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When moral equivalence is moral equivocation. (Now with Hillary operative’s “red-baiting” update!)

Chardonnay growers rejoice.

Muslim headscarves are in. Christian purity rings are out. Double standards? What double standards?

NYTimes’ hypocrisy exposed again.

Three provocative reads:
Jack Dunphy examines the underreported murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom and the media’s inner-city crime taboos.
Heather Mac Donald tells the Truth about Black Crime Rates.
John Derbyshire weighs in with Reflections on Race Week.
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Same as it ever was. Here’s a flashback to a column I wrote in 2002 that underscores Dunphy’s point: […]

You remember “Piss Christ:”

And the Virgin Mary stained with elephant dung:

And most recently, “Chocolate Jesus:”

So…
What could the warped artistic world possibly dream up next to denigrate the faithful? Well, having exhausted bodily excretions and the candy store, they are now taking religion-bashing high tech. Big hat tip to The Ugly American at Sondra K’s blog, […]

Here’s an update to the whitewashing of jihad at Burlington Township High School. The district has released a statement about its mock terrorism drill, arguing that it really didn’t mean Christian terrorists when it used “right wing fundamentalists” to portray the hostage-takers:
Burlington Township
851 Old York Road
P.O. Box 340
Burlington Township, NJ 08016
April 4, 2007…On Thursday, March […]

Back in 2003, a teenager was arrested and charged for joking about a bomb in his luggage.
In 2004, a British student was arrested and released after making a bomb joke before boarding a flight from Miami to Britain.
We are constantly warned not to make light of homeland security while passing through airport checkpoints and threatened […]

Updated below
How would the MSM cover an artist exhibition of a “Chocolate Mohammed” timed to coincide with Ramadan?
They wouldn’t.
But find an artist to mock Jesus at Easter with a chocolate sculpture…

…and you’ll get wall-to-wall coverage. “Chocolate Jesus” is on Fox, MSNBC, and ABC. And CNN. And all over the web.
No pixelation. No withholding the photos […]

The human rights group finally releases a statement about the barbaric murders of Privates Menchaca and Tucker. Timestamped 1:36pm EDT:
To: National Desk
Contact: Sharon Singh of Amnesty International USA, 202-544-0200 ext. 289
WASHINGTON, June 21 /U.S. Newswire/ — Larry Cox, Amnesty International USA’s executive director, made the following statement in response to the alleged killing and torture […]

Mary Katherine Ham compares their treatment.

Pat yourselves on the backs, you tolerant liberal bastards.
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This is hardly
the first
time
liberals
have
made Asian whore ping-pong ball jokes about me.
But Wonkette has now mainstreamed it. And I’m sick of it. Are you proud of yourselves? Do you get a bonus from Nick Denton for scraping the bottom of the barrel?
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The writer […]

The Sheaf, a student newspaper at the University of Saskatchewan, refuses to run the Mohammed Cartoons, but doesn’t think twice about running a cartoon depicting Jesus doing this (warning - it’s vile):

…at the town square in Toronto because she has been deemed “degrading to men or women through sexual stereotyping,” but Kate at Small Dead Animals points out that Toronto has no problem with these folks prancing around the same gathering place. Warns Kate: “Not work safe. (Not lunch safe, for that matter.)”

It seems racism against black Americans is unacceptable, except when it’s endorsed by the untouchable Mexican government.
As CNN and many others are reporting, Mexican President Vicente Fox’s administration has issued a stamp depicting an exaggerated black cartoon character known as Memin Pinguin.
The series of five stamps released for general use Wednesday depicts a child character […]

If you are interested, Dan Riehl at Riehl World News has been tracking all the twists and turns in the tragic Natalee Holloway case in Aruba.
Why do so many people seem to care so much? I’m very sorry for the Holloway family, but no more so than I am for the families of several missing […]

Power Line has been doing a excellent job exposing the Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s forgetfulness about its flip-flopping on filbustering. Lots of amnesia going around:
“It is not the role of the Senate to obstruct the process and prevent numbers of highly qualified nominees from even being given the opportunity for a vote on the Senate floor.” Sen. […]

A reader notes that Google usually changes its logo on holidays such as St. Patrick’s Day, World Water Day, and so on. So, he asks, “why no logo for Easter?”

You’re not going to believe this one. From Elmer Smith in the Philadelphia Daily News:
[Tracy] McIntosh pleaded no contest to a charge that he forced himself on his semi-conscious victim while she was sick and groggy from liquor and drugs that he allegedly slipped into one of her drinks.
But then he threw himself on the […]

A DePaul University professor suspended for offending Muslim students showed up to a press conference tied up and wearing duct tape across his mouth to protest his censorship.
Story and video here.
Hat tip: Reader John R.

Last week, the NBC-TV sitcom “Committed” decided to use the Holy Eucharist as a cheap comedy prop. (Hat tip to one of my favorite bloggers: The Anchoress.) The Catholic League describes the show:
During the February 22 episode of the NBC-TV sitcom, “Committed,” two non-Catholics are mistakenly given Holy Communion at a Catholic funeral Mass. Nate, […]

A true story:
Boy waiting for school bus sees something that looks like a gun.
Boy picks up object and immediately turns it in to principal’s office.
Boy gets detention for bringing object to school!
No good deed goes unpunished.

From reader Joseph O’Neill:
Why don’t we see the human shields at the polls in Iraq? They were willing to protect Iraq from bombs before the war started. Why aren’t they protecting Iraq now?

A.C.L.U.
From the N.Y. Times:
The American Civil Liberties Union, which since its inception has fought to protect free speech rights, is scheduled to begin a debate today over whether to discipline - or potentially move to oust - two board members for speaking to reporters.
The two dissident board members are Wendy Kaminer and Michael Meyers, both […]

“The safety of reimported drugs cannot be guaranteed!”
That’s argument made by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and PhRMA against reimportation of prescription drugs.
But today, this article brings word that the feds have decided to purchase a FDA-unapproved flu vaccine from abroad. Normally, consumers aren’t allowed to use unapproved drugs except in clinical trials, but […]

Most of my readers will remember Republican Bruce Herschensohn, a wonderful conservative commentator, who narrowly lost a Senate race to Democrat Barbara Boxer in 1992. Herschensohn’s campaign was derailed a few days before the election when it was reported that he had visited strip clubs and viewed pornographic materials. The allegations were the central focus […]

They let ‘em die.
Meanwhile, Los Angeles-area trauma units and hospitals are folding in droves because of costs related to the care of uninsured illegal aliens.

WorldNetDaily reports that the Six Flags adventure park in Jackson, N.J., is scheduled to hold a “Great Muslim Adventure Day” this week in which the park will be open only to Muslims.
The Muslim Youth Division of the Islamic Circle of North America and the Muslim American Society, two of the largest Muslim organizations in America, […]

Headline: Poletown seizures are ruled unlawful
More:
Reversing more than two decades of land-use law, the Michigan Supreme Court late Friday overturned its own landmark 1981 Poletown decision and sharply restricted governments such as Detroit and Wayne County from seizing private land to give to other private users.
The unanimous decision is a decisive victory for property owners […]

Can you believe there is now a UPN reality TV show called “Amish in the City?” Adam Buckman of the New York Post writes:
What’s next? “Sikhs and the City”?
At the risk of igniting a craze for copycat reality shows focusing on people who dress differently than the rest of us (working title: “The Joy of […]