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BARBARISM IN THE NAME OF "HONOR"
Unspeakable evil: Nazir Ahmed appears calm and unrepentant as he recounts how he slit the throats of his three young daughters and their 25-year old stepsister to salvage his family’s “honor” — a crime that shocked Pakistan. The 40-year old laborer, speaking to The Associated Press in police detention as he was being shifted to […]
THE DO-NOTHING ACLU
How many times have you heard civil liberties activists argue that national security profiling should be based on behavior, not race/ethnicity/nationality/national origin/religion? That’s the argument the ACLU makes again and again and again. But if your B.S. detector starts going off full-tilt, you are not alone. Truth is, the ACLU doesn’t want behavior-based profiling, either. […]
THE BIG STORY OF 2005
Austin Bay nominates “The Great Democratic Revolt.” *** See also: Best and worst political moments over at NRO. Hugh Hewitt and Glenn Reynolds discuss the year in blogging. All Things Beautiful asks: Who are the Ten Worst Americans?
SORRY, NYTIMES: AMERICA IS OK WITH NSA
I’m not much of a poll watcher, but the new Rasmussen numbers on Americans’ views of the National Security Agency’s counterterrorism programs are very notable: December 28, 2005–Sixty-four percent (64%) of Americans believe the National Security Agency (NSA) should be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in […]
THE NY TIMES VS. AMERICA
My latest column is up. Tim Sumner at 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America concurs. And the NYPost’s editorial, “The Gray Lady Toys with Treason,” hits the nail on the head: Does The New York Times consider it self a law unto itself — free to subversively undercut basic efforts by any government […]
GERMAN MOONBAT: I LOVE MY TERRORIST KIDNAPPERS!
Meet Susanne Ostroff, Germany’s latest apologist for Islamic terrorism: A former German hostage who spent 24 days in the hands of unknown captors in Iraq said her kidnappers were not criminals and had demanded humanitarian aid for Sunni Arab regions. Speaking to Doha-based satellite channel Al-Jazeera, Susanne Osthoff said her captors told her not to […]
CAIR AND THE MSM: ABETTING TERRORISM
You knew this was going to happen, didn’t you? CAIR FILES FOIA REQUEST ON RADIATION MONITORING OF MUSLIM SITES Request seeks list of Muslim homes, businesses, mosques targeted under secret program (WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/27/05) – A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today announced the filing of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) […]
ISRAELI AIR STRIKES IN LEBANON
BBC reporting: Israeli warplanes have bombed what the army says is a Palestinian militant base in Lebanon hours after rocket attacks on two Israeli border towns. They struck at a target south of the capital, Beirut, which was described as a base of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. There was no immediate […]
PATRIOT GUARDS: FIGHTING THE HATRED
The execrable Fred Phelps and his “church” continue to disrupt the funerals of fallen soldiers across the country. Jim Hoft has the latest. The good news is that veteran bikers of all political stripes have united to form the Patriot Guard Riders. Their mission: We have one thing in common besides motorcycles. We have an […]
IDIOTARIAN OF THE YEAR
Little Green Footballs has the top 20 nominees for the Annual Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year. Tough competition this year includes: Cindy Sheehan Harry Reid Mary Mapes George Clooney Sean Penn Howard Dean Ward Churchill Dan Rather Chris Matthews Nancy Pelosi Noam Chomsky Kofi Annan Ramsey Clark Send LGF any other names […]