Nightly Ramble: Bottle of Wine Edition

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This is the “Bottle of Wine” Edition

• RELEASE THE TAPES:  Moe Lane thinks they ought to release the police tapes made during

A disturbing report from the Jerusalem Post‘s Sabrina Amidi:

In a shocking and unprecedented interview, directly exposing the inhumanity of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s religious regime in Iran, a serving member of the paramilitary Basiji militia has told this

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This is the “Delivery Truck” Edition.

• Jackson: If you’re looking for a glowing obit, singing the unalloyed praises of the 50

Oh, my.

Where to begin, on an examination of Obama’s speech to the Middle East? I’m certainly not going to hit you with all 6000 words.  I can’t even jump on everything in the speech that should be jumped

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This is the “All this and a hat, too” Edition

• More Base!! To start with, today, we see a comment from Glenn

Arthur Brooks, at  The Wall Street Journal suggests that there’s a bit of a culture war going on about the future of capitalism.  The headline suggests that “The Real Culture War Is Over Capitalism “

There is a major cultural

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• Torture is Barry Manilow covering AC/DC: A great position paper on torture, from Frank Fleming, over at Pajamas Media.  You may

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This is the ‘Fool for the City’ edition. A nod to Foghat, who I happened to be listening to when I wrote

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This is the “Like a freight train” edition. Always wanted to do a train, just never got around to it. The 3/4 shots,

With all the attention being placed on the story out of Buffalo about the beheading of Aasiya Z. Hassan the other day,  I’ve been watching the Buffalo outlets a bit more closely.  This morning, I note this story from yesterday

Word from the Boston Pheonix, this morning:

This morning, Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson was arrested on charges of attempted extortion and wire fraud after an 18-month investigation by the FBI. The FBI alleges that Wilkerson took bribes from

From Fox News:

A wealthy Indonesian Muslim cleric faces accusations of having illegal sex with a minor after marrying a 12-year-old girl selected for him through a contest.

Pujiono Cahyo Widianto, a 43-year-old owner of an Islamic boarding school, wed

The Puffington Post has their knickers in a twist over this quote by Michele Backmann

But guess what? Not all cultures are equal. Not all values are equal

Duh!

There is no evidence that all cultures are equal, none, nada,

Yeah, I saw some of it last night. I turned it n last night just in time to see that thing under Bubba’s big red WC Feilds nose, say to the country what a great president he’d been.

My reaction:

Back along about the end of 2006, during a  Christmas break, I wrote an extended piece about Islam and some of the problems in the world with relation to it. I’ll post it here, because I think it’;s ideas are