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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Wayne Rooney comes of age
Former Everton star Wayne Rooney is being hailed as perhaps the best soccer player in the world after his two goals against Italian giants AC Milan assured Manchester United’s place in the final eight of the European Champions League. Among those singing Rooney’s praise is David Beckham, who came on as a substitute for Milan. The former Man U idol received a standing ovation from his old fans, but the »
The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States
The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the most sinister organizations operating inside the United States. It has established front groups that have achieved success in advancing the Brotherhood’s goals, and yet little attention is paid to the activities of these front groups seeking to undermine the United States and its efforts to defend itself. The stated intent of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States is to conduct an “organizational »
No big deal, except symbolically
The Commonwealth of Virginia’s new Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, has created a stir by advising the state’s public colleges and universities that they have no authority to adopt policies that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. He has called on these institutions to rescind such policies. Cuccinelli, a strong social conservative, concludes that only the state legislature can extend legal protections to gay state employees and students. Virginia’s »
Why Don’t Christians Care?
In a number of places around the world, it is open season on Christians. We read of Christians burned out of their homes and slaughtered in Pakistan. Most recently, at least 500 Christians were murdered in Nigeria. The attackers in all cases are Muslims, inspired by the warlike message of their Prophet. AFP reports on the Nigerian attacks: UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Washington led calls for restraint on Monday »
Does Hollywood Make You Stupid?
It seems that way. Tom Hanks is one of Hollywood’s more respectable denizens, but that doesn’t save him from this remarkably dim-witted exchange, featured in the current issue of Time, as dissected by John Nolte at Big Hollywood. The subject is Hanks’s new HBO series on World War II in the Pacific. This is how the Time story ends: [Hanks] doesn’t see the series as simply eye-opening history. He hopes »
Another Liberal Gone Mad
Is the Washington press corps despicable? I sometimes think so. But watch Patrick Kennedy lose it on the House floor, as he denounces the press for covering Congressman Eric Massa rather than the vitally important vote taking place in the House. What was that vote? A goofy antiwar resolution by Dennis Kucinich that had no chance to pass, which probably explains why no one was interested in covering it. Although »
The Slaughter solution?
I’ve been dubious that Nancy Pelosi lacks the juice to muscle Obamacare through the House, but her enforcers must be running into a wall. Minority Leader John Boehner’s blog introduces us to the aptly named Slaughter solution via this Congress Daily report (PDF). Boehner’s blog reports: The twisted scheme by which Democratic leaders plan to bend the rules to ram President Obama’s massive health care legislation through Congress now has »
A “proud tradition” Eric Holder did not take pride in
It appears that Eric Holder signed a brief in support of Jose Padilla’s legal position, but did not disclose this during his confirmation hearings. According to Bill Burck and Dana Perino, the brief argued that the government should not hold terrorists caught in the U.S. as enemy combatants, with no right to a criminal trial or to remain silent or to counsel during questioning, particularly if they are U.S. citizens. »
The DOJ Seven, Michael Mukasey’s take
Former Attorney General (and federal district court judge) Michael Mukasey provides his view of how to regard (or, more precisely, how not to regard) Justice Department lawyers who represented terrorist detainees. The article, which is “subscription only,” appears in the Wall Street Journal. Here are, perhaps, the two key paragraphs: It is plainly prudent for us to assure that no government lawyers are bringing to their public jobs any agenda »
Is Wilders wrong?
On Monday, Charles Krauthammer had this, in part, to say about Geert Wilders: What he says is extreme, radical, and wrong. He basically is arguing that Islam is the same as Islamism. Islamism is an ideology of a small minority which holds that the essence of Islam is jihad, conquest, forcing people into accepting a certain very narrow interpretation [of Islam]. The untruth of that is obvious. If you look »
A troubling image
I can’t think offhand of anything President Obama has said or done that has shocked me more than his attack on a Supreme Court decision with members of the Court arrayed respectfully in front of him during the State of the Union speech. The attack on the Court’s decision was rank demagogy, calculated to prompt the wild approval of congressional Democrats. On cue congressional Democrats salivated like Pavlov’s dogs. The »
Psycho D-Rahm-a
Michael Ramirez imagines a shower encounter with Rahm Emanuel, inspired by a classic of American culture. Note that his vision has the virtue of allowing Rahm to remain fully clothed (not to say, costumed). Does anyone know whether Rahm has a collection of stuffed birds? Or a fruit cellar? Is he turning the White House into the Bates Motel? If I were lurking around Washington, I wouldn’t take any chances. »
Obsession
Matt Drudge is trumpeting the fact that Senate staffers have been warned to stay away from the Drudge Report on the theory that it may be spreading computer viruses. (If the old rules apply, that is libel per se, isn’t it?) What I thought was even more entertaining was the Drudge Report’s traffic totals: The [Drudge Report] was seen 149,967 times since March 1st from users at senate.gov and 244,347 »
Where do the Lobbyists End, and the Obama Administration Begin?
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has uncovered, via a Freedom of Information Act request, a fascinating instance of the symbiotic relationship among 1) left-wing advocacy groups, 2) left-wing Obama administration officials, and 3) lobbyists for moneyed interests who benefit from left-wing policies. It has to do with wind energy. The Obama administration has hailed Spain’s wind energy initiatives as a model for its own wind subsidies. Unfortunately, a devastating study (which »
I Hope They Got Permission
The Republican Study Committee produced this anti-government medicine video, based on the ETrade commercials–my favorite TV commercials, by a mile. It’s pretty funny, and if there is anyone who should be outraged by what the Democrats are doing, it’s babies: UPDATE: My wife points out that if ETrade has to pay Lindsay Lohan, maybe they can recoup by suing the Study Committee. The former contingency, however, seems extremely unlikely. »
Deadline, what deadline?
Politico reports that Steny Hoyer has “rebuffed” the White House on its March 18 deadline for a vote in the House on the Senate’s health care bill. “None of us has mentioned the 18th, other than Mr. Gibbs,” Hoyer said. Hoyer explained that the disagreement about the aborion issue within the Democratic caucus “has to be resolved” before there can be a vote. In other words, unless this issue is »
Are they messing with Massa or did Massa mess up?
The Washington Post reports that “conservative activists [have] rallied to the side of” Rep. Eric Massa “after he charged that his party’s leaders had conspired to oust him over his opposition to President Obama’s health-care legislation.” I’m quite willing to believe the worst about Rahm Emmanuel and the Democratic leadership in the House. However, I’m not prepared on the current record to “rally to the side” of Rep. Massa. My »
