Archives for the 'USA' Category
US, UK = Russia, PRC
Published on 2 Jan 2008 at 8:50 am.
13 Comments.
Filed under BS, Britain, China, GWOT, Russia, USA.
As surveillance-rating group fails to tell the difference. Here’s your world:
Meanwhile, in Virginia
Published on 31 May 2007 at 11:35 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, USA.
“The hills are alive, with the sound of Jihad!”
Pretty Bad But Not Jimmy Carter Bad
Published on 25 May 2007 at 12:06 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under Bush, USA.
Gerard Baker in the Times of London:
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Suicide Bombing OK
Published on 22 May 2007 at 11:51 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under Islam, USA.
Anyone out there not think this is a problem:
WASHINGTON - One in four younger U.S. Muslims said in a poll that suicide bombings to defend their religion are acceptable at least in some circumstances, though most Muslim Americans overwhelmingly reject the tactic and are critical of Islamic extremism and al-Qaida…
Rock Paper Scissors
Published on 13 May 2007 at 8:29 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under USA.
Championship underway. “It’s like Highlander for the singularly unambitious.”
Poor Accounting
Published on 8 May 2007 at 9:21 am.
No Comments.
Filed under USA.
They’re checking for boll weevils in the poverty stats over at Maggie’s farm.
Refuses to Lose
Published on 21 Apr 2007 at 12:05 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under USA, courage.
Miss America 1944 is Miss America 2007 in my book. Check her out.
Open Your Books to Page One
Published on 20 Apr 2007 at 5:44 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under Israel, USA, courage.
Liviu Librescu’s son, on what his dad might say:
“‘What’s the fuss all about? I only did what I had to do.’ From our childhood, you taught us to care for people, to work hard to succeed. But you never taught us to be heroes. That was more theoretical a lesson than aerodynamics,” he said. Then [...]
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Killer Reax
Published on 18 Apr 2007 at 10:46 am.
15 Comments.
Filed under USA, guns.
News: Cho’s crazy manifesto, photos from package to NBC.
News: Killer had issues, university knew about it.
Glenn Reynolds at NY Daily News: “People don’t stop killers. People with guns stop killers.” A European trying to understand the American debate looks to Benjamin Franklin.
Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom: “Nanny-Statism — in its efforts to protect — succeeds only [...]
32 Innocents …
Published on 16 Apr 2007 at 9:33 pm.
9 Comments.
Filed under USA, guns.
… and one worthless piece of crap dead.
Not a lot to add right now. There’s a frantic woman up this way who cannot reach her son, which doesn’t sound good. Multiply that times 32 across the country.
UPDATE: It’s confirmed for Lynette Alameddine of Saugus. Her son Ross, 20, was among the innocents killed in his [...]
Iraq as Spoiling Operation: When Losing is Winning
Published on 21 Mar 2007 at 11:01 am.
11 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, USA.
George Friedman at Stratfor on the strange paradox of what successful losers we, the Americans, are, and finds the silver lining in wars we seem to have lost, yet won:
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Welcome Home
Published on 17 Mar 2007 at 11:59 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Britain, USA.
Tigerhawk quotes Berlinski on something INS does right:
At dinner with Zia one evening in London, I mentioned in passing that more than once, when I’ve returned to the United States, the immigration officer has inspected my American passport and said, “Welcome home.”
“If any official here,” Zia replied, “had ever, ever, even once said that to [...]
Plame Game
Published on 16 Mar 2007 at 11:27 pm.
7 Comments.
Filed under USA, shameless opportunism, shameless self-promotion.
I would like to state for the record, in my own name, that when supposedly covert agents employ their husbands to do the nation’s secret intelligence work, and said husbands then write op-eds in national publications, it is no one else’s fault when said agent’s highly questionable and apparently non-prosecutable covert status gets blown. Also, tabloid [...]
Nothing to Fear
Published on 16 Mar 2007 at 10:57 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under USA, al qaeda.
Suspected terrorists sign up to drive school buses. I don’t know about your kids, but my kids ride on school buses. FBI says nothing to fear. OK. Same agency that missed the boat on 9/11. My kids’ driver doesn’t look like al-Qaeda, but … what does al-Qaeda look like, anyway? Same agency that can’t figure [...]
Imambush
Published on 15 Mar 2007 at 11:27 am.
8 Comments.
Filed under Islam, USA.
Last year’s Flying Imams are back … in court … taking aim not only at US Airways and the Twin Cities airport commission, but at unnamed John Does. The other passengers their antics alarmed.
Get Your Third World On!
Published on 11 Mar 2007 at 10:31 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under Bush, USA, asia, chavez.
… get it here. Crittenden at PJM.
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Pilgrims For Israel
Published on 21 Feb 2007 at 12:59 pm.
No Comments.
Filed under Britain, Europe, USA, middle east.
Michael Totten’s interview with Michael Oren, author of “Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present” ends up at Plymouth, down the road from my house. Michael van der Galien picks up the thread.
Amerikiya Akbar!
Published on 19 Feb 2007 at 11:56 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under Islam, USA, middle east.
Egyptian Weirdness via Egyptian Sandmonkey. I appreciate this guy’s moral support, but I don’t think Egypt is ready for his biting satire:
Dr. Gaber Mohamed al Gazar, the professor of foreign trade in the Univeristy of Helwan … started his lecture last Thursday with writing the day’s date on the Blackboard, and instead of writing the usual “In [...]
Nerdcore
Published on 19 Feb 2007 at 11:36 pm.
No Comments.
Filed under USA, nerds.
Important new rap development.
Do You Want The Terrorists To Win?
Published on 19 Feb 2007 at 1:33 am.
11 Comments.
Filed under Europe, GWOT, Islam, USA, pols.
Take the quiz here.
This is a test you want to fail. I got 15 percent, and was informed I’m a proud flag waving American who wants to kill terrorists, something like that. I think I effed up on “Did you start calling French Fries ‘Freedom Fries’” by checking “No, That’s Retarded.”
“Who wants the Terrorists to Win the [...]
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You Want It? You Got It.
Published on 15 Feb 2007 at 12:24 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under Oz, USA.
Here’s one of my ancestral countrywomen, Janet Albrechtsen, who draws on a couple of sources, putting very well what myself and others, notably P.J. O’Rourke, have been saying for years.
The real reason they hate us is because our … I mean, we’re … bigger than they are. It’s all bigger, and that’s what they just can’t stand it.
Read ‘You Want It? You Got It.’
French-fried America
Published on 9 Feb 2007 at 10:08 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under USA, Uncategorized.
American academia has long had its head up its … gown. Here are a couple of the latest free-speech outrages on U.S. campuses where, Euro-style, the next generation of Islamofascists is being inclusively coddled:*
