Thursday, December 31, 2009

The Next Time You Fly...Watch Out For The Radical Christian Bombers!

Wikio As portrayed on "Law & Order", Christians are just as terrible as jihadists.

Kossacks Display Hate by Rejoicing in Rush Limbaugh Hospitalization

Newsbusters "...the Daily Kos has gained the reputation in the mainstream media for somehow being composed of "reasonable progressives" in stark contrast to their Democratic Underground cousins whom even many in the MSM will admit are flat out loons. However..."

Waterboard Abdulmutallab!

PowerlineBlog "Fifty-eight percent (58%) of U.S. voters say waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques should be used to gain information from the terrorist who attempted to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 30% oppose the use of such techniques, and another 12% are not sure."

Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting

MediaResearchCenter "“Mary Jo wasn’t a right-wing talking point or a negative campaign slogan....We don’t know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she’d have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history....[One wonders what] Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted’s death, and what she’d have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded. Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.” — Discover magazine deputy web editor Melissa Lafsky..."

Houston: Rocket launcher, jihadist writings found in apartment -- no charges filed

Jihad Watch "Rocket launcher? Check. Jihadist writings? Check. But no worries -- the Feds found no ties to terrorism!"...."Houston police said they did a thorough investigation and did not find any ties to terrorists or a terrorist network. What a relief!"

FOUAD AJAMI: A Cold-Blooded Foreign Policy

WSJ "No despot fears the president, and no demonstrator in Tehran expects him to ride to the rescue."

Karl Rove: New Year's Resolutions for Washington

WSJ "Republican congressional leaders should resolve not to sit on their laurels. They're winning the battle for public opinion on health care, cap and trade, and spending, but by next fall, it won't be enough to surf voter dissatisfaction with Mr. Obama and Democrats. Voters will want to know what Republican candidates would do."

Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2009

Judicial Watch "Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2009 list of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians." The list, in alphabetical order, includes:" (Expect the left to make much of the Republican on the list.)

A Fairer Verdict On Bush

Victor Davis Hanson "Unmentioned has been Bush's character of both honesty and resoluteness. He ran one of the most corruption-free administrations in memory, something we are already beginning to appreciate as we compare the prior scandal-ridden Clintons and the Chicagoesque ambiguities that already swirl around Barack Obama and his cabinet appointments.In time, historians will come to a fairer verdict of George W. Bush; in the meantime such a favorable reassessment has already begun."

Oliphant

More Radicalizing of Higher Education Ahead

Jay Schalin , AT "If the previous committee was "too politicized" to permit its continued existence -- its big sin was to press for establishing universal, easily understood, quantifiable academic standards -- then what are we to make of way the Obama administration is loading up the newly formed NACIQI with diversity advocates and left-wing activists?" GLSEN-ing Young Children "Public education, led by people like Kevin Jennings, proceeds full throttle in the secular quest to extricate all vestiges of moral suasion and innocence, designing homosexual-friendly curricula to include books that augment acceptance of gay students, with the hope of diminishing incidences of bullying of everyone except Bible-readers and Jesus-sketchers."

2009: Tipping Point for Domestic Terror?

Patrick Poole Pajamas Media "No doubt many jihadists observing these incidents are encouraged by their apparent success and the added benefit of waging “legal jihad” in the court system afterwards, appealing to all the rights and protections afforded them by the very same U.S. Constitution they seek to subvert."