Monday evening odds and ends

Chief of firm involved in passport file breach is Obama adviser, Polipundit

VDH: The Obama Crash and Burn, LGF

Here’s Victor Davis Hanson’s piece on Barack Obama’s seriously inept handling of the Rev. Wright scandal: The Obama Crash and Burn.

The latest polls reflecting Obama’s near-collapse should serve as a morality tale of John Edwards’s two Americas — the political obtuseness of the intellectual elite juxtaposed to the common sense of the working classes.

For some bizarre reason, Obama aimed his speech at winning praise from National Public Radio, the New York Times, and Harvard, and solidifying an already 90-percent solid African-American base — while apparently insulting the intelligence of everyone else.

Indeed, the more op-eds and pundits praised the courage of Barack Obama, the more the polls showed that there was a growing distrust that the eloquent and inspirational candidate has used his great gifts, in the end, to excuse the inexcusable.

Would an Obama presidency mean the rise of white America, or of Wright America? at View From The Right

Iran Behind Sunday's Green Zone Attack at Hyscience

Gen David Petraeus, the most senior U.S. general in Iraq, has told the BBC that Tehran had trained, equipped and funded insurgents who fired the barrage of mortars and rockets, and that Iran was adding what he described as "lethal accelerants" to a very combustible mix:

Why Do Terrorists Stop?, Hot Air

Michael Jacobson asks why some high-profile terrorist attacks didn’t happen, and relates how defections and resignations plague even the most extreme terror organizations — and the petty reasons why. One terrorist quit the follow-up to the 9/11 attacks because he tired of the extremism. Another al-Qaeda terrorist quit because Osama bin Laden wouldn’t pay for his wife’s C-section. Jacobson wants us to find a pattern that we can use to defuse the biggest weapons AQ and other terror groups have:

Younger More Radical Leadership for Taliban, The Jawa Report

Apparently the Telegraph met with two mid level Taliban commanders in the provincial capital Lashkargar, Afghanistan. One in his late twenties and the other an older seasoned fighter. Both claimed the leadership has become less clear.

Network Solutions hosted both Hezbollah and Palestinian Jihad websites. Both organizations are designated by the U.S. government as terrorist organizations, as is Hamas, Hassan Nasrallah (Nasrallah.net) and will even forward your letters to Nasrallah -- but they removed Fitna the movie.com by Dutch parliamentary member Geert Wilders. Read it all at Flanders Fields.

Canada's Self-Inflicted Doctor Crisis at Gina Cobb

Canada's nationalized healthcare system faces a shortage of doctors, if long wait lists for patient care are any indication. Once again, the primary source of the problem is governmental meddling: (more)

Scapegoating Israel is Fashionable. Balancing Feminist Sorrows with Israel's Right to Exist, by Phyllis Chesler

In June of 1982, in the pages of Ms. Magazine, Letty Cottin Pogrebin earned her reputation as a Jewish feminist by writing about anti-Semitism among feminists. She did so by standing on the shoulders of other Jewish feminists who had been wrestling with this “problem without a name” since the early 1970s and whose cries Pogrebin finally heard. (more)

A Burkha-Shrouded Giant, Gates of Vienna

Cheney: "Hamas is supported by Iran and Syria and...they're doing everything they can to torpedo the peace process", Jihad Watch

Lose weight or we'll take all six of your children away: Outrage over social workers' 'draconian' ultimatum to parents, The Daily Mail

Another illegal alien gang member doing the killing…, Michelle Malkin

Islamic Jihadis - GOOD, Exposing the Truth of Islam - BAD, Mr. Minority

Press Corps Gone Wild

Poll Shows 85% of PA Arabs Support Terror Slant Right

... majority of these Palestine Authority Arabs support terrorism against Israel while the Israeli polls show that a majority of Israelis want to stop further withdrawals

So someone in the West tell me again how creating a sovereign Palestinian State will bring peace to the Middle East.

Lauer: Can Hillary Win Nomination Without It Being Seen as 'Stolen'?, Newsbusters

Comments

[Muslims Against Sharia]

Wilders Movie Website, Network Solutions, Is Caving Into Radical Islam.

Muslims Against Sharia neither endorse nor condemn "Fitna"; we have not seen the film. However, we find it disturbing that Network Solution suspended "Fitna" website while hosting a multitude of radical Islamic websites, some of which belong to (or are closely affiliated with) terrorist groups.

http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/03/is-wilders-movie-website-network.html