Two recent events brought me to seriously doubt if personal involvement in politics is worth the Mount Everest of laundry that accumulates while I attempt to “change the nation,” by campaigning, making phone calls, and pounding the pavement for the latest “real deal.”
The first “final straw,” was the pathetic betrayal of voters by Scott Brown, [...]
I’ve heard direct accounts of this several times over the years from people who live along the border in Arizona and Texas. Thanks to The Right Scoop for the video….
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The War on Terror happened as a result of the 9-11 Islamist attacks period. Since then, scores of other threats have turned up on our continent; fortunately most of them have been thwarted. As the West grapples with Islamism, political appeasers have stymied the War on Terror by dividing public resolve, paving the way for [...]
In Human Events this morning I discuss the Obama Administration’s dhimmitude and abandonment of the freedom of speech regarding “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day”: Last Thursday was “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day,” and Muslims, predictably, are outraged. Thousands of Pakistanis demonstrated against the drawings of Muhammad, and the Pakistani government shut down…
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A smooth deceiver is caught out. “Foreign mosque money: Arabs to help pay,” by Tom Topousis for the New York Post, May 25 (thanks to Twostellas): The imam behind a proposed mosque and Islamic community center near Ground Zero will turn to Arab and Muslim nations around the world to…
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Speaking of puritanical and misogynistic, here is a Sharia Alert from modern, moderate Indonesia: “‘Islamic’ skirts for women,” from AFP, May 25 (thanks to Twostellas): MEULABOH (Indonesia) – ISLAMIC police in Indonesia’s Aceh province have been issued with 20,000 long skirts and ordered to cover up women deemed to have…
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When they’re bashing the moral laxity of the West, it’s OK to be puritanical. When Westerners notice that Islamic society is puritanical, it is an act of “Islamophobia.” Nonetheless, Muslims are enraged yet again, this time because of this film’s depiction of Islamic society as “puritanical and misogynistic.” And really,…
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Clearly the prosecutor is a Misunderstander of Islam, since everyone knows that only greasy Islamophobes believe that Islam carries a death penalty for blasphemy. Here is an update on the case of Hector Aleem, the human rights activist who is in jail in Pakistan for objecting to the destruction of…
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Terrible new developments in the Rifqa Bary case. “Rifqa Bary Suffering from Cancer, Her Lawyers Bring In Her Parents,” by Pamela Geller in the American Thinker, May 25: There has been a terrible development in the case of Rifqa Bary, the teenage girl who fled from her home in fear…
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New York Democratic Representative Anthony Weiner , a member of the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection, is using his public office to attack one of Glenn Beck’s key sponsors, Goldline, Inc. It seems that Goldline, Inc. has committed the heinous crime, according to Weiner, of exploiting Beck’s scaremongering about the collapsing economy to tout [...]