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NRO: I try to keep up to speed on Islamic law, but it’s more complicated than I’d thought. For example, women are supposed to be “modest” in public. But that’s no reason not to make them disrobe in the street and shake their breasts: A hardline Islamist group in Somalia has begun publicly whipping women [...]

FOX News: Halloween night at Hugh Hefner’s not-so-humble abode will still be filled with all the usual suspects – scantily-clad costumed women, bopping blonde bunnies, a Haunted House and Hollywood’s hottest stars. But while the 31st of October itself isn’t an official Hugh Hefner party, for this year its going to be even more special [...]

Mediaite: Add Noam Chomsky to the growing list of people using the Nazi analogy lately. Speaking to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, he alluded to right-wing media as “substantive content — crazy content, but it does give answers,” and warned that if Americans weren’t properly educated about what was really happening to them, they [...]

Welcome To Cali-Fired-Ya. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – If you’re looking for work, don’t look in California. The world’s eighth largest economy is still finding its feet after suffering multiple economic shocks, including a housing slump, mortgage crisis and recession. Employers in California, the most populous U.S. state, are expected to keep cutting staff in 2010 [...]

News Busters: New York Times reporter Michael Brick went to College Station, Texas, to preview a college visit by Barack Obama today commemorating the 20th anniversary of the first President Bush’s “Points of Light” volunteer organization. In the condescending “At A&M, a Dance of Decorum for Obama Visit,” Brick posed fears that campus conservative activists [...]

National Review Online: If only the laws of the universe didn’t make it impossible to conjure something out of nothing. In a magical world free of such encumbrances, Democrats would be spared the bother of hiding the inevitable costs of Obamacare. The latest gambit of Democrats in the Senate and perhaps in the House is [...]

Jammie Wearing Fool: Considering the already bleak re-election numbers facing the poor man who must suffer so much hate, I’m surprised they even released these numbers. The stimulus isn’t doing a thing to help the unemployment rate in the New York metro area, according to shocking new White House data released yesterday. The feds have [...]

Boo hoo, mopping up Bush’s “mess.” Would that mess be the promotion of conservative democracy? Of zzero tolerance for terrorism? Cuz you know… That would just be terrible damage to your vision of socialism. In mentioning the “Socialist mop,” is he admitting he and his policies are socialist?

World Net Daily: JERUSALEM – U.S. officials in recent days expressed to the Palestinian Authority that President Obama’s administration is “disgusted” with Israel, a top aide to PA President Mahmoud Abbas told WND in an interview. Nimr Hamad said the White House was disgusted that Israel is refusing to halt all settlement activity as a [...]

Washington Examiner: President Obama said something yesterday during his New Orleans stopover that caught the eye of Patrick Creighton of the Institute for Energy Research. Here’s what Obama said: “What I think we need to do is increase our domestic energy production… I’m in favor of finding environmentally sound ways to tap our oil and [...]

New York Times: Bank of America reported a third-quarter loss on Friday, releasing results that showed a bank burdened by mortgage defaults and credit card delinquencies. The bank, which had big profits in the previous two quarters, reported a loss of $1 billion in the third quarter before accounting for dividends to preferred shareholders, in [...]