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Thursday, January 18
Second Opinion
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 18 Jan 2007 10:45 PM EST
Underwhelmed by the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review, Rep. Duncan Hunter had the House Armed Services Committee conduct its own in-depth look at US defense needs. The result—a dense and detailed 121-page report—hit the streets on Dec. 6.
It deserves more attention than it has received. Hunter, the California Republican who chaired the panel until the Democratic takeover of Congress, produced an impressive document. It pulls no punches. Indeed, it sets a benchmark for future debate.
This “Committee Defense Review” warns flatly that the US has insufficient military forces. Unlike the QDR, the CDR did not set a budget level and back into its force levels. Rather, it looked at requirements first, unconstrained by fiscal “realities.”
This politically dangerous technique produced eye-watering force structure conclusions.
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A methodology critique in defense of those wascally wepublicans
by
Hedley Lamarr
on Thu 18 Jan 2007 05:09 PM EST
 You may have heard the news by now. People who hold conservative political opinions are suffering from a syndrome in need of a cure. How do we know this? Because a professor of psychology has demonstrated it to be so.
Jost, along with his co-authors Jack Glaser, Arie Kruglanski, and Frank Sulloway (“the authors”), concluded that there is “a clear tendency for conservatives to score higher on measures of dogmatism, intolerance of ambiguity, needs for order, structure, and closure and to be lower in openness to experience and integrative complexity than [are] moderates and liberals” (Jost, 2006, p. 662). In other words, conservatives are pigheaded, closed minded, anal retentive, and less intelligent than everyone else. The authors also believe that conservative ideology is driven by “the psychological management of uncertainty and fear” (p. 369).
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Enemy in Our Back Yard, Part II
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 18 Jan 2007 04:11 PM EST
As Western civilization faces the threat of a radical Islamic foe that seeks to annihilate it, the collective self-assurance of the Western psyche continues to wither under the relentless, low-grade assault of the political Left. This assault presents itself in the form of constant criticism aimed at America’s allegedly vast array of societal defects — with the intent of expunging every last shred of self-respect from the Western mind and heart, and of thereby convincing Western man that his irredeemably sinful culture is unworthy of his defense.
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Enemy in Our Back Yard
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 18 Jan 2007 03:41 PM EST
Iran is moving aggressively to gain influence in our hemisphere, and left-wing, anti-American leaders in Latin America are rolling out the red carpet for President Ahmadinejad. As this Marxist-Islamist entente grows, it presents a clear danger to American security and makes the need for action against Iran's nuclear program even more pressing. The latest development in the alliance came this weekend, when Mr. Ahmadinejad visited Latin America for the second time in four months. In Venezuela, he was received at the airport by President Chavez. "Welcome to Venezuela, where Iran is beloved," the Caracas daily El Universal quoted Mr. Chavez as saying. "We give welcome to a distinguished leader, the leader of a heroic people and of a revolution kindred to the Venezuelan revolution: the Islamic revolution."
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UCLA student sues over tasering
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Hedley Lamarr
on Thu 18 Jan 2007 01:00 PM EST
 In a 16-page lawsuit, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, 23, sued the university, campus police and a half-dozen officers for unspecified monetary damages, claiming they used excessive force and violated the Americans With Disabilities Act in the Nov. 14, 2006 incident. Tabatabainejad was repeatedly stunned with a Taser after he refused to show his student ID card to a security guard. Authorities said the student wouldn't leave Powell Library, went limp and asked others to join his resistance. The suit noted that Tabatabainejad suffered from bipolar disorder but the officers' lack of training meant they treated him with "brutality instead of sensitivity," Hoffman said.
That was very insensitive of the campus cops ... he was, after all, "terribly burnt" ....
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"Azzam the American": The making of an Al Qaeda homegrown
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 18 Jan 2007 11:46 AM EST
Adam Gadahn, the first American to be charged with treason in more than fifty years, was born in Oregon, grew up in rural California, and converted to Islam at the age of seventeen. He is now twenty-eight. No one who knew him before his religious awakening ever thought that he would join Al Qaeda, and many people who knew him after he did are still perplexed. And yet, in a short time, Gadahn has become one of Osama bin Laden’s senior operatives.
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San Francisco mandates paid sick leave for all
by
Hedley Lamarr
on Thu 18 Jan 2007 10:39 AM EST
 The social engineering continues; on top of the already highest minimum wage in America at $9.14 an hour, San Francisco will now require all employers to give paid sick leave to their workers, further strangling small businesses in the already expensive city (With Audio)
Atlas Cafe owner Bill Stone says all these things combined could strangle small businesses in an already expensive city. "If we want independent restaurants and independent stores and shops you have to make it possible to survive, not just the big guys," Stone says. "Like Starbucks and Wal-Mart and all those things that everybody hates so much. But if you make it too hard to run a small business, only the big guys are going to be able to do it."
And will this drive small business - out of business when customers don't want to pay higher prices for goods and services?
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A Boatload of People who... look like OTHER people...
by
The Bartender
on Thu 18 Jan 2007 05:00 AM EST
Cindy Sheehan  and Stan Laurel???
I never realized just how much Joe Lieberman looks like Barney Fife...
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Men: Last Great Hope of the Republican Party
by
The Bartender
on Thu 18 Jan 2007 02:27 AM EST
If you lean too far in casting your message to the members of the fairer sex, you risk betraying your core principles as the standard-bearer of limited government and fiscal restraint.
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Unecessary Censorship (Very Funny and Safe for Work)
by
The Bartender
on Thu 18 Jan 2007 02:00 AM EST
Helping the FCC by bleeping out words whether they need bleeping out or not. The January 6th, 2007 version of weekly bit done on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
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Testimony: Actor pulled gun on daughter's ex
by
The Bartender
on Thu 18 Jan 2007 01:00 AM EST
"Goodfellas" actor Paul Sorvino pulled a gun on his daughter's ex-boyfriend after the man pounded on her hotel door and made threats, the daughter testified.
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Ad Age Presents: TOP 100 ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS of the 20th Centruy
by
The Bartender
on Thu 18 Jan 2007 12:46 AM EST
How many different ways has corporate America gotten into your head and made you a mindless consumer? Hey, if they could con you into buying a car conceived by Hitler himself, they can make you buy anything...
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