This Man Has A Bright Future On CBS or CNN.

Want to know why Low-Information Voters tend to vote Democrat? Their deep, learned understanding of the Constitution and the Law. With stellar reasoning like that, you can see why they think Barack Obama is a "constitutional expert."

Another Great Moment In 'Smart Diplomacy'.

Today's installment: Syria, Christians, and Al Qaeda; oh, my.

Maaloula is a special place. It has been a safe haven for Christians for 2,000 years - until now. It was a place of refuge so secure in its rugged mountain isolation that a dialect of the language of Christ, Aramaic, is still spoken here. But not today.

Its Christian community of 2,000 has fled. In the tight alleyways and streets that wind up the Maaloula's mountainside their language has been replaced by the Arabic of two bitter enemies: rebels from three Islamist groups and the soldiers of President Bashar al-Assad.

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The rebels claim they took Maaloula to punish the Christians there for supporting the Assad government, a support that is real but tepid. For most Christians in Syria the fear of what Islamists might do if they win this war outweighs any dislike they have for Assad's system.

On Saturday, in a Damascus church heavy with gold and grief, they mourned the Christians killed in the battle. The framed photographs of the dead sat next to the holy icons of the Greek Orthodox faith, some men in the pews bandaged from injuries they'd received. "We blame Obama", one woman in black yelled at me, "he should have the Nobel peace prize taken away from him - he is helping the rebels who killed our Christian brothers".

Read it all.

This being Sunday, let's see what my denomination has to say. Well... uh... there is this standard issue "I do not believe further violence is likely to end the tragedy" boilerplate from The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Politburo President and Pope Presiding Bishop and Primate, The Episcopal Church (tm). But half the statement is just Kate's fawning praise of Obama for taking his smackdown by Putin like a real metrosexual:

I applaud President Obama’s restraint and willingness to look for diplomatic solutions — changing position requires courage of the first order. It is a sign of profoundly care-filled leadership both to test the possibility of other, more creative and life-giving solutions and to put the needs of vulnerable populations ahead of one’s own image or reputation.

Neville Again!

What if someone, say, P. J. O'Rourke, replaced famous figures in history with Barack Obama? You would get, well, this:

One if by land, and two if by sea, and three if by air, and four if by drones .  .  . Or is it two if by land, and one if by sea? .  .  . However, there will be no deployment of Colonial ground forces. So it’s two if by ship-launched cruise missiles .  .  . Or is it three if by airstrikes? .  .  . Anyway, the British aren’t coming.

We're Doomed.

Parenting in the era of Hope and Change:

It’s easy to mock a “30 year old who lives with is parents.” My son is almost 29 and he’s been home with us since he graduated. Unfortunately the job market isn’t the greatest (maybe you hadn’t heard) and I’m not going to let him starve on the street. He has a college education, it’s pointless for him to be out working in a retail store or some other menial job. I will be here for him until he is able to get the job he deserves.

Read it all, including Matt Walsh's response. We are raising a generation of layabout, dependent child-men. No wonder Obama won.

Intolerent, Know-Nothing Dickheads.

Hey, all you hip, with it, upper-middle class kiddies who think they know everything because you have an iPad and taken a class or two, Pat Condell has a few words for you. Listen closely. It's called freedom of speech.

Life Imitates Punk Rock.

After the events in London yesterday, this seems de rigueur. So, take it away, Sid and Johnny:



Mark Steyn gets to the heart of the human right the protesters are upset about.

"Is There Any Wine Sweeter Than The Tears Of A Hippie?"

Tamara over at View from the Porch explains why she has had a big, dumb grin on her face for the last three days. I'm smiling, too.

Profiles In... In... Um... Well... Winning The Future! Yeah, That's It.

Japan has been devastated and nuclear fallout may headed our way. The Mid-East is aflame and the rebellion in Libya is being brutally crushed. America is out-of-work and our nation is broke. We have to bum rides into space from the New Soviets Russians.

But your worries are over, dear readers, because President Obama has made his picks for The Final Four.

Sleep soundly tonight.

Republicans Believe Every Representative and Senator Should Read The Constitution.

Democrat Chuck Schumer proves why:



The three branches of government are the House, the Senate, and the President?? Geez. Don't they show Schoolhouse Rock in New York?

Relative Moralism.

Ick. Just, ick. Remember this the next time some East Coast liberal makes a dismissive snark about Southerners and inbreeding. I mean, how "weak and self-centered" are you if you - allegedly - feel the need to bang your daughter?

Wonder how long it will be before some Episcopal Church (tm) flunkie comes to Prof. Epstein's defense?

UPDATE: Forgotten link added.

Putting Your Checkbook Where Your Mouth Is.

To all the rich, guilt-ridden Lefties who want everybody's taxes raised because you say you are not paying enough to the Treasury Department; well, here's a way for you to sleep soundly at night: Just write out a check to Uncle Sam for the additional amount you think you should be paying, and mail it in:

Gifts to the United States
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Credit Accounting Branch
3700 East-West Highway, Room 6D37
Hyattsville, MD 20782

No one is stopping you from paying more if you want. Me, and millions like me - we do not want.

Hattip: The MCJ.

Exterrrrrminate! Exterrrrrminate!

Separated at birth?


Ancient Jew-hater Helen Thomas.


Ancient Who-hater Davros.

UPDATE 5DEC2010: Welcome Theo Spark readers! Glad you stopped by - feel free to look round.

Do As We Say, Not As We Do.

Remember, when the chicken-little alarmists call for rationing of resources to combat global warming climate change (insert current, non-specific, scary euphemism here), they don't include, well, themselves:



Sacrifice is for the little people. Like, you and me.

The Delaware Strangler.

Last week the enviros said that it's OK kill anybody who disagrees with their global warming agenda. Now, Joe Biden wants to "strangle" any Republican who disagrees one more time with the Team Hopenchange budget agenda.

Do you see a pattern emerging here, dear readers? Yeah, me, too.

Well, Joe, I'm a Republican. Democrats in Congress - including you, Joe - have had control of the Federal budget for four years, and haven't balanced it yet. So let me say one more time - listen to me closely here, Joe - we MUST balance the budget NOW, and Democrats have shown themselves utterly incapable of doing that.

Joe... I'm laughing at the superior intellect...

Transformative Change, In Action.

Free speech in Omerica.

Self-defense in Omerica.

Public service in Omerica.

Fiscal responsibility in Omerica.

Imam Paul.

Powerline notices the similarity of views between Imam Feisal Rauf, the man pushing the Ground Zero Mosque, and our very own homegrown nutter, Ron Paul (R-prisonplanet.com). They don't sound too far apart.

Perhaps Paul would get a lot more folks in his fan club if he changed the name to 'Campaign for Jihad'.

The Law Doesn't Fit Our Narrative!

Bad, bad, Law! The folks at Volokh Conspiracy notice why a journalism degree isn't equal to a law degree when it comes to discussing, y'know, the Law. A people-unclear-on-the-concept gem from The New York Times:

Mr. DeLay, the Texas Republican who had been the House majority leader, crowed that he had been “found innocent.” But many of Mr. DeLay’s actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them.
(Emphasis mine)

The same way many of The New York Times actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them.

The Left's End Game.

From the UK's Guardian: 'Since when was giving people a choice a good idea?' We should give up the freedom to choose for ourselves, argues one Catherine Bennett, because, you see, we really want the state to do it for us. Freedom is, ick... messy. Freedom is hard.

Since when when was choice a good idea, Ms. Bennett? Since, well, someone recognized that we are not slaves, or serfs, or subjects, but that we are endowed by our Creator - not by some king or government, no matter how "enlightened" - with certain inalienable Rights. It's tough to survive in the real world; its rather easier to live in a gilded cage, where food and a cuttlebone are provided, and all one has to do is sing to please the master. But that is not life; that is simply existence. If given the chance, most of the world would risk all for the blessings that messy old freedom has brought. Just ask the Cubans and the North Koreans - who live in the world to which you, Ms. Bennett, aspire.

Well-To-Do Unrepentant Communist Murderer Finds Out There Is A Hell Worse Than America.

Marilyn Buck snuffs it. She was involved in several bombings and murders for the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army in the 1970s & 80s. Her father was an Episcopal priest. Figures.

Will Bill Ayers will attend the funeral?

Hattip: Instapundit.

Obama Equality.

The Justice Department applies some of that 'Ol Time Marxism:

The Civil Rights Division informed the schools they were under investigation. In subsequent talks, the Justice Department demanded the universities stop distributing the Kindle; if blind students couldn't use the device, then nobody could. The Federation made the same demand in a separate lawsuit against Arizona State."

Did this help the blind in any way? Nope. Dis it hurt everyone else? Yes. But that should come as no surprise. Other than lip service and election sloganeering, government is not, and never has been, concerned with empowering the disadvantaged. What government is concerned with - and especially this current Administration - is disempowering the unfavored "advantaged" to make the favored disadvantaged feel good, and see government as their savior.