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UN council: criticism of Islam is hereby banned

Which U.N. council, you ask?  Hey, I’m glad you asked!  It’s the U.N. Human Rights Council.  No doubt the irony is lost on these numbnuts.  Observe:

Imran Ahmed Siddiqui, the representative from Pakistan, echoed the ever-echoing refrain of all Islamic apologists in the West, when he complained that Littman’s initiative on genital mutilation, stoning and child marriage amounted to an “out-of-context, selective discussion on the Sharia law.” He asked that Littman not be allowed to speak: “I would therefore request the president to exercise his judgment and authority and request the speaker not to touch issues which have already been debarred from discussion in this Council.”

Apparently, free speech isn’t considered a human right…unless an American flag is being burned, that is.

June 26, 2008 Posted by | dhimmitude, religion of peace, shameful, United Nations | 1 Comment

Night and Day, Obama’s Second Amendment edition

Barry O last year, while courting the moonbats needed for the Dem nomination:

“. . . the campaign of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said that he ‘…believes that we can recognize and respect the rights of law-abiding gun owners and the right of local communities to enact common sense laws to combat violence and save lives. Obama believes the D.C. handgun law is constitutional.’”

The Obamaliar today, right before the predictable outcome of the Supreme Court – DC gun ban – Second Amendment case:

With the Supreme Court poised to rule on Washington, D.C.’s, gun ban, the Obama campaign is disavowing what it calls an “inartful” statement to the Chicago Tribune last year in which an unnamed aide characterized Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., as believing that the DC ban was constitutional.

“That statement was obviously an inartful attempt to explain the Senator’s consistent position,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton tells ABC News.

If, by “consistent”, you mean “Changing my mind, or at least my rhetoric, within an seven-month window”, then yeah…”consistent”!

Notes Ed Morrissey:

Suddenly, with the general election looming, Obama discovers that his campaign’s statement was inartful.  This seems rather puzzling, because before he ran for public office, Barack Obama was supposed to be a Constitutional law expert.  One might expect the “inartful” excuse on wetlands reclamation or some other esoteric matter of public policy, but the Constitution is what he supposedly studied at Columbia and Harvard.  One has to wonder whether Obama has any competence even in his own chosen field to have seven months go by before realizing that he got the Constitutional question wrong.

Wait, wait, lemme guess: “This is not the Constitution I knew”, right?

June 26, 2008 Posted by | gun rights, hypocrisy, Night and Day, Obama, Supreme Court | 6 Comments

Fun with polls

Over the last couple of days, two polls that always oversample Democrats showed the Obamaliar opening up a 15% lead over Juanny Mac.  Today, Gallup releases a poll that shows a tie, 45%-45%.  Those of you who have been here long enough realize that I take polls with a grain of salt, but I put them up anyway for your consumption.

Anywho, Stacy McCain (who is not related to presidential candidate Juan McAmnesty) has a great explanation as to why the polls have varied so widely:

Given the fact that huge numbers of eligible voters don’t vote, a pollster — if his poll results are to be useful or credible — must try to screen for “likely voters.” This is a doggone difficult thing to do, but it must be attempted, because voters and non-voters differ significantly in their preferences. Non-voters are more likely to support liberal policies and Democratic candidates (a source of endless frustration to liberal Democrats). So a poll that doesn’t properly screen for “likely voters” will always skew leftward (as was true of the Newsweek poll that surveyed “registered voters” rather than “likely voters”).

This is probably why early polls have historically overstated support for Democratic presidential candidates. The closer you get to Election Day, the easier it becomes to determine who the “likely voters” are. Thus, the samples in early polls contain lots of liberal-leaning eligible voters who, in the end, won’t actually bother to vote.

Newsweak, the LA Slimes, and See B.S. have always loaded up their polls with extra Democrats (usually 10-15% more), smaller samples, and registered voters, and as a result, they’re always off come election day (at least, in terms of percentages, though not always outcome).  While I don’t know what party breakdown Gallup used here, at least their sample was respectable at 2,600.

To be fair, this Gallup poll also uses registered voters instead of likely voters.  But if that’s the case, and since it’s a well-known fact that “registered voter” polls always overstate Democrat support, this little snapshot in time (obligatory “if true” disclaimer) isn’t good news for our pathologically lying Dem candidate.

June 26, 2008 Posted by | polls | 3 Comments

SCOTUS: Second Amendment guarantees individual right to bear arms

Finally, a victory for common sense…which would explain the four liberal justices’ dissent.  From FNC:

WASHINGTON —  The Supreme Court says Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.

The court’s 5-4 ruling strikes down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment. The decision goes further than even the Bush administration wanted, but probably leaves most firearms laws intact.

The court had not conclusively interpreted the Second Amendment since its ratification in 1791. The amendment reads: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

The basic issue for the justices was whether the amendment protects an individual’s right to own guns no matter what, or whether that right is somehow tied to service in a state militia.

Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for four colleagues, said the Constitution does not permit “the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home.”

In dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that the majority “would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons.”

What Stevens conveniently ignores is that the D.C. gun ban didn’t regulate firearms…it prohibited them.  It was a clear violation of the Second Amendment, and kudos to the Court for finally putting the debate to rest once and for all: the Second Amendment is an individual right, just as are the other nine amendments in the Bill of Rights.

June 26, 2008 Posted by | gun rights, Supreme Court | 12 Comments

Liberal FL rag biting the dust

True, it’s not a total death, since the Palm Beach Post will still exist.  But one of only about four liberal fishwraps in Florida to endorse Tampa ambulance chaser Bill McBride in his massive loss to Jeb Bush in 2002 is having the axe drop on its newsroom.  Details:

It’s been a long time coming, but Palm Beach Post publisher Doug Franklin handed down the bad news today (thanks to Pulp readers for posting it). Bottom line:

– 300 jobs will be cut company-wide.
– 130 newsroom jobs will be cut.
– Buyouts are being offered to employees with at least five years vested in the pension plan.

This is worse than expected (100 newsroom jobs had been floated here a couple of times). It’s gut-wrenching. …

Couldn’t happen to a nicer birdcage liner!

June 26, 2008 Posted by | Florida, media bias | 2 Comments

New UK police station bows to Muslim political correctness

The Islamification of Eurabia continues.  From the UK:

HERTFORD’S new state-of-the-art police station was unveiled on Monday, in a move to put policing “back in the centre of town”.

The hi-tech, £46 million project boasts up to date IT support, a confidential witness room and a ‘reflection room’ which will house a prayer mat, religious texts and a compass to allow Muslim staff members to pinpoint Mecca.

Tell me again: why we should emulate the Euros and their dhimmitude-based society?

June 26, 2008 Posted by | dhimmitude, Euros, political correctness, religion of peace | 2 Comments

Boehner: Dems in bed with treehuggers

Finally, a Republican with the stones to call it like it is.  From Politico:

The war of words over skyrocketing gas prices intensified Tuesday on Capitol Hill, as House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) accused Democrats of “worshiping at the altar of radical environmentalism” in their drive to block access to domestic oil drilling.

In a sign of just how politically charged the issue has become, Democrats immediately fired back, directing Boehner to a “use it or lose it” energy bill set to be taken up on the House floor this week, that would require oil and gas companies to drill on the millions of acres of leases they already hold.  (Oh, you mean the less-than-3% of the available acres the feds will let them explore? – Ed.)

House Republicans continued their drive to get their energy proposals released from committees on Tuesday, as Rep. Randy Kuhl (R-N.Y.) said he would file a discharge petition to release a bill that would repeal a federal ban on acquiring alternative fuels for government vehicles.

“Republicans want to put everything on the table,” said Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), the bill’s sponsor. “The Democrats somehow believe that you can either beg your way, sue your way, tax your way or castigate your way into lower energy prices.” …

Alas, I don’t see Americans waking up to that reality anytime soon.  They still labor under the misconception that Dems know a thing or two about economics, and that’s just pure lunacy.

June 26, 2008 Posted by | economic ignorance, environuts, oil | 1 Comment

   

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