Archive for: May 2008

As the farce in Texas continues to unravel, look to the raid as partially a moment of political opportunism
The sect — which broke away from the mainstream Mormon Church long ago — built its Yearning for Zion Ranch …

I’m a great admirer of Rusty Shackleford, so it’s with distress that I read that he’s decided that our invasion of Iraq was a mistake, because it hasn’t improved our security. I say so in part because Iraq …

Byron York heard it on CNN. I just heard it confirmed on FNC.

Apparently, crazyass, race-baiting, crypto Marxist politics dressed up as religion just got to be too much… when it came out of the mouth of a white priest.  Much harder …

Yesterday we found out Judge Walther, stung by both the Texas appeals court and the Texas supreme court direction to vacate her order and set reasonable conditions under which an ongoing investigation take place, walked out of the courtroom without vacating her order or setting a new hearing.

Now we find out the details of Barbara’s pique.Attorneys came to court with a workable plan. The mothers’ lawyers agreed. The state attorneys agreed. Other attorneys seemed to find it workable.

Some 450 FLDS children would begin the journey home on Monday as long as their parents agreed to:

Sign affidavits affirming parentage

Be photographed with their children

Not let their children travel out of Texas for 90 days

Take parenting classes, with latitude to take up concerns about providers with the state

Cooperate in the state’s ongoing abuse investigation

Allow child welfare workers to make unannounced home visits between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.

Provide home addresses and names of everyone living there

That was it. Simple. Workable. Agreed upon, even more than called for, an attorney with Texas RioGrande Legal Aid told me.

Then things fell apart.

at Larry the Legend’s No Quarter:

WARNING

This does NOT apply to 99% of you, however, a couple of lost souls have posted threats against Barack Obama on this blog. Be forewarned, I will turn all threats over to the Secret …

From the leader of the Reality-Based Community:
Democrat Barack Obama paid an unscheduled late-night visit to Mount Rushmore Friday, visiting the national memorial at closing time and joking that his ears were too big to ever be included in such a display.

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He did express curiosity about the filming of a chase scene in “North by Northwest,” Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 classic starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint that included a death-defying scramble over Rushmore’s presidential faces.

“How did they get up there in the first place?” he asked ranger Wesley Jensen.

“They didn’t. It was a movie set,” Jensen told him.

“Pretty spiffy, isn’t it,” said the Illinois senator, summing up his overall impressions.
SPOILER ALERT for Obama below the fold:

At The Chicago Tribune’s The Swamp, racist Jim Tankersley refers to “br*ar p*tch”.

When DoS attacks go corporate.

Reviewed by Thomas Joscelyn:

Not only does Washington have a hard time properly naming our jihadist enemies, it still fails to understand that terrorist-sponsoring regimes have long backed them. Here, McCarthy has been at the forefront of explaining how jihadist …

arrested after secretly living for a year in man’s apartment, while he also was living there. (h/t Reynolds)

This happened to me, as well, but in my case I reprimanded her for getting caught and determined never to speak …

Picking up on Dan’s quotation of Rev. Susan Thistlethwaite on the new era of hopeyness and changitude to be brought into being by Barack Obama:
This political campaign season often seems to me to be a kind of cultural theater, …