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I received this rather delightful ad hominem attack today on the index page for Tim and Alissa Birkel’s Rachel Maddow series:
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December 29, 2009
Swindle, your cute little swipes at msnbc are becoming tiresome. Such a superior intellect as yours should certainly be focused on bigger quarry. But your adolescent mind prevails. Horowitz had his [...]
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The phrase “letter-writing campaigns to Rifqa publicized on blogs that malign Islam” is doubtless a reference to Pamela Geller’s initiative to have Christmas cards sent to Rifqa — but complaining about “blogs that malign Islam” sells a lot better than saying straight out, as they did before, that they’re trying…
Here’s one for Ralph and Dinesh now, given new relevance by the Flight 253 underwear jihadist. (Thanks to Weasel Zippers.)…
Ralph Peters, call your office: “a rotten core of American extremists” is out to make it harder for moderate Muslims again, just as you warned us in 2006 that they would do. That’s right, Ralph, “right-wing extremists bent on discrediting honorable conservatism” are “insisting that Islam can never reform, that…
A brief addition to yesterday’s post on Andrew Sullivan’s current avocation as Barack Obama’s pooper-scooper. I noted that Sullivan had fecklessly praised the President’s admirable “reticence” in avoiding the serious condemnation of Iran’s mullahs for their murder of protestors in the streets. By Sullivan’s twisted logic, Obama’s shameful silence had a golden lining: preventing Ahmadinejad’s [...]
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He was charged for threatening to blow up local businesses in the name of jihad — two days after he was released on $100 bond after being picked up with a butcher knife and making the same threat. An update on this story. “Man charged with terrorism: Wanted to blow…
He was going to get seven years of Sharia study in Yemen for free. Who was paying? “U.S. plane bomber wanted to study sharia in Yemen,” from Reuters, December 29 (thanks to all who sent this in): ABUJA (Reuters) – A Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a…
In an ideal world, Abdul Mutallab would be getting waterboarded right about now. I would volunteer to do the honors if no one was really up for it.
We know that the use of “enhanced techniques” of interrogation on al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed – which included waterboarding – forced KSM to give up crucial information [...]
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The case of the alleged Christmas bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is being called a massive intelligence failure. And the evidence thus far does suggest a possible lapse in the government’s management of terrorist watch lists. But if so, the blame doesn’t lie wholly with government agencies charged with maintaining the lists. Some share of responsibility [...]
