Multiculturalism Kills

In England alone it is killing up to 17,000 women.

Per year.

Or it may be 35 times higher.

I’m With Hitch

At least in large measure, in his parsimonious advice for Rowan Williams.

Where we part company is here:

The alternative—don’t have any blasphemy laws and let religious people’s feelings be hurt, just as the feelings of the secular are regularly offended by religion—doesn’t occur to the archbishop and people who think like him.

I have no more sympathy for the secular than the religious when it comes to feelings being offended. Nobody’s religion (or secularity, for that matter) offends my feelings. Why should it? Now, if someone’s religion involves replacing my constitutional republic with barbarism, then I’m offended. In that case it’s not my feelings, but my freedom which is threatened.

In the end, Hitch is right: there should be no blasphemy laws. If your beliefs can’t take ridicule, maybe they aren’t worth much.

Obama’s Got Some Splainin’ To Do

He disavows this quickly, or he’s a bigger disaster than even I thought.

Update:

That’s it? OK. That’s it.

No More Excuses

Members of congress who still support CAIR can only claim stupidity, not ignorance.

Lost Cause?

I’d like to hear Reid, Pelosi and, especially, Obama remind us exactly who is losing in Iraq.

Liberal Mugged

A woman who tried to convince Niel Bush, Dubya’s younger brother, that women were fine in Saudi Arabia has had her eyes opened. And her clothes forcibly removed.

Pushing the Boundaries of Coincidence

Who could be better at suspicious timing than Bill and Hill?

(And what’s he spending the other $15 million on? Cheeseburgers and lap dances?)

Ask your doctor

if OxyClinton is for you.

Decision 2008

How to vote is the subject of much heated debate.

For the Sheer Joy

of watching someone who is really good at what he does.

York Called It

Romney is out.

I disagree with Senator McCain on a number of issues, as you know. But I agree with him on doing whatever it takes to be successful in Iraq, on finding and executing Osama bin Laden, and on eliminating Al Qaeda and terror. If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror.

This is not an easy decision for me. I hate to lose. My family, my friends and our supporters…  many of you right here in this room… have given a great deal to get me where I have a shot at becoming President. If this were only about me, I would go on.  But I entered this race because I love America, and because I love America, I feel I must now stand aside, for our party and for our country.

That shows class, and just raised my opinion of Romney a notch or two. If he evaluates what happened, and realizes how he failed politically, he could spend the next four years getting ready for a real run, and showing us that he really is the guy he claims to be now.

Not everybody makes President on their first try.

QOTD

“I’m now going to sleep in hopes that, when I wake up, it will all be a bad dream and Calvin Coolidge will be ahead in the primaries.”

-Mark Steyn

Britain’s Demise

Is all but complete.

Here is the face of Multiculturalism: Abject, dhimmi, disgrace.

Don’t worry. It can’t happen here! No way we’d elect a president who consorts with guys who like sharia law. Right?

Be nice. Be Polite.

And have a plan to kill everybody you see.

Bob Owens provides a very good synopsis of concealed carry training, including some very practical advice that hadn’t occurred to me:

We were told not to try for tight groups, to spread our shots around the target’s center mass. “Air goes in and out. Blood goes rounds and round. Any variation of that is bad.” Bullets close together cause less disruption than those spread apart affecting different areas. I get that.

I took a similar course in California a couple of decades ago. It’s a sobering, thought-provoking exercise which is a beneficial side effect of liberalized CCW laws.

Now if we could only get CCW laws in California out of the racist 19th century…

Kerry Hits Bottom

And digs.

(Be sure to read the first comment.)

Our 2008 Bumper Sticker

is the last paragraph of this post.

Update:

Byron York sees signs that the field is about to narrow.

Remembering Hillary

The Mexicans have a great saying for this: Génio y figura hasta la sepultura. Translates roughly as the leopard doesn’t change his spots.

Don’t Stay Home

Both Mark Levin and Stanley Kurtz make the case for at least voting for a Republican congress. It’s a good point. A President Obama or Clinton would be unthinkable, and a President McCain would need someone to keep his feet to the fire. No matter which of  the three wins, handing them a liberal Democrat congress would do severe, lasting damage to the country.

Al Gore is in China?

Who knew?

“In the first place, God created idiots.”

Even Mark Twain might have a hard time imagining how stupid school administrators can be.

Modern Snake Oil

Genetics is going to provide some fascinating and useful information, and may end up transforming the world in ways we can’t predict. Meanwhile, though, the snake-oil salesmen who used to ride into town on a wagon now arrive via the internet.

Caveat emptor.

Three Cheers for Wikipedia

Braver than 95% of the world’s media organizations. Because they dare show this:

“Air Surge” is working, too

Let Bob Owens lay 40,ooo pounds on you.