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The Mainstream Media Displays Their Bigotry in Arizona

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This weekend’s shooting in Arizona was a tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.

From what is know about the shooter, Jared Loughner, it is safe to conclude that he is mentally unstable.

Seemingly minutes after the shooting was first reported, the media  jumped on the ‘Tea Party militia’ explanation. It was automatically assumed that Loughner was a registered Republican, and probably a Plain supporter. In reality, a case can be made that Loughner is a Leftist. Loughner listed the Communist Manifesto as one of his favorite books, was described as “left-wing” in 2007, and was a critic of President Bush.

Never letting the facts get in the way of a story, The New York Times, led by Paul Krugman, laid blame for the shooting at the feet of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and other conservatives. Members of Congress, and their amen corner in the media, have determined that Sarah Palin is to blame for the shooting. Arizona Sheriff, and well documented political hack, Clarence Dupnik, targeted rhetoric from talk radio and cable news:

The Left has developed a cottage industry decrying the evils of ‘profiling.’ Every security measure implemented at, say, the airport, is applied equally to all travelers, from young Muslim men, to old Norwegian grandmothers, all because we are so averse to profiling.

The Left has demonstrated their aversion to profiling in the past. When Nidal Malik Hasan shot up Ft. Hood, yelling “Allah Akbar!” we were told to wait for the facts and not jump to any conclusions.

However, when there is a chance that the suspect may be a conservative, it is safe to run wall to wall coverage of pure speculation, and assert conclusions based on that speculation as fact.

When a terrorist tried to bomb Time Square last year Mayor Michael Bloomberg immediately asserted that the terrorist was a “homegrown maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something.” Turns out the Time Square bomber was… a Muslim terrorist.

But this weekend in Arizona a Democratic Congresswoman was shot and the media immediately assumed the shooter was a Tea Party member, inspired by Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck. How did the media reach such a conclusion before the facts came in? They profiled.

The Left sees every conservative as a Timothy McVeigh waiting to happen. Isn’t that the very type of profiling the Left professes to abhor? If the shooting in Arizona had been politically motivated, would it not seem pertinent to the case that the judge who was shot and killed was a Bush appointee? And lets not forget that if anything, Jared Loughner is a man of the Left, not the Right.

The Left has created yet another double standard. When it comes to terrorists flying planes into buildings, it is ‘wrong’ to profile Muslims. We are almost asked to believe that the fact that all 19 of the 9/11 hijackers were Muslim was incidental. However, when a lone nut, who happens to be white, opens fire on crowd, it must be the Tea Party. What is on display is the Left and the media’s bigotry, their bigotry against all those ideologically at odds with them.

By the way, when President Obama said “if they [Republicans] bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” that was okay, right? Only ‘right-wing extremists’ can incite violence, right?

Review of: Vince Flynn’s “American Assassin”

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With all that’s going on with our Mark Steyn event, it was nice to take a break and read the latest hit from my favorite author.

I had heard Rush Limbaugh mention Vince Flynn over the radio last year and decided that if Rush recommended it, it must be topnotch. I picked up a copy of Extreme Measures at an airport book store and began the book on a short flight. A sleepless night later, I was hooked. After devouring my first Mitch Rapp (the feature character) novel, I proceeded to purchase every other book Vince Flynn had written.

The latest in the Rapp saga, American Assassin, brings the reader back to the origins of the CIA’s most effective assassin. Assassin takes place shortly after Rapp’s long-time girlfriend, Maureen Eliot, was killed aboard Pan Am Flight 103, the Lockerbie Bombing. Following Maureen’s death, Rapp dreamed of delivering justice to those responsible.

Rapp’s recruiter, Irene Kennedy, has to fight to get Mitch accepted in the CIA training program. Stan Hurley, who we have  met in earlier books, is the man responsible for training the next generation of black ops agents. He is immediately skeptical of Rapp, who he refers to as a “college puke,” because Rapp has no prior military experience. However, Rapp’s chief defender, Irene Kennedy, contends that the CIA needs someone who can think outside of the box and act independently and she believes that Rapp is that man. With Kennedy’s support, Rapp is admitted into the training program where he makes a first impression only Mitch Rapp can make (if you have read any of the other Rapp books you know what that means). From the outset, Rapp shows signs of what we know he will become. Despite the fact that he has had no formal training, his work ethic and raw athletic ability (he was a standout athlete at Syracuse, captaining the lacrosse team) make Rapp a formidable force. He excels in the training program, mastering all required fields.

On a side note, while we have met an older Stan Hurley in recent books, the younger, field operative Hurley is one of my favorite characters. Just a tough, mean, no nonsense SOB. He’s a drunk, temperamental vet that still strikes fear into the hearts of terrorists the world over.  All you really need to know is that he goes by the code name “William Tecumseh Sherman” because he plans on burning his enemies to the ground. That makes him my type of guy. Enough said.

Anyhow, After Rapp finishes his training (as by far the best recruit), we follow him on his first mission. Without giving too much away, Rapp sets the tone with how well he does with orders right off the bat, disregarding his superiors and executing a plan he considers more logical. On this operation Rapp tracks down a renowned arms dealer, who by the way sold the explosives to the Lockerbie bomber. The sequence wherein Rapp pulls the trigger with a terrorist on the receiving end of swift justice does not disappoint.

Rapps’s next venture finds him in Beiruit, Lebanon, at the time of a ceasefire agreement which ended the nation’s bloody civil war. There, Rapp is supposed to rendezvous with Hurley and another agent when something goes wrong. Hurley is recognized from his last trip to Lebanon, and is almost immediately taken hostage. Rapp is faced with the option of leaving Hurley behind, or going into indian country and trying a long shot rescue mission. Obviously, Rapp goes in and all hell breaks lose. Throw in some Russian gangsters/government officials as secondary villains on top of an all-star cast of Muslim terrorists and you have another gem from Vince Flynn.

Click HERE to purchase American Assassin

UPDATE – Jihad: A Love Story

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We’ve known for quite some time now that people involved in the arts are the scum of the earth (I used to be an actor — trust me, I know.) This takes it to a new low though.

Shareef Abdelhaleem plotted to make money off a stock market crash that would have followed a terrorist attack in downtown Toronto.

He was jailed for his part in what became known as the Toronto 18 terror plot.

Now he is the basis for the lead character in a new play sure to be controversial for its sympathetic portrayal of a man who was convicted of planning to blow up Bay and Front Sts. with a truck bomb.

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The play portrays Abdelhaleem, who was born in Egypt but has lived in Canada since he was 10, as an affable cat lover, who quotes Seinfeld and got caught up in something, almost unwittingly, without fully realizing the consequences.

“I think he’s a guy who showed bad judgment,” Frid says. “I don’t think he’s a terrorist at all.”

So, starting next week, Canada’s terrorist sympathizers (a.k.a. ‘the Left’) will be able to flock to Toronto to see Homegrown, the story of one man who likely was just misguided. Or, in the words of the playwright, happened to “[show] bad judgment.”

Tickets are available from the SummerWorks Theatre festival for only $10 (or the sacrifice of a small virgin goat to some dude named Muhammad.)

UPDATE: As I expected, the SummerWorks Theatre festival was the recipient of $90,000 in Arts & Culture funding from the government this past year.

G20 Photoblog

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I’ll continue to update you on news from the Toronto G20 summit as I get it. My initial post is here. I’ve decided to post some pictures that I think accuratley depict the state of affairs outside the security fence. Courtesy for these photos goes to reader Vardit F., author Tarek Fatah, the Toronto Sun, and several random Facebook profiles.

N.B.: If you can’t read the text on some of the signs, click on the photo for a full-size version.

Update: The National Post has an incredible photo gallery here.

Anatomy of a "peaceful" protest.

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All around the world, people are tuned into the events of the G8 summit in Huntsville, Ontario this past weekend as well as the G20 summit in Toronto taking place right now. Over the past few weeks, much controversy has arisen from people skeptical of the amount of money being spent on making sure this event goes on. The exact price tag is unknown at this point. However, the highest figure has been the $1 billion dollars invested in security.

Of all the costs Canada has had to ante to host this, the security tab is the least concerning. I think that the whole thing will be a waste of time, but the fact of the matter is that Canada is given the opportunity to be a leader in world issues, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper has the opportunity to show to Canadians what he stands for, and put forth some conservative initiatives in Canada and around the world. What he does with that opportunity is out of my ballpark.

I’ve been watching one of Canada’s two 24-hour news networks for the last couple of days to get a grasp on what’s actually going on in Toronto. Unfortunately, both of them are crap (not for long though!) As it stands, the best place to get up-to-date information on what’s going on seems to be the Toronto Sun’s G20 LiveBlog.

To date, there have been 6 police cars set on fire, over 500 arrests, 3 failed bombings, crates of weapons seized, Molotov Cocktails defused, rubber bullets used, tear gas emitted, and hundreds of 20-somethings with hemp purses, Che Guevera shirts and a cloud of marijuana smoke following them. Do I have an issue with spending money on security if it prevents world leaders and innocent tourists from being killed on Canadian soil? Not at all.

Amnesty International has already come out in opposition to Toronto police, apparently upset that violent anarchists may be being mistreated. Oh no!

Interestingly, there had been 412 arrests made before the summit even started this morning. One of the detainees was complaining on camera to the fact that there weren’t enough bathroom facilities at the makeshift detention center to ensure the comfort of the prisoners (apparently the Hilton was over-booked.)

If you plan on smashing in police car windows with a baseball bat, and knocking down elderly visitors, women with children, and law enforcement while attempting to hide in a mob for anonymity, I don’t care what happens to you. Strictly Right fully supports the actions of police and tactical units to ensure the safety of the summit.

Bravery or Stupidity?

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Either way, I kinda like this guy.

An American man accused of trying to sneak into Afghanistan to hunt down and kill al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden has been detained by authorities in Pakistan, police said on Tuesday.

Gary Faulkner was caught in the Brumboret Valley near the border of Afghanistan’s Nuristan province carrying a dagger, pistol and night vision goggles and was being questioned in Peshawar, Chitral police chief Jaffer Khan said.

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A brother of the detained man told a news conference in Colorado that Gary Faulkner was in Pakistan legally and had been there six times on a “mission” to kill bin Laden.

“He’s not crazy, he’s not a psychopath and he’s not a sociopath,” Scott Faulkner said. “He’s a man on a mission and believes that God’s got his back.”

Okay it was probably stupidity, but he was probably closer to killing Bin Laden than the military was. Killing Bin Laden shouldn’t be something that people are punished for. If this man was willing to sacrifice his life to do it, he deserves no less respect than those in the military with the same goal. He just didn’t really think things through too well.

As always, Right Girl is hilarious:

The part of this story I don’t understand is why he was arrested and detained. Carrying a sword in Pakistan is like carrying a cell phone in Toronto. There’s nothing unusual about it. And killing bin Laden – that should be everyone’s top priority, regardless of who they are. The Pakistan government claims to be on our side, yet has been as useless as our Western governments in locating and killing that beast. Instead, they have the hills marked as “secured”. Why is that? Who are they protecting – aimless wanderers like Faulkner, or more sinister elements?

The Great Liberator

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Where was this during his presidency?

Bush defended his decision to invade Iraq in 2003, saying taking Saddam Hussein out of power was the right thing to do and that the world is a better place without him.

The former president also stood by the decision to waterboard Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-professed mastermind of the September 11th attacks.

Bush said he would quote “do it again to save American lives.”

One of the biggest problems President Bush had was defending himself against  baseless attacks from the left. The media accused the President  of being a sadistic torturer, akin to Torquemada. In addition, George W. Bush was painted as a heartless warmonger, looking to ‘steal Iraq’s oil.’ The truth of the matter is that waterboarding terrorists like KSM, which was only done to 3 terrorists, and fighting terrorists where they live, kept America safe. On September 12, 2001, who would have believed that the country would not be hit again over the next 7 years?

Besides being the Great Liberator, George W, Bush was “The Decider.” As President, George Bush understood where the buck stopped. Unlike Chairman O, Bush made the tough calls. He didn’t vote present. President Bush did not have to worry about his immediate legacy, he correctly understood that in the end, history would vindicate him.

If only all Canadian politicians were like this

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It seems that Calgary Member of Parliament Rob Anders is the politician your politician could smell like. When a card for the troops in Afghanistan was placed in the lobby of the Canadian House of Commons for Members of Parliament to sign, instead of the standard well-wishes and platitudes, the great Rob Anders offered some great advice, “When in doubt, pull the trigger.” Of course, the opposition MP’s took this opportunity to tell the House how much they disliked Rob (they enjoy having these opportunities.) Anyone without any military background (like Dick Blumenthal, for example) wouldn’t know that “when in doubt, pull the trigger” is just a common military expression that means stay safe. The Leftists must have missed the memo.

Need further evidence for how awesome Rob Anders is?