Glenn Beck expressed alarm on his TV show that so many lawmakers on Capitol Hill seem willing to go along with the Obama administration’s planned crackdown on Wall Street (no video; transcript here):
Is it just me who thinks this is a bad idea? Am I alone? I guess so, because even Republicans are OK with [...]
At the Daily Beast, Matthew Yglesias has a bad feeling about the way Senate Democrats are going about passing financial “reform” legislation—rushing it through in much the same way they rammed though health care “reform”:
It means we’re looking at a bill that punts on many of the biggest issues. It means that neither the broad [...]
In an era when we are all being encouraged to use our indoor voices when discussing current affairs it was heartening to see Keith “Oil on Troubled Waters” Olbermann lead by example last night. His subject, the recent Arizona immigration law:
Protests continuing at this hour at the state capitol of Phoenix, Arizona, while calls for [...]
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While so many captives to wishful thinking in the West continue to place their hope in Islamic reformers gaining a wide following, this is generally the fate of those who actually question Islam’s tenets. Islamic Tolerance Alert from the Kingdom of the Two Holy Places: “Head of the religious police…
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Not that the Palestinian war against Israel has anything to do with Islam. Oh, no. A few land concessions on Israel’s part will patch things up. “Hamas TV sermon: Iceland volcano was Allah’s punishment of Infidels,” by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook for PMW, April 27: A Palestinian cleric…
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Last Sunday I was in New York for the Rally In Solidarity with Israel in front of the Israeli consulate, cosponsored by SIOA (join SIOA here). Jihad Watch reader Christine kindly sent in the photos above. SIOA Executive Director Pamela Geller has more photos here, and she also spoke….
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And meanwhile, Pakistan is still dragging its feet about prosecuting the perpetrators of the Mumbai massacre. Now, why is that? “Mumbai terrorist group threaten Indian ‘water jihad,’” by Rob Crilly in the Telegraph, April 27 (thanks to Joan): Pakistani terrorists behind the Mumbai attacks have threatened to launch a fresh…
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In “Defeating Radical Islam: The Herculean Strategy” in Pajamas Media (via Middle East Forum), April 20, our old friend Raymond Ibrahim clears up some wishful thinking: Will the recent killings of al-Qaeda leaders Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayub al-Masri have any tangible effects on the “war on terror”? Vice…
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Disgraced ex-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, known as Client #9 to the prostitutes he patronized, is trying to make a political come-back. Heaven forbid! Even before the scandal that brought him down, Spitzer was a political opportunist who trampled on due process and the individual rights of others while regarding himself as above the law.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has on his New York City Human Rights Commission the CAIR lawyer Omar Mohammedi. Mohammedi was appointed to the Commission in October 2002. Mohammedi represents several organizations that are the defendants in a 9/11 lawsuit. One is the World Assembly for Muslim Youth (WAMY)….
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