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If you’re new here and like what you read, subscribe to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!Video from The Astute Bloggers. I think it’s funny how Obama supporters defend his flip flops as him just being a politician. Imagine the fury that would descend upon the GOP if McCain practiced such hypocrisy…

It’s July of 2008, and you’ve just now acknowledged that the surge is working. Welcome to the present day.

Remember the daughter who was murdered by her father after she’d revealed to a friend that she was falling in love with a British soldier? The UK Telegraph just published an interview with the family, including the murderer/father. Those who profess the peace of Islam need only read this interview:
An Iraqi father who murdered his [...]

It’s chilling to see the true nature of familial relationships in this culture, and the Iraqi definition of ‘honor’.
From Fox News:
An Iraqi teen was butchered to death by her father in an “honor killing” after she befriended and fell in love with a British solider in Basra, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reported.
Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, had [...]

It’s positively amazing how life is valued in other cultures.
From USA Today:

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The United Nations says Iraqi children are recruited as suicide bombers by various militias and insurgent groups in the country.
Radhika Coomaraswamy, U.N. Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, says her recent five-day trip to Iraq convinced [...]

Jihadists are learning how to prey upon the politically correct American liberals. They understand, at least on some basic level, that they must assimilate in order to infiltrate the realms of the non-believers they plan to eradicate. Jihadists are starting to wage war on the terms of the typical liberal activist. It’s like they’re reading [...]

Today, Matthew Sheffield of NewsBusters posted about the way liberal protesters are portrayed in the media. 
Besides sanitizing the party affiliations of scandal-ridden Democratic politicians, one of the more blatant examples of media bias we regularly see is how the usually disturbed people who turn out for left-wing protests are routinely portrayed as normal.
 

There’s no better way of [...]