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Archive for August, 2009

Florida Judge Lets Muslim Teen Afraid of “Honor Killing” Stay Away From Family

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, August 22nd, 2009. Filed under Islam, Religion

An Ohio teenager who ran away after she became fearful that her Muslim family would harm her for converting to Christianity has won the first round of her Court battle:
A judge today ordered a 17-year-old girl, who ran away from her Muslim family, to stay exactly where she is — here — until the Florida [...]

Liberal Bloggers: Conservatives Are Way Ahead Of Us On Twitter

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, August 22nd, 2009. Filed under Internet, Politics, Technology, Twitter

Some of the leading lights of left-wing blogging are acknowledging that they’ve been out-organized on the Internet’s fastest growing social networking site:
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Liberal bloggers established online political activism, besting their conservative rivals during President George W. Bush’s eight years in office. But conservatives are now finding great success 140 characters at a time. [...]

Incompetent New York Governor Blames His Incompetence On…..Racism

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, August 22nd, 2009. Filed under Dumbasses, In The News, Politics

David Patterson hasn’t had a very good go of it as Governor of New York to the point where his own party — realizing that he would likely lose if he ran for re-election — is seriously talking about removing him from the ticket.
Patterson’s response is classic New York race baiting:
ALBANY — Gov. David A. [...]

Republican HoD Candidate Calls For Repeal Of Virginia’s Gay Marriage Amendment

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, August 22nd, 2009. Filed under Virginia, Virginia Gay Marriage Amendment, Virginia Politics

A Republican candidate for the 47th District in Virginia’s House of Delegates is taking a stand that may surprise some members of his party:
A candidate for office in Arlington who wants to get rid of the state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, eliminate the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and allow the county government [...]

Ahmadinejad Nominates A Known Terrorist For Iranian Defense Minister

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, August 22nd, 2009. Filed under Foreign Affairs, Iran

If nothing else, this makes Iran’s designation as a terrorist state even more accurate:
CAIRO — The man nominated to serve as Iran’s defense minister is wanted by Interpol in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, confronting Iran with yet another challenge to its international reputation after an electoral [...]

Yankees 20 Red Sox 11 — The Trashing At Fenway

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, August 21st, 2009. Filed under Baseball, New York Yankees, Sports

The Yankees rolled into Boston tonight and picked up right where they left off:
BOSTON — The Hall of Fame outfielder Jim Rice is a commentator on the Boston Red Sox’ cable telecasts. He was off Friday, absent for the Yankees’ 20-11 thrashing of the Red Sox at Fenway Park. He did not witness three more [...]

Leave Us The Hell Alone

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, August 21st, 2009. Filed under Blogging, Individual Liberty, The Liberty Papers

Over at The Liberty Papers, co-blogger Chris passes on a pretty amazing piece of writing from his wife.
Money quote:
I have a message for all you busybodies, bureaucrats, rent-seekers, and whored-out legislators.
LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE.
Get out of my contracts.
Get off of my land.
Leave my property alone.
Stay the hell out of my bedroom.
Most of all, KEEP [...]

Former Bush Officials Dismiss Tom Ridge’s Allegations

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, August 21st, 2009. Filed under George W Bush, Homeland Security, Politics, War On Terror

Not surprisingly, former Bush Administration officials are dismissing former DHS Secretary Tom Ridge’s claims that he was pressured to raise the terror alert level for political reasons:
Top officials from the George W. Bush White House are disputing claims in former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge’s coming book that they pressured him to adjust the terror [...]

Health Care Reform: Obama’s Bay Of Pigs

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, August 21st, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Politics

Peggy Noonan has a great column in today’s Wall Street Journal pointing out that the Obama White House is losing the health care debate largely because of it’s own mistakes:
Every big idea that works is marked by simplicity, by clarity. You can understand it when you hear it, and you can explain it to people. [...]

Reason.tv Interviews LP Presidential Candidate Wayne Allyn Root

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, August 21st, 2009. Filed under 2012 Election, Bob Barr, Libertarians, Politics

Wayne Allyn Root was Bob Barr’s Vice-Presidential running mate in 2008 and has already stated that he’s running for the Libertarian Party’s Presidential nomination for 2012.
Here he is being interviewed by Matt Welch of Reason:

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