Jobsanger, the Texas Liberal’s guest writer, says that religion was what killed 300+ Muslims – and an uncounted number of Christians – in Nigeria over the weekend. The Nigerian conflict has been going on for some time and is at its core, as Jobsanger says, a religious war. Religions have been the source of fighting…
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Marc is a software developer, writer, and part-time political know-it-all who currently resides in Texas in the good ol' U.S.A.
The Republicans Base
Writing at USA Today, Rod Dreher confirms something that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, namely that social conservatives and Christian voters are an essential element of the Republican base and that the McCain/Palin ticket lost for reasons having little to do with deep demographic changes misidentified by pundits such as Jeffery Hart…
Islamic Honor Killings On the Rise in Iraq
Iraq has a Ministry of Human Rights that is working to end gender discrimination in that country. That’s a tall order in a country in which Islam-inspired honor killings – the ultimate form of misogyny – are common and on the rise. The Guardian reports that 81 known honor killings have occurred in Basra alone…
Nation of Uncaring Retards
Saudi Arabia? Pakistan? Iran? France? No, I’m talking about the good ol’ U.S.A. What else can you say about a country in which discount-crazed New York shoppers actually trample a store employee to death in their haste to save $20? Claudia: A man has died today, not because of a stampede to get much needed…
5 Hostages Killed in Mumbai Jewish Center
In the aftermath of a raid by Indian commandos, CNN reports that 5 hostages have been found dead in the Mumbai Jewish center that had been attacked and held by terrorists. No word was released as to the hostages’ identities or whether they were killed in conjunction with the commando raid. The total death toll…
Iraq Thankful for American Troops
Perhaps thankful is too strong of a word. Or perhaps not. 80% of Iraq’s parliament voted for a security pact that will keep American troops in that country for three more years – sounds like they’re glad to have us there. After the madness that’s been happening in Mumbai over the last 2 days and…
Barack Obama’s Priorities
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama recently participated in an anti-global warming rally in California during which he said that few of the nation’s problems were more urgent than global warming. To his credit, Obama tossed in a throwaway bit about dependence on foreign oil, too. But if that particular speech can be taken at face value,…
Mumbai Under Terrorist Attack; 80 Dead
A previously unknown terrorist organization called the Deccan Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for multiple brutal, synchronized attacks in Mumbai, India. The Times of India reports least 80 people have died so far, with perhaps 200 more people held hostage. A later report indicates that the Indian Army stormed the Hotel Taj and the Oberoi Trident,…
Detroit’s Problems and the Left
Perhaps the fundamental problem of our time is that no one wants to tell – or hear – the truth anymore. This has certainly been true in Detroit, et al, where the United Auto Workers has fought off wage and benefit cuts for decades. Now GM is poised at the brink of bankruptcy as a…
Medicine in the Era of Big Government
My wife is having surgery today. She’s chosen her doctors as best she can with the limited information available regarding their abilities, which is to say word-of-mouth, and we’ll soon be off to the relatively new facility in Bryan, Texas for her operation. It’s a relatively minor procedure, but I have to admit to being…