NAACP President offers bizarre reason for abolishing Voter ID laws: Transgenders (Thanks to Jim of Asylum Watch for this link)
...If you are offered a drink in Franklin, better put on your coat and kiss the wife goodbye, because you are definitely going outside, and I'll guarantee a vehicle is involved.Not covered in the book and something that I recently learned from my veterinarian, who hails from that area: the supposed demise of the making of bootleg liquor in Franklin County led to the replacement of that particular activity, one that dates back as far as the 19th Century and continues to a smaller extent today. What has largely replaced the making of illegal liquor in Franklin County? Marijuana and meth. Not an improvement!
In fact you will almost never see a man in Franklin County drink anything in front of women and children. If you do, it will be in an opaque cup, plastic or paper, and it will remain off the table. I was in Franklin a few years ago for an aunt's birthday party, held in a large barn on my cousin's land. They had several long tables set up, laden with food, at least 50 cousins and friends, and when we sat down to eat, I was the only person there with a can of beer at the table. I wasn't the only one drinking — some of my uncles and cousins were positively ripped — but I was the only one that anybody saw drinking. And this is the county that, as the New York Times reported recently, produces half-a-million gallons of illegal liquor a year. You could spend years there and never see it, even as it is all around you....
Lien Placed On Mayor Nutter’s Home For Failure To Pay PGW Bill
See CAIR-Washington's Omar Abdelbadie arrested for child rape, claims the 12-year-old was dressed "provocatively" at Atlas Shrugs. Omar Abdelbadie is the vice president of Bridges, an interfaith council at the University of Washington.
One scholar that deserves our attention is Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian theologian who has published more than 120 books about Sharia law and Islamic life. More than 60 million Moslems listen to al-Qaradawi on the Jazeera (Gore) Network, and he has long maintained a prominent role within the Islamic intellectual community —which is not altogether over-populated.“The condition of the Muslim nation was like a wasteland in the middle of the nineteenth century. The pillars of caliphate had broken which was the last display of unity under the flag of Islamic belief. Islamic countries were breathing their last under the talons of capitalist countries like Britain, France, and others, so much so that Holland, whose population was small dominated over the ten million strong population of Indonesia with the help of force and weapon. It had spoilt the face of Islamic decrees and putting Quran behind was busily engaged in its disrespect. Blind imitation of self-made Western laws and appreciation of foreign values had set over the lives of Muslims. The youths and lovers of new culture who were bearers of the so-called modern culture were particular victims of this. Western domination upon the field of education and means of communication was producing heaps of Westernized honorable people, whose names were Islamic but brains were West-bred.”
Dozens of lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyrocket next year thanks to Obamacare that they are thinking about retiring early or just quitting.See A Massive Conspiracy, Mustang's essay about the NSA. Worth your time.
“I think it is one of the most outrageous examples of the stepping on the Constitution I’ve heard. They have no right to the phone records… It is illegal, it is unconstitutional, and it is deplorable. I didn’t like it when they did it during the Bush administration and I don’t like when they’re doing it now.”Mr. Beckel should expect an IRS audit in the near future.
“They have taken this PATRIOT Act, which I think was the most dangerous act passed, and they have taken it and abused it,” Beck added. “You talk about fascism? You’re getting damn close to it."
HANOVER, N.H.--Barack Obama may be leading the Democratic presidential pack in every major poll here, but that didn't dissuade the Illinois senator from a final early-morning rally with the Facebook generation.
Clearly not content to leave their votes to the whims of online politicking, the Illinois senator stepped onto a stage fashioned in a Dartmouth College gymnasium, pulled an index card from his inside jacket pocket, and launched into a familiar set of talking points centered on what has become a familiar theme for his campaign: change and hope.
"My job this morning is to be so persuasive...that a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack," he told a crowd of about 300 Ivy Leaguers--and, by the looks of it, a handful of locals who managed to gain access to what was supposed to be a students-only event.
For one thing, under an Obama presidency, Americans will be able to leave behind the era of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and "wiretaps without warrants," he said. (He was referring to the lingering legal fallout over reports that the National Security Agency scooped up Americans' phone and Internet activities without court orders, ostensibly to monitor terrorist plots, in the years after the September 11 attacks.)
It's hardly a new stance for Obama, who has made similar statements in previous campaign speeches...
DC ambulance breaks down while transporting shooting victim to hospital
"Tears in Heaven" is a song by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings from the soundtrack to the film Rush. The song was written about the pain and loss Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor. Conor fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment owned by his mother's friend on March 20, 1991. Clapton arrived at the apartment shortly after the accident....More information HERE.
ISLAMISTS & LEFTISTS CHASE College Republicans Out of Their Own Movie Screening (Video)
What struck me as interesting, however, was how the news media today do not simply confine themselves to reporting the news, but they must also help us to define it, in our own minds, as if we aren’t capable of connecting the dots without outside assistance. For example, CNN reported, in part, “As concerns about rising Islamophobia in Britain grew amid anti-Muslim protests and attacks targeting mosques …”See This Beheading Should Be a Seminal Moment in Our Tolerance of Islam by Mark Alexander, author of The Dawning of a New Dark Age: A Collection of Essays on Islam. and webmaster of A New Dark Age Is Dawning. |
| Jihadist Parviz Khan |
Obama promotes State Department official who scrubbed Benghazi talking points of references to Al-Qaeda 
See Which of the Three Scandals Will Hurt Obama the Most? over at Capitol Commentary.
IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election
Woman accused of using ambulances for free rides (for seven years and 100 trips)...White House emails reviewed by ABC News suggest the edits were made with extensive input from the State Department. The edits included requests from the State Department that references to the Al Qaeda-affiliated group Ansar al-Sharia be deleted as well references to CIA warnings about terrorist threats in Benghazi in the months preceding the attack.Read it all HERE.
That would appear to directly contradict what White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said about the talking points in November....
Can essay-grading software replace human evaluators and, at the same time, maintain writer's voice?
by Sam Huntington
California to Offer Free Artificial Insemination and Surrogates for Homosexuals
In a 2007 study, the Pew Research Center concluded that 61% of American respondents indicated that Islamic extremism was a problem in the United States; thirty-five percent believed that Islamic extremism was not a problem. Four years later, responses to the same question differed by one percent.
