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A Tireless Muslim Advocate for Islamic Reform
It’s a shame that conservative arsonist Andrew Breitbart has torched his own credibility so thoroughly at the time one of his websites was preparing to publish an important message from my favorite Muslim-American patriot. As a public service to anyone who doesn’t want to give Breitbart’s site any traffic, I’m posting an extensive excerpt here […]
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Shirley Sherrod, and the Administration That Couldn’t Shoot Straight on Racial Matters
Apparently someone in the Agriculture Department snoozed through the part of every old courtroom movie when the judge says, “before I pass sentence, is there anything you would like to say?” How dumb do you have to be to fire someone in the midst of a publicity firestorm without giving that person an opportunity to […]
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Financial Services “Reform” to Complete Obama’s Tragic Trifecta
ObamaCare is such a train wreck that Americans support repealing it by a 2-1 margin. Don’t even get me started on the wasteful and dishonest Porkulus bill. And now comes yet another 2,000-plus page bill, a financial services "reform" measure that does a lot of things — but fails to address the actual causes of the financial meltdown that began nearly two years ago and has us staggering still.
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A Prodigy in Madison: My Latest Patch.com Article
I met a remarkable young man recently — a six-year-old taking organ lessons at the church where I work. I wrote about him for Patch.com’s Madison website. Here’s how it starts: His feet don’t reach the pedals. His arms barely stretch to the top keyboard. His pudgy little fingers seem dwarfed by the keys. But […]
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First Memories of Citi Field
What a perfect way to spend a summer Sunday afternoon — sitting in the shade at Citi Field, a beautiful blonde by my side, watching my Mets shut out the Atlanta Braves. Seven scoreless innings by Johan Santana, a rare 1-2-3 ninth from K-Rod, a thundering home run to straightaway center by Ike Davis, a […]
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Islam Needs a Reformation, Not Technological Help
Leave it to a devout and patriotic Muslim-American to smack down the Obama Administration’s latest example of unseriousness in the struggle against Islamic fascism. You may have read that Charles Bolden told al-Jazeera last week that when Obama appointed him to lead NASA, the president gave him three charges:Â “One, he wanted me to help […]
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“Lit the Torch of Freedom for Nations Then Unborn”
Because of a happy accident of birth, I have the extraordinary privilege of being a United States citizen. I’m grateful for that every day, but especially on July 4. Happy Independence Day!
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Darwinian Selection in the Maplewood BlogolopolisTM
Big cyber-news today in Maplewood, NJ, the place one blogger once called “the center of the blogging universe.” The New York Times abruptly shuttered The Local, its New Jersey experiment in hyperlocal blogging. I’ve chronicled the Maplewood BlogolopolisTM here, here, here and here. Instead of just shutting down, the NYT is passing its baton to […]
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Obama’s Mixed Signals on Afghanistan
The prize for elegant metaphor of the day goes to Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal: With a wink of its left eye, the Obama administration tells its liberal base that a year from now the U.S. will be heading for a quick Afghan exit. “Everyone knows there’s a firm date,” insists White House […]
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The Odd Disinterest in a Real-Life Spy Thriller
Now Homeland Security is using the book to try to deport Yousef for providing "material support" for terrorists — despite the fact that he was saving Israeli lives from those very terrorists.