1-19-09

Ed Morrissey: …in terms of karma, nothing seems more fitting for a group of terrorists for whom “medieval” would be an improvement than to start dying from the Black Death. According to their sources, al-Qaeda units in North Africa have begun dying from bubonic plague, and they may have spread their 14th-century disease to Pakistani camps

Times of India: The Dalai Lama, a lifelong champion of non-violence on Saturday candidly stated that terrorism cannot be tackled by applying the principle of ahimsa because the minds of terrorists are closed….The head of the Tibetan government-in-exile left the audience stunned when he said “I love President George W Bush.”

TigerHawk: Every now and then, the New York Times reveals its sensibilities in a particularly offensive way, to wit: It’s even cool to wave the Stars and Stripes.

Tim Blair: SURE, it’s easy for progressive types to march through Western cities in solidarity with Hamas and be all blaming the Zionists. But how much of a Hamas fan are you really? There’s only one way to find out: take the Super Hamas Fanboy Multiple Choice Quiz!

Billy Hollis: The European Commission says Microsoft can’t bundle a web browser with its operating system. Translation: “Nice operating system you got there, Microsoft. Be a shame if anything happened to it.” The EC already held up Microsoft for about half a billion in the last round of their protection racket. Since that worked so well, they’re coming up with even more transparently ridiculous demands this time.

John Tomlinson: It’s time to pray for global warming…Based on core samples from Russia’s Vostok Station in Antarctica, we now know earth’s atmosphere and temperature for the last 420,000 years. This evidence suggests that the 12,000 years of warmth we call the Holocene period is over.

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