Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda mastermind of the 9-11 attack onAmerica, was slain at his hideout inPakistan last weekend by the incredibly brave and gutsyUS President Barack Obama’s timely action. Admittedly, others may have played minor supporting roles.
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Saturday, May 7, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Judge Files Complaint against Merkel over Bin Laden Comments
Spiegel: A Hamburg judge has filed a criminal complaint against Chancellor Angela Merkel for "endorsing a crime" after she stated she was "glad" that Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces.
Friday links
1968 Playboy Bunny handbook. (Safe for work)
Today is International No Pants Day.
Vampires may be coming out of the closet – Trublood is real.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Interview of Fight of the Century’s Russ Roberts
The Corner: "Basically, economists often look only at what they think they can measure, and then simply assume that what they can measure is all there is."
47% of adults in Detroit are functionally illiterate
Reading Not All the Rage in Detroit « Hot Air
"Unfortunately that’s not even the saddest part. The report goes on to specify that roughly half of the illiterate population has either a high school degree or a GED, and yet they can’t read."
"Unfortunately that’s not even the saddest part. The report goes on to specify that roughly half of the illiterate population has either a high school degree or a GED, and yet they can’t read."
If Supermarkets Were Like Public Schools
WSJ.com: Teachers unions and their political allies argue that market forces can't supply quality education. According to them, only our existing system—politicized and monopolistic—will do the trick. Yet Americans would find that approach ludicrous if applied to other vital goods or services.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Man high on bath salts kills neighbor's goat
West Virginia. ...neighbors found him in his bedroom, dressed in a bra and panties, next to the dead animal.
White House split over release of corpse photo
Daily Mail: President Barack Obama is reluctant to make public images of the body because it is bloodied and badly wounded, and a perceived lack of respect for the dead could lead to a backlash.
But CIA Director Leon Panetta says there has never been any doubt that ultimately a photograph of the Al Qaeda leader would be released to the public.
In the absence of any pictorial evidence that Bin Laden is dead, some have claimed that he was not killed at all.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
American Pride is Back Out of the Closet!
Iowahawk: Of course, I'm not naive enough to think our current wave of national unity will last forever. At some point, possibly after the next election, American troops will once again assume their traditional role of psychotic baby-killing objects of fear and pity. And, doubtlessly, those of us who still admire them must once again assume our traditional role as America's flag-humping racist chickenhawks.
Fed Up with the Fed?
Thomas Sowell at NRO on the "persistent faith in government spending":
"The myth that has come down to us says the government had to intervene when there was mass unemployment in the 1930s. But the hard data show that there was no mass unemployment until after the federal government intervened. And once the government did intervene, it was politically impossible to stop and let the economy recover on its own. That was the fundamental problem then — and now."
"The myth that has come down to us says the government had to intervene when there was mass unemployment in the 1930s. But the hard data show that there was no mass unemployment until after the federal government intervened. And once the government did intervene, it was politically impossible to stop and let the economy recover on its own. That was the fundamental problem then — and now."
Monday, May 2, 2011
Bin Laden jokes flood Twitter
Guardian:
At least he got to see the royal wedding before he went out.
This is good news for the other guys on the top 10 wanted list – finally they get to move up in the rankings.
Osama dead: Donald Trump demands the death certificate.
They should have captured Bin Laden alive and made him continually go through airport security for the rest of his life.
RIP Osama bin Laden, World Hide and Go Seek Champion (2001-2011).
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At least he got to see the royal wedding before he went out.
This is good news for the other guys on the top 10 wanted list – finally they get to move up in the rankings.
Osama dead: Donald Trump demands the death certificate.
They should have captured Bin Laden alive and made him continually go through airport security for the rest of his life.
RIP Osama bin Laden, World Hide and Go Seek Champion (2001-2011).
Feel free to add more!
Spengler: Osama a casualty of the Arab revolt
Asia Times:
Bin Laden died this week because people who knew his whereabouts chose this particular moment to inform the US authorities. What has changed? The simple answer is: everything has changed. Instability in the Muslim world has reached a level that makes Bin Laden redundant.
The overthrow of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and the near-overthrow of Yemini President Ali Abdullah Saleh, along with the eruption of instability across the whole of the Arab world, changed al-Qaeda's position.
Bin Laden died this week because people who knew his whereabouts chose this particular moment to inform the US authorities. What has changed? The simple answer is: everything has changed. Instability in the Muslim world has reached a level that makes Bin Laden redundant.
The overthrow of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and the near-overthrow of Yemini President Ali Abdullah Saleh, along with the eruption of instability across the whole of the Arab world, changed al-Qaeda's position.