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This Is What You Are Asking For?

November 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off

From Hot Air:

Barack Obama was rated the most liberal United States Senator in 2007 by the non-partisan National Journal — farther left than Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, and self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders. He rarely mentions this extreme voting record as he campaigns throughout the heartland, just as he refrains from telling middle America what he [...]

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Tags: Election · Faith · Guns · The Left · The US

The Associated Press Assist The Taliban … Again

July 21st, 2008 · Comments Off

Lots of smart people are already covering this (on-the-rocks, Dr. Rusty Shackleford) but I’ll put in my two cents worth.
Says Rusty:

Associated Press photographer Rahmatullah Naikzad was a witness to a Taliban murder. The two women were alleged to have been prostitutes who served Western clientèle.
A quick Yahoo News photo search of Rahmatullah Naikzad seems to [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Afghanistan · Dhimmitude · Islamofascism · Media · Muslim/Islam · Terrorism

Obama’s Terrorist Buddies

April 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Hat tip to Little Green Footballs:
STEP 1: As of April 23 there was a web page at the official Obama campaign site. It featured Hatem El-Hady as a “friend” (read: fundraiser) for Obama. Also on that page was a notation that one of El-Hady’s friends is none other than Michelle Obama.
STEP 2: [...]

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Tags: Election · Hamas · Muslim/Islam · Terrorism · The Left · The US

Mecca Time To Replace Greenwich Mean Time

April 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

From the BBC:

Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth.
Mecca is the direction all Muslims face when they perform their daily prayers.
The call was issued at a conference held in the Gulf state of Qatar under [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Islamofascism · Muslim/Islam · Strange/Funny

False Philanthropy = Legal Plunder

April 18th, 2008 · Comments Off

Hat tip to Neal Boortz:
“The Law” is an 1849 book by Frédéric Bastiat. It was published one year after the third French Revolution of 1848. The essay was influenced by John Locke’s “Second Treatise on Government” and in turn influenced Henry Hazlitt’s “Economics in One Lesson”. It is the work for which Bastiat is [...]

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Tags: Christianity · Election · Guns · Money · Socialism · The Left · The US

Obama More Of An Elitist Than Kerry?

April 14th, 2008 · Comments Off

Savior-of-the-universe Barack Obama gave a speech where he made an attempt to explain the resentment in small-town Pennsylvania that won’t be appreciated by some of the people whose votes Obama’s seeking. Oops.

“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant [...]

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Tags: Election · Faith · Guns · Immigration · Race · The Left · The US

The Hillbilly’s Ten Commandments

April 8th, 2008 · Comments Off

Supposedly posted on the wall at First Baptist Church in Summersville, West Virginia:
1. Just one God
2. Put nothin’ before God
3. Watch yer mouth
4. Git yourself to Sunday meetin’
5. Honor yer Ma & Pa
6. No killin’
7. No foolin’ around with another fellow’s gal
8. Don’t take what ain’t yers
9. No tellin’ tales or gossipin’
10. Don’t be hankerin’ [...]