Category Archives: The War

Trying Mohammed

“About 40 percent of Americans have tried Mohammed.”

That’s the teaser lede on an email touting Debra J. Saunders’ Townhall Magazine column. Must be a Freudian goof for someone. Saunders or an editor?

The column is actually about making marijuana legal because Prohibition didn’t work the first time and obviously isn’t working this time. Not that the feds care. The War on Drugs is too big a jobs magnet and moralistic political tool so the demonstrably-failed effort goes on and on.

But we can be reasonably sure that forty percent of Americans have not tried Mohammed. At least not yet.

The Falling Man

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In memoriam, September 11, 2001.

So runs my dream, but what am I? An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry. –Lord Tennyson

Home protection

A friend who has a license-to-carry—mainly because he’s in the diamond business—was the other evening extolling the virtues of the AK-47 for home protection. I said what do you want that peasant gun for, when you could have a nice M-4?

Upon which he began a woeful tale of reduced powder in the 5.56 cartridges, and why the 7.62 has more stopping power. Nevertheless, I like the Tavor TAR-21, made by Israeli Weapons Industry Ltd., much better. Compact enough to fit under the night stand, too.

Via Simply Jews.

Burning Korans

I couldn’t care less how many Korans that nitwit pastor in Florida burns. The question I want answered is why have the media and the politicians turned the guy into a celebrity? Are they all in the employ of the oil ticks?

Or, as Thomas Sowell says, has moral preening become their way of life? As he points out you really have to be a modern intellectual to miss the obvious in the proposed mosque at Ground Zero: It is a 15-story middle finger to the country.

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Islamophobes

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Democrat deficits

DeficitsThe best reason of all to vote the bums out in November. They whined about Bush’s deficit spending on Iraq and Afghanistan, then look what happened to the deficit when they took over the budget process in 2008. Va-va-voom!

Via Instapundit.

Sarah sums it up

“Mr. President, should they or should they not build a mosque steps away from where radical Islamists killed 3,000 people? Please tell us your position. We all know that they have the right to do it, but should they? And, no, this is not above your pay grade.”

Heh.

Via Althouse.