Archive for March, 2011
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
Mark Steyn: Great opening sentences: Al-Qaeda has launched a women’s magazine that mixes beauty and fashion tips with advice on suicide bombings. Seriously. What else is in there? Readers are told it is their duty to raise children to be mujahideen ready for jihad. And the ‘beauty column’ instructs women to stay indoors with their [...]
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Sunday, March 13th, 2011
Continues to choke the economy, and Hugh Hewitt calls the question for both the President and the Obama Media: Of course, we don’t have new wells off East or West Coast, and, of course, the president hasn’t done anything to expand production in Alaska either. It is absurd for the president to claim anything other [...]
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Sunday, March 13th, 2011
When He Returns The iron hand it ain’t no match for the iron rod The strongest wall will crumble and fall to a mighty God For all those who have eyes and all those who have ears It is only He who can reduce me to tears Don’t you cry and don’t you die and [...]
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Sunday, March 13th, 2011
Why? “These are Israel’s peace partners.” Indeed. Warning: Graphic Images: video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Roger Kimball: Five members of “an Israeli family” — antiseptically left unnamed by the Times — were knifed to death in their sleep but the gravamen of the story was that the Israelis responded by deciding to build more settlements [...]
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Sunday, March 13th, 2011
The Daily Mail has photos of Japan that will make you pause and pray. In a related story, a man is rescued ten miles out to sea floating on his rooftop: Today as the people of Japan came to terms with the devastating destruction and loss of life suffered after Friday’s megaquake a rare story [...]
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Friday, March 11th, 2011
8.9. Watching the tsunami waves hitting Honshu live now. Incredible. Tsunami warnings out for the Pacific Rim and as far east as Hawaii. Discussions of North American tsunami as well. Prayers for all. UPDATE: Tsunami warnings issued for Russia and Guam also. From Hawaii News Now: EWA BEACH (HawaiiNewsNow) — A Tsunami Watch has been [...]
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Friday, March 11th, 2011
Idiots. Why do these people, many of whom are professionals, feel no fear in expressing such death wishes in the open? Professor Glenn Reynolds: They’ve lived for years in a culture of impunity. But that’s changing faster than they realize.
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Christian Schneider: Demonstrating that no hyperbole was out of reach, Rep. Cory Mason claimed that “Martin Luther King was assassinated while fighting for the rights you’re trying to take away.” Rep. Elizabeth Coggs said she looks at Wisconsin “as an apartheid system.” Rep. Tamara Grigsby said that when she saw the riot police with helmets [...]
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
And conservatives, etc., etc., etc. The entitled ones: A man who appears to be a National Public Radio senior executive, Ron Schiller, has been captured on camera savaging conservatives and the Tea Party movement. “The current Republican Party, particularly the Tea Party, is fanatically involved in people’s personal lives and very fundamental Christian – I [...]
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