Excerpts from the YouGov survey of Muslim adults across Great Britain taken July 15-22, as highlighted by Daniel Pipes. The survey found that 1 percent of them, or “about 16,000 individuals, declare themselves willing, possibly even eager, to embrace violence” in the effort to bring an end to “decadent and immoral” Western society. All around, [...]
The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA) has put out their annual Congressional Scorecard and the results don’t look good for Republican leaders. CapitolBuzz with the story: The average score for Senate Republicans was 34 percent, and the three top Senate Republican leaders have cast votes that earned them below-average scores from NHLA. Senate Majority Leader [...]
A look around the blogosphere provides some interesting results.
From the 7 time Tour de France champion. “Polls say people are much more afraid of cancer than of a plane flying into their house or a bomb or any other form of terrorism. It is a priority for the American public.” Oh, and then the speculation begins… That kind of tough talk has people [...]
Wired reports that The Sierra Club is showing a bit of centrist wisdom and backing the new Ford hybrid SUV, Mariner. After years getting along about as well as the Montagues and the Capulets, the Sierra Club and automaker Ford have signed a temporary cease-fire. The Sierra Club has agreed to promote Ford’s new gas-electric [...]
Most readers of this site know who Michael Totten is. If not, you can read his first essay for this site, The West Has Never Been One. Over at his personal site, Michael asks the readers to identify themselves as being either liberal, centrist or conservative. Over 700 people voted and the results point to [...]
This is unfortunate. TWO fugitive London bombers have been living in Britain on state benefits, it emerged last night. Somalian Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, received £23,000 in housing benefit over six years while living at a flat in Southgate, North London, which was raided yesterday. Flatmate Muktar Said-Ibrahim tried to bomb a bus.
For as much as I hear around the blogosphere that we should be hearing more good news coming out of Baghdad, stories like this seem to give a more holistic view of the situation. Over 18 months, American officials spent almost $2 billion to revive the capital ravaged by war and neglect, according to Army [...]
“Alright, alright, I’ll throw in 20 cows too. You drive a hard bargain my friend. No wonder they called you Slick Willie… ” Confused? Enlightenment awaits. Former US president Bill Clinton has been offered 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter by a love-struck African government official. Mr Clinton was offered the deal on [...]
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