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We have seen in many cases that Muslim casualties are a major liability for jihadist groups. Politically, it is a safer bet to stick to infidels, whose lives are worth less under Islamic laws concerning blood money (diyya) and retaliation (qisas), not to mention the fact that they become targets as soon as they are deemed to have violated the dhimma protection racket.

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Things are looking grim for Obama when even the socialists at the Associated Press bad-mouth him.

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In the old days it was called “Gestapo”.

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Because God forbid we should use anything for money other than gaily colored bits of paper.

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Oh, like we really care what the Syrians think. If they’d mind their own business they wouldn’t have these problems.

This Ramirez cartoon sums it up very nicely.

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A former employee of an affiliate of ACORN testified yesterday that the community group now in the national spotlight knew that most new voter registration forms it had gathered were fraudulent.

I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

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A Huffington Post writer stabbed her former lover more than 200 times with a screwdriver and then tried to conceal the slaying, PalmBeachPost.com reported.

After committing the gruesome crime, Carol Anne Berger, an election correspondent for the Huffington Post, reported her former flame missing, then fatally shot herself a day later, police told the Web site.

Stuff like that doesn’t happen at National Review, I can tell you.

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Imagine — just imagine — what would have happened had that been an effigy of Barack Obama hanging by the neck there. Imagine the reactions in the press and on TV. There would have been no room left for the World Series, not even in Philadelphia.

Bias? What bias?

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From exchanging emails with him, I’ve known for a decade that Paul Krugman was an egomaniacal jerk, but he was always described as being intelligent. Yet, here are parts of a 1998 column he wrote in Slate that is just jaw-droppingly dumb. This is the kind of thinking that kept us from having the medium strong recession we deserved in 2001 after the Tech Bubble, instead, postponing it until a recession/depression of Biblical proportions arrives now.

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Your future under Islam. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

The Hog undergoes a change of life. Sort of.

I feel like God and gardening are all I write about these days. I guess it’s monotonous for a lot of people. Can’t seem to do anything about it, however.

Jonah Goldberg takes the Clever Plastic Disguise off of Barack Obama.

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Apparently $150k a year is all it takes. Who knew?

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College life in the 13th century was no bed of roses.

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Whoa — better keep that away from Democrats. It could get ugly.

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And garderners everywhere rejoice.

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In one of the most extraordinary episodes in African legal history, a panel of judges from Senegal, Mali and Togo will tomorrow issue a verdict expected to give fresh hope to more than 40,000 people being held as slaves in rural Niger and across the region.

Thought we’d gotten rid of slavery? Think again. Reminder: Islam has no problem with slavery. Saudi Arabia only abolished slavery (formally; it still exists informally) in the Beatles era.

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Reminder for the dimwitted: Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology with which no co-existence is possible.

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Nothing uncertain about these times; if you want to buy a gun, better do it before Barack becomes President.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

George Will takes a look at Democrats and education. “Leave no pot of money undipped.”

Washington is having a Willie Sutton Moment. Such moments occur when government, finding its revenue insufficient for its agenda, glimpses some money it does not control but would like to.

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Born of Hope is a prequel to the fantasy novels and tells the story of the Dúnedain, the Rangers of the North, before the return of the King.

Could be good, could be bad.

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I have to confess that the more I learn about black culture the less it makes any sense to me. I find the Japanese much easier to comprehend.

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But, of course, being smarter than the average journalist, you already knew that.

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One of my big complaints with the law making process is that there’s no built-in process to make sure a law actually does what it’s intended to do. Thanks to the law of unintended consequences, quite frequently, laws do plenty of other stuff, but do little to accomplish their stated purpose. Since politicians just want to pass laws so they can tell voters about the laws they passed, there’s no real review process. So, as long as a Congress member can claim “I helped build houses/protect children/save jobs/etc.,” because of a law that is called the Build Houses Act/Protect Kids Act/Save Jobs Act, they’re happy — even if the law did nothing to actually build houses, protect kids or save jobs.

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OK, the stage is set for an epic confrontation: the libertarian medical wingnuts of Arizona against the New Age psychological moonbats of California, with Barack Obama in the middle of it all. Can the robocalls be far behind? News at 11:00.

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On September 18, we released a report in Caracas that shows how President Hugo Chávez has undermined human rights guarantees in Venezuela. That night, we returned to our hotel and found around twenty Venezuelan security agents, some armed and in military uniform, awaiting us outside our rooms. They were accompanied by a man who announced—with no apparent sense of irony—that he was a government “human rights” official and that we were being expelled from the country.

Steve Sailer is on the case.

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People, faced with a choice between a Democrat and a quasi-Democrat, will tend to pick the Democrat, if they’re inclined in that direction at all.

John McCain still has a chance to win, so it’d be more sensible to delay the “who lost 2008?” debate until after Nov. 4. But since it’s already in full flower, let’s consider a chief culprit in the campaign’s current low state — the candidate.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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“According to the [12-year-old] girl’s parents and some witnesses, the marriage between Pujiono and her is valid according to religion (kawin siri), but it is not registered with the state.”

It’s clear which brand of law Pujiono is going with, after the example of Muhammad’s marriage to Aisha.

Mark Steyn takes a look at the polls.

In Australia, voting is compulsory, so the famous US distinction between “registered” and “likely” voters is irrelevant.

Gotta love Australians.

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Turns out that rich people are anxious about the economy. Who knew?

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Of course — that’s what Marxist dictators do.

Steve Sailer is on the case.

Bush and Rove bought Latino votes in 2004 with Other People’s Money. Bush’s Housing Bubble was, more than anything else, a Hispanic Housing Bubble, with total mortgage dollars for Hispanic homebuyers going up an incredible 691% from 1999 to 2006. And all that cash flowing for home loans and home equity loans, whether to Hispanics or others, paid for a lot of Hispanic construction and home improvement workers.

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And, of course, no treatment of Dracula would be complete without reference to Fred Saberhagen’s re-interpretation (which actually makes more sense than Stoker’s).

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It’s not the one you learned about in school — unless you went to a public school, in which case you didn’t learn about it at all.

Professor Sunstein was actually the right man to call on to explain Obama’s remarks. They derive directly from Sunstein’s advocacy of Roosevelt’s so-called second Bill of Rights. Sunstein devoted a book to the subject in 2004 — The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever. Roosevelt set forth his “second Bill of Rights” in his January 1944 State of the Union Address.

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Actually, they probably will. The venality of our political and journalistic class knows no bounds.

We have been treated in recent weeks to an unfortunate procession of people on the Right lending their assistance to Barack Obama against the Republican presidential ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin. These people should never be listened to or employed in any responsible or prominent position by anyone in the Republican Party or the conservative movement again.

That’s the theory. In practice, Republicans have never been as successful at holding grudges as Democrats.

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For those who want an “Islamic Reformation”: you’ve already got one, and the Muslim Brotherhood is it. Dedicated reformers blow themselves and innocent bystanders up almost every day in “Palestine”, Pakistan, India, London, and virtually every other place in the world that has a significant Muslim presence.

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That’s because Obama’s foreign policy experience is exceeded by that of Captain Kangaroo.

Mark Steyn reveals the Left’s ambitious program.

I’m curious to know what the weather’s like on their planet.

Megan McArdle is confused.

I confess I still don’t understand why poverty is so increasingly linked with obesity.  The common explanation is to blame the paucity of excellent cheap grocery stores in urban neighborhoods. But poverty is not exclusively an inner city phenomenon; poor people in more rural areas share grocery stores with the rich.  Besides, while this explains the latitudinal data, it does not account for the longitudinal issue.  No one thinks that New York’s grocery stores, even in poor neighborhoods, have gotten worse since the 1970s; the evidence is that they’ve gotten better.  But the obesity rate has gotten much worse.

Uh, Megan, perhaps because the word doesn’t mean what you think it means? “Poverty” in the U.S. has come to mean “only one color TV” or “no high-speed broadband Internet”. This is not what people prior to the 1960s understood “poverty” to mean. “Poverty” means not knowing where your next meal is coming from. You don’t get fat on that kind of diet.