New Ann Coulter Article Today

Ann Coulter:

It's hard to figure why Bush would support a half-wit like Lincoln Chafee. Maybe he believes his own poll numbers and is trying to help the conservatives by endorsing their opponents.

Islam-Inspired Swimwear

Get ready for the latest in women's swimwear, reports Reuters:

An unusual type of swimwear is standing out on Turkish beaches this summer -- Islam-inspired swimsuits -- which buck the trend of the past 100 years for swimsuits to get smaller.

Turkish businessman Mehmet Sahin has designed what he says is the world's first Islam-inspired swimsuit and sells head-to-ankle bathing gear to devout well-heeled Muslims, including the wives of Turkey's leading politicians.

"We are the preferred firm of the conservative politicians' wives," he told Reuters in an interview, referring to members of the ruling AK Party, which has its roots in political Islam and came to power in 2002.

It is still a small market, but Sahin's growing clientele is another sign of the rising profile of Islam in traditionally secular Turkey.

His brightly-colored women's swimming costumes look like shiny track-suits with stretchy hoods, while the racier models are like catsuits with a separate overall to cover the curves.

Man Gets 62 Years For Beating Wife's Face In With A Skillet

Another example of how well our criminal justice system works, from Fox News:

A man said he was "dreadfully sorry" for beating his wife to death with a skillet, but a judge said the apology came too late and sentenced him to 62 years in prison.

Well, he apologized for beating his wife's face in, so he doesn't get the death penalty or even life. That wouldn't be fair!            

Judge Stephen Heimann told Albert Boyd during a sentencing hearing Wednesday in Bartholomew Circuit Court that his apology was "too little, too late."         

Boyd already had served time for attacking a woman with a butcher knife and had dropped out of psychological counseling that might have helped him control his anger before he killed his wife, Ruth Boyd, in their Columbus apartment on Jan. 31, Heimann said.

Another reason not to elect/appoint sissy liberal judges. If a conservative had handled this guy's case you can bet he wouldn't have been put in "psychological counseling"  to help him "control his anger." He would have been thrown in jail after attacking a woman with a butcher knife, which - wait, this can't be right - would have stopped him from killing anyone. Funny how that works!

"It was a violent crime against an intimate person, which also helps buttress the fact that there is a risk you will commit another crime," the judge said.         

Boyd served a seven-year prison sentence in Ohio for stabbing a woman in the neck and severing her ear with a 14-inch butcher knife, Heimann said. He been out of prison four years when he beat his wife in the face with an aluminum skillet so violently the pan was bent and the handle broke off.

Iran Enriching More Uranium

WaPo reports:

Iranian nuclear specialists have begun enriching a new batch of uranium in an apparent act of defiance just days ahead of a U.N. Security Council deadline for Tehran to stop such work or face the prospect of economic sanctions, officials in Washington and European capitals who have been monitoring Iran's efforts said yesterday.

Is that any surprise? They already said they as good as don't take the UN seriously.

Annan: Israel Responsible For Most Cease-Fire Violations

Kofi Annan has said that Israel is responsible for most cease-fire violations in southern Lebanon. Just as his son is responsible for most illegal oil-for-food activities? What disgusting demagoguery and terrorist appeasement. What is the UN good for if not promoting international terrorism?

Britain Charges Three More In Foiled Terror Plot

Reports NY Times:

The British police charged three more people on Tuesday with major terrorism and conspiracy counts after this month's alert over what the police described as a plot to bomb airliners flying from Britain to the United States.

The charges brought to 11 the number of people accused of conspiring to murder and to bomb airplanes flying to the United States — the most serious charges brought against the suspects embroiled in the alleged conspiracy.

The police announced the charges separately, saying early Tuesday evening that a man identified as Nabeel Hussain had been charged with conspiracy to murder and planning to smuggle ''improvised explosive devices onto aircraft and assemble and detonate them on board.'' As with the other suspects, Mr. Hussain, 22, had earlier been held without charge under British counterterrorism laws.

Several hours later, the police said two men identified as Mohammed Yasar Gulzar and Mohammed Shamin Uddin had been charged with the same offenses. Mr. Gulzar's name had not previously been made public in the inquiries that led to a huge roundup of suspects on Aug. 10 and set off a terror alert in Britain and the United States.

I notice they're all Muslims.

I'll Be Busy

I regret to inform you that I may be so busy this week I might not get any posts. Sorry, be sure to check back Friday/Saturday!

Vatican's Chief Exorcist: 'Hitler And Stalin Were Possessed By The Devil'

The Vatican's "chief" exorcist has said that he believes Hitler and Stalin were possessed by the Devil. Is that really so hard to believe?

Fox News journalists Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig Free And Safe

Some good news this weekend, as the terrorists who were holding Fox News journalists Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig captive set them free, apparently first forcing them to convert to Islam at gunpoint to prove that it is a religion of peace .

Fox News has a time line of the journalists ordeal.

Iran Not Affraid Of UN (Surprise, Surprise)

Evil regimes usually at least pretend to listen to the UN, but Iran today has made it clear that it is not afraid of the organization that has failed to uphold almost all of its resolutions and considers sanctions an effective way to punish a mass-murderer with WMDs. Reports Fox News:

Iran said Monday it is not concerned about this week's U.N. deadline demanding it suspend a key part of its disputed nuclear program or face political and economic sanctions.              
The U.N. Security Council has given Iran until Thursday to suspend a key part of its nuclear program -- the enrichment of uranium, a process that can produce either fuel for a reactor or material for weapons.

What's the UN's next move? Just laugh it off and keep pretending to do something? Do liberals really think we should leave the security of the world in the hands of these jokers?

CNN Will Play Original 9/11 Coverage On Fifth Anniversary

Yahoo News reports (via: LGF):

CNN will mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by replaying on the Internet the cable network's coverage of that day's events.

Viewers can watch how events unfolded starting at 8:30 a.m., minutes before the first reports of an airplane hitting the World Trade Center. The feed will run in real time, as the network showed it five years ago, until midnight.

For the day, CNN will make its online video service, CNN Pipeline, available for free. Normally, viewers pay $2.95 a month or $24.95 a year for four separate video feeds.

Online viewers will be able to watch live reports of memorial services through one of the feeds. So that viewers won't accidentally stumble upon graphic footage from 2001, the replay feed will be covered with a notice instructing users to click only if they want to watch.

"Our users may choose to view the stream of coverage from Sept. 11, 2001, or live coverage of memorial services at Ground Zero, or they may click through the numerous interactive elements on the site," said David Payne, senior vice president and general manager of CNN.com. "They have the power to determine the best way for them to remember the anniversary."

Wow, that's incredibly non-whiny-liberal of them. Of course, they'll have a disclaimer, so no one accidentally views it (ridiculous), but I think it's great that they'll be replaying the coverage.

What's More Degrading Than Racial Profiling?

Cox & Forkum have the answer (via: LGF):

Polar Bear Genitals Are Shrinking!

Sorry, I'm busy and feeling lazy, so not too many posts today. However, if you want to be reminded what horrible creatures humans are - due to our impact on nature - here's a funny story from Fox: " Polar Bear Genitals Are Shrinking."

I'm sorry, but pollutants' effects on a polar bears love-life really isn't a concern of mine...

Stem Cell Research Without Harming The Unborn?

Researchers say they've found a way to harvest embryonic stem cells without harming the unborn life. If this is true, way to go. Now we can all see how embryonic stem cell research has nothing to give to science. Maybe now liberals hoping for a fountain of youth and cures to all diseases can pump as much money and time into stem cell research they want, and they'll just be wasting time and money, not killing innocent life.

"Survivor" To Turn Races Against Each Other (Just Like The Democrats Did!)

Apparently Survivor is going to split the teams up by race for its next season. I can't see this going well for them. We'll have the PC Police whining every second. And what's the outcome supposed to prove? If the white team wins, will the show be saying that white people are the best? Yeah, let's see how that goes...

9/11 Blogger Memorial Project

Thanks to Michelle Malkin for linking to Jamulian.com which has started a huge blogger initiative to have an individual blog remember every 9/11 victim on 9/11/06. I've signed up, and if you have a blog I encourage you to do the same.

I'll be remembering Jon A. Perconti, age 32, killed in the World Trade Center. I will be making a memorial post on 9/11.

Fan Mail? I Wish...

By: Shane

Well, I'll be pretty busy for the next week, and so I don't really have time to write a decent article. So I'm going to use an old trick, and recycle some old material. When I wrote an article tearing apart the federal minimum wage, I got an email from a misguided man claiming to be a conservative. After insulting the article as "simplistic", he said, "Any true member of the 'right wing' as you claim to be at your blog would not take the position that you do. Please refrain from using the term 'right wing' to describe your political affiliation in the future. It gives the rest of us a bad name."

Obviously, I couldn't let this fly. This man was obviously confused as to what a conservative was, and if there's anything I can't stand, it's a misguided conservative. I wrote him back, saying, "I'm sorry, but if you are so enlightened I would like to hear what you believe the 'right wing' stance on a federal minimum wage would be. Just to avoid confusion (on your behalf) I would remind you that 'right wing' does mean 'conservative'." I may have been slightly rude, but I honestly wanted to hear his opinion (not to mention; he called my article "simplistic." The nerve!)

He wrote me back quite a long email listing four points about the government and conservatism. It was obvious that he was confused, and so I wrote him back to refute a few of his points; not for the sake of argument, but because I wanted to set him straight if he was going to be going around claiming to be a conservative. And so, now we come to my response, which is long and will fill space. I wrote back:

...You say that "Conservatives are concerned with kids and families which is why you're no conservative." Unfortunately, and I'm not attacking your intelligence, you need to understand that conservatives follow the mantra of "don't just care, think!" I laid out in my article how minimum wage laws at a federal level do little to help, and in fact hurt the economy.

Conservatism, by definition, is a belief in smaller government, particularly in the economic sphere. Government has no business telling businesses what to do. Whether you agree with this or not, it is the conservative stance.

You also say, "If a man takes a job at the current minimum wage and can't live off the proceeds, then he'll need to collect welfare or some other subsidy probably from the government to survive which will accrue to the benefit of the employer. " This is unfortunately true; our current welfare state hurts the economy drastically and exacerbates many problems, such as teenage pregnancy and illegal immigration. However, the solution is not to abandon our conservative beliefs by involving government in business, but to eliminate the welfare state. You don't fight liberalism with liberalism.

In response to "...if we're still in need of a few more jobs we could raise tariffs on Chinese imports (diminishing the proceeds they have available to expand their military)..." I'd have to point out that free trade is a legitimate point of disagreement between many conservatives; I happen to be a free trade conservative, believing that, like minimum wage, tariffs hurt more people than they help.

Look at steel tariffs, for instance. We put them in place to help the US steel industry. But for every worker in the steel industry, there were 10 in industries that relied on steel. Tariffs raised prices and hurt all of those in industries that relied on steel for the benefit of the few in the steel industry.

I should point out also that, contrary to your statement, "Imports would be cut, the trade deficit would be improved..." tariffs would not help the trade deficit, as never has a tariff been put in place without a retaliatory tariff also being put in place. If we stopped buying Chinese products, they would stop buying what few American products they do...

And there you have it; defense of my article on minimum wage. Sorry I didn't have time to write a full article this week, but I hope this old material was enjoyable and educational. After all; it is a private email and, therefore, should be new to you!

Shane is a writer for the conservative news blog UnrestInTheForest.BlogSpot.com. His other articles can be found here.

Dutch Flight Grounded, 12 Passengers Arrested [Update]

It appears that an incident in which a Dutch flight made an emergency landing with an escort of fighter jets and 12 passengers were arrested after acting suspiciously was not terror related. Reports Reuters:

Dutch authorities will release all 12 passengers arrested on a U.S. Northwest Airlines plane bound for India on Wednesday after concluding they were not planning an attack, prosecutors said on Thursday.

"From the statements of suspects and witnesses, no evidence could be brought forward that these men were about to commit an act of violence," a prosecution statement said, adding police had searched for explosives on the plane but found none.

Prosecutors told a news conference the crew had raised the alarm after the men handed each other mobile phones and laptops during the flight and refused to follow their instructions.    

"It does not appear to be terror-related," Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner told journalists in The Hague earlier.

I guess they weren't terrorists, just jerks who didn't know how to follow the rules.

Plan B Now Available Without Prescription

Fox has some bad news:

Women may buy the morning-after pill without a prescription — but only with proof they're 18 or older, federal health officials ruled Thursday, capping a contentious 3-year effort to ease access to the emergency contraceptive.

This is bad news because, as I pointed out in my article "Plan B: Just Another Abortion Pill ," Plan B is more than an "emergency contraceptive." Plan B can cause a woman's body to reject a fertilized egg, preventing implantation and causing the death of a newly formed life.

The story mentions the same rhetoric from those who support Plan B:

The pills are a concentrated dose of the same drug found in many regular birth-control pills. When a woman takes the pills within 72 hours of unprotected sex, they can lower the risk of pregnancy by up to 89 percent. If she already is pregnant, the pills have no effect.

This is a misleading statement, "If she already is pregnant, the pills have no effect." This leads you to believe that the pill can not cause the death of an unborn child. However, the statement just shows the lack of understanding that the Left has regarding the Right's Argument against abortion. By "already pregnant" they mean "the egg has implanted on the wall of the uterus." However, the Right does not believe that life begins at implantation, but at conception.

Plan B is just another abortion pill, and the FDA has now legalized its over-the-counter sale.

Democrats' Racial Joke Double Standard

I didn't want to waste my time posting on stupid crap that Liberals try to make into news, but the Left seems so bent out of shape over Sen. Allen's "macaca" jab that I feel I should. Every politician says something stupid every now and then. The Left acts like it is solid proof of President Bush's racism that he has helped to raise money for Sen. Allen.

But are Democrats forgetting their own slip ups? Hillary Clinton made a crack about Gandhi working at a gas station near where she grew up (she also called some one a "fu**ing Jew bastard") and Sen. Joe Biden said, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking." Not to mention Huffington Post's publishing of a picture of Joe Lieberman in black face and Daily Kos' publishing of pictures suggesting he's gay. Everyone has slip ups. Are the Lefties calling for Hillary and Biden's resignations and refusing to raise money for them?

It's the same old double standard. Conservatives are expected to adhere to the Left's ridiculous standards of political correctness, but the Left doesn't have to if they don't want to.