Photographed by astronauts, part of Int’l Space Station-Earth Observatory program. Here dense, thick rain clouds (“cumulonimbus”) shot in early 2008.
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- Dear Oxford University Press: Get a clue about “teabagging” November 16, 2009
- Far Left’s ANSWER goons attack foes of illegal immigration November 16, 2009Angry mob.
- Chicago developer/Olympics bid pusher found dead; Update: Three prominent Windy City politico suicides in two years November 16, 2009
- Who’s afraid of conservative American women? November 16, 2009"Extreme" in a skirt.
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- Insane Lotus Elise racing November 16, 2009Dean Evans shows how to overtake at Bathurst, Australia. I'll bet he's always the first one home during the drivetime commute.
- Is Democracy Not For Everyone? November 16, 2009Winston Churchill famously said that democracy was the worst form of government - except for all the others that have been tried. In western countries like Australia the universal good of democracy is simply assumed. But are we assuming too much? "Democracy Is Not For Everyone" was the challenging proposition debated...
- China joins supercomputer elite November 16, 2009China becomes one of a handful of nations to own one of the the top five fastest supercomputers in the world.
- Setback for malicious prosecution lawsuit against RIAA November 16, 2009A lawsuit accusing the RIAA and record labels for malicious prosecution was dealt a blow with a judge's ruling that the labels had a reasonable basis for their original legal action.
- I am going Home [IMG] November 16, 2009*****
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- Examiner analysis: More than 10% of stimulus jobs are phony November 16, 2009Fraud.
- Politics Daily: How Palin could win the nomination November 16, 2009Plus: Sarahpalooza polls!
- Video: San Diego TV station says Porkulus created … one job November 16, 2009More fables.
- Surprise! 15 million will owe taxes on tax break November 16, 2009Incompetence.
- Bayh’s red-state survival technique: I’m not with these guys! November 16, 2009Finally listening, or just posing?
Islamist Watch Blog
- 2012: Rated D for Dhimmitude November 15, 2009"Who will survive 2012?" asks a website promoting Roland Emmerich's new end-of-the-world film set three years from now. The answer: Muslims — or at least their cherished holy places: For his latest disaster movie, 2012, the 53-year-old director had
- ISNA: Attitude, Not Apologies for Ft. Hood Murders November 9, 2009It seems strange that in today's New York Times article on the Ft. Hood shooter, Army Major Nidal Hasan, Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) president Ingrid Mattson stated, "I don't understand why the Muslim-American community has to take
- Five Years After Van Gogh's Murder, Free Speech Is Under Attack November 3, 2009On November 2, 2004, Dutch columnist, filmmaker, and all-around provocateur Theo van Gogh was shot and stabbed to death as he biked to work on an Amsterdam street. The killer, Mohammed Bouyeri, insisted that Islam "compels me to chop off the head of
- Imam Killed in FBI Shootout Sat on Board of Muslim Lobby Group MANA October 29, 2009Luqman Ameen Abdullah, the head of Detroit's Masjid al-Haqq, was killed during an FBI raid on October 28 as he engaged federal agents in a gun battle. Prosecutors call Abdullah "a highly placed leader of a nationwide radical fundamentalist Sunni group."
- Exporting American anti-Americanism to Muslim world October 28, 2009I have always viewed push-up bras as false advertising, but does wearing one deserve a whipping because of their "deceptive" and "un-Islamic" nature? I don't know, but the controlling Islamist Shabaab party of Somalia seems to think so. And if our bras
NORML Headlines – Marijuana
- NORML.ORG US CA: As the LAPD Evolved, So Did He November 15, 2009(Sun, 15 Nov 2009) Los Angeles Times (CA)
- NORML.ORG US WA: Mountlake Terrace Rejects Medical Marijuana Dispensary November 15, 2009(Sun, 15 Nov 2009) Herald, The (Everett, WA)
- NORML.ORG US CA: American Medical Association Making the Right Moves November 15, 2009(Sun, 15 Nov 2009) Times-Standard (Eureka, CA)
- NORML.ORG US CA: AMA Urges Feds to Reclassify Marijuana November 15, 2009(Sun, 15 Nov 2009) Times-Standard (Eureka, CA)
- NORML.ORG US CA: L.A. Submits New Draft Ordinance on Medical Marijuana November 14, 2009(Sat, 14 Nov 2009) Los Angeles Times (CA)
- NORML.ORG American Medical Association Calls For Scientific Review Of Marijuana's Prohibitive Status November 12, 2009(Thu, 12 Nov 2009)
- NORML.ORG Dutch Marijuana Use Lower Than European Average, Study Says November 12, 2009(Thu, 12 Nov 2009)
Chicagoans Against Obama
- MY NEW SITE…THE NEW SCHOOL REPUBLICAN….WILL BE UP SHORTLY May 1, 2009It’s time to come back…. Over the next few weeks I plan on slowly ramping up my new site, The New School Republican…. look forward to seeing you there…. Ray PS..Headquarters (I.E my kitchen table) has moved from downtown Chicago to South Florida… Posted in obama
- THANK YOU…..AND, GOODBYE FOR NOW…… November 5, 2008I would like to sincerely thank everyone who has spent time here at Chicagoans Against Obama. I want to let you know how much your feedback and participation has meant to me. When I started this site several months ago, I did so not knowing that this would turn into what it is today….truthfully, [...]
- OBAMA VICTORY LEAVES BRADLEY FEELING A LITTLE EMPTY…..REEVALUATING BLAMING HIS ELECTION NIGHT LOSS ON PREJUDICE November 4, 2008In an exclusive postmortem interview with Chicagoans Against Obama… Tom Bradley revealed to us that after several months of nonstop media speculation that we would see the Bradley effect adversely impact Barack Obama’s election night numbers…. he couldn’t help but feel disappointed that there was no such effect on the final election n […]
- MCCAIN CAMPAIGN MEMO: EXIT POLLS WILL OVERSTATE OBAMA’S SUPPORT November 4, 2008These two guys, along with the rest of the main stream media, will be cheering on an Obama victory all day long…..don’t listen to them According to the McCain Campaign Memo (Full memo Here) McCAIN CAMPAIGN MEMO: READING THE EXIT POLLS BILL McINTURFF, INTERNAL POLLSTER Mon Nov 03 2008 16:53:14 ET As we have seen in previous election cycles, the [. […]
- MEDIA BIAS: CNN.COM AND MSNBC.COM DON’T THINK OBAMA SAYING HE WILL BANKRUPT THE COAL INDUSTRY IS NEWS WORTHY……BUT SARAH PALIN’S PRANK CALL IS November 3, 2008Unreal… Go to CNN.COM….nothing but Obama is winning in a landslide….Sarah Palin got prank called On MSNBC.COM…..they are highlighting a breaking story about ” free sex toys for voting”…but nothing on Obama’s coal comments…. By judging from the response (Here) of the President of The Ohio Coal Association […]
CATO Blog Highlights
- A Handy PATRIOT Act Cheat Sheet November 16, 2009While there are a slew of USA PATRIOT Act reform bills buzzing about Capitol Hill, the focus in Congress is now on two chief contenders, reported out by the House and Senate judiciary committees respectively. The very very short version is that the Senate version renews expiring PATRIOT powers with very few modifications, and [...]
- Fed Ed Snow Job November 16, 2009When you get to the top of a mountain, what do you find? Other than maybe a mountain goat, or the frozen remains of an ill-fated previous climber, snow, that’s what. Which is why it’s almost appropriate that the Obama Administration’s Race to the The Top Fund, as I have written before and write again in [...]
- Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez Keeps Speaking Truth to Power November 16, 2009It’s the 490th anniversary of Havana today and the Cuban government has arranged for celebratory activities. Ordinary residents of Havana and all Cubans who cherish their civil and human rights have less to celebrate, however, as Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez regularly reminds us. Sanchez has become a major irritant of the regime because of her [...]
- Even Obama’s Make-Believe Jobs Are Not Real November 16, 2009The White House recently began claiming that the “Recovery Act” had “created or saved” 640,000-plus jobs. This turns out to have been a political mistake, in part because even sympathetic reporters understand that the “jobs saved” measure allows for creative accounting. But the White House also erred by providing (supposed […]
- The New Threats to Free Speech November 16, 2009In a new Policy Analysis, Cato Research Fellow Jason Kuznicki examines the ongoing threats to free speech both at home and around the world, from hate-speech laws in the United Kingdom and Canada and university speech codes in the United States, to the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam: The result is not more happiness, [...]
Middle East Quarterly
- Fort Hood and the Academic Apologists November 15, 2009In the wake of the horrific attack at the Fort Hood military base in Texas earlier this month, and the mounting evidence that the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was motivated by Islamist beliefs, the media has turned to Middle East studies "experts"
- Legal Project Part of Chorus of Opposition to UN Resolutions Banning Defamation of Religion November 12, 2009PHILADELPHIA – The Legal Project has joined the Becket Fund for Religious Freedom and over 100 other non-governmental organizations from around the world, in a joint statement decrying the danger to free speech rights posed by a series of pending UN
- Islamist Perfidy and Western Naivety November 11, 2009In a blog entry for Islamist Watch, David J. Rusin shows how the word "jihad" continues to be euphemized in the West. Despite Islamic law's unequivocal portrayal of it as a military endeavor to empower Islam, jihad is still being peddled as "nothing more
- Don't Take Netanyahu to the Woodshed November 9, 2009Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Washington on Sunday following weeks of speculation about whether he would be met by U.S. President Barack Obama during the visit. When his plane took off, there was still with no word from the White
- Daniel Huff Appointed Legal Project Director November 3, 2009PHILADELPHIA – The Middle East Forum is pleased to announce the appointment of Daniel Huff as director of the Legal Project. Mr. Huff succeeds Brooke Goldstein who led the Project since 2007. Dedicated to providing legal aid for anti-Islamist researchers
Daniel Pipes Blog Feed
- Sudden Jihad or "Inordinate Stress" at Ft. Hood? November 9, 2009When a Muslim in the West for no apparent reason violently attacks non-Muslims, a predictable argument ensues about motives. The establishment – law enforcement, politicians, the media, and the academy – stands on one side of this debate, insisting that
- Nidal Hasan – Initial Thoughts on the Ft. Hood Jihadi November 6, 2009Was the Ft. Hood massacre an act of terrorism? For two reasons, I find this an unproductive question. First, terrorism has, in one count, 109 definitions, making this a question more suited to mulling over in a university seminar than to public policy.
- Berlin Wall Fell, Obama Stays Away November 6, 2009National Review asked, "How big a deal is it that the president won't be going to Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall?" My response follows; what others wrote can be found at "Forgetting the Fall." Let us meditate briefly on
- Karzai's Brother and Washington's Kept Politicians October 28, 2009Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of the Afghan president, "a go-between between the Americans and the Taliban," and "a suspected player in the country's booming illegal opium trade," the New York Times informs us, "gets regular payments from the Central
- Turkey: An Ally No More October 28, 2009"There is no doubt he is our friend," Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, says of Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as he accuses Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman of threatening to use nuclear weapons against Gaza. These
