Archive for March, 2010

Guantanamo: No More Going to Rehab, Baby

This past week, it is being reported that Guantanamo detainees being released are returning to terrorist activity in far greater numbers than had been expected.
In our attempt to take the high road, please other nations, and keep the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) happy we continue to set ourselves up for new attacks from the [...]

March 31st, 2010
Topic: NRB

U.S. supporting Islamic jihad against Russia

Stubbornly ignorant and unwilling to investigate the jihad doctrine, State Department officials led the U.S. into war to support jihadists in Bosnia and Kosovo. Now the same mistake is being repeated. “U.S. Supports Islamic Terror Against Russia,” by Julia Gorin at Republican Riot, March 29 (thanks to Pamela): We don’t…

March 31st, 2010
Topic: JW

Belgian parliament bans burqas

Not “compatible with an open, liberal, tolerant society.” Indeed. “Belgian parliament bans burquas [sic] in public,” from AP, March 31: BRUSSELS– A vote against wearing face-covering veils in puclic was unanimously established on Wednesday. This legislation represents a major legislative step, which could make Belguim the first European country to…

March 31st, 2010
Topic: JW

Left’s Playbook — Past the Ignore and Ridicule Stage

Ghandi famously charted the trajectory of his protest movement thus: “First they ignore us, then they ridicule us, then they fight us, then we win.”
In the aftermath of the hand-to-hand combat that was the Health Care Reform bill I think it is safe to say we are well into step three. (For the guardians of [...]

March 31st, 2010
Topic: NRB

Spencer at Florida State University School of Law, March 30

Speech in five parts: Q & A, in 3 parts: All videos courtesy of Jaime — many thanks, my friend!…

March 31st, 2010
Topic: JW

The great Nazi-hunter Charles Johnson bags another

Libelblogger Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs is dead and buried as a source that anyone takes seriously — even the New York Times did a post-mortem — but Johnson’s latest ridiculous discovery of neo-Nazis warrants a revisit to this whole sad affair. Weasel Zippers has found the comment…

March 31st, 2010
Topic: JW

CNN loses ‘dozens’ of viewers

Or: “Larry King’s audience has fallen (by 52%) and it can’t get up…”
The two MediaBistro headlines tell the story:
* “Q1 2010 Ratings: Dominant Fox News Has Best Quarter in Network History”
* “Q1 2010 Ratings: CNN Sees Double Digit Drop from Year Ago”
Since CNN has such trouble with, you know, numbers and stuff, I wonder if [...]

March 31st, 2010
Topic: NRB

“Blasphemy” and “Defamation of Islam” at the UN Commission on Human Rights – and the “Islamophobia” monster in Frankenstein’s footsteps

Comments by David G. Littman, NGO Representative at the UN in Geneva: Association for World Education and World Union for Progressive Judaism This joint oral statement, on former themes, was drafted on the spur of the moment and delivered hastily by DGL on the last day when NGO representatives could…

March 31st, 2010
Topic: JW

Fitzgerald: Do Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton know what’s going on in the Chittagong Hills? If they did, would they care?

If you visit this site every day, you know that there are three kinds of news stories related to or about Islam. There are the stories that, within a day or a week, will make it to the New York Times, and NPR, albeit in less intelligible and often tendentious…

March 31st, 2010
Topic: JW

New tandem suicide bombings kill 12 in southern Russia

War is deceit, Muhammad said: “As investigators and residents gathered around the scene of the [first] blast, a second bomber wearing a police uniform approached and set off explosives.” “New suicide blasts kill 12 in southern Russia,” by Arsen Mollayev for the Associated Press, March 31: MAKHACHKALA, Russia – Two…

March 31st, 2010
Topic: JW