The thin blue line of jihad
11:59pm
the Government’s anti-terrorism strategy, warning that it is an ‘affront to British values’ which threatens to trigger ethnic unrest... that ministers were wrong to blame Islam for being the ‘driver’ behind recent terrorist attacks. Far-Right extremists were a more dangerous threat to national security... that Muslims were being ‘stigmatised’ by the Government’s attempts to tackle terrorism, which was adding to ‘hatred’ against entire communities.
...The memorandum warned that Muslims were subjected to 'daily abuse' due to the strategy. 'We must not diminish our British values further by continuing to allow such behaviour and policies to continue unchecked.'
This is an extremely alarming development.
First, a general point. The...
Hope'n'change in Massachusetts
11:18pm
The stunning upset for Obama in Massachusetts, where the Democrats have lost an apparently impregnable seat they had held for nearly six decades and with it their Senate super-majority, is being put down in some quarters to a revolt against the President’s health care plan, in others to a general disillusionment. Those crunching the numbers have a rather different explanation. While issues such as the economy and healthcare were undoubtedly important, one issue in particular appeared to be the clincher. As Clarice Feldman notes on American Thinker:
The key issue for Massachusetts voters was not healthcare or spending. It was national security and the treatment of enemy terrorists.
Of course it was. And the thuggery. And the arrogance.This is what the Republican victor, Scott Brown, said in his speech after the result:
...And let me say
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