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Will Terrorists Boycott Arizona?

Da Tech Guy told me that some residents of Watertown, Mass., he spoke with today said it’s time for Massachusetts to pass its own version of the new Arizona immigration law. Which would be a 180-degree reversal of what was happening in Massachusetts before this morning’s raids: Last week, the Boston City Council passed a measure that would […]

BREAKING: Terrorism Angle in Massachusetts ‘Immigration’ Raids; BUMPED: ‘Very Quiet Neighborhood’; UPDATE: Mohammad Bakht Zameen; UPDATE: ‘They Paid the Rent on Time’

12:08 p.m. ET: DaTechGuy on the scene reports by phone: The boarding house where the suspects were arrested is “next door to public housing” in an “ethnically mixed neighborhood.” Residents describe it as “a very quiet neighborhood” where “nothing ever happens — until today.” UPDATE 12:20 p.m. ET: New England Cable News names Mohammad Bakht […]

Troubling News From Fitchburg, Mass.: If Scott Brown’s Lost Josh Romano . . .

In his new gig writing for the Examiner, Pete Da Tech Guy finds trouble at the corner market for the “41st vote”: We now know Brown’s price; $354,000. That’s a local voter’s reaction to this Boston Herald article: U.S. Sen. Scott Brown – the upstart GOP maverick who has threatened to filibuster the Democrats’ move to rein in Wall Street – […]

You Might Be a Media Douchebag If . . .

. . . people are attacked for exercising their First Amendment rights and you don’t think that’s a news story: Over 10,000 Boston Patriots turned out for the event and to hear Sarah Palin speak. So did the thugs. Leftist thugs wearing USW T-shirts threw punches and rammed their way through the Tea Party Protest […]

RAMMING SPEED! Democrats Prepare for ‘Really Stupid and Futile Gesture’

From my latest American Spectator column: Does anyone else remember what happened Jan. 19? Did anyone else watch the confetti fly and hear the band play in the ballroom of Boston’s Park Plaza Hotel two months ago? Or was the election of a Republican to the Senate seat held for more than four decades by […]

‘Almost Never’ Is Once Too Often

“Certainly, there are lots of socialists on college faculties across the land. Happily, they almost never engage in killing sprees.” — James Joyner, Outside the Beltway UPDATE: The plot thickens: The professor who is accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama on Friday was a suspect in the attempted mail bombing of […]

‘Random Tragedy’ Not So Random: Socialist Serial Killer Amy Bishop

“It’s always baffling to me when people try to politicize random tragedies — usually while they’re breaking news stories with little real information.” — James Joyner, Outside the Beltway Joyner is (a) from Alabama and (b) has a Ph.D., and I’m sorry if that caused anyone’s head to explode — “An intellectual? From Alabama?” — […]

What’s the Matter with Kansas Massachusetts?

From the BBC, of all places: The Republicans’ shock victory in the election for the US Senate seat in Massachusetts meant the Democrats lost their supermajority in the Senate. This makes it even harder for the Obama administration to get healthcare reform passed in the US. Political scientist Dr David Runciman gives his view on […]

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