Phelpsians No-Show A Crowd of 500 Counterprotesters

I just have one word: HA!

Also: Ha ha ha hahahaha1!!eleventy!!!!

If I’d known in time that Phelpsians (decidedly NOT Christians) were supposed to be anywhere in the vicinity, I’d have joined the counter-protest too. I don’t need to approve of “The Laramie Project” being performed in a public high school in order to despise the Phelps’ philosophy and behavior, and I can’t condemn them heartily enough.

Religious Holiday Proclamations

North Miami Beach’s multicultural committee is thinking about limiting religious holiday proclamations to one per religion. My question is, why does any government need to issue a religious holiday proclamation at all? Shouldn’t it be the duty of the religious organization to announce their own holidays?

And while I’m at it, why does any government need a “multicultural committee?”

Nice to know she’ll draw the statist line somewhere…

Michelle Obama just says No to Twinkie warning labels, instead taking a more reasonable view that giving parents “information about what’s in the Twinkie” is adequate.

Dear Congress,

We hate you.  We really hate you.

Sincerely,

The Public

Calling Jane Austen Fans

This photogallery is for you.

Why we need a part-time legislature, part 8,27

Because otherwise they have more time to think up new, creative ways to micromanage our lives. Like making energy drinks illegal for teenagers.

President Joe Arpaio?

Hey, we could do a whole lot worse, couldn’t we?

Obama: Putting the Bully in ‘Bully Pulpit’

Pundits who follow middle east news were saying even before the election that once Obama’s appeasement failed to effectively engage Iran and other thugocracies, that he would turn his attention to bullying Israel.  And so he has.  His recent – and shockingly disingenuous, even for him – interest in Jerusalem real estate is the most recent example.

Issues in which Obama apparently has no interest:

  • Islamic child marriages
  • Gays being executed in Iran
  • Women being stoned or whipped for the crime of having been raped
  • Palestinian rocket attacks against Israel
  • Palestinian desecration of Jewish holy sites
  • Gilad Shalit
  • the non-massacre at Jenin
  • Palestinian television shows for children that glamorize suicide bombing
  • Pallywood propaganda that would make Leni Riefenstahl blush

I could go on, but… you get the idea.  All of those things are less important to him than the entirely legal and normal construction of some apartments in Jerusalem.

Like water, bullies follow the course of least resistance.  When the Islamic thugocracies thumbed their noses at Obama, he turned to Israel as a more attractive target.  Here’s hoping Bibi Netanyahu chooses to stand his ground, both rhetorically and literally.