"I am not robbed by people
who have more money than me. I am robbed by a government that wants to penalize
my industry and give increasing portions of what I earn to people who do not
emulate my principles, morals, and ethics."

No beer at the ballgame?  No problem, have some plastic surgery instead!

Minor league baseball team, the Newark Bears will be having Cosmetic
Surgery Night as a promotion!  Fun for the whole family!

The Newark Bears made recent news for their inability
to sell beer at games.

Oops, that can’t be good for attendance.

"Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time testify to
the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people
the cost of a free and undivided republic." — General Logan – May 5,
1868

If news breaks and nobody reports it, does it exist?  That’s how it
seems with regards to the Al-Qaeda torture manual.

Drudge had it up yesterday morning and Newsbusters posed the question "Will
Media Report Al Qaeda Torture Manual With Same Zeal as Abu Ghraib?"

They got their answer.

Boring newsletters,
deflated basketballs and belly
slaps, are the norm.  Waterboarding
turned out to be our worst offense and is now prohibited.  However, Al-Qaeda
goes for the gold.

Some graphic photos put the definition of torture into perspective. 
Gitmo or Al-Qaeda safe house?  Hmm…

Via Drudge

The Pew
Research Center poll of American Muslims has been gathering a lot of
attention lately, and rightfully so.  A quick summary of the poll, as
stated by Robert Spencer, "shows significant support among Muslims in
America for suicide bombing and loony conspiracy theories about
9/11."  And Michelle
Malkin points out some real world facts that back this up.

Couple these stats with the proposed amnesty for illegal immigrants, and you
have a significant and exponentially growing problem on our hands. 
However, It is good to see that some
are trying to counter this problem.

Via Hot
Air

More recap and opinion on the Pew poll: Jihad
Watch, Hot
Air, Ace of Spades HQ

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more great political cartoons of Michael Ramirez.

A year ago Jesse
MacBeth claimed to be a former Army Ranger who was ordered to slaughter
innocent Iraqis.  He quickly became popular in the anti-war crowd, that is,
until it turned out he
was a total fraud.

Now he’s facing jail time.

The horror, the
horror…

Reading this New
York Post article about the "Fort Dix Six" one quote jumped out at
me. The teenage Circuit City employee who dropped the dime on the jihadists went
to a friend after viewing the 90-minute terrorists training video made by the
arrested suspects and said the following (emphasis my own):

Allah
at Hot Air picked up on the same line and I share those views.

This is a direct result of apologists and activists who want us to second
guess our instincts. When the US Airways Imams were acting strangely and
passengers spoke up, groups were outraged and accused everyone of being racist.

So when this teen sees something so frightening, so undeniable in its
intentions, that it compels him to want to do something, yet he hesitates. And
it is that hesitation our enemies feed off. Luckily, his hesitation was only
momentary.

Individuals can be the last line of defense and we cannot be stripped of our
ability to speak up when we see something that we instinctually feel is
wrong.  When we start to second guess ourselves, more people may die.