… back off, racist xenophobes. None of your profiling can or will be tolerated. So. If you’ve been wondering why the Boston Marathon bombing wasn’t stopped by the collection of meta-data, I have a theory: to stop Islamic terrorists, you monitor where they gather. Bracketing out the primary factor in Islamist terrorism — namely, Islamists and their jihad factories — seems, well, rather short-sighted as a security measure aimed at
General warrants to collect data on most Americans? Just fine. But when it comes to mosques…
Dear Erik Wemple, Washington Post:
I’d like to remind you of this, written by you on May 29th. Or at least, I assume it was written by you. At the very least, it appeared beneath your byline. “Sharyl Attkisson and her ‘compromised’ computers”: At the tail end of a recent radio interview, CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson appeared to realize that she’d gone a bit too far. She had been chatting with radio host Chris
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In my inbox this morning was an email purportedly from Erica Lafferty, whose mother, Dawn Hochsprung, was Sandy Hook principal. As we all know, she and 25 others died in the murder spree there six months ago. I say “purportedly” because, as with all correspondence of this kind, the email address it comes from is “info@barackobama.com” — meaning that responding to it is really rather pointless, unless your response reaches
Fire up the black helicoptors, people!
Rumor: Beck will reveal that John Roberts was blackmailed into voting to uphold ObamaCare. Hacked emails supposedly used against Roberts. How does the Snowden revelations square with this rumor, I ask you? — From here, on the nutty extremist side of the winger gallery.
“Six big problems with the immigration bill from someone who has actually read it”
Former Lieutenant Governor of New York, Betsy McCaughey (D) notes that the only interest group not represented in the proposed “comprehensive immigration reform” legislation is we, the people. And that’s because the Gang of 8 is a Gang of Liars. Plain and simple. Pro-tip for Republicans: if Obama, Schumer, Dick Durbin, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, La Raza, and the SEIU is really really really for something, it’s probably best for
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The ruling class — that is, the Democrats in lockstep and the establishment Republicans aiding them in what will be termed a bipartisan effort — is fast-tracking “comprehensive immigration reform” with a goal of having it passed by August 1, before summer recess. What this new set of laws will do is essentially add 30 million new legal voters over a decade’s time, nearly all of them permanent clients to
