Archive for June, 2009
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Barbara Boxer is an embarrassement. The Chicago Tribune notes: “Could you say ‘senator’ instead of ‘ma’am?’ ” Boxer (D-Calif.) said this week to Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh, testifying at a hearing that she was chairing on the levees in New Orleans. “It’s just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I’d appreciate [...]
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Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Here: 10. He hasn’t yet gotten to the “Supporting Democracy” chapter in his The Presidency for Dummies book. 9. He can’t pronounce “Iran.” 8. Iran is Shiite, and Obama can’t remember if that’s the type of Muslim he secretly is. 7. Thought iRan was the accessory for the iPod that keeps track of how many [...]
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Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Excellent reading from Bill Roggio on our Long War — against Islamofascism. Including helpful summaries with links: A suicide bomber detonated near the shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran. The Guardian Council reported that it is ready to recount a tenth of the votes from the election, and is prepared to deploy riot police to [...]
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
As Sunday morning dawns in Iran, Saturday may have been the start of the tipping point. Roger Cohen: Khamenei has taken a radical risk. He has factionalized himself, so losing the arbiter’s lofty garb, by aligning himself with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against both Mir Hussein Moussavi, the opposition leader, and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a [...]
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Ross Kaminsky on Twitter and Iran: Despite being old men with little exposure to leading-edge technology, Iran’s ruling Guardian Council understands the essential value of communication to freedom: If they can communicate freely, no people can be long enslaved. Michelle Malkin Tweets Too! I use TweetDeck — on both my laptop and iPhone. #iranelection is [...]
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Eric Golub: You have a child yourself, and if I remember correctly, one that was conceived out of wedlock. You were not attacked for this. You even gushed when Oprah sent you a fruit basket, but now you are using your nightly platform to destroy a family. What human being does this? . . . [...]
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Obama has no shame: [T]he Obama administration has zeroed out funding for pro-democracy programs inside Iran from the State Department budget for fiscal 2010, just as protests in Iran are ramping up. Funding for pro-democracy programs began in 2004, when Congress earmarked $1.5 million of the State Department budget for “educational, humanitarian, and non-governmental organizations [...]
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Our President just does not get Freedom. He takes it for granted and therefore does not understand it, how it can be fleeting or so hard to attain. Tom Giovanetti: Contrast between Obama/Reagan never clearer. Reagan’s words were foundation of change; Obama is last one to the table #iranelection 10 minutes ago from TweetDeck
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
And civilization? Is God lifting his hand from our nation? You may cry, but Pray. Well, today I walked out of a Judd Apatow movie crying. It was the scene where the obese homosexual is fortune-telling by looking at the bowels of a sheep that has been sodomized by a person. The movie was “Year [...]
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