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Judge Sam Alito is to all accounts an excellent pick and I am thrilled.  He has a solid record of being a judge and not a legislator from the bench.  Respect for his role and the constitution along with great ability are what we want and need on our highest court.
In the days and weeks […]

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Without any declared intention or message, or any other observable reason other than that they apparently wanted to kill some totally helpless christians, jihaadi thugs ambushed a group of children on the way to a christian school in the morning and chased down three girls with machete’s and cut off their heads.  From Netscape News:
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Glenn Reynolds has a thoughtful post over at Instapundit titled Abortion and Spousal Notification.  Recommended reading, here’s a small quote:

So where’s the husband’s procreational autonomy? Did he give it up by getting married? And, if he did, is it unthinkable that when they get married women might give some of their autonomy up, too?
The problem […]

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The U.S. has refused to sign the treaty believing it will be used as a tool of our enemies against our troops and possibly politicians.  Attempts have been made before in other nations, Belgium among them.  From Netscape News:
The issue appears to be the latest point of contention between Mexico and the U.S. Relations […]

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Thanks to Galleyslaves for the post today, recommended reading here.   Jonathan linked from the story at Little Green Footballs, the power of the web.  From the Herald Sun in Australia:

POLICE are being advised to treat Muslim domestic violence cases differently out of respect for Islamic traditions and habits.
Officers are also being urged to work […]

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Captain’s Quarters has a post today, link here, following developments in Syria as the full effects of the building pressure on Syria take effect.  The rats are starting to leave the sinking ship:

 As more pressure gets applied to the Bashar Assad regime to answer for the assassination of Rafik Hariri, it looks like the impulse […]

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The ever helpful Betsy does it again today, link here.  The good news that everyone should be talking about is discussed in a post over at Bizzyblog, link here, and here’s a good quote:

QUESTION: When is this economy going to (get) some respect?
The economy’s 3.8% third-quarter growth (subject to revision in the coming months) was […]

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Paul at Powerline has some worthy points to make on the matter, after the scathing article by E.J. Dionne made the charge.  To quote:
Finally, we get to the most important issue — the unwillingness of conservatives to defer to the president’s selection of a nominee on ideological grounds. As I pointed out before Dionne […]

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From Major E over at Powerline, link here, a quote:
ABC News deserves kudos for its television broadcast last night, where Army Sergeant Darrell Green was commended as the "Person of the Week." He is a soldier from the Third Infantry Division who was holding a security overwatch position at the Palestine Hotel the other day […]

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From Galleyslaves, link here:
The Washington Examiner ran a very important headline yesterday. “What Would Jesus Rap?” they inquired. The popular answer, I am guessing, is that He would rap about nice Christian themes, acts of selflessness and piety. That kind of thing. But there’s another possibility, that Jesus the rapper would have gone gangsta. Dropping […]

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Responding to international pressure and condemnation, Syrian dictator Bashar Assad order an investigation into allegations this his government had something to do with the assassination of the Prime Minister of Lebanon.  The link to the story at Breitbart is here, and to quote:

Syrian President Bashar […]

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Patterico has a short bit about a jury finding the port authority in New York 68% to blame for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.  The link is here.  Maybe its time we started eliminating stupid jurors in addition to biased ones in the selection process.

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Over at Brietbart News they report on recent agreements made in the military relationship between Japan and the U.S., the link is here.  To summarize, the U.S. has agreed to move 7000 marines off Okinawa to Guam, to shift the remaining marines on Okinawa around a bit to be more pleasing to the residents, and […]

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Are we a train that has come off the tracks, headed for destruction or somewhere unknown?  Are our elites, our leaders, on our side or just getting as much as they can before it all falls apart?  Peggy Noonan has an article discussing these feelings over at OpinionJournal.  Recommended reading at the link here.

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Go read the story at the link here.  Its not long, go read it all NOW, please.  Michelle Malkin provides a detailed and indesputable example of the type of misinformation that is the daily bread of the major media in general, and in this case the New York Times in specific.  It is hard to […]

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Michael Kinsley has an entertaining and thought provoking piece today on the Washington Post site, thanks to Instapundit for the link, which is here. The background to this whole thing is the Plamegate, where the Special Prosecutor has been trying to determine if a crime had been committed in the public release of Valery Plame’s […]

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Wretchard at the Bellmont Club is a must read for those looking for insight, analysis, and historical context for international events.  He has a fairly short post today that I highly recommend at the link here.  The following just has to be seen:
The fundamental argument against international military action is the supposition that effective alternatives […]

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The Brussels Journal is just a factory of great posts, and they continue today with coverage of the emerging international crisis surrounding the printing of cartoons showing Mohammed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.  They believe any representations of Mohammed are blasphemous, and the Moslem World is increasingly furious about it and getting organized to pressure […]

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Thanks to Little Green Footballs for the link, if you want to see the practical effects of Multicultural dogma and Western guilt, go read the post at melaniephillips.com here.  The consequences of the Multicultural principle of ‘minorities’ in their status of ‘victims’ being blameless for any and all behavior are playing out in racial riots […]

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The Weekly Standard’s Foreign Policy Post page has two great items up today, both on the truth about what lead to war in Iraq.  There is More Distortion on Iraq and Niger at the link here.  And then there is What Lawrence Wilkerson Forgot to Include in his Los Angeles Times "Cabal" Op-Ed at the […]

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Thanks to Betsy’s Page for the link to the recent article by Christopher Hitchens on the recent evidence released about George Galloway, link here.  A teaser quote:
Just before my last exchange with George Galloway, which occurred on the set of Bill Maher’s show in Los Angeles in mid-September, I was approached by a representative of […]

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Go read the post at RealClear Politics Blog on the media’s handling of this ‘event’.  The link is here.  Here’s a quote, but I recommend going and reading it all:

This isn’t honoring our soldiers, it’s using their deaths to try and negatively influence the public about the war in Iraq.  You think I’m being too […]

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Thanks to the RealClearPolitics blog for thier post today about Delphi’s recent offer to the UAW, go see it here.  To sum it up quickly, Delphi faces total collapse if the union does not accept this offer.  Delphi is so uncompetitive compared to foreign competition because of the situation the UAW contracts have put them […]

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Thanks Gizmodo for the link to the review here.  It’s just beautiful isn’t it? 

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Thanks to Michelle Malkin for the link to the PDF of her withdrawal letter to the President hosted at NationalReview, click here to see it yourself.  You can see the President’s full statement at Michelle’s site at the link above.  What it all amounts to is that the President chose to use what has come […]

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Thanks to Instapundit for the link to Strategypage’s post discussing the recent changes in coverage in Moslem Media.  Namely that they are finally including more and more stories where the terrorists are killing other Moslems, which is eroding support for their activities.  Go check it out here.
The weakest part of the War Against Islamic Terror […]

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