4-7-2009

The Plank asks: What’s a Little Flogging Among Radical Islamist Friends? James Taranto points to Tunku Varadarajan: One senses, in fact, that the Talib is deriving pleasure–yes, sexual pleasure–from his beating of this girl, as he hits her hard on her buttocks, sometimes a little higher, sometimes a little lower, mapping his territory in a display of violent, misogynist cartography.

Ed Morrissey: While the American media paints Barack Obama’s European tour as a balm on strained relations with EU allies, Europeans have a much different reaction to Obama today. 

Bush Nazis: The Obama administration is again invoking government secrecy in defending the Bush administration’s wiretapping program, this time against a lawsuit by AT&T customers who claim federal agents illegally intercepted their phone calls and gained access to their records.

POTUS finishes Apology Tour with the Troops: “You will be critical in terms of us being able to make sure Iraq is stable, that it is not a safe haven for terrorists, and we can start bringing our folks home,” Obama told troops gathered at Camp Victory, a sprawling U.S. base near the airport.

McQ on the Ice Bridge Collapse: In other words, it is tiny portion of Antarctica which is located in a part of the continent which is most exposed to South Pacific currents and also has “surface and subsurface volcanic activity” to add to any warming.

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