mumbai pics you wont see on the nightly news please note the photos are gruesome pictured tears of the twoyearold boy trapped in mumbai jewish centre as his parents were murdered moshe holtzbergs mother rivka was five months pregnant when she was tortured and killed by terrorists . they were murdered simply because they were jews . u.s. india pressu......
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al frankens last resort is an attack on the result based on the rejection of certain absentee ballots from the tabulation. franken now anticipates losing the recount. and franken stands ready to call on the senate to reject the result he anticipates in the recount. weve noted the threat aimed by franken at the heads of minnesota authorities in the event his position......
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good morning. i wonder if the logic of broken windows also applies to improving standards of dress and manner it seems likely it might. is this a reason dispense with the tshirtjeans as default dress well its one of the main reasons i blog . to what use one wonders yet another looming crises yalc lets hope yalc doesnt make it into the ......
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building on christopher hitchens new essay on the fate of bombay john hinderaker asks whats in a namein this case a lothitchens clarifies something that i missed for some reason the origin of mumbai. i first realized that bombay had been renamed within the last year or two when on an airplane i read an airline magazine article about mumbai evidentl......
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our democratcontrolled senate may get to in essence decide who wins the minnesota senate battle between incumbent republican norm coleman and democrat nutcase al franken democrat al frankens campaign said monday that as many as 1000 absentee ballots were improperly disqualified in minnesotas senate race and that it may appeal to courts or the u.s. senate to order that......
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please welcome steve markom as a new writer for noquarter. steve is a longtime reader here and has been a wonderful email penpal with me. we share a deep affection for and appreciation of amcs emmywinning mad men and im hoping to entice steve to write reviews when amc reairs the series so you can follow along with steves very insightful commentaries 8......
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conservative bloggers who blamed the virginia tech victims for not fighting back against the madman who attacked their school are back for a second dip in the blamethevictim cesspool. heres john hinderaker i wondered earlier today how a mere ten terrorists could bring a city of 19 million to a standstill. here in the u.s. i dont think it would happen. i think we have a......
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john hinderaker comforts himself with the thought that the attacks in mumbai would be impossible to carry out in america i wondered earlier today how a mere ten terrorists could bring a city of 19 million to a standstill. here in the u.s. i dont think it would happen. i think we have armed security guards who know how to use their weapons supplemented by an unknown number of private c......
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from hollywood to bollywood for those who would blame president bush for terrorist attacks not the recent tragedy in mumbai. militant muslims are not going away now that obama is presidentelect. a lot of bushhaters will need to redirect their angst.......
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powerline notes muslims worry about image and conclude so far most of the worlds muslims havent been embarrassed enough to take any significant action to reform their religion. they have i think a remarkably high threshold of embarrassment. via instapundit as i noted before cair has yet to issue any statement on the mumbai terr......
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mark steyn in nro makes the point that the war we in the west find ourselves in against islam is vastly different from the old cold war against the communist bloc. rather than a bunch of sleeper cells spread across europe and the americas controlled by a central clandestine authority in moscow todays mujahideen army is a freelance bunch driven by an ideology that has been propagated thro......
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yid with lid reported that susan rice is one those responsible for letting osama bin laden get away in the 1990s. a asusan rice in sudan. rice bungled a deal with sudan to capture terrorist mastermind osama bin laden. sudan net on monday barack obama is expected to announce that he has chosen the same susan rice as his un ambassador and that the position will be e......
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my favorite blogger just put up a post on my favorite blog he quoted from an ap story on the appalling ineptitude of the indian security forces during the terrorist siege where ten men held an entire city of 19 million souls hostage. some choice quotes as more details of the response to the attack emerged a picture formed of woefully unprepared security forces. prime minister man......
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a culture of weakness we may never fully understand how ten armed men were able to terrorize a city of 19 million but this is at least part of the explanation ......
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a hat tip to the guys at powerline for picking up on the reuters caption to this photo a suspected gunman walks outside the premises of the chhatrapati shivaji terminus or victoria terminus railway station in mumbai november 26 2008. emphasis added now the guy may or may not be a muslim okhe is but ignore that for a second. he may......
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the seablogger points to his own and some other recent posts on the logic of al q eventually setting off a nuke in d.c. seems right to me especially since they have a history of second tries on missed targets and they pretty much failed on their first big d.c. strike in 2001. on the other hand does the seaattack comm ando assault on mumbai india not portend a similar strike on ......
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apparently he wasnt kidding when he said he thought it was his job to help the obama adminstration succeed harrisburg pa. a pennsylvania democratic party leader says msnbc pundit chris matthews may be considering a run for u.s. senate in 2010. the patriotnews of harrisburg reports matthews met with state party leaders this past week in washington to discuss ......
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in georgia theres a runoff senate race between incumbent saxby chambliss and democrat challenger jim martin which was mandated by georgia state law because neither candidate got over 50 of the vote in the first election. this is an opportunity for democrats to expand their senate majority but they seem to be squandering it. the question is... why the runoff between incumben......
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why has the press been so negative about the economy even before there was something to be negative about is it politically motivated are they actually trying to use the power of the press to influence the election well yes. but theres more and at the same time less to it than that. two recent blog posts brought the real reason to light. the first was tams ......
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scott at power line wonders the runoff between incumbent republican senator saxby chambliss and democratic contender jim martin takes place this tuesday. barack obama has avoided appearing in georgia on behalf of martin. turnout is always a challenge in a runoff election. obamas appearance would obviously lend significant assistance to the contender. why has he avoided georgia ......
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in the course of discussing a piece by ron radosh on george bush scott johnson quotes the remarkable eulogy of neville chamberlain delivered by winston churchill in the house of commons in 1940 words as applicable to churchill himself as to chamberlain in paying a tribute of respect and of regard to an eminent man who has been taken from us no one is obliged to alter the opinions which......
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so the attacks are over 56 hours later. latest count is 183 dead and more than 300 injured but according to indian officials it was stopped before the worst could happen they had apparently planned to kill thousands of people by bombing the taj building .a averting that at least is a small bright spot in this chaos. five hostages were killed at the chabad house one of the first plac......
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powerline is rightfully one of the most important conservative blogs in america and is generally sharp and on point so when the bloggers that run it get something spectacularly wrong attention must be paid.a first some background about britain. a terrible problem in britain right now is that theres regular problems with keeping track of immigrants and crime.a heres theodore ......
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liberals dont need morality because they have something that serves them better niceness. forget that oldfashioned stuff about right and wrong if we just always do whats nice i.e. politically correct well have a better world. but whereas morality is a sturdy bridge supported by pillars sunk deep into the earth nice ness is a pretty piece of flo......
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is barack obama a stealth centrist did he just dupe the far left into electing him as the progressive agent of change only to walk out of the centrist closet and dash their hopes of a liberalprogressive age of america according to a lot of discussions the democrats elected a surprise centrist to the white house or at least that is the theory. here are some interesting perspectives on the pres......
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