Court to Rahm Emanuel: ‘F*** You!’
It’s the Chicago Way! Rahm Emanuel was thrown off the ballot for mayor of Chicago today by an appellate court panel, a stunning blow to the fund-raising leader in the race. An appellate panel ruled 2-1 that Emanuel did not meet the residency standard to run for mayor. Appellate justices Thomas Hoffman and Shelvin Louise […]
They Got the Gold Mine …
. . . and taxpayers get the shaft: Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies and their former top executives in civil lawsuits accusing them of fraud. . . . Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, […]
Suicide Bomb at Moscow Airport
Reuters: At least 31 people were killed and more than 100 injured on Monday in a suicide bombing at Russia’s biggest airport, Russian news agencies reported. Ace of Spades: Security is oriented towards keeping bombs off planes, but almost none at all is directed at keeping bombs out of the airports themselves, where all those […]
VIDEO: British Girl, 13, Says Rape Threats Are ‘Happening to Lots of Girls’ at School
In November, we reported on the shocking story of Muslim rape gangs terrorizing girls in Great Britain Now, Eric Dondero at Libertarian Republican has this video interview with a 13-year-old girl — whose accent indicates she’s from northern England — talking about the intimidation she faces at school: When she reports threats from fellw students […]
Obama’s State of the Union Preview
Because I signed up for the Obama mailing list in 2008, this was actually e-mailed to me Saturday night but — I’m not kidding — it went to my “spam” folder: From the presidential e-mail: Two years ago, when I first addressed a joint session of Congress, this country faced a crisis unlike anything since […]
IT’S ALIVE!
The dreaded scourge of “liberaltarianism” — the heinous Cato Institute monster that first terrorized America in the waning years of the Bush era — has been revived, at least in the dope-addled mind of Will Wilkinson, who sees in the enthusiasms of Timothy B. Lee the spark to resurrect that nightmare. It was Brink Lindsey who created that […]
Zombie Goes Kipling
“Yes, part of me still would like to see Potemkin Villages, or perhaps ‘It’s a Small World’ living dioramas, of each and every ethnic culture on Earth, so as to preserve our species’ amazing diversity. But I also know that there is cruelty in such a fantasy; because real human beings will be compelled to […]
The St. Pancake Flotilla: Commission Determines IHH Initiated Violence
An official commission investigated the May incident where Israeli commandos were attacked when they boarded a vessel defying the Gaza blockade, and has determined that activists with the Turkish “humanitarian” agency IHH provoked the incident: The commission concluded that on board the Mavi Marmara and the other flotilla vessels was a group of IHH and affiliated activists […]
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