Woe to the preacher and his sermon on Genesis 16 which defames Mohamed's many times great grandpa and that points out that God did not do Ishmael any favors but instead actually cursed him and all of his descendants: And he shall be a wild ass of a man. His hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the face of all his brethren. In other words, he was to be like a wild animal, lawless and unrestrained; hated from within his nation and hated from without and hating them all right back.

This isn't just an attack on free speech. It is by extension also an attack on the free exercise of religion, you know, the ones that came before Mohammed ever descended from that violent, wild ass of a man. Some might characterize action taken against a preacher preaching on Genesis 16 as the law of unintended consequences but even if Hillary is ignorant of the potential for verse 12 to incite violence, she'll just shrug her shoulders and say, too bad, so sad.

Use it or lose it indeed. If free speech goes, so does everything else.

You're probably right, Marlene. I was just giving Alexandra the benefit of the doubt since I don't know anything about her.

Purposefully or unwittingly, Alexandra is just drumming up support for dear old mom. With her disclosure, the left sighs for poor Nancy and knowingly nod their collective heads. She is just so heroic, so dedicated and not enough can be said about how much she has sacrificed. All the more reason to love her even more.

Some play the race card. Nancy plays pity card.

From the 'Missing DA" article: "I would be very surprised if ultimately he was not discovered somewhere assuming he's not still alive out there laughing at us," Castor adds.

...if he's not still alive out there laughing at us? What an odd thing to say under the circumstances and particularly when Castor had also said that Gricar was a 'by the book' guy. Castor implies that Gricar may have disappeared himself but there is no evidence that he did or even had reason to that any one knows of. Throwing that 'laughing at us' phrase out there could be a subtle way of diverting people off the scent of Gricar's disappearance and it's connection to this crime. Seems to me Castor was being careful with what he said in this article. Little information of any real substance and seems to be down playing the connection.

Oh, that's nice. Paint everyone with the same brush....just like the protesters are doing.

Heh. I recently checked out the web page of a similar restaurant in Oregon and there were few pictures. One was of a long line of well heeled diners waiting to get in and one of, again, what appear to be well heeled diners eating inside. Naturally those who can afford to pay help subsidize meals for those who can't pay but it looks more the the well off subsidizing each other's meals. They too give out a sort of voucher, no work necessary it seems, but no mention of how many of the vouchers have actually been used so one wonders if these folks are just fooling themselves.

I'll applaud Jon's efforts when there is a follow up article with interviews with the people these places are supposed to be for and how work in exchange for a meal certificate actually works out. Interesting that the AP didn't hang around till opening time to get pictures of patrons but then if they turn out to be like the ones in Oregon, the pictures would defeat the narrative.

The only thing he seems to be incompetent at is covering his tracks. He admitted that he did not know the details of the FALN terrorist's deeds. Same with FF. Claiming he didn't know is not incompetence, it's admitting that he was negligent. By not reading memos that involved a case with this many agencies participating he wasn't just negligent, he was willfully negligent. But I suspect he knew all about it which make it malfeasance.

I wasn't saying the Hollywood nutballs were any better than the Chinese. But it seems you are more interested in the quality of films rather than what is actually the point of this article. If one is going to stand on principal you have to consider that China is not our friend. The Chinese may be 'embracing' capitalism but their film industry is heavily controlled by the government. The one child rule and preference for boys has lead to mass abortions of girl babies. They artificially devalue their currency. Chinese generals loved 9/11 and even claimed credit for it. They are the main perpetrators of industrial espionage. I don't doubt that the Chinese government gets a big chunk of the movie profits you so enjoy spending your money on.

You might want to rethink giving your movie dollars to China

Grown up? Apparently you think you are the only grown up in the world. You have decided that family of fallen warriors do not need to know the details of their deaths. But that is not your decision to make. Their spouses or parents are grown ups and can decide that for themselves and they will decide it for their children. It is natural to want to protect others from the ugly side of war, but you give the families little credit by insinuating that they are so naive that they will accidentally stumble across the details or that they don't already realize that their loved one died so painfully. Who are you to judge the strength of their character, their wisdom or worldliness and deem the details too much for them to bear? Perhaps some will find out the details accidentally but if you are so concerned about it you could do something more constructive instead of carrying on this feud. Have you ever blogged about why you think they should be protected from the details? Have you ever asked any family members how they feel about it? You're attitude seems to be that these people are children and frankly, if it was me, such arrogance would make me very angry and I wouldn't thank you for adding that emotion on top of my grief.