Virginia Tech Reasserts ‘Diversity’ Folly: Part 1

A large state university is spiraling downward into an anti-intellectual orthodoxy.

David Frum: Why Health Care Bill is Too Big a Risk – Frum Forum

I wanted to support President Obama’s health care reforms if I possibly could. The U.S. health care system costs too much, delivers too little and excludes too many. Americans pay 60 percent more per person for health care than any other nation. Yet Americans rank only 41st in life expectancy and live with the paralyzing [...]

Ahmadinejad dismisses US deadline for nuclear deal – AP

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s president on Tuesday dismissed a year-end deadline set by the Obama administration and the West for Tehran to accept a U.N.-drafted deal to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel. The United States warned Iran to take the deadline seriously. via Ahmadinejad dismisses US deadline for nuclear deal – Yahoo! News.

Egyptian court upholds 4-year sentence for blogger for criticizing Islam

These are the kinds of laws that the Organization of the Islamic Conference is working to bring to the West. “Egypt court upholds 4-year sentence for blogger,” from Reuters, December 22: CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court confirmed the four-year jail sentence imposed on an Egyptian student blogger for posting…

Jihad against the media: three killed in suicide bombing outside press club in Pakistan

Striking back against journalistic bias? “Suicide Bomber in Pakistan Kills 3 at Peshawar Press Club,” from VOA News, December 22 (thanks to all who sent this in): Pakistani officials say three people have been killed and 17 others wounded in a suicide bombing outside a press club in the northwestern…

Pro-Drug War Conservatives Need to Rethink, er, REMEMBER the Role of Government

At Pajamas Media today Mary Grabar, a thoughtful writer and an acquaintance, has an effective piece in response to a recent tragic death which has reopened an important issue that’s not discussed nearly enough:
A truly sad story about a 23-year-old Panama City man dying while being subdued by Bay County sheriff’s deputies has reawakened the [...]

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All Libs Want for Christmas is to Waterboard Conservatives

Sean Hannity may be taking a break for the holidays (leaving last night’s show in the capable hands of Mark Steyn), but the Left is still looking for reasons to put him on their naughty list.  Writing for the LA Times’ Brand X blog earlier today, Richard Metzger recalled that, in April, Hannity told actor-turned-commentator [...]

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U.S. Muslims detained in Pakistan for jihad activity say they have no regrets over plotting jihad against U.S. forces

Treason. “Detained U.S. Nationals In Pakistan Say No Regrets On Planning Jihad Against U.S. Forces, Affirm: ‘Martyrdom Is Our Aim; We Will Get Martyrdom If We Are Hanged,’” from MEMRI, December 22 (thanks to all who sent this in): The five U.S. nationals detained recently by the Pakistani security…

The myth of the anti-Muslim backlash

In the days after the Fort Hood jihad attack, we noted here just a few of the blizzard of backlash stories that ran in the mainstream media, and I wrote that there would be no backlash. And there has not been. Americans are decent people who do not victimize random…

Open Thread

The Tea Party is Coming to Town
Robert A. Hall
You better watch out
You better not try
To spend us broke
I’m telling you why
The Tea Party is coming to town.

We’re making a list
And checking it there;
Gonna find out
Who’s for ObamaCare.
Tea Party is coming to town.

We sees you when you’re earmarking
We know that you’re a fake,
We knows if you voted [...]

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