Even as the London terror siege appears to be ramping up — and even though new prime minister Gordon Brown and his cohort acknowledge that what Britain is witnessing is, in fact, the work of terrorists with “Asian” ties (which, in Brit speak, means “Pakistani,” perhaps of the potentially home-grown variety) — former CIA member and DU hero Larry Johnson, along with his smarmy, truthy media enabler Keith Olbermann, spent
June 2007
June 30, 2007
Larry Johnson: So wrong so often that he's actually becoming a nearly-pitch perfect predictor of what's right
June 30, 2007
On Sovereignty [Dan Collins]
As I’ve argued since the very beginning of the push for amnesty for illegal immigrants, this is a test of sovreignty. Having lived and worked in Mexico for a considerable time, I certainly compassionate the people. But the fact is that emigration to the United States has permitted the Mexican government for decades to continue abusing its own people. Where there is no trust, there can be no real commerce,
June 30, 2007
The diversity debacle, continued
John Leo, on the “troubling” diversity research being withheld by Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, whose “five-year study shows that immigration and ethnic diversity have a devastating short- and medium-term influence on the social capital, fabric of associations, trust, and neighborliness that create and sustain communities”: Putnam’s study does make two positive points: in the long run, increased immigration and diversity are inevitable and desirable, and successful immigrant societies “dampen
June 30, 2007
Media: Our Surge Is Working! [Dan Collins]
From CBS:  A CBS News poll shows Americans are increasingly dissatisfied with the Iraq war, President Bush and the Congress, as well as the overall direction of the country. More Americans than ever before, 77 percent, say the war is going badly, up from 66 percent just two months ago. Nearly half, 47 percent, say it’s going very badly. While the springtime surge in U.S. troops to Iraq is now
June 29, 2007
Another moment of unabashed pragmatism
Sure, I can go out in the heat and check the mail. But then, with about as much effort, I can whip up a pitcher of frozen margaritas and a BLT — an added benefit being that neither the margaritas nor the BLT will refer me to a payment schedule or rub their obscenely accrued interest in my face. A no brainer, this one is.
June 29, 2007
Wonder Twin Powers, activate: shape…of a three cheese enchilada!
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it difficult — after watching the video and reading Allah’s take on “The Beltway Boys’” absurd defense of Lindsay Graham and the (thankfully) dead Immigration Reform bill — not to picture Fred Barnes and Mort Kondracke, masked and stuffed like a couple of limp old sausages into tights and capes, zipping through the skies around Capitol Hill and unleashing their “rhetorical
June 29, 2007
Schools, race, "diversity," and "compelling interest," revisited
I’ve had an interesting exchange with Karl and (yes) Shine in the comment thread to yesterday’s post on the 5-4 SCOTUS ruling that would, on the surface at least, restrict the use of “race” (as a substantive deliminator) in K-12 school settings — an exchange I wish to highlight, because I think it touches on many of the issues that arise from Justice Kennedy’s (to my mind, at least) troubling
June 29, 2007
"Explosives-Packed Car Defused in London"
Via Darleen and Mushiloon, looks like the insurgent jihadi freedom fighters are serving notice to Britain’s new Labour Party Prime Minister that, like Spain before them, Britain should take the opportunity of political change to rationalize their way out of Iraq: Police in London’s bustling nightclub and theater district on Friday defused a bomb that could have killed hundreds, after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a Mercedes filled
June 29, 2007
The ACLU makes a right (or, maybe, "correct") turn
From Jacob Sullum, “Driving While Armed,” Aug/Sept Reason (print edition): Since “the constitutional right to bear arms is primarily a collective one,” the American Civil Liberties Union has said, the extent to which the government should restrict gun ownership “is a question left open by the Constitution.” In a longstanding break with this position, the ACLU of Texas is defending the rights of motorists to carry guns in their cars.