May 25, 2006

Web Reconnaissance for 05/25/2006

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.

Captain Ed writes Post: Congress Hysterical (Update: Someone's Listening) “The Washington Post scolds Congressional leaders for their hysterical overreaction to the execution of a duly authorized search warrant on the offices of William Jefferson, and underscores the point by noting that the subpoena hardly came as a surprise to anyone on Capitol Hill:” (read more)

All Things Beautiful writes The Liberal Thought As We Know It “As I have now joined the elite ranks of anti-idiotarian bloggers who have been labeled "Nazis" for having the temerity to identify Islamofascists as the true heirs of the Third Reich, and a racist, a xenophobe, as well as of course an Islamophobe, for daring to be in favor of preserving our sovereignty free of Shari'a oppression, and a bellicose Christian for having the audacity to advocate it vociferously, whilst still confirming my Christian beliefs, I feel the Democrats have now been uplifted to new dizzying heights of verbal lunacy:” (read more)

Michelle of Reformed Chicks Blabbing writes Muslims Don't Believe in Absolute Truth?
“Wouldn't you think that a Secretary of State would have some insight and wisdom from spending time in the Middle East working with people for peace? Don't you think she would understand their culture and mindset? Didn't Madeleine Albright learn anything from her term as a Secretary of State? It would appear not:” (read more)

Dafydd writes Plenty of Room for Improvement - Updated “In defending the basic outline of the Hagel-Martinez immigration bill, Big Lizards does not want to leave the impression that we think the bill is perfect. In fact, we eagerly await negotiations with the House of Representatives; there are elements in the House bill that we hope prevail.” (read more)

Michelle Malkin writes THE JIHADI SNIPERS REVISITED For most people, the Beltway-area sniper case is a distant memory. Over and done. But in Montgomery County, Md., the pain and suffering caused by convicted killing spree murderers Lee Malvo and John Muhammad is as fresh and raw as it was three years ago when the pair terrorized the area--leaving 10 dead and three injured in their wake. (read more)

Neptunus Lex writes Chutzpah “In yesterday’s WSJ, White House staffer Peter Wehner has the unmitigated gall to challenge the emergently conventional wisdom on Iraq - Chiefly that, 1) The president lied us into to war, 2) the administration pressured intelligence professionals to bias their judgments in favor of the war, 3) the failure to find WMD proves Saddam posed no threat, “imminent” or otherwise, and 4) finally, that the goal of promoting democracy in the heart of the Arab Middle East was a post-war rationalization, made up on the fly after that whole “WMD thing” didn’t pan out.” (read more)

John Hawkins of Right Wing News writes The GOP Has A Lot Of Work To Do Before November “Just to give you an idea of how much work the GOP has to do, I thought I'd share some of the feedback I received yesterday -- via comments and email -- after writing a column that urged conservatives to vote for the GOP in 2006. As you read this, keep in mind that the responses you are going to see below are from the sort of people who read Right Wing News & Human Events. In other words, they're mainstream conservatives, exactly the sort of people who should be the GOP's biggest supporters.” (read more)

Quid Nimis writes TAM-Galveston It came to my attention the other day that a Muslim read from the Koran as a part of the Texas A&M Galveston convocation/commencement exercises this past weekend. I fired off an email to the interim CEO, a Mr. Hearn: (read more)

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