The audience: Wiseguy member of the media joked, “If he nuked Tel Aviv, maybe the Jewish vote would go down to 60 percent.” [He forgets that Reagan won 40% and Bush#2 35%, before President O alienated more.]– And, Jewish support for Israel is not declining. And, consciousness is rising. So, another solid 2008 O-group will not be so overwhelming in 2012. Ari Fleisher: “If Jews go 4-1 Democrat (as they did in 2008) Republicans lose, he says, but: If the Democrats win three to one it almost always tips it to the Republicans in Florida and Ohio.” – Isolationists among Republicans –Paul, for example- do not help, though.
(HT: Legal Insurrection)
Demonizing Plastics is Not Good Science
Women in Special Forces
Cynthia McKinney: Islamofascist tool
Speechless:
There are journalism awards that honor great journalism. There are journalism awards with which one can argue. And then there are journalism awards that completely discredit the awarding entity itself. This is one of those latter category of awards.
Death Derivatives
How 3D glasses helped defeat Hitler -- But, are they worth the extra cost at the movie theaters? Comments?
Why University Presidents Are Clueless About the Real World
“The Amsterdam court that is trying Mr. Wilders is engaged in a surgical operation for political purposes under the mandate of the Dutch ruling class. Its task is to excise the PVV leader from the Dutch body politic and restore the multicultural state to its previous dominance.”
The Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
G.I Film Festival Wrap-Up
The inspiring humility of Jimmy Carter

Preschools Checked Less than Dog Kennels
Interesting parallels to today (1989 paper by a dear friend Miriam London, and wife to another dear friend Ivan London, both profs during my college days)
Like some Soviet experts before them, on whom they cast no backward glance, they were practitioners of the intellectual pseudo-faith of the century, dreaming up the City of Perfect Justice on Earth.
Resisting the Urge to Cut the Defense Budget: “Make no mistake: If fully implemented, Obama’s envisioned defense budget would imperil the peace and our global standing”
More useless gov't: “This is major expansion of government -- a separate branch of the Federal Reserve with immense powers to regulate "all consumer products." The excuse for it is bogus…”
Climate cleansing: Google to censor skeptics?
Irony Meter Explodes: California, which imprisons 30,000 illegal immigrants, ordered to release 30,000 prisoners due to overcrowding – But, California likely to release the ill prisoners, who will then start collecting MediCal, shifting billions of costs back to Washington.
Why the Left Has Re-newed Calls for Scottish Independence.
Cantor (Eric, that is) sings out, fervid applause for Republican from heavily Democrat audience