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Patch.com Reporter Jessica McBride Gets Scoop on Sikh Temple Shooting Suspect UPDATE: More Details Emerge

Earlier I linked the report that the suspect in the Oak Creek Sikh Temple shooting had reportedly just broken up with his girlfriend. I urged caution because the source is secondhand: The mother of the suspect’s landlord. But kudos to Jessica McBride of the Patch for her resourcefulness in getting this scoop, the first personal information […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Every Rose Has Its Thorn

— compiled by Wombat-socho Having wasted most of my Sunday (listening to baseball and rereading the Civil War novels of Newt and William Forstchen), it is now time to consider the handiwork of God, as Lewis Grizzard once said before heading down for a tour of Atlanta’s strip clubs. I am, as usual, obliged to […]

‘It’s Pretty Much a Hate Crime’ — Seven Reported Dead in Sikh Temple Shooting UPDATE: Act of ‘Domestic Terrorism’ UPDATE: Liberals Blame Bachmann UPDATE: Report Says Shooter ‘Had Just Broken Up With His Girlfriend’

While we do not yet have definite information on the identity of a man who went on a shooting rampage in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, one worshipper at the Sikh Temple summarized the situation pretty bluntly: One of the temple’s committee members, Ven Boba Ri, said that based on communication with people […]

You Had Me at ‘Boobs’

I protest the inherent unfairness of sending me an e-mail with the subject line, “The Big Boob Conundrum (aka ‘Breasts of Mass Destruction’)“: Given that the average amount of milk produced by a lactating mother (850 ml/day) is well over 16 ounces (473.2 ml), those 38DDDs are “containers” which clearly violate your Big Gulp edict (breast milk is […]

FMJRA 2.0: Hey Porter

— compiled by Wombat-socho … And the Pulitzer Prize for Recycling Second-Hand Rumors From HuffPo … The Rio Norte Line Da Tech Guy Daily Pundit Hogewash Conservatively Speaking Nice Deb The Minority Report The Conservatory EBL I Love The Smell Of #ChickFilA At Noon. It Smells Like. . .Liberty Jackie Wellfonder Newsbeat One The (Perhaps […]

Why ‘Moderate Islam’ Is Doomed

Moderation is not a fighting creed. Voices of compromise and tolerance can never prevail in a culture that permits militant radicals to resort to intimidation and violence to achieve their ends. David Herzenhorn of the New York Times reports a brutal lesson from Russia: MOSCOW — A self-described guerrilla fighter urging strict adherence to Islamic […]

Caroline Glick Offers A Sane View Of The Middle East

by Smitty Glick just rips this administration’s preference for posture over policy. Here and you thought Caroline was just about laughs. via American Power

Harry Reid … Boxer?

by Smitty I saw this on Hot Air According to a source familiar with Reid’s thinking, the majority leader, a former boxer, considers himself a political street fighter now A bit of Wikipedia takes you to LVRJ: Reid was not born into a Mormon family and did not join the church until he was a […]

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