it’s another open thread...
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Plans Under Way for 'Obama Day'
Politics | Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:45:26 am PST
Remember when presidents had to actually lead and accomplish things before they had national holidays named after them? Planning under way for Obama holiday. Plans are being made to promote a national holiday for Barack Obama, who will become the nation’s 44th president when he takes the oath of office Jan. ...
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P. J. O'Rourke: We Blew It
Opinion | Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 10:15:24 am PST
P. J. O’Rourke has one of the best election postmortems I’ve read so far: We Blew It. In how many ways did we fail conservatism? And who can count that high? Take just one example of our unconserved tendency to poke our noses into other people’s business: abortion. Democracy—be it ...
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RIP, Bali Bombing Victims
Images | Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 9:27:22 am PST
El Marco has some great photos from Bali, including powerful images of the memorial for the victims of the Islamic terror attack in 2005: Bali Bombing Victims, R.I.P. The monument’s design contains dragons and fierce spirits which envelop and protect the dead from evil. These are very powerful Balinese ...
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Boston Museum of Science: Exploring Life's Origins
Science | Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 6:30:00 am PST
The website of Boston’s Museum of Science has a fascinating “virtual exhibit” titled Exploring Life’s Origins, with excellent graphics, lucid explanations, and cool animations of ribozymes and protocells and other totally geeked out subjects. (Hat tip: Panda’s Thumb.)
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:26:35 pm PST
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. — Groucho Marx
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Driftwood
Images | Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 6:09:50 pm PST
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Vlaams Belang Head at Nazi Book Fair - Update: VB Event at Neo-Nazi Pub
World | Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 3:01:19 pm PST
Here’s a video showing Vlaams Belang leader Filip DeWinter, shopping for books at a VB/Voorpost convention. The books on these tables: neo-Nazi and fascist literature, and books about Voorpost—a European tribal nationalist militia with an openly fascist ideology. Featuring salesmen wearing Nazi-style visored caps. [Video] A translation, with context, from Øyvind Strømmen: ...
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Bali Bombers Put Down
World | Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 1:04:18 pm PST
The monsters who perpetrated the Bali nightclub bombings are ex-terrorists, and Indonesian cleric Abu Bakr Bashir is calling on Muslims to follow their example and murder as many infidels as they can: Become terrorists, cleric urges. AS the Bali bombers prepared for their executions, radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir ...
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Oh Noes! Nirth Certifikit Eated!
Humor | Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:07:27 am PST
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A British Obama? Not a Chance
World | Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 8:40:58 am PST
The BBC and Britain’s “equality watchdog” say that Britain is way too racist to elect someone like Barack Obama. A British equivalent of Barack Obama would find it extremely difficult to become prime minister, the head of the UK equality watchdog has said. Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:10:00 pm PST
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. — William Butler Yeats
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Obama Quietly Revokes His Plan for a Draft
Politics | Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:49:23 pm PST
Earlier today we posted about Barack Obama’s plan to require community service from middle school, high school, and college students. This is how it read at the time: The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service ...
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Friday Night Open
Open | Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:44:28 pm PST
So how about that election, huh? I won’t try to foist any “post-racial era” hooey off on you, and I’d be lying if I said I really liked Barack Obama or what he stands for, but electing a black president is a deeply symbolic act that we can all be proud ...
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Obama Apologizes to Nancy Reagan
Politics | Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:19:03 pm PST
I’ll give him credit for at least recognizing he went a bit over the line: Obama telephones Mrs. Reagan. President-elect Barack Obama telephoned Nancy Reagan shortly after his debut news conference on Friday to apologize for what he called a “careless and off handed remark” he made about her during ...
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Bullying Teacher in Hot Water
Video | Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:53:51 pm PST
Bill Harris, superintendent of schools in Cumberland County, North Carolina, has put up a video statement on that teacher seen bullying students who supported John McCain; the incident will be “thoroughly investigated and appropriate action will be taken.” Good on him for doing the right thing. (And it was a smart ...
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Friday Afternoon Open
Open | Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:38:23 pm PST
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. — Voltaire
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Obama Takes a Shot at Nancy Reagan
Politics | Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:37:34 pm PST
President-elect Obama at his first press conference, answering a question about whether he had spoken to any previous president: In terms of speaking to former presidents, I have spoken to all of them, uh, that are, uh, living ... obviously, uh, President Clinton, uh ... [laughter] ... hey, I didn’t ...
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Vlaams Belang and National Front Leaders Caught Mocking Holocaust - English Subtitles
World | Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:01:41 am PST
Here’s another version of the video showing Vlaams Belang and National Front leaders in Belgium, singing a vile antisemitic song, this time with English subtitles. If you aren’t aware of the back story, Vlaams Belang is the neo-fascist group with which some so-called “anti-jihad” bloggers insist we need to make alliances. ...
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Rubin: Can a Nuclear Iran Be Contained or Deterred?
World | Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:36:35 am PST
In an excellent, detailed article, Michael Rubin asks: Can a Nuclear Iran Be Contained or Deterred? Read it all, but here’s the bottom line: It may be comforting to Abizaid, Mullen, and the electorate to believe that the United States can deter or contain Tehran’s worst ambitions, but absent any preparation ...
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The Return of the Draft
Politics | Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:12:30 am PST
At his “changeover” site, Barack Obama has announced a plan to draft young Americans to perform “community service.” The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a ...
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CBS to Rather: 'Defies Logic and Common Sense'
US News | Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:15:27 am PST
CBS lawyers are scoffing at Dan Rather’s idiotic lawsuit, which claims that CBS’s independent investigation was a “sham.” Dan Rather’s conspiracy theories about CBS make about as much sense as a two-story outhouse, the network says. Rather and his old bosses were facing off in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday, where the ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:10:00 pm PST
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. — Taylor Benson
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Vlaams Belang Member Arrested for Organizing Neo-Nazi Concert
World | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:10:58 pm PST
In other Eurofascist news, another member of the Vlaams Belang has been arrested for taking part in the organization of the “Iron Pilgrimage,” a neo-Nazi hatefest that happens every year in Europe: Organizers neo-Nazi concerts arrested. (Auto-translated by Google.) The federal police today arrested three suspects in connection with an ...
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Vlaams Belang and National Front Leaders Caught Mocking Holocaust
World | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:11:10 pm PST
A cellphone video caught members of the Belgian neo-fascist parties Vlaams Belang and National Front—Luc Van Keerbergen and Michel Delacroix—in the act of singing a racist song in French, mocking the Holocaust. Delacroix and Van Keerbergen have now been evicted from their parties, because they let a little too much slip ...
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Obama-Supporting Teacher Bullies Student
Video | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:23:03 pm PST
In a grade school in North Carolina, political child abuse that you’re not going to believe. [Video] (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
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Both Candidates' Websites Were Hacked by a 'Foreign Entity'
Science | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:03:11 pm PST
We don’t know what the McCain campaign’s excuse is, but way back in June we pointed out that the Obama campaign’s web administrators were making ridiculous, amateurish security mistakes: Highlights: Newsweek’s Special Election Project. The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated cyberattack ...
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A Post-Racial Era?
US News | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:30:04 pm PST
This is the dawning of the Age of Post-Racialism! We’re healed! Oh, wait. Maybe not: Obama win does not end racism, activists say.
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Thursday Morning Open
Open | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:52:06 am PST
Just another open thread...
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Congratulations from the Islamic Republic
World | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:18:27 am PST
Associated Press writer Nasser Karimi (who, by sheer coincidence, happens to live in Tehran), is happy to report: Iran leader offers Obama landmark congratulations. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday congratulated Barack Obama on his election win — the first time an Iranian leader has offered ...
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Seattle Liberals Rediscover the Flag
US News | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:52:18 am PST
Ready to lose your appetite (if not your lunch)? Red, white and true blue: City hoists Old Glory. Barack Obama’s presidential win held a poignant significance for liberal Seattleites: This is their America, too. Download, print your own flag here The feeling was evident in jubilant partying in the streets, in quiet ...
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VDH: The Day After
Opinion | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:21:15 am PST
Victor Davis Hanson’s election post-mortem: The Day After. It seems to me that conservatives have a golden opportunity to offer criticism and advice in a manner that many liberals did not during the last eight years. By that I mean I hope there are no conservative versions of the Nicholson ...
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Treasury Considering Islamic Finance?
US News | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:54:21 am PST
Frank Gaffney says the US Treasury, as part of its effort to deal with the banking crisis, is preparing to submit to Shariah. As reported in this space last week, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Robert Kimmitt set the stage with his recent visit to Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:40:00 pm PST
Outside of a dog, a man’s best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. — Groucho Marx
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Review: Amazon Kindle
Science | Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:04:53 pm PST
I wavered back and forth for months on this purchase. It seemed overly expensive, and it didn’t have that sleek industrial design look that we’ve come to expect from high end gadgetry. And Steve Jobs said it was a “non-starter.” He should know, right? Well, no. Steve may have a good record ...
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McCain Staffers Savaging Sarah Palin
Politics | Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:41:39 pm PST
I don’t know what to say about this, except ... ugh. [Video]
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HuffPo Loons Still Doing What They Do
Politics | Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:45:42 pm PST
In an article about right-of-center blog reactions to the Obama victory (you knew this was coming), Hatington Post smear merchant Jason Linkins seems to approve of what I wrote about social conservatives earlier today, titling his link to LGF: “Hey! Let me make total sense for just a second!” Hey, Jason! ...
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Onion: Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
Video | Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:47:29 pm PST
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Wednesday Afternoon Open
Open | Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:52:07 pm PST
An open thread for a post-election Wednesday...
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Should the GOP Double Down on Social Conservatism?
Politics | Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:05:25 pm PST
Some interesting comments from David Frum, as the GOP soul-searching and finger-pointing begins: Republicans face fraught choice between two roads to revival. A generation ago, Republicans dominated among college graduates. In 1984 and 1988, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush won states like California, Pennsylvania and Connecticut – states that ...
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Arab Reactions to Obama's Election
World | Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:05:04 pm PST
MEMRI has reactions from Arab media to the election of Barack Obama. Includes this lovely sentiment from our good friends in Saudi Arabia: The Saudi daily Al-Watan stated in an editorial: “There is no significant difference between Obama and McCain. They disagree only on the means to achieve America’s chief ...
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RIP, Michael Crichton
US News | Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:28:23 am PST
Author Michael Crichton passed away today in Los Angeles. A brilliant, unique writer who was able to apply his knowledge of science and technology to exciting tales of adventure and mystery, he’ll be greatly missed.
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Muslim Brotherhood Smiling
World | Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:03:44 am PST
The leader of the world’s largest jihadist organization, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, is a happy man today: World leaders’ quotes on Obama election win. MOHAMED MAHDI AKEF, LEADER OF THE EGYPTIAN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, ONE OF THE LARGEST ISLAMIST GROUPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST “We congratulate (Obama) on the confidence of the ...
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Wednesday Morning Open
Open | Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:10:53 am PST
It looks like every sentient being with an Internet connection in the known universe is trying to load LGF this morning. Here’s an open thread while we try to get things under control...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:54:54 pm PST
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. — Maria Mitchell
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Obama's Victory Speech
Politics | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:02:32 pm PST
The president elect is giving his victory speech, and here’s one more thread to discuss it.
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President Barack Obama
Politics | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:10:15 pm PST
Barack Hussein Obama is the next President of the United States, and we extend our sincere congratulations. Country first.
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Election Day, Thread 10
Politics | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:58:56 pm PST
Hey, maybe California will go for McCain! Ya think?
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Election Day, Thread 9
Politics | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:38:20 pm PST
Here’s what I wrote on February 5th: If John McCain is the nominee, we’re going to have at least four years of a Democrat in the White House—and with some estimating that Iran will have a bomb within two years, that means we’d have a Democrat facing a nuclear-armed Iran. ...
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PJTV Election Coverage
Politics | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:49:02 pm PST
Pajamas TV has a special live election show, free to all...
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Election Day, Thread 8
Politics | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:42:08 pm PST
Another thread for electoral wrangling and persiflage...
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Live Electoral Map
Politics | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:36:25 pm PST
We’ve embedded a live electoral map on our page, courtesy of Google; it will remain at the top of every page. Hover your mouse over states to see the current percentages, or use the drop-down menus to check out individual states and see totals by county. You can zoom in ...
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Election Day, Thread 7
Politics | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:23:21 pm PST
We’re in the final hours of polling on the east coast, and here’s another discussion thread... (We’re trying to ignore exit polls this year, because they’re basically worthless.)
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Election Day, Thread 6
Politics | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:40:41 pm PST
Just back from the polling corral, where I cast my vote for the person I most trust to bring America the change we need, the Green Party’s Cynthia McKinney. Just kidding! Had you going there, didn’t I?
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McCain Signs Vandalized with Hitler Stencil
Politics | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:31:22 pm PST
Via Lone Star Times: Has anyone ever seen an Obama sign defaced like this?
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Video: Black Panthers Menace Voters in Philly
Politics | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:07:25 am PST
Via Election Journal, video of Black Panthers in paramilitary dress menacing voters with a nightstick in Philadelphia, before the police arrived and put a stop to it. [Video]
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Election Day, Thread 5 - France Hearts Obama
Politics | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:47:42 am PST
World hopes for a ‘less arrogant America’. Among the more irreverent festivities planned in Paris: a “Goodbye George” party to bid farewell to Bush. “Like many French people, I would like Obama to win because it would really be a sign of change,” said Vanessa Doubine, shopping Tuesday on the Champs-Elysees. ...
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Election Day, Thread 4, with Our Line of the Day
Politics | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:08:13 am PST
Obama thanks ‘gracious’ press. “But you guys have been gracious and understanding,” he said, following conservative criticism of the press for its coverage of Obama, as his plane prepared to depart after a huge rally in Virginia for Chicago. “It’s been a good long ride with all of you,” the Illinois ...
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Election Day, Thread 3
Politics | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:18:37 am PST
Fox News just reported on an incident at a polling station in Philadelphia, where Black Panthers were blocking the entrance (one of them holding a nightstick) and intimidating voters; police were called. According to a witness they were telling people, “A black man is going to win this election no ...
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Election Day, Thread Two
Open | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:37:55 am PST
If you were having trouble with the “reply” and “quote” features, they’re fixed now. So here’s an open thread while we mainline some more Kona coffee...
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Obama Made Secret Promises to Palestinians
Politics | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:18:03 am PST
Report: Obama voiced support for Palestinians’ right to Jerusalem. The Palestinian Authority has refrained from officially declaring its support for one of the US presidential hopefuls, claiming this was an “internal American issue”, but a Lebanese newspaper reported Tuesday that Palestinian leaders in the West Bank are hoping for Democrat ...
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Election Day, Thread One
Politics | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:56:49 am PST
Is there something happening today we should know about? Red Bull, Shift-Blogging and Basement Video Shoots: Politics Sites Prep For Game Day.
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:23:23 pm PST
And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. — William Shakespeare
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Card: Obama's Cruel Tax on the Poor
Opinion | Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:17:25 pm PST
Another spot-on essay from Orson Scott Card: America Unplugged! Obama’s Cruel Tax on the Poor. It’s all in the name of Obama’s True Belief in Global Warming. He says it himself — he’ll take coal off the table as an “ideological matter.” Even if technology allows us to use coal ...
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Palin is Cleared in 'Troopergate'
Politics | Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:47:53 pm PST
After an unbelievable barrage of smear articles from the mainstream media, tonight an independent investigation by Alaska’s State Personnel Board has cleared Sarah Palin of wrongdoing in the media-dubbed “Troopergate” case. Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin did not violate state ethics rules as governor when she fired her state ...
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Columbia Univ. Director Replies to Request for Khalidi Tape: 'Yeah, Right ... Loser'
Politics | Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:54:58 pm PST
An LGF reader contacted Columbia University (and a lot of other potential sources, including the LA Times) with a polite request that they help release the tape of Rashid Khalidi with Barack Obama (the video the Los Angeles Times has ... unbelievably ... decided to suppress during a hotly contested ...
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Monday Afternoon Poll
Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:06:11 pm PST
A silly Internet poll to test the temperature of the water: [Poll]
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RIP, Madelyn Dunham
US News | Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:49:35 pm PST
Barack Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has passed away after a battle with cancer. Our sincere condolences to Obama and his family.
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Mere Rhetoric: Obama's Israel Deceptions
Politics | Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:13:00 pm PST
Omri Ceren makes a last ditch appeal to Democratic Jews to reconsider their support for a man who will be absolutely disastrous for Israel: 70 Percent Of American Jews Ready To Say ‘We Didn’t Know’ When Obama Detonates US-Israel Alliance (Plus: They Most Definitely Know). You have to admire the ...
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Ohio Coal Association on Obama's Plan to Wipe Them Out
Politics | Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:44:35 am PST
Just released via Fox News, a statement from Mike Carey, president of the Ohio Coal Association: The message from the Democratic candidate for President could not be clearer: the Obama-Biden ticket spells disaster for America’s coal industry and the tens of thousands of Americans who work in it. It’s evident that ...
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Monday Morning Open
Open | Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:23:56 am PST
Here’s an open thread for the Monday before the Tuesday. Traffic is going to be very high today and tomorrow. For the best results browsing LGF, we strongly suggest you use Firefox 3—or even better, Apple’s Safari—to browse LGF. Both of these browsers will work much better than Microsoft Internet Explorer, ...
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Obama's First Fulltime Job: a Company with Ties to the SDS
Politics | Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:47:28 am PST
At The Volokh Conspiracy: Obama’s first fulltime employer, Business International, had substantial SDS ties in the 1960s. After graduating from Columbia in 1983, Obama’s first fulltime job was to work for an international business newsletter firm, Business International. From all accounts (including Obama’s), it appears that this company was business-oriented ...
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Obama Flips Off McCain
Politics | Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:20:33 am PST
Just as he congratulates John McCain, Barack Obama scratches his face—first with his index finger, and then... [Video] And remember, he did the same thing to Hillary Clinton in the primary race. Is it deliberate? No one knows but Obama himself. But there used to be a time when presidential candidates would ...
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The Door Opens - Update: The Door Closes
Open | Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:58:53 am PST
Registration is now open for a limited time. All hatchlings are monitored. Those interested in honest, respectful discussion are welcome, but trolls, mobies, and/or sockpuppets will be dealt with swiftly. UPDATE at 11/3/08 10:01:10 am: The door is closed, with 285 hatchlings.
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Peters: Obama 2012
Opinion | Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:27:41 am PST
Here’s a science fiction story by Ralph Peters... Actually, it’s more like a horror tale: Obama 2012: His Triumphs Abroad. Looking back on the four years of his first administration, President Obama can be proud: He made the US welcome among the family of nations again; he reduced our reliance on ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 11:01:23 pm PST
And, e’en while fashion’s brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. — Oliver Goldsmith
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Dissenting Designer Dissed
Politics | Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:40:09 pm PST
Noted designer Andy Rutledge went off the reservation, dared to imagine a redesign of the USA.gov website under an Obama administration, and discovered the true meaning of dissent: The Design of (the wrong sort of) Dissent. I often read about and hear about how designers must have the courage to ...
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Sunday Evening Open
Open | Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 6:15:41 pm PST
Here’s your “things are finally getting weird enough” open thread for a Sunday evening. User icons are temporarily disabled, to help alleviate the demands on the hamsters that power our web server. [Video]
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Soviet Doggies Bark for Barack
Politics | Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 5:25:56 pm PST
You have got to be kidding me. Yesterday Zombie posted a photo of a silly Barack Obama poster featuring a barking dog, titled Bark for Barack! But the original version of this poster was anything but silly. It’s a copy of a Soviet propaganda poster painted in the 1920s by Russian Constructivist ...
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More Proof Rashid Khalidi Was a Terrorist Shill
Politics | Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 3:28:00 pm PST
As the media and the Obama campaign continue to cover for Rashid Khalidi, repeating his denials that he was a spokesman for Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization at a time when they were murdering Americans and were listed as a terrorist group by the US, Martin Kramer has exhaustively documented ...
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'Olbermann' on SNL
Humor | Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 1:11:14 pm PST
The “Keith Olbermann” segment from Saturday Night Live — dead on target (but as usual, way too long). [Video]
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Sunday Morning Open
Open | Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:30:52 am PST
Did you set your clocks back an hour?
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Obama Wants 'Price Signals' to 'Change Behavior'
Politics | Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 9:45:32 am PST
In an interview on Iowa Public TV in 2007, Barack Obama advocated sending “price signals” to middle class consumers in order to “change their behavior.” “Price signals” being an Orwellian code word for punitive taxes and fees. And Obama doesn’t seem to care much who it would hurt. [Video] (Hat tip: Thanos.)
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Obama Told SF Chronicle He Would 'Bankrupt' the Coal Industry
Politics | Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 9:10:56 am PST
This speaks for itself. [Video] Let me sort of describe my overall policy. What I’ve said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else’s out there. I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 11:20:00 pm PDT
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. — Niels Bohr
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Pope Benedict Meets Stephen Hawking, Sans Creationists
Science | Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 8:51:51 pm PDT
Pope Benedict met Stephen Hawking at a Vatican-sponsored conference on evolution yesterday, and the pseudo-scientific shills of the Discovery Institute were not invited. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict told a gathering of scientists including the British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Friday that there was no contradiction between believing in ...
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Making Trouble
Video | Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:31:58 pm PDT
For some reason, this song is ... uh ... resonating with me tonight. [Video]
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LGF Exclusive: Bill Ayers' 'Prairie Fire' in PDF Form
Politics | Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:55:24 pm PDT
A little green birdie dropped off a package for us; the PDF version of Barack Obama associates “Billy” Ayers’ and Bernardine Dohrn’s 1974 communist declaration of war against the United States. Includes the dedication to Sirhan Sirhan, assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, on page 5. You may have read about this book, ...
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Zombie: The Weather Underground's Long Term Plan
Politics | Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:04:55 pm PDT
With help from LGF readers ‘experiencedtraveler’ and ‘Sharmuta,’ Zombie has dug up another rare document: the first issue of Osawatomie: the Weather Underground newspaper. And it outlines a strategy of “working from the inside” to radicalize America and bring about a socialist revolution. If that sounds familiar, I’m sure it’s just a ...
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Saturday Afternoon Open
Open | Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 2:26:07 pm PDT
Another midday open thread...
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Hawaii State Verifies Obama Birth Certificate
Politics | Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:03:29 pm PDT
The State of Hawaii has released a statement verifying that they have Barack Obama’s official birth certificate on record. HONOLULU — The state’s Department of Health director on Friday released a statement verifying the legitimacy of Sen. Barack Obama birth certificate. The state has received multiple requests for a copy of ...
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Bali Bomber Executions Imminent
World | Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 11:52:48 am PDT
Mukhlas and Amrozi, two of the Islamic terrorists who carried out the 2002 nightclub bombings in Bali, will soon be put down. And then they’ll be buried with honors in their home town. After the brothers are executed with fellow terrorist Imam Samudra, a sentence which could be carried out ...
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Obama's Aunt Living in US Illegally - Obama 'Didn't Know'
Politics | Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 11:02:41 am PDT
Obama says he didn’t know aunt’s illegal status. CHICAGO – Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Saturday he didn’t know his aunt was living in the United States illegally and believes that laws covering the situation should be followed. The Associated Press found that Obama’s aunt had been instructed to leave ...
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Saturday Morning Open
Open | Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 10:05:13 am PDT
An open thread for the last Saturday morning before this momentous election...
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Seattle Paper Publishes Addresses of Homes with GOP Signs
Media | Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 9:55:51 am PDT
Seattle “alternative” (alternative to what?) newspaper The Stranger is publishing the addresses of homes displaying Republican campaign signs, with the charming title: Hell Houses. (Hat tip: wccawa.)
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VDH: The End of Journalism
Opinion | Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 9:20:13 am PDT
An excellent column by Victor Davis Hanson on The End of Journalism. Read the whole thing, but here’s the crux of the biscuit: The media has succeeded in shielding Barack Obama from journalistic scrutiny. It thereby irrevocably destroyed its own reputation and forfeited the trust that generations of others had so ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:30:30 pm PDT
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. — Socrates
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