David Harsanyi writes:

In the “choose life” case, Illinois claims that a license plate conveys government, rather than private, speech. If that is so, what should we do about the other 19 states that do allow “choose life” — which is clearly a political statement?

Nationally, specialty license plates generate tens of millions of dollars, so we will never see an end to them. Yet, do license plates really need to convey anything more than a government ID number?

Mark Steyn writes:

On Holocaust Memorial Day 2008, a group of just under 100 people—Londoners and a few visitors —took a guided tour of the old Jewish East End. They visited, among other sites of interest, the birthplace of my old chum Lionel Bart, the author of Oliver! Three generations of schoolchildren have grown up singing Bart’s lyric: Consider yourself At ’ome! Consider yourself One of the family! Those few dozen London Jews considered themselves at ’ome. But they weren’t. Not any more. The tour was abruptly terminated when the group was pelted with stones, thrown by “youths”—or to be slightly less evasive, in the current euphemism of Fleet Street, “Asian” youths. “If you go any further, you’ll die,” they shouted, in between the flying rubble.

Hey, that sounds so… familiar…

PS: I’m old enough to remember when “South Asians” were “East Indians.” Isn’t the Left incredible? No wonder they think they can fix the climate — they’ve already altered the points of the compass!

Who wins?

Well, I know one thing: When Jesus brought a little girl on her deathbed back to life, He said, “Wake up,” not “Move over…”

Well said:

They may have read about it, They may know intellectually that it happened. But they view it the same way we may view a lightning strike that hits an isolated golfer: a billion-in-one shot that “just happened.” That’s why the Obama team is renaming the attacks of 9/11 as “man-caused disasters” putting it on the same moral plane as an auto wreck. That’s why the Obama team is not really concerned about revealing what we do to interrogate prisoners with vital information. They don’t believe we haven anything to worry about. Unlike the people who evacuated their buildings during the fly-bys and who ran for their lives, believing that they were under another attack. For Team Obama, it’s always 9/10.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one — Fjordman writes:

Anti-Nazism has mutated into a permanent witch-hunt on an imaginary enemy. The notion that “neo-Nazis” constitute a prominent group today is nonsense.

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the most dangerous people are the Leftists all over the Western world who are waging a Jihad to destroy their own civilization and have teamed up with Muslims to achieve this goal.

Unlike neo-Nazis, these people are not only far more numerous but socially accepted and disproportionately represented in the media and the education system, where they systematically silence “racist” dissenters by destroying their livelihoods and reputations.

They use an imaginary “far-Right” threat to crush people they don’t like.

According to Dr Aidan Rankin, “anti-Fascism” is the new Fascism. The so-called anti-racists and Multiculturalists are aggressors with totalitarian leanings; the people they unfairly attack are victims of a failed social experiment and one of the greatest betrayals in history.

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In the United States, the host D.L. Hughley at TV channel CNN stated that the Republican Party looked like “Nazi Germany” because a majority of their members are white. Being a “Nazi” today means “being born white and standing up for yourself,” nothing more and nothing less. In fact, you don’t even need to stand up for yourself; merely being white and still breathing is sufficient for some.

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I love the twit interviewing him, playing the ancient liberal “tsk, you’re not really serious” card; you can hear the tongue in her cheek. My extorted tax dollars pay that dingbat’s salary.

PLUS: he’s mad. Uh oh!

Heh: “I was a Teenaged Nazi for the CJC!”

Nope, not photoshopped.

Rick McGinnis writes:

The only hint at a revelation is the scene where Randy and Cassidy revel in a jukebox stocked with their favorite music – the hair metal and glammy stadium rock of Randy’s ’80s heyday, and bands like Cinderella, Ratt and Quiet Riot. The deadpan shooting style Aronofsky adopts for the film means that irony is kept tamped down; it’s possible to imagine that their enthusiasm is genuine, and for a moment you’re forced to acknowledge that people can derive joy, and even solace, from these trashy, bombastic anthems to defiance and escape.

Those were great times, Randy reflects; it’s a shame “that Cobain pussy had to come around and ruin it all.” I’ll have to admit that I always regarded ’80s hair metal as a joke only slightly less risible than professional wrestling, but it’s worth remembering that Kurt Cobain came from a place as dire as the world where Randy lives. It’s unlikely that critics will ever regard “Round And Round” or “Girls Girls Girls” as remotely equivalent to “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” but in the end, Cobain’s music didn’t do much to help him endure either his past or his present.

Completely parallel to yet unaided by the release of The Wrestler, I’ve discovered 80s hair metal twenty years later; as a punk, it was anathema to me, but always in the background in my steel mill home town. (In the 90s, it was sort of ok to like Geffen-era Aerosmith cuz of the cool videos, but I still got funny looks…)  

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China full of counterrevolutionaries loonies.

Oh well.

I’m not mocking him: that’s probably the only thing he’s ever been right about.

Either that or… Manson is innocent…

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“Swine flu is to Mexicans what AIDS is to gays. We’re being scapegoated!!”

sigh…

Except without the happy ending. Cuz he’s a dummy. So stop reading about mid-way through.

Read the whole thing:

In the past 25 years more than 700,000 people entered Canada asking for asylum. None of these individuals has been screened for health, criminality or security. Many of them arrived without documents or with false credentials and many of them have been smuggled into Canada by international criminal organizations. Few are detained. Most are released and asked to show up for a refugee hearing which might be scheduled one or two years in the future.

In the meantime they are free to work or receive welfare. There is no restriction on their movement and no tracking system. The latest report of the auditor general indicates there are more than 40,000 outstanding warrants for the arrest of people whose whereabouts are unknown. Most of these are people who were found not to be refugees and were asked to leave.

n 2008 almost 37,000 asylum seekers entered Canada and so far this year the flow remains unabated. There is a backlog of more than 62,000 asylum claims before the Refugee Board which will take years to clear. The system is out of control and yet our politicians of all parties refuse to even consider reform. To do so would offend the powerful refugee lobby and threaten the loss of ethnic voters.

Furthermore, it is not politically correct to even discuss immigration and refugee policies in connection with border or security concerns.  

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