WASHINGTON—Democrats and independents closed ranks Saturday and voted to move forward with debate on landmark legislation that would overhaul the nation’s health system and extend health insurance to 31 million Americans.The 60-39 Saturday vote came after a handful of undecided senators—centrist Democrats Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas—signaled their readiness to begin [...]
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Jacob Laksin | November 22, 2009 | Posted in
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Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is much more than a politician: she’s a rockstar. Her memoirs, “Going Rogue: An American Life,” sold 300,000 copies on the first day of its release. It tops every best seller’s list in the country. Her book tour is already an astounding success, with tens of thousands of supporters waiting [...]
Always without desire we must be found,
If its deep mystery we would sound;
But if desire always within us be,
Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.
Under these two aspects, it is really the same; but as development
takes place, it receives the different names. Together we call them
the Mystery. Where the Mystery is the deepest [...]
The track record of the two appointees, taken together with the administration’s own ability to distinguish “moderates” from “extremists” inspires anything but confidence. After all, the Fort Hood jihadist was himself a member of a panel advising the incoming Obama administration. At the heart of this issue are the politically…
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Marisol | November 22, 2009 | Posted in
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Toymaker Mattel Inc. has given its best-selling Barbie doll a makeover in honor of her 50th anniversary.
Meet Burkha Barbie, garbed in traditional Islamic Dress. On sale now.
Sadly, this is no joke.

Cultural genocide is a consequence of jihadist warfare, as the supremacist impulse to impose Islamic law cannot tolerate any competition, especially from the non-Islamic past, or time of jahiliyyah. Ensuring submission requires extinguishing a populace’s attachment to — or curiosity about — its prior existence, unless it can be subsumed…
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Marisol | November 22, 2009 | Posted in
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Have no fear! Organizing for America’s got your back. They’ve spotted the greatest danger threatening the Republic today, and they’re ready to fight it!
What is this great danger, you ask? An Army full of Major Hansans (and his cowardly careerist enablers)? Obamacare’s “death panels”?
Don’t be ridiculous.
Organizing for America is begging its membership to help [...]
Editor’s Note: To read part 1 of this series, click here.
One thing I’ve learned after years in the collection industry is that once the Government gets involved in your business, it grows ever more intrusive.
And the bureaucrats that craft laws are also not above throwing in sanctions to force their dream on the rest of us.
The [...]
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John Nampion | November 22, 2009 | Posted in
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Isn’t that just like you, to think you can psych out death by treating it as an aesthetic device? This could be my father’s voice, but it is my friend Peter’s. Years earlier he had become a devout Catholic. When he read this text and made this comment, it was Ash Wednesday, the beginning of [...]
Maybe these are the sort of dolls Muhammad’s pre-pubescent wife was playing with: “Narrated ‘Aisha: I used to play with the dolls in the presence of the Prophet, and my girl friends also used to play with me. When Allah’s Apostle used to enter (my dwelling place) they used to…
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Robert | November 22, 2009 | Posted in
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