Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2661

Kumbaya Watch

Geocurrents: "Nigeria and Cameroon may have their differences, but they share a passion for Guinness Stout."

Yes, one day, we can all come together, shitfaced though we may be.
















Cameroon - Nigeria - Africa - Government - Guinness

Muslims Worshipping At The Pentagon!

Where is the ADL? Didn't Jihadists attack the Pentagon? Isn't it sacred ground? And yet in Room 1E438, the infidels are praying to their alien God! Since, according to Chris Caldwell, there is a "standing fear" that all Muslims can be financed or influenced by Wahhabists, why are we allowing these fifth columnists to worship in the heart of the nation's defense? Take it away, Jeffrey:

You see, what happens is this: First radical Muslims disguised as patriotic American military officers take...

GOP: Fiscal Frauds, Ctd

Think Progress keeps the heat on Boehner, Pence, and Cantor. Special props to journalist hedge-fund manager Robert Barbera (above). Previous Dish coverage here, here, and here.

Republican - Think Progress - United States - Politics - Government

Malkin Award Nominee

"If this ruling is upheld, millions of Americans will face for the first
time a legal system that is committed to the view that our deeply held
moral views on sex and marriage are unacceptable in the public square,
the fruit of bigotry that should be discredited, stigmatized and
repressed. Parents will find that, almost Soviet-style, their own
children will be re-educated using their own tax dollars to disrespect
their parents' views and values," - Maggie Gallagher.

No. Unlike the far right...

The Trillion Dollar Pension Gap

Have you seen the condition of pensions guaranteed to state and municipal workers? Yikes.
















Pension - Retirement - United States - Home - Personal Finance

Paul Ryan, Fraud? Ctd

The congressman defends himself from K-Thug. Krugman hits back:

Notice that Ryan does not address the issue of the zero
growth assumption, and how that assumption - not entitlement reforms -
is the key to his alleged spending cuts by 2020.

I also see that Ryan is perpetuating the runaround on revenue estimates. If you read either this article or his original response to the Tax Policy Center,you could easily get the impression that nobody would do a revenueestimate, that CBO said it...

Foxman's Muslim Defamation League

Fareed Zakaria puts his money where his mouth is and returns an ADL award. I hope it starts a trend. They must have given many awards to many distinguished people. Those who believe in freedom of religion should, in my view, follow Fareed's example. Money quote:

[D:]oes Foxman believe that bigotry is OK if people think they're victims?
Does the anguish of Palestinians, then, entitle them to be anti-Semitic?

Foxman digs in:

If the stated goal was to advance reconciliation and understanding, we...

Who Let The Dogs Out?

It is painful for me to read my old friend Christopher Caldwell's screed against the Cordoba Initiative, a complex two blocks from Ground Zero which will include a mosque within it. Essentially, Chris believes that Islam is an exception to the First Amendment's protection of religious faith. Here's his argument:

Including Islam within the fold of traditional western religious tolerance is not business-as-usual. It is an experiment. Our Lockean ideas of religious tolerance had their origins in...

The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XCIII: Gone Fishin'

Mudflats exposes just a little more of this total fraud:

Palin posted:

"And here I am, thousands of miles away from DC out on a
commercial fishing boat, working my butt off for my own
merely asking the Democrat politicos and their liberal friends in
media: "What's the plan, man?", and they seem to feel threatened by
question. So, I'll go back to setting my hooks and watching
halibut take the bait, and when I come back into the boat's cabin in a
few hours…"

Strange. The...

Why Ending The Settlements Matters More Now Than Ever

Steve Clemons pushes back against Dennis Ross:

The United States and its core allies have decided to try and remake partsof the world and as might be expected, much of the Arab Middle East and theglobal Muslim community have institutionalized grievances about their place inthe modern world and wonder if the West values their lives and societies. ThePalestinian mess is for many of these people the packaged microcosm of theiranger about exploitation and humiliation by the West and by their...