Marines Attacked by Guerillas

Marines Attacked by Guerillas

A Group of Marines were ambushed by irregulars - in San Diego.

White Men Can't Jump

White Men Can't Jump

Okay, I'm a little late getting to this story. It's been on my list for a while and I've just been too busy recently. But this was amazing.

"OBERLIN, Ohio, Updated 1:33 p.m. EDT July 28, 2003 -- A group of parents said they will fight a possible decision to allow a white teacher to lead classes in black history at Oberlin High School. "

What more needs to be said? Would these same people require that European history be taught only by whites?

Actually, I don't know why this should surprise anyone. At Washington State University, where I work, you will not find a person of pallor in the Comparative American Studies Department, which is our catch-all victims studies. Nor will you find a male in the Women's Studies Department.

Academic ghettos are old news. So why does this story merit notice?

WMD's Already Found?

WMD's Already Found?

There's been an awful lot of this going around lately. People in the know are dropping hints that we've actually uncovered quite a large stock of Iraq's WMD's. And, quite a few theories have been floated regarding why the Bush and Blair Administrations have kept quiet about it.
Joel Mobray believes that it's because the hunt is ongoing and we don't want to compromise the search or risk the lives of those who are assisting us.
That makes sense. But if true, the ultimate revelation in about 6 months' time (Inspector David Kay's prediction) will do great damage to political enemies.
The revelation would be a weapon of leftist destruction.

American's Patience with Gay Rights Wearing Thin

American's Patience with Gay Rights Wearing Thin

This is not surprising really. Peoples' tolerance wears thin when that which they tolerate is forced down their throat.

Paul Krugman Has Finally Lost His Mind

Paul Krugman Has Finally Lost His Mind

Paul Krugman is the last man on earth who still believes the BBC.

Katy Couric, of NBC is probably the last woman who believes the BBC. Incidentally, the perky Katy Couric has chosen to parrot the BBC line even though her own network has discredited the BBC strories she still cites.

The Americans Are Serious

The Americans are Serious

Udai Hussein: 'This time I think the Americans are serious. Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is the end.' "

Read about the guy who turned in Udai and Qusai.

Of special interest is the notation that Udai and Qusai had taken up residence in the home of a guy who had a special grudge against them.

Unknown to them, however, Mr. al-Zaydan held a grudge. Two years ago Sadan, Mr. al-Zaydan's younger brother, a drunk who traded on his brother's prestigious position, had boasted once too often that the brothers were cousins of Saddam. Such an erroneous claim carried a prison sentence and Sadan was condemned to seven years. Although he was released within a month, Mr. al-Zaydan still brooded about the family humiliation.

I guess it's hard to keep track of all they people you've offended when you've been as busy at it as the Husseins.

Neckties Cause Glaucoma

Neckties Cause Glaucoma

My job finally required me to occasionally wear a necktie last fall. It had been 32 years since I had last worn a necktie. It turns out that I was right not to wear the damned things.

You Can't Please Everyone

You Can't Please Everyone

Not everyone in Iraq is happy that Saddam's sons died in a firefight. This guy thought they should have been tortured to death.

How About a Stamp Celebrating Christ?

How About a Stamp Celebrating Christ?

About 3 years ago, the United States Postal Service issued a stamp celebrating Islam. You've heard of Islam. It's that religion of peace.
The ACLU said nothing.

Is This Really Victory?

Is This Really Victory?

Okay, we occupy the country. The dictator is out of power, but we don't actually have our hands on him. And we have all these guerilla attacks killing United States soldiers. How can we say that we won the war.
Well, we can say it because it's true. I'm describing Germany after the surrender.

I Guess it's Okay, part deaux

I Guess it's Okay Part Deaux

Once again, Howard Dean give only grudging approval to a United States victory.

When we won the war, he was unsure it was a good thing. If memory serves, he said something to the effect that, "I guess it's a good thing..."

What a Bunch of Bullies We Are

What a Bunch of Bullies We Are

Charlie Rangel is offended that we tracked down, caught and killed Saddam Hussein's psychopathic sons.

"We tried to assassinate Castro and we paid dearly for it," Rangel contended. "And when you personalize the war and you say you're killing someone's kids, then they, in turn, think they can kill somebody."

When an incredulous Sean Hannity expressed dismay at Rangel's comments, the Harlem Democrat shot back: "How can you get so much satisfaction that two bums have been killed? We got bums all over the world and some in the United States."

Then Rangel mocked the U.S. military's success in killing the two Hussein heirs, saying, "I personally don't get any satisfaction that it takes 200,000 troops, 250,000 troops, to knock off two bums."

Conservatism is a Mental Dlsorder, According to U. C. Berkeley

Conservatism is a Mental Dlsorder, According to U. C. Berkeley

If my alma mater ever wonders why they can't get a dime out of me anymore, they need to look here.

This is not some crackpot site. This is the official UC Berkeley website. Your tax dollars at work, but not mine. I live in Washington now.

France, the Home of Hatred and Bigotry

France, the Home of Hatred and Bigotry

Ive often wondered why the Left loves France. France is easily one of the most hateful nations on earth. I, for one was not surprised that a neo-Nazi did so well in France's last presidential election. I'm sure many regret the missed opportunity that Hitler gave them.
I think I have it figured out now. The French hate the same things that the American Left hates - America in particular. Look at these editorial cartoons from French newspapers.
Read the rest of the blog too.

Oh, and by the way, if you haven't noticed, the American Left has come to hate Jews too.

The Ultimate Kept Man

The Ultimate Kept Man

I used to think that "The Dude" in the Coen Brothers' "Big Lebowski" lived every man's dream life. I was wrong. the Zeus bug has it all figured out.

Do We Have The Stamina to Succeed?

Do We Have The Stamina to Succeed?

Democrats are cultivating failure in Iraq for their own political ambitions. If we succeed in Iraq, and we will if we persevere, we can transform that part of the world and make civilization's future more secure.
Would Democrats really throw all that away to win an election? Yes they would.

How Many Dreams Will Democrats Crush?

How Many Dreams Will Democrats Crush?

"Today 17-year-old Noree'na Jazzmine Dowtin is headed off to college, and she speaks excitedly about her dreams of becoming a doctor--a gynecologist/obstetrician, to be precise. And while teenage daughters and their mothers famously disagree, on this issue this mother and daughter see completely eye to eye: Without the lifeline provided her by a private voucher from the Washington Scholarship Fund, Jazzmine would have been another D.C. education casualty. "I would have been swallowed up," she says."

Democrats would rather condemn future Noree'na Jazzmines to public school hell than give them hope. They need to explain why.

Did Bush Lie to Get Us Into a War?

Did Bush Lie to Get Us Into a War?

To hear the Democrats and their wholly owned subsidiary, the mainstream press, tell it, George Bush lied to get us into a war. John Kerry, for example, is claiming that his vote for the war was a result if his being deceived by the White House. It's those 16 words in which George Bush cited British intelligence reports that Iraq had been shopping for uranium in Niger. What George Bush said was true. That was what British intelligence believed at the time. Anoter unreported truth is that the Congress, including John Kerry, had voted for war against Iraq months before Bush uttered those 16 disputed words.

Bad News for Democrats

Bad News for Democrats

They'll never say it in public, but Democrats are definitely unhappy about Odai and Qusai Hussein biting the dust. They definitely prefer it when the news reports that another US soldier dies in an Iraqi ambush.


In her own imitable fashion, Ann Coulter drills the Dems on this, and pokes many other needles into her Democratic voodoo doll, such as these.


"After years of defending Clinton, liberals love the piquant irony of calling Bush a liar. For 50 years liberals have called Republicans idiots, fascists, anti-Semites, racists, crooks, shredders of the Constitution and masterminds of Salvadoran death squads. Only recently have they added the epithet "liar." Even noted ethicist Al Franken has switched from calling conservatives "fat" to calling them "liars."

This is virgin territory for Democrats – they never before viewed lying as a negative. Their last president was called "an unusually good liar" by a sitting Democratic senator. Their last vice president couldn't say "pass the salt" without claiming to have invented salt."


"Clinton also lied every time he said "God bless America," though he doesn't believe in God or America, and I don't recall any Republican ever ripping his skin off about that."

Read it all and have a good laugh.

And, There Was No Holocaust

And, There Was No Holocaust

Fully one of every three Germans below the age of 30 believes that the United States government perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Clearly, there is little cause for optimism for the future of Germany.

Recall Elections, New York Style

Recall Elections, New York Style

I guess California's recall law isn't so bad after all. It's certainly better than New York's.

This is CNN

This is CNN

Unfortunately, CNN seems not to have learned anything. After confessing to sucking up to Saddam for years, CNN is doing the same thing for Iranian mullahs.

Saddam's Already Got the Bomb, March 2001

Saddam's Already Got the Bomb, March 2001

Congratulations to Jame Taranto of opinionjournal.com for turning over this rock. It seems that on March 2, 2001, the BBC reported that Saddam Hussein already had nuclear weapons. Yep, that's the same BBC now accusing Tony Blair of exagerating the Iraqi WMD threat.

They'd Burn a Republican at the Stake for This

They'd Burn a Republican at the Stake for This

Fortney Stark, liberal Democrat from California disparaged two Republicans using anti-homosexual slurs.

To Rep. Scott McInnis he said, "You little fruitcake, you little fruitcake, I said you are a fruitcake." By all accounts, McInnis is not gay.

And he called Chairman Bill Thomas a "cocksucker."

Didn't Democrats demand Dick Armey's head a few years ago for calling Barney Frank, "Barney Fag?" Why yes, I believe they did. And that, even though Armey apologized immediately.

What Credibility?

What Credibility?

Supposedly, the BBC's credibility is at stake over its "sexed up" intelligence story. Since when did the BBC have credibility?

Democracy! Whiskey! Sexy!

Democracy! Whiskey! Sexy!

Of course, some people are already complaining that Iraqis are too free. Can't we just go back to the good old days when the Iraqi government had official rapists?

Woo Hoo!!!!!

Woo Hoo!!!!!

Saddam's "likely" sons captured or killed? Let's hope so this time.

Maybe that's what this is about.

Oh Darn!

Oh Darn!

The WNBA Seattle Storm All-Star point guard Sue Bird has backed out of a bet with a radio talk show host that would have required her to submit to an on-air spanking.

The host bet that if Bird failed to achieve a turnover-assist ratio better than 2:1, then he could spank her and she would have to cry out, "Harder Daddy, harder."

Naturally women's groups howled that this encouraged violence against women.

The bet has drawn some criticism, including a comment from state Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle, who teaches women's studies at the University of Washington.

"It helps feed into the images of violence against women and stereotyping," Kohl-Welles told Seattle Times sports columnist Steve Kelley. "I don't condemn her. I appreciate that she doesn't have the experience in life that other women have had. But this could be very hurtful. Not just to the WNBA, but to other women and girls."

In truth, it may be obnoxious feminists who oppose any sort of playfullness between the sexes who encourage violence against women.

Incidentally, Bird was well on her way to winning the bet with 137 assists and only 63 turnovers.

70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Stars

70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Stars

Someone with far too much time on his hands took the trouble to count the stars. He came up with 70 sextillion. Sorry Bill, it's not what you think it is.

Las Vegas Bambi Hunts.

Las Vegas Bambi Hunts

In Las Vega, you can hunt down and shoot naked ladies with a paint ball gun. The men pay $10,000 for the privilige of hunting girls dressed only in their birthday suits and the girls are rewarded for their participation. They receive $2500 if they elude their predators, but only $1000 if they take a paintball in the butt.
They have another reason to elude their hunters. Paintballs hurt. The muzzle velocity of these things are well over 200 feet per second and that will leave a mark.
The manufacturer of the paintball guns used in this condemns the activity as "irresponsible." I have to agree.

This Week's Wisdom

This Week's Wisdom

Approximately 2000 seasonal workers in Washington have learned what the real minimum wage is – zero. For years Washington’s legislature and governors have functioned under the cartoonish fantasy that the great and powerful can suspend the laws of economics. This naïveté prompted those innocent bleeding hearts that formulate Washington’s laws to impose an artificially high minimum wage upon agricultural employers. And it is that artificially high minimum wage that contributed to the loss of 2000 asparagus processing jobs in eastern Washington.

Del Monte Foods announced last week that it intended to close its Toppenish plant. Seneca Foods had previously announced that it would no longer process asparagus at its Walla Walla facility. The Washington Asparagus Commission reports that both companies cited foreign competition, primarily from Peru, and Washington’s extravagantly high minimum wage of $7.01 per hour as reasons that they could no longer compete.

This comes on the heels of Washington’s surprisingly wise decision to lift Boeing’s tax and unemployment insurance burdens so that it remains economically feasible for the company to build commercial airliners within the state. Unfortunately, the very same people who just came to the realization that onerous government burdens might yet cost the state Boeing jobs, have yet to realize that similar mandates are destroying jobs in less charismatic fields. Sadly, the asparagus processing industry does not possess the visibility of Boeing, or the money to hire expensive lobbyists, because they need relief just as much as Boeing does.

The economic meddling of the Washington state legislature guaranteed the decline of the asparagus industry. The legislature can and does force up the cost of doing business, but the free market sets the value of any agricultural product. The legislature cannot force the consumer to pay more for locally grown asparagus.

I often elect not to purchase produce when I judge the price too high. As much as I like artichokes and avocadoes, I won’t pay $3.00 apiece for them. The same goes for off-season asparagus that can sell for $4.00/pound. The grocer knows that I am not unusual in this regard and searches for quality vegetables at the lowest possible price. A grocer understands that, should he elect to offer his customers significantly more expensive Washington asparagus, the customer will buy Peruvian asparagus from his competitor down the street.

The free market has decided that asparagus cannot be processed within the state of Washington because the producer cannot recover the costs of his labor from the sale of his product. When one forces a cost upon a job that exceeds the value of the product that job produces, that job will cease to exist. This is as immutable as the law of gravity. In some jobs, the market can be jiggled a bit. Forcing McDonald’s to pay hamburger flippers more won’t send Pullman commuters to drive through windows in Mexico. But, every little increment of labor cost will be reflected in the price of a Big Mac and will discourage sales. The consumer can choose to eat at home.

Caesar Chavez is hailed as a saint for unionizing migrant agricultural workers, but in doing so, he cost many of them their jobs. By forcing up the cost of labor, and through strikes, that made that labor unreliable, Chavez forced growers to automate their harvests. Caesar Chavez drove the cost of labor above the value of the product that the labor produced.

Many of the most impoverished nations around the world have tried manipulating markets from legislative halls or dictator’s desks.

Minimum wage laws really are just about the flabbiest exercise of compassion possible. It’s very easy for sanctimonious lawgivers to sit back and order someone else to be generous. And afterward they can boast about how courageous and compassionate they were in passing such a law.

Their courage and compassion has now yielded one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. Considering all that Washington has to attract business to the state, a well educated populace, a mild climate, natural beauty, it’s a wonder that 7.7% of the labor pool cannot find work.

These phony compassionistas claim that it is in the interest of our neediest and most vulnerable citizens that they inflict such laws on employers. Well, we now have 2000 people who are even needier as a consequence of that compassion.

Congratulations.

Why Let the Truth Influence Sexy Reporting?

Why Let the Truth Influence Sexy Reporting?

The BBC's Andrew Gilligan, accused British intelligence of generating "sexed up" information to justify war has apparently changed his mind.

Company Fined for Not Polluting Enough

Company Fined for Not Polluting Enough

I'm not making this up. A creamery on the Northwestern coast of California has been fined $5,000 for not pumping as much nitric acid into the environment as it reported on its disclosure forms.
The company misunderstood the forms and reported neutral nitrates as nitric acid.

Now This is Truly Tasteless

Now This is Truly Tasteless

If I understand the John McCain/Dixie Chick's reading of the constitution, I'm not supposed to complain about this. But I will anyway.

I wonder what the reaction would be to a Jesse Jackson cartoon calendar on which crack babies are shown, or a Hillary Clinton calendar with mounds of aborted babies on each page.

Out of Town

Out of Town

I'll be in Chicago for the next week and will not have convenient access to a computer while I'm there, so unless something truly big happens, I won't be blogging until I get back.

Will Wreck Budgets for Food

Will Wreck Budgets for Food

I have this image of Tim Eyman standing on a street corner with a handwritten, cardboard sign reading, "Will wreak havoc upon state budgets for food." Tim Eyman, who demands that Washington's state government find some way to do more with less revenue, does not believe that he should be expected to make similar economies in his own life. As such, he has decided to come out of the closet and convert his Permanent Offense assembly line anti-tax initiative machine into an above-board, supplemental source of income for himself.
I used to think that Tim Eyman was motivated solely by a narcissistic desire to hear his name on the radio and to see his face on television and on the front page of the newspaper. That was before he was caught with his hand in this organization's till. He paid a $50,000 fine for that indiscretion and contributions to his organization have fallen significantly. Since he was caught diverting money toward his own enrichment, contributions have fallen considerably. With less money available to skim and closer scrutiny from all sides, Tim Eyman has decided to bypass sneakiness and ask that people give their money directly to him.
Should he succeed in lining his pockets with their contributions, he could turn his next trick by writing and peddling a book through spam e-mail or perhaps on late night television talk shows. I can see it now. A fast talking Tim Eyman promises: "Circulate initiatives and make millions in your spare time from the comfort of your own home. My book will tell you how!"
Help Us Help Taxpayers is the handle given to his latest venture into entrepreneurial grass roots politics. It is essentially a hat that he is passing around, asking people to put their money directly into his checking account, thus sparing him the complications associated with surreptitiously diverting contributors' money into his own pockets.
"We simply can't afford to contribute our time, effort and expertise to these critical battles without being compensated for it," Eyman explained recently to his contributors. As he recently discovered, there are legal complications when one pockets money donated to support his chronic campaigning.
Originally, he said that he would only ask for personal enrichment if he succeeded in placing his latest initiative, I-807 on the ballot. He failed in that endeavor, but decided that he wanted the money anyway.
Contrary to his declarations of poverty, Tim Eyman seems to have squeaked by rather comfortably even before his skimming scam. His home in Mukilteo is valued at over half a million dollars. When his wife tells him to pick up a carton of milk, he picks it up in his Lexus SUV.
Since he was caught dipping into contributions, the Public Disclosure Commission has kept a much closer watch on Eyman. As such, we know a bit more about his money and his motivations. Documents recently surrendered show that over the past year and a half, Eyman had received $120,000 in gifts. He has also had to invest about $23,000 to solicit that money. During that same period, he spent $123,000 on attorney and accounting fees. His financial difficulties descend from his previous indiscretions.
Lawyers had better watch out. If he can't get people to pay his bills, it's entirely possible that his next crusade might be legal reform.
Eyman has established several fund raising organizations. One serves to pay his legal expenses. Another, Voters Want More Choices, solicits donations for campaign expenses such as printing, mailing and phone calls. Help Us Help Taxpayers is for himself and his lieutenants. This probably saves on accountants.
Apparently, Eyman's panhandling is legal even if it exposes an unorthodox code of ethics.
"Being compensated for activity in campaigns is nothing new. People do it all the time," according to Public Disclosure Commission spokesman Doug Ellis. "The interesting thing about this committee is that its sole purpose is to compensate."
If Tim Eyman genuinely expects people to fill his tip jar, then he should demonstrate his good faith by priming the pump as the first contributor to Help Us Help Taxpayers. And he should begin with the $200,000 he is accused of diverting to his own purposes previously.

Look, Up in the Sky! It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, it's Superbimbo!

Look, Up in the Sky! It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, it's Superbimbo!

Marvel comics has decided that it would not be creating new Princess Dianna superhero comic book after all.

How To Make a Bad Situation Worse

How To Make a Bad Situation Worse

Getting a cockroach stuck in your throat would seem to be as bad as things could get. But this woman managed to make things much worse for herself.

McDonald's Spreads its Poison Abroad

McDonald's Spreads its Poison Abroad

Clearly business will be picking up for lawyers in the Georgian Republic (for you Democrats, that's in the former Soviet Union, not the Southeastern United States).

Bad News For Democrats

Bad News For Democrats

This collection of polls has nothing but bad news for Democrats. First of all, it's clear that none of these guys are exciting anyone. In fact, Democrats greatly prefer candidates who are not running to those who are.
Also of interest is that Republicans know better who is seeking the Democratic nomination than do Democrats.

STD Lawsuits Are Acoming

STD Lawsuits Are Acoming

Considering the momentum that product liability suits have gained, I doubt that pharmaceutical companies with want to touch what could be a miracle drug.
Chilean scientists have isolated a compound from Black Widow Spider venom that causes erections and inactivates sperm, permitting on-demand, pregnancy safe sex.
Why is that bait for lawyers? Well, if one gets a sexually transmitted disease because one was able to have sex thanks to a drug facilitated both the act and reduced the motive for wearing a condom, then the manufacturer could be held responsible for any diseases resulting from that sex. After all, if McDonald's can be sued for its customers' obesity then Pfizzer could certainly be blamed for diseases contracted as a consequence of unprotected sex its drug facilitated.

The Path of Enlightenment

The Path of Enlightenment

These pictures, here and here, show the aftermath of Iranian security forces pacifying dissident student.
Do you still believe that all religions are equal?

Watergate, Iran-Contragate, Whitewatergate, Monicagate - Sausagegate?

Watergate, Iran-Contragate, Whitewatergate, Monicagate - Sausagegate?

The next great scandal.

Afghanistan, Iraq, Now Iran

Afghanistan, Iraq, Now Iran

We've got them surrounded. Let's get the job done. They're even harboring Al Quaeda and they they're developing weapons of mass destruction. One of either of those reasons was enough to justify conquering Afhanistan and Iraq. Iran wins the daily double.

Push the Mullahs Over the Cliff

Push the Mullahs Over the Cliff

The weenies at MSNBC worry that pushing Iran too hard on the nuclear inspections issue could backfire. To hell with that. Let's push hard enough to change the regime.

Time to Topple the Mullahs

Time to Topple the Mullahs

Aside from the human rights justifications, it is in our security interests to topple the theocracy that tyrannizes Iran. That Iran supports terroism is well known. And now, with the assistance of North Korea (who should be next), Iran has tested a new ballistic missile capable of delivering nuclear weapons to Israel. This means that, if we don't act, Israel will. And Israel has fewer lethal options than we do. We can support internal revolution. If they must, Israel will vaporize Iran.
I'd rather have a friendly Iran than a smoking wasteland. But I'd prefer the smoking wasteland be Iran than Israel.

Don't Get Sick Here

Don't Get Sick Here

Trial lawyers continue to pull the strings of the Democratic Party. While malpractice insurance rates are prompting doctors to go on strike, the Democratic Party continues to do the lawyer's bidding by blocking legal reform aimed at limiting legal abuse.
Undoubtedly the big reason is that trial lawyers make up a big block of those million dollar plus donors that the Democrats are so addicted to. While Republicans are assumed to be the lapdogs of big donors, 92% of all million dollar political donations go to Democrats.

The First Pornographers?

The First Pornographers?

I think you have to have a dirty mind in the first place to think of this.

What Should they Use, An Innertube?

What Should they Use, An Innertube?

"Thai community groups wanted to use a logo featuring two elephants having sex for next year's World AIDS conference in Bangkok but the plan was criticized by health authorities because the bull was not using a condom."

Why Not Give Them Some of Your Own?

Why Not Give Them Some of Your Own?

Bono thinks everybody else should do something about poverty.

"I am ready to march with my activist friends in campaigns of civil disobedience. We are about to get very noisy, we are about to bang a lot of dustbin lids. This issue is the defining issue of our time and some of us are ready to really work on it."

Deflowered

Deflowered

Who would have guessed?

Choose the Dissent You Wish to Crush

Choose the Dissent You Wish to Crush

Michael Savage got canned by MSNBC for his attitude toward homosexuals. In fact, the Left howled in protest of his hiring in the first place. The First Amendment should not extend to people with his opinions.
A radio talk show host was fired recently, according to her it was for her opposition to the Iraq war. i suspect the Left will be more supportive of her rights.

Who Cares About Weapons of Mass Destruction?

Who Cares About Weapons of Mass Destruction?

The UN knows when a dictator needs to be be replaced. It's when he smokes too much. (registration required)

Bring Out Your Dead!

Bring Out Your Dead!
This reminds of that scene in Monte Python and the Holy Grail where the son tries to convince the undertaker to take his still living father.

Religion of Peace Update

Religion of Peace Update

The United States Congress has had to hire investigators to discover what everybody else in the world knows instinctively, that Muslim extremism is dangersous.

"Congressional investigators have targeted extremist Muslims in America, those described as members of the Wahhabi movement who have become increasingly influential throughout the United States — buoyed by foreign state-sponsored doctrines and a wellspring of cash used to recruit and train international terrorists.
"The extremist ideology is Wahhabism, a major force behind terrorist groups like al Qaeda," said Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, whose Senate Judiciary subcommittee on technology, terrorism and government information held recent hearings on the terrorist threat in the United States.
"It is widely recognized that all 19 of the [September 11] suicide pilots ... were Wahhabi followers," he said. "Since then, many questions have been asked about the role in that day's terrible events and in other challenges we face in the war against terror of Saudi Arabia and its official sect, a separatist, exclusionary and violent form of Islam known as Wahhabism."

Oh well. If they learn something, that will be something.

The Scourge of Safe Playgrounds

The Scourge of Safe Playgrounds

Scientists have discovered that mice raised in a sterile laboratory environment do not develop normally. The problem is so severe that all research done in typical, safe laboratory environment is considered dubious.
Our risk-averse, lawyer saturated society is now forcing sterile, unstimulating playgrounds upon our children. Our childrend may be a little bit safer, but does a child really develop when he is raised in such a sterile, risk-free environment?

Religion of Peace Update

Religion of Peace Update

The religion of peace has been quite busy spreading love and understanding lately. In Moscow, Russia, Islamic Chechen suicide bombers blew themselves and 14 innocents to pieces at a rock concert. At 20 others were injured.
In Pakiistan, Islamic gunmen broke into a Catholic priest's home and murdered him.
Also in Pakistan, Sunni Muslim suicide bombers blew themselves up killing 47 people inside a mosque.

"It's a beatiful religion," said George Bush, shortly after 9/11.

Earth Liberation Front Terrorists Strike

Earth Liberation Front Terrorists Strike

We need to get much tougher with our domestic terrorists. It's entirely too bad that we treat them as mere criminals. Perhaps a new constitutional amendment would allow us to treat them as combatants.
If we could start jugging them in Guantanamo, then we might not have to put up with stuff like this.

"WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP -- A radical environmental group opposed to sprawl is claiming credit for fires that burned two houses in a Macomb County development.

The June 4 fires caused about $700,000 damage to a pair of nearly completed houses in the Willow Ridge development in Macomb's Washington Township.

Authorities believe those fires -- and two March 21 blazes in Washtenaw County's Superior Township -- were set by the Earth Liberation Front.

The Earth Liberation Front terms itself "an international underground organization that uses direct action in the form of economic sabotage to oppose the destruction of the natural environment."

Graffiti left at the sites read "ELF -- Stop Sprawl," and the group on Thursday acknowledged its role in the blazes."

Gulag Nation

Gulag Nation

Sit on a newspaper picture of Kim Jong Il, and you'll spend the rest of what will now be a short life in a North Korean concentration camp.
U.S. News and World Report has a chilling story about North Korea's prison camps.

"The horror of the North Korean gulag is compounded by the trivial offenses that can draw such punishment: listening to foreign radio, accidentally sitting on a newspaper photo of Kim Jong Il, or making a heedlessly candid remark. Most prisoners, recalls Ahn, "made one small mistake." One was arrested after singing a South Korean pop song titled, "Don't Cry for Me, Younger Sister." The unlucky woman, says David Hawk, a researcher for the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, learned the tune from watching a North Korean propaganda film but was nonetheless accused of disturbing the public socialist order."

What I find most interesting about it is that USNW's publisher, Mort Zuckerman, is a big fan of Fidel Castro, having lavishly feted the Cuban dictator a few years back whent the bearded one came to New York to deliver an anti-US harangue at the United Nations. Does Zuckerman believe that there can be such a thing as nice communism? And does he believe that Castro's prison camp nation is a good exampe of a worker's paradise?

And no doubt the French will oppose any liberation of North Korea, otherwise, where would they get cheap silk flowers?

"At the camp, Lee was tapped to supervise production of exported goods: artificial silk flowers bound for France, handmade wool sweaters for Japan, decorative needlework for Poland. Suits and dress shirts were sold through Hong Kong, getting their origin labels there, before shipment to Europe. If quotas were missed, Lee says, she faced torture. Guards stepped on her head, knocking out teeth and skewing the left side of her face. During one beating, her left eye started to pop out of its socket. She pushed it back in with her fingers. Her arms were injured after she was hung in chains from a ceiling. Even now, she has difficulty sitting or standing for long periods."

But, as it has done since the time of the Caesars, Christianity wins: "Lee won release in 1993, apparently for her success in meeting production quotas, she says. The earnings had gone into a fund to celebrate Kim Il Sung's 80th birthday the previous year. By then, though, Lee was in no mood to celebrate. "As soon as I got out of prison, I decided I didn't want to live in that hell," she says. Lee fled with her son in 1995. She converted to Christianity, having marveled at jailed Christians who refused to renounce their faith in the face of torture and execution. Lee moved to an apartment block on the outskirts of Seoul. Still, she is plagued by feelings of guilt about those left behind. Her new life's mission is to expose the terrors of the camps. "I want the world to know how evil Kim Jong Il is," she says. "The world needs to put more pressure on North Korea."

Bum of the Month

Bum of the Month

Prize fighter Joe Lewis used to line up a parade of hacks he could easily kick the crap out of and retain his title. He called them, "the bum of the month club."
Karl Rove seems to be attempting the same thing by promoting Howard Dean's candidacy, although I think the whole Democratic field is a bunch of bums. John Kerry as president? Richard Gephardt? Dennis Kucinich? Bums all.

Democrats Hire Protestors

Democrats Hire Protestors

I consider this good news. If Democratic Party passions are so low that they have to hire protestors, then I'd say the future is bright for the good guys.

Bring 'em On!

Bring 'em On!

I think this is what Bush meant.

Oh, This Must Be What the Left Likes About Islam

Oh, This Must Be What the Left Likes About Islam

Saudi police burned 15 schoolgirls to death for not Islamic headscarves and robes.

Tell Me Why The Left has Adopted the Palestinians

Tell Me Why The Left has Adopted the Palestinians

Why does the left so adore the Palestinians? They violate ever tenet of modern liberalism. They racist, intolerant, sexist, and they raise their children to be gun nuts. My own theory is that the Lefties are simply anti-Western civilization and the Palestinians are just their latest vehicle they are riding to attack all that is civilized.

On the Other Hand, We're Not the Same People We Once Were Either

On the Other Hand, We're Not the Same People We Once Were Either

We may not be that far behind the European Union. Read this.

European Union Fails to Deal Firmly With Hamas

European Union Fails to Deal Firmly With Hamas

We can be thankful that once, some Europeans were made of sterner stuff than the current generation. It's easy to imagine today's European bending himself into pretzels to maintain a distinction between the military and political wing of the Nazis.

Child Slaves Raised to be Soldiers of Islam

Child Slaves Raised to be Soldiers of Islam

Do you still believe that one religion is a good as any other? Well check this out. 280 teenaged boys were caged at an Islamic school where they were being schooled in military tactics. If that make you sick, then stop here otherwise, read on.

Bad News For Democrats

Bad News For Democrats

Oh no! The economy is beginning to improve. The damage done by the tech bubble burst has run its course and the normal engines of the cconomy, such as goods and services, should lift the economy.

Now This Is Funny!

Now This Is Funny!

Okay, I'm a big George Bush fan. I'm glad we threw Saddam Hussein out. I do believe he had weapons of mass destruction. I do believe we will find them. And even if we don't, I believe the war was justified and has made the world a better place.
All that said, I do enjoy creative humor and this qualifies.

Welcome to the Mainstream

Welcome to the Mainstream
I was always amazed when Sunday morning talks show hosts, such as Sam Donaldson and George Stephanopolous would reflexively refer to the pro-life position as "extreme." Well, pro-life is now the majority oppinion even among women, whom these same deep thinkers insisted would tilt Democratic in opposition to the Republican pro-life position. Can a majority opinion be extreme?

The Real Goods on Rachel Corrie

The Real Goods on Rachel Corrie

Oliver Kamm is just another blogger who has actually done the investigative work that the boneheads and the Seattle P-I could not be bothered with. The P-I would prefer to embrace myth and discover reality.

Hitler Was Once a Youth of Uncommon Passion

Hitler Was Once a Youth of Uncommon Passion

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer oh so graciously allows that Rachel Corrie's death in Israel "could be" an accident.

This Absolutely Proves It

This Absolutely Proves It

Doesn't this prove that religious conservatives were right to oppose human fetal cell research? Scientists, whose research would turn Frankenstein's stomach, mixed male and female embryonic cells to create a human "she-male." They killed the hybrid after only 6 days of development, but what could they possibly have been thinking?
Thank you Bill and Hillary and Al Gore and Tom Daschle and Teddy Kennedy and Richard Gephardt and all the rest of you who made this possible.