tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337982242012-01-27T15:00:08.466-06:00Dearborn UndergroundThe voice of resistance in DearbornT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.comBlogger11441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-25697928678866477892012-01-24T20:43:00.001-06:002012-01-24T20:43:46.628-06:00The Ugliness of Kathleen SebeliusSomewhere Joseph Conrad, describes a storm at sea by saying you might manage to get shelter from the driving rain, but the wind always seeks you out and finds you. Of the ill winds blowing from the Obama administration against America’s believers, none is more determined to seek out and freeze religious liberties than Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Kathryn Jean Lopez T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-84428848599970798242012-01-22T16:58:00.001-06:002012-01-22T16:58:25.921-06:00‘Islamists Are the New Reality’?According to a report in Sunday’s Detroit Free Press Western leaders are nervously watching the next phase of the “Arab Spring.” Writes Hannah Allam: The U.S. and other Western powers -- along with Arab liberals and religious minorities -- are watching with alarm as conservative Muslim politicians have filled the power vacuums left by the rebellions in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. They fear thatT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-63347490146434564902012-01-21T17:52:00.001-06:002012-01-21T17:52:25.452-06:00Saturday’s (Other) Election Results CAIRO (AP) – Final results on Saturday showed that Islamist parties won nearly three-quarters of the seats in parliament in Egypt's first elections since the ouster of authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak, according to election officials and political groups. The Islamist domination of Egypt's parliament has worried liberals and even some conservatives about the religious tone of the newT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-60995120848772908772012-01-15T16:13:00.000-06:002012-01-15T16:13:44.464-06:00Human Rights Conference in Dearborn this April
AFDI/SIOA, VAST to Host Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference in Dearborn, Michigan at Hyatt Regency T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-23639586390281794952012-01-14T13:40:00.001-06:002012-01-14T13:40:04.590-06:00They Make Trash Bags for ThatHere’s a fitting word from Mark Steyn on Alan Colmes’s recent remarks about the “crazy” response of Rick Santorum and his wife to the death of their newborn: Santorum’s respect for all life, including even the smallest bleakest meanest two-hour life, speaks well for him, especially in comparison with his fellow Pennsylvanian, the accused mass murderer Kermit Gosnell, an industrial-scale T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-40034515642810256712012-01-14T13:21:00.001-06:002012-01-14T13:21:42.824-06:00Afghanistan’s Number One Problem According to the Washington Post, the emergence of the Internet video depicting four U.S. Marines going Number One on three dead Taliban jihadists “didn’t seem to immediately set back movement toward exploratory negotiations with the Taliban. Asked about possible implications for peace talks, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that the U.S. remained strongly committed to T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-82584629193487018892012-01-14T08:40:00.001-06:002012-01-14T08:40:32.902-06:00From the ‘Peace in Our Time’ DepartmentMarc A. Thiessen makes the following appeal to common sense in the Washington Post. Do you think anyone will listen? Don’t let these Taliban leaders loose President Obama is reportedly considering releasing several senior Taliban leaders from Guantanamo Bay as an enticement to get the Taliban to the peace table. If he does so, he will do tremendous harm to American national security — andT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-92139295421924930502012-01-14T08:13:00.001-06:002012-01-14T08:13:00.437-06:00Today Cairo, Tomorrow the World CAIRO — The number two diplomat in the U.S. State Department met Wednesday with leaders of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the highest-level contact between Washington and the once-banned group poised to dominate the country’s first parliament chosen after the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns met with the head of the Brotherhood’s political party, whichT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-23161840069969447822012-01-14T07:31:00.001-06:002012-01-14T07:31:32.214-06:00‘All-American Muslims–The Road Show’ Pam Geller gives us a subtotal of the week’s homegrown jihadist activity at American Thinker: Three Jihadis By Pamela Geller It is almost every day now. Jihadi attacks in America. This past week there were three attempted jihad attacks. And what does the media consider the problem? Racistislamophobicantimuslimbigots, of course. On Saturday, a Muslim named Sami Osmakac was arrestedT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-69143100892721325052012-01-04T21:16:00.001-06:002012-01-04T21:16:23.873-06:00Studies Show Your Pants Are on FireCharles C. Haynes, director of the Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum in Washington, has published an opinion column in The Tennessean that exemplifies the jarring dishonesty of the anti-anti-jihad mentality. (“In 2012, we must work to stem tide of Islamophobia”). Disguised as a defense of religious freedom, Haynes’s article condemns the Lowe’s controversy as capping “a very T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-6601937944820630632012-01-04T19:38:00.001-06:002012-01-04T19:38:12.416-06:00A Reader’s CommentsA reader has shared this with us: Good afternoon, Mr. Clancy, I noticed the newspaper coverage of the anti-Lowe's demonstration last week in Allen Park. The article quoted several non-Muslims who joined the protest in good faith, believing the issue to be one of anti-Muslim bigotry. They were wrong, however, which the Free Press article actually stated. You may have noticed this, also. T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-76226019256900951062012-01-01T11:20:00.001-06:002012-01-01T11:20:09.157-06:00An Obama-Qaradawi Treaty in Afghanistan? Andrew McCarthy writes at NRO: Obama Recruits Qaradawi The surrender is complete now. The Hindu reports that the Obama administration has turned to Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s leading jurist, to mediate secret negotiations between the United States and the Taliban. I wrote about Qaradawi at length in The Grand Jihad and, here at NRO, have regularly catalogued his T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-12645859816047545402012-01-01T10:45:00.001-06:002012-01-01T10:45:11.657-06:00All-American Snow JobDearborn’s Muslim “civil rights” agencies, already a chunky cauldron of alphabet soup, have to make room for four more letters with the debut of the Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL). (“Diverse group of supporters turns out for new Arab civil rights organization’s debut”). Clearly, CAIR, ADC, AAPAC, CAAO, and ACCESS were leaving too much slack. And, like Israelites assembling at the call T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-44481116233039089792011-12-27T18:11:00.001-06:002011-12-27T18:11:41.741-06:00U.S. Attorney Gets Involved in Zoning DecisionVia Pam Geller’s Atlas Shrugs: PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit is reviewing a religious discrimination complaint against a community for denying a zoning change request to allow construction of a Muslim school. The Michigan Islamic Academy wants to build at a 26-acre site in Washtenaw County's Pittsfield Township. "We are reviewing the matter and T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-92127351653870114382011-12-27T16:24:00.001-06:002011-12-27T16:24:45.900-06:00UK Infant Adopted To Save Her LifeFrom the Daily Mail Online last week is a story of a UK appeals court ordering a one-year-old girl to be adopted to save her from an honor killing: A baby girl born out of wedlock must be adopted to save her from the risk of being slaughtered in an ‘honour killing’, a court ruled yesterday. If the unmarried Muslim woman’s father found out about the child, he would feel such ‘unimaginableT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-24826124744444311242011-12-17T20:00:00.001-06:002011-12-17T20:00:38.641-06:00Blessed Is the True JudgeChristopher Hitchens died on what is being called the last day of the Iraq war. He was a bitter atheist, a ferocious debater, and an eloquent spokesman for the American action to depose Saddam Hussein, “a conflict that he brought his unparalleled eloquence to defend because of his hatred of tyranny in all forms.” I found the atheist Hitchens’s latter-day crusade against all believers gloomyT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-57955207483196295352011-12-10T19:29:00.001-06:002011-12-10T19:29:27.646-06:00Troy Mayor Publicly Apologizes To Her ‘I Heart New York’ Tote Bag We’re very sorry to see that Troy Mayor Janice Daniels (whom we incorrectly identified as mayor-elect in our previous post) did not stand her ground. On Monday she gave her opponents an inch, and all week we’ve had to endure them gobbling up a mile of hypocritical high ground. As we ought to have learned from the entire Obama term in office, this is what comes from giving in to bullies. ItT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-56578755627236963872011-12-04T15:19:00.001-06:002011-12-04T15:19:14.520-06:00Justice DerailedIt’s been my opinion for some time that Attorney General for the United States Eric Holder, a self-effacing, witty, and pleasant man in person, is the most unfit person to hold the office in modern memory. By way of follow up to our recent unflattering comparison between Holder and former U.S. Michael Mukasey, I’d like to refer you to Ronald Kolb’s thorough examination of Holder’s history as an T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-35464540681639289932011-12-03T20:49:00.001-06:002011-12-03T20:49:23.690-06:00When It Comes to ABCs of Free Speech, LGBT Group Deserves an FHomosexuality was once known as The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name. No longer. Now homosexuals never shut up about themselves and their predilections, and it’s the rest of us who dare not speak its name – unless you want to be called a lot of names yourself. Mayor-elect of Troy, Janice Daniels, is getting pounded for a months-old comment on her Facebook page referring to homosexuals as “T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-282075531494691152011-12-03T10:59:00.002-06:002011-12-03T11:03:22.844-06:00Mukasey on IslamismIf you still think it doesn’t matter which party is in the White House, compare the current Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, with his immediate predecessor, Michael Mukasey. Mukasey was the third Attorney General under George W. Bush, after John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzalez, and in my view, the best of the three.The current AG, Eric Holder, has become notorious for his T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-53060884106953172942011-11-26T13:08:00.001-06:002011-11-26T13:08:20.185-06:00Al-Banna Had a BabyEarly Friday morning, the Obama administration announced its decision to back “the Arab street” in Egypt: issuing a call for the Egyptian military to quickly hand over power to a civilian, democratically elected government. In so doing, the president opened up a litany of risks, exposing a fault line between the U.S. and the Egyptian military which, perhaps more than any other entity in T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-19977366937267409232011-11-24T09:18:00.001-06:002011-11-24T09:18:19.198-06:00Open Wide and Say ‘Shari-AAAAAH’ “There is no Sharia Law in Dearborn.” -- Dearborn Mayor Jack O’Reilly If the allegations in a sex discrimination lawsuit reported in The Detroit News are true, then a male nurse was fired from a city-funded health clinic for violating Islamic rules against males treating Muslim females: John Benitez Jr. . . . . worked at the city's taxpayer-funded health clinic. He alleges he was T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-78729258310673848442011-11-13T19:19:00.001-06:002011-11-13T19:19:40.310-06:00Three Guys Named HammoudSomething stinks. On Friday Dearborn Police, at the request of the FBI, arrested Ali Hammoud, president of Bintjbeil Cultural Center in Dearborn, in connection with a cigarette-smuggling conspiracy in support of Hezbollah. (“Arab leader from Dearborn released from police custody”). According to the FBI, Hammoud was arrested by mistake because he “fit a description on an arrest warrant. A man T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-21831092946617990132011-11-12T14:41:00.001-06:002011-11-12T14:41:38.024-06:00Dearborn Bracing Itself?Try as they might, media and other natural enemies of an undiluted Christian message have been unable to give the organizers of TheCall rally at Ford Field a black eye. There was this lead in USAToday: DETROIT (AP) – An area with one of the largest Muslim communities outside the Middle East is bracing itself for a 24-hour prayer rally by a group that counts Islam among the ills facing the T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-54745584999485320492011-11-12T10:40:00.001-06:002011-11-12T10:40:17.043-06:00Terry Jones UpdateA Wayne County Circuit Court judge hearing the appeal of Terry Jones and Wayne Sapp’s conviction last Good Friday in a kangaroo court proceeding before Dearborn District Judge Mark W. Somers has found the proceeding unconstitutional. As reported in WorldNet Daily: The Florida pastor who wanted to protest jihad and Islamic Shariah law in Dearborn – but was jailed by a judge who worried about T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-88248924397849744302011-11-12T09:37:00.001-06:002011-11-12T09:37:43.721-06:00Christians ‘Definitely’ More Afraid After ‘Arab Spring’ David Ignatius writes an informative article at the Washington Post about those living in Cairo’s “Garbage City”: Cairo’s Christians worry about Egypt’s next chapter By David Ignatius, Published:November 8 CAIRO Coptic Christians are worried about their future in the new Egypt, as I could see Thursday night at a political rally in a poor Coptic neighborhood known here as Garbage T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-30487974350561343362011-11-09T20:20:00.001-06:002011-11-09T20:20:47.926-06:00Krauthammer Asks ‘Who Lost Iraq?’As if there could be any doubt. From Charles Krauthammer and NRO: Who Lost Iraq? You know who. Barack Obama was a principled opponent of the Iraq War from its beginning. But when he became president in January 2009, he was handed a war that was won. The surge had succeeded. Al-Qaeda in Iraq had been routed, driven to humiliating defeat by an Anbar Awakening of Sunnis fighting T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-71688450768311119522011-11-09T20:15:00.001-06:002011-11-09T20:15:09.707-06:00Nous Sommes Tous Charlie Hebdo?Last week as reported in the New York Times: Satirical Magazine Is Firebombed in Paris By DAVID JOLLY PARIS — The office of a French satirical magazine here was badly damaged by a firebomb early on Wednesday, the publisher said, after it published a spoof issue “guest edited” by the Prophet Muhammad to salute the victory of an Islamist party in Tunisian elections. The publication T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-88350688306061603442011-11-05T19:07:00.001-05:002011-11-05T19:07:37.162-05:00Revival Gets Rile Welcome, or, Your Fast Is My FuriousMuslim Brotherhood envoy Dawud Walid is directing area mosques to step up security. A lot of Crusaders are coming to town! As reported in Thursday’s The Detroit News (“Christian call to prayer riles Muslims”): Dearborn — The local head of a national Muslim civil rights group says a Christian prayer summit to be held at Ford Field next week promotes anti-Muslim sentiment and is warning T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-65612986436867048832011-10-30T17:40:00.001-05:002011-10-30T17:40:48.190-05:00Train in VainIn the past few weeks, Muslim Brotherhood fronts in the U.S. and their friends have significantly stepped up efforts to eradicate all references to Islam from federal agencies charged with investigating terrorism. Groups like Muslim Advocates and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), the ACLU, and media helpers like Wired and TPM Muckraker have teamed up on the narrative that the FBI is T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-68323269779080380732011-10-22T20:09:00.001-05:002011-10-22T20:09:25.239-05:00Feds Win, With an AsteriskThe Justice Department didn’t lose a minute October 12 before taking full credit for Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s guilty plea to all counts in his terror trial. According to the statement released by the DOJ, Attorney General Eric Holder said: “Contrary to what some have claimed, today’s plea removes any doubt that our courts are one of the most effective tools we have to fight terrorism T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-72441617061565095492011-10-22T18:07:00.001-05:002011-10-22T18:07:57.836-05:00Hey, Hey We’re the Mongees!While the subject of the state of war between Islam and the western world is still fresh, I’d like to share something Andrew McCarthy has written in reaction to the recent Iranian plot to murder the Saudi ambassador on U.S. soil: Iran’s sharia state has been killing and plotting to kill Americans for more than 30 years. Critics who see that observation as war-mongering repeat the folly that T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-21420321941736310642011-10-22T08:41:00.001-05:002011-10-22T08:41:43.522-05:00Allah in the DockTR Clancy comments on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s guilty plea via American Thinker: Think of this as Islam's guilty plea. Will we accept it? Don't bet on it, because ten years after the worst sneak-attack on the U.S. so far in Islam's war on America, the nation's situational awareness is worse than ever. Most of us still stubbornly refuse to admit what we already know about T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-68182176415133982942011-10-22T08:24:00.001-05:002011-10-22T08:24:58.243-05:00The Squat Heard Round the World, or, We Have Nothing To Lose But Our DrainsThe global planners behind Occupy Wall Street deemed it wise to send a contingent to Detroit. (“In wake of Occupy Wall Street, plans develop for Occupy Detroit”). No one really knows why. Until now the movement to unoccupy Detroit has been so frantic that the only remaining idea of the city’s one-party government has been “right-sizing” Detroit down to a heavily subsidized farm collective. (“InT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-91464255949895588882011-10-21T19:29:00.001-05:002011-10-21T19:29:21.021-05:00Will DOJ Create an Anti-Blasphemy Division?By Diana West: Eric Holder, Meet John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams doesn't need to meet Abu Qatada --- The Justice Department's war on the facts about Islam, currently playing out in a purge of fact-armed trainers such as FBI analyst William Gawthrop, has taken a publicly aggressive turn as former US Attorney Dwight C. Holton declared AG Holder's "firm committment" to, as TPM reported, "T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-72527704376949671892011-10-13T20:28:00.001-05:002011-10-13T20:28:01.332-05:00Why Dawud Walid Wants Abdulmutallab To Keep QuietUmar Farouk Abdulmutallab stopped his trial on its second day and pleaded guilty to all eight charges against him yesterday in the U.S. District Court in Detroit. He was allowed to make his own statement. I think it’s important that his full explanation get around more widely. I heard him give it yesterday, and while some of his more quotable comments are being repeated in lots of news T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-31590425925477653652011-10-08T11:29:00.001-05:002011-10-08T11:29:07.643-05:00Umar and MeI was jaywalking in front of the U.S. courthouse early Wednesday morning when I was nearly run over by the black SUV transporting Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and its police escort, sirens wailing up Fort Street, hell-bent-for election to get the prisoner to court for jury selection. It occurred to me later how that was the second near-miss I’ve had from passenger Abdulmutallab. The other was T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-43156149918437654422011-10-02T16:55:00.001-05:002011-10-02T16:55:07.295-05:00Norquist the Tax Reformer: From Flat Tax to Jizya Tax?There’s a National Leadership Conference sponsored by the Arab American Institute going on at the DoubleTree Hotel in Detroit this weekend. We find it notable that one of the darlings of the conservative talk-show circuit, Grover Norquist, is sharing a bill with, among other characters, Dawud Walid, Executive Director of CAIR-MI (Muslim Brotherhood), and whom our readers know well, and WajahatT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-89375647671671806072011-10-01T15:14:00.001-05:002011-10-01T15:14:09.823-05:00‘Name That Religion’ Banned in BostonRezwan Ferdaus, the Massachusetts Islamist arrested for plotting to blow up the Capitol and the Pentagon with explosive-laden model planes, hadn’t a doubt in the world about his motivation. He wanted to do jihad for the “sake of Allah,” “terrorize” the United States, and kill as many Americans, “infidels,” and “kafirs” as he could, including women and children, whom he referred to as “enemies ofT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-11912334752690369762011-10-01T12:00:00.001-05:002011-10-01T12:00:04.878-05:00Krauthammer on ‘Land Without Peace’ While diplomatically inconvenient for the Western powers, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas’s attempt to get the U.N. to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state has elicited widespread sympathy. After all, what choice did he have? According to the accepted narrative, Middle East peace is made impossible by a hard-line Likud-led Israel that refuses to accept a Palestinian state andT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-56501414647704329692011-10-01T11:49:00.001-05:002011-10-01T11:49:34.836-05:00You’re Not Paranoid if They’re Really Out to Get YouRobert Spencer and David Horowitz are asking if fear of Islam deserves the commonplace charge that it’s “irrational”: In recent months, several reports have appeared to a generally uncritical reception in the press, which purport to expose alleged conspiracies organized by “Islamophobes” against American citizens who mean us no harm. These reports single out for condemnation a dozen prominentT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-84171987002734295052011-10-01T11:34:00.001-05:002011-10-01T11:34:02.049-05:00Moderate Virginia Imam AssassinatedAnwar al-Awlaki was such bad news even the Obama administration wanted him dead. An American citizen, no less, with no Miranda warning. For once we’re all in agreement this guy was a terrorist. But a reminder is in order of just who Awlaki was not so long ago. Just before the 9/11 attacks, he was the imam of the large Falls Church mosque in northern Virginia. He was the Muslim chaplain at T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-85022074330806185512011-09-24T15:05:00.001-05:002011-09-24T15:05:30.693-05:00Would It Help if They Wore Black Hats? WASHINGTON — The Palestine Liberation Organization's ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that any future Palestinian state it seeks with help from the United Nations and the United States should be free of Jews. (“PLO ambassador says Palestinian state should be free of Jews”). With all we’ve got on our national mind these days, we Americans can get confused. Maybe it’s all those T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-48001879157167035832011-09-24T12:02:00.001-05:002011-09-24T12:02:01.876-05:00Send in the ClownsMichigan Congresswoman Candice Miller has done some truth-telling in a column this past week in The Detroit News. (“Miller: Military commissions best place for terrorists trials”). Maybe she’ll fill some of the void left by Michigan’s loss of Congressman Pete Hoekstra. Treating terrorism as a criminal matter the way we used to, Rep. Miller writes, did nothing to prevent the attacks of T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-63394276567165223072011-09-18T16:46:00.001-05:002011-09-18T16:46:21.263-05:00Obama’s Reluctant LifelineDetroit News editorial page editor Nolan Finley has an apt summation of President Obama’s mentality on Israel in his Sunday column: “Obama comes from the faculty lounge, the place where Israel is most detested and where Palestinians retain their victim status no matter what atrocities they commit.” (“N.Y. voters stand up for Israel”). Finley sees the shellacking the Democrats took in New York’sT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-8866017039696971932011-09-18T15:57:00.001-05:002011-09-18T15:57:09.682-05:00The Palestinian Big Lie Sol Stern has published the following on NRO: On September 20, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, will take his case for Palestinian statehood to the United Nations. This is a matter of basic justice, Abbas will argue, because the Palestinian people were dispossessed by the new state of Israel in 1948, and the current Israeli government is still preventing the T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-76792085160747581552011-09-17T22:22:00.001-05:002011-09-17T22:22:05.060-05:00‘If You Love Me, Shear My Sheep’From NRO: Worry Not, Obama Can Still Be Like Jesus By Charles C. W. Cooke President Obama may well be taking flack from all sides, but that doesn’t mean he can’t still be compared to Jesus Christ. In a blog post Wednesday, NPR lamented that The One’s loss of mojo — which is apparently the product of the“realities of governing as opposed to the unrealities of presidential campaigns” — has T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-41659380158590090112011-09-17T21:55:00.002-05:002011-09-18T15:50:07.840-05:00These Aren’t Diamonds on the Soles of My Shoes, or, These Keds Are All RightUmar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Detroit’s very own Mohamed Atta Mini-Me, made his first bad impression on prospective jurors Wednesday by leaning back in his chair in court and putting his feet up on the defense table. The attitude was captured nicely by courtroom artist Carole Kabrin here. Showing the soles of one’s foot is a significant insult in the Islamic world. You may recall T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-80317213940865871722011-09-07T18:57:00.001-05:002011-09-07T18:57:59.361-05:00Hate on the Left Is Beginning to TellImagine my surprise when I saw this in the New York Times today: Rampage Puts Focus on the Left’s Climate of Hate LAS VEGAS -- The shooting of a group of uniformed National Guard members as they ate breakfast at an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, Nev on Tuesday set off what is likely to be a wrenching debate over anger and violence in American politics. While the exact motivations of T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-63669834784019456652011-09-07T18:39:00.001-05:002011-09-07T18:59:46.978-05:00Runaways Spotted on American Thinker. Created by iMaksim.com. T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-25740453817608606582011-09-04T14:22:00.000-05:002011-09-04T14:22:42.830-05:00Another View on Rick PerryIn the interest of fair play, I think I should post something from the other side about Governor Rick Perry’s connections with Islam. I recently posted Pamela Geller’s American Thinker article on Perry, (“Et Tu, Perry?”). I think Pam is plenty smart. But it’s early days and I don’t know everything.
Governor Perry's Islam ConnectionBy Amil Imani
The news of Governor Rick Perry jumping into theT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-58254773721288941252011-09-03T19:09:00.000-05:002011-09-03T19:09:44.863-05:00Hijabis in PlaylandThere was a riot of Muslims at the Playland amusement park in Westchester County, New York this past Tuesday:
A number of them flew into a violent rage when told that, due to safety rules, women had to remove their flowing head scarves or hijabs before going on certain rides -- including the Catch-a-Wave ride, the Crazy Mouse roller coaster and the Dragon Coaster, according to news reports T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-70644471041773472642011-08-30T19:56:00.001-05:002011-08-31T17:44:19.458-05:00Woe Unto Them that Call Evil Good, and Good EvilDennis Prager writes the following for NRO:
Israel — an Apartheid State?
Next month, the U.N.-sponsored Hate-Israel Festival known as Durban III takes place. Under the heading “Anti-Racism,” the great bulk of the conference, like its Durban I and II predecessors, consists of condemning Israel for racism and equating it with an apartheid state.
Of the world’s many great lies, this is among theT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-57841640359083565942011-08-27T14:11:00.000-05:002011-08-27T14:11:53.007-05:00The Missing Link Wore UnderpantsForget midnight football practice. Michigan’s most famous visiting jihadist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, aka, the Underwear Bomber, showed what Ramadan observance really means when, “in defense of Muhammad [Peace be Upon Him]” . . . . he “assaulted several officers from his cell” in Milan Prison on Wednesda, “in the Holy Month of Ramadan.”
And it’s not just me saying he committed assault. T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-66707144194144252402011-08-15T19:47:00.000-05:002011-08-15T19:47:55.746-05:00Et Tu, Perry?I knew there was something about Perry I didn’t like. Pam Geller explains what it is at American Thinker:
Perry's Problematic Pals
By Pamela Geller
Texas Governor Rick Perry announced Saturday that he is going to seek the Republican nomination for President, and in his speech declaring his candidacy, he sounded great: "we reject this President's unbridled fixation on taking more money out of theT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-72847320169385307912011-07-27T19:40:00.000-05:002011-07-27T19:40:49.152-05:00The Daily Mail reports on how the Islamist group, Islam4UK is asserting itself in East London:
Islamic extremists have launched a poster campaign across the UK proclaiming areas where Sharia law enforcement zones have been set up.
Communities have been bombarded with the posters, which read: ‘You are entering a Sharia-controlled zone – Islamic rules enforced.’
The bright yellow messages daubed T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-91472534598256910812011-07-26T19:50:00.000-05:002011-07-26T19:50:50.169-05:00Dennis Prager writes:
Jews’ True Friends
What will it take to wake Jews up?
The citizens of San Francisco will be voting on a proposition that seeks to ban circumcision in that city. Although I am strongly opposed to the proposition, if it passes, some good may come of it.
Let me explain. I am a passionate advocate of the Jewish ritual known as the brit (often pronounced bris) — the ritual T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-26284687461607358462011-07-23T16:51:00.000-05:002011-07-23T16:51:57.167-05:00From Pam Geller:
Islamic Supremacism Trumps Christianity at Ground Zero
By Pamela Geller
While New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg works in anxious haste to build the cultural obscenity that is the Ground Zero mosque, the iconic St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was built in 1916 and destroyed in the attack on the World Trade Center towers by Muslim terrorists, remains vanquished, T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-43833286380118452612011-07-23T16:41:00.001-05:002011-07-23T16:46:57.224-05:00Top Hezbo Commander in Iraq Might Get AwayFrom Andrew McCarthy at NRO:
What Is Going On with the Hezbollah Commander Who Killed U.S. Troops in Iraq?
By Andrew C. McCarthy
Posted on July 21, 2011 11:22 AM
Ali Mussa Daqduq is the Hezbollah commander who trained the network of “insurgent” terrorists responsible for the killing of many American troops in Iraq — including the five murdered in Karbala (four in execution style) in a 2007 T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-44873199276983030412011-07-16T20:16:00.000-05:002011-07-16T20:16:08.059-05:0027% of Palestinians Don't Want Jews Wiped Out!That should be more than enough to prove that the only obstacle to Middle East peace is Israel.
The remaining 73%, of course, are only a fringe, I suppose, which is why no one takes them into account when blithering on about a peace process.
Andrew Bostom writes this at American Thinker:
July 15, 2011
Only 73% of Palestinians Want Jews Annihilated (as PerIslam's Canonical Hadith)
Data have T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-78775852296187473962011-07-16T19:20:00.000-05:002011-07-16T19:20:52.566-05:00Where Is the Love?From Friday's New York Post:
More hated than Dubya?
July 15, 2011
A recent Zogby poll asked Arabs their view of President Obama and the United States, and guess what? They're not crazy about either one.
America's approval in the Arab world has plummeted in the past two years. Just 5 percent of Egyptians view the US favorably, down from 30 percent in 2009.
"In most countries, they are lower T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-918188097799103352011-07-16T10:10:00.005-05:002011-07-16T16:07:54.926-05:00Note from UndergroundI wanted to write a quick word about why I haven’t been blogging much the past few months. I’ve been spending my time on other things.It doesn’t mean I don’t care about the issues. But it’s been intensely time-consuming to keep up with just a tiny part of all that’s going on, (especially so since the Nakba of November 2008), all the more so because I try to hold myself to a decently presentable T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-88082984913436484682011-07-09T10:40:00.004-05:002011-07-09T10:56:26.221-05:00Muslim-in-LawsThis story is a few weeks old, but still timely for the background it reveals. From American Thinker:The Muslim Brotherhood and WeinerBy Eileen F. ToplanskyFar more disturbing than the salacious details of Weiner's dalliances is the fact that apparently his mother-in-law is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Furthermore, Huma Abedin's brother, Hassan, "is listed as a fellow and partner with a T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-87399680401134960902011-07-09T10:22:00.002-05:002011-07-09T10:33:17.659-05:00The Verdict They Aren't Talking AboutMarc Thiessen reports that the Obama Justice Department is calling off its witch hunt against CIA officials involved in the Rendition, Detention and Interrogation. From the Washington Post: The CIA’s exoneration and Holder’s reckoningBy Marc A. Thiessen, Published: July 4This Fourth of July weekend, some of the CIA’s dedicated counterterrorism officials will be celebrating more than our nation’s T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-53050922565602397452011-05-23T16:52:00.003-05:002011-05-23T17:03:32.117-05:00Missed It By That Much(CBS/AP) ALAMEDA, Calif. - The day after his prediction that the world would end on May 21, 2011 failed to materialize, Harold Camping told the San Francisco Chronicle he was "flabbergasted."The 89-year-old fundamentalist minister and head of the Family Radio media empire, who had led his Christian followers to believe last Saturday marked the Rapture and the countdown to Judgment Day, told the T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-81234424320652705442011-05-22T16:33:00.003-05:002011-05-22T17:20:50.333-05:00They Shoot Amtrak Passengers, Don’t They? America’s mellow West Coast was harshed this past week when an Amtrak passenger was escorted off a train in Salem, Oregon after 16 hours of non-stop loud talk on her cell phone.Reportedly, her fellow passengers thought Lakeysha Beard “was being rude by refusing to stop yapping while sitting in one of the train’s designated quiet cars. She had not stopped talking since the train pulled out of T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-19973369197575238252011-05-17T20:39:00.002-05:002011-05-17T20:43:45.387-05:00‘I’ of NewtI was never going to be a big supporter of Newt Gingrich. But I do feel some relief that we probably aren’t going to have a President Gingrich. I can’t get out of my head the image of a special news report breaking in from the Oval Office during some national crisis, and President Gingrich opening with the words, “My fellow Americans, Callista and I . . . .”T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-18289220784985921942011-05-16T18:52:00.008-05:002011-05-16T22:06:33.033-05:00Inside, Outside, Upside DownA new Assistant United States Attorney was sworn in Monday for the Eastern District of Michigan, Abed Hammoud, formerly of the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, where he led mortgage fraud prosecutions.And I may add, currently of the ADC (Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee).And AAPAC (Arab American Political Action Committee).And the CAAO (Congress of Arab American Organizations).Glenn T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-15129483234313163342011-05-16T17:12:00.008-05:002011-05-16T17:38:07.296-05:00Dry Runs Continue, But Does Anybody Care?Another jihadist probe on an American airline flight last week. (“A hijacking dry run?”) It’s awfully interesting how different these stories are when they’re reported by the potential victims of the jihadist, instead of by the media, the airlines, or law enforcement authorities.This event also bears similarities to the probe on Northwest Flight 243, reported on here at length last August. T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-79138736485603219752011-05-14T10:55:00.005-05:002011-05-14T11:41:44.522-05:00Wilders: 'Resistance to Evil Is Our Moral Duty'Andrew G. Bostom has published the transcript of a speech by Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders (“A Warning to America: Geert Wilders in Nashville, Tennessee 5/12/11”).In light of what took place in Dearborn since Good Friday, I consider the warning as timely as ever:Speech by Geert Wilders, Cornerstone Church, Nashville, 12 May 2011Dear friends from Tennessee. I am very happy to be in your T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-79630667977006602842011-04-23T20:05:00.020-05:002011-11-05T16:43:48.750-05:00Abdridged, Bothered, and Bewildered, or, O'Reilly Writes AgainFlush from his victory over yet another very close call in Dearborn with what he refers to as “creeping free speech,” Mayor Jack O’Reilly is back at work on a follow up Open Letter to the one he published in the Press & Guide this past week.
A first draft of the letter has found its way to us here at Dearborn Underground. Naturally we’re happy to pass it along:
Open Letter to Dearborn T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-17665926332410324292011-04-23T09:25:00.001-05:002011-04-23T09:27:23.631-05:00Now What, Dearborn?Now what, Dearborn? We let Jack O’Reilly, a mob of lefty stooges, and a posse of unicorn-herding “interfaith leaders” drive Terry Jones -- and the First Amendment--out of Dearborn. Do you think you’re more free, today. Or less free?The American flag outside my house is flying upside-down. For me this is not a sign of disrespect, but of national distress. It was the least I could do.T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-45718683223677156942011-04-23T08:58:00.002-05:002011-04-23T09:14:52.477-05:00McCarthy on ZakatFrom the indispensable Andrew McCarthy at NRO:UncharitableZakat is not about charity, but jihad.‘In the United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims tofulfill their religious obligation,” President Obama claimed during his 2009 Cairo speech. “That is why I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat.” This statement contained T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-27405172908197624842011-04-22T19:27:00.005-05:002011-04-22T19:37:02.120-05:00Announcing Dearborn's Official 'No Free Speech' ZoneFrom Reuters:Terry Jones, 59, was sent to the county jail in Detroit after he declined to meet the terms of a ruling by District Judge Mark Somers in an apparent protest.Somers had ordered Jones and a supporter, Wayne Sapp, to each pay $1 under the terms of an order that would have also barred them from the Islamic Center of America mosque and nearby public property for three years.That should T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-72617610283860639952011-04-21T22:06:00.007-05:002011-11-24T08:22:27.272-06:00Yes, We Have No Sharia, or, So Darling, Save the Lap Dance for MeCould it really be all that stands between us and paying the jizya tax is a G-string?
In an open letter Wednesday to Pastor Terry Jones, Dearborn Mayor Jack O'Reilly Jr. blasted claims that his city is under Islamic law, noting it has three strip clubs and a factory that makes pork products sitting across the street from a mosque.
“None of that should be allowed under Shari'a law,” O'Reilly T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-88087392175017403452011-04-19T21:26:00.009-05:002011-04-19T22:18:50.403-05:00Wanted: Minority ReportIn another defeat for the First Amendment in Dearborn, Dearborn police and Wayne County prosecutors are attempting to impose prior restraint on Terry Jones’s protest against Sharia in front of the Islamic Center of America this Friday.People argue about whether or not we’re under Sharia here in Dearborn.I only wonder when we stopped being under the Constitution.According to the Detroit News: “TheT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-28140341768983175242011-04-10T19:19:00.015-05:002011-04-11T19:27:40.844-05:00Book Burnings Don’t Kill People, Friday Prayers DoAccording to Joe Klein at Time Magazine, the murders in Afghanistan that indirectly resulted from Terry Jones’s Qur’an-burning are to be laid directly at the doorstep of Terry Jones: “[T]here should be no confusion about this: Jones's act was murderous as any suicide bomber's. If there is a hell, he's just guaranteed himself an afterlifetime membership.”For someone who doesn’t know if there’s a T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-79877159949871470082011-04-09T10:43:00.006-05:002011-04-09T11:05:42.432-05:00Ann BarnhardtI just learned about this remarkable lady today. She has the best response to Lindsey Graham I’ve heard.T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-26660244359457629672010-12-04T15:48:00.004-06:002010-12-04T16:20:25.583-06:00WSU Goes Back to the Diversity Drawing BoardHow do I say this? I think I’m proud of my alma mater for the first time in my adult life?This report from the Chicago Sun-Times: University pulls diversity award named after Helen ThomasDecember 4, 2010BY LORI HIGGINSDETROIT -- Wayne State University is yanking an award named for journalist Helen Thomas, citing remarks she made criticizing Israel during a conference in Dearborn.In a brief T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-14436437207112808242010-11-28T15:32:00.009-06:002010-11-28T16:32:56.764-06:00Oregon Caroler Attempts 'O Tannenbomb,' or, Paradise or Bust!The president of the Muslim Students Association at Oregon State University, Omar Mohamed, is making the obligatory remarks intended to drive a wedge between Mohamed Mohamud’s hoped-for act of mass murder at an Oregon tree-lighting ceremony, and the religion that inspired him to undertake it. The MSA, as has been documented about four ways from Sunday by now, is the front organization for the T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-24598746139172974462010-11-25T10:37:00.007-06:002010-11-25T11:42:45.207-06:00'I Was a Patdown Officer for the TSA!'The following true story was originally published in the November edition of “The Orange Alert,” the agency newspaper of the Department of Homeland Security.I Was a Patdown Officer for the TSA!HER EYES BORED into mine for the first time in forty years. We both knew this one was going to be personal.“Hello, Johnny.”“Hi, Sister Stanislaus.”“You look well.”“I ain’t complaining.”“I’m not complaining.T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-26385179383198278182010-11-21T16:44:00.002-06:002010-11-21T17:08:21.457-06:00Saints Doing the Miracles No Other Saints Will DoThe Detroit Free Press has an article today about the arrival at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church of a relic of St. Toribio Romo Gonzalez, said, (it’s not reported by whom) to be “the patron saint for undocumented immigrants, especially those who have crossed the border from Mexico to the U.S.” (“Holy Redeemer Catholic Church to install relic of Mexican saint”).Reporter Niraj Warikoo writes:Many T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-53658424643790358002010-11-21T10:55:00.004-06:002010-11-21T11:18:31.901-06:00'Fair Game'Detroit News film critic Tom Long reviewed “Fair Game” over the weekend, the cinematic re-telling of the liberal-media version of the Valerie Plame story, a sort of fictionalized version of a fairy tale. I don’t care for Long’s reviews generally, and in this particular review he seemed more interested in restating Valerie Plame’s and Joe Wilson’s talking points than in actually doing his job. I T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-46673347158162151302010-11-21T10:33:00.005-06:002010-11-21T14:47:13.983-06:00Sharp as a PistolAnd once you dance with me,You'll fall in love, you see.The Bristol Stomp will make you,Mine all mine.Even a dance show can illustrate the way of things. Since Sarah Palin’s national debut at the Republican Convention in September 2008, the unreasoned invective that swelled overnight into a torrent, (“I hate her because she’s stupid” is not reasoned criticism) has never weakened to this day. All T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-91905204274620652472010-11-07T16:59:00.004-06:002010-11-07T17:40:54.692-06:00'But Grand Imam, What Big Eyes You Have!'Not everything about the recent Vatican Synod of Bishops for the Middle East was discouraging. According to the Catholic News Service:Two Syrian Catholic bishops living in Lebanon told the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East that the blossoming number of Catholic-Muslim dialogue projects has not and may never lead to real understanding. . . .Their statements differed significantly from most of T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-55345311644840923772010-11-07T14:27:00.002-06:002010-11-07T14:41:20.607-06:00Baghdad MassacreA Front Page Magazine article by Robert Spencer on October 28, (“A Tale of Two Bishops”), reported on the curious shift in the opinions of two Eastern Catholic bishops attending the Vatican Synod on Christians in the Middle East.In contradiction to their own critical statements about Islam and the treatment of Christians in Iraq by Muslims of only a few years before, both men, Archbishop Cyril T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-45332328137522659822010-10-31T18:41:00.002-05:002010-10-31T19:01:27.165-05:00Behind the Veil: ShariaIs it unfair to point to the growing number of women and girls in hijab as evidence of the Sharia law the mayor and others flatly deny exists here in Dearborn?In my unscientific reckoning the number of women in Dearborn wearing hijab is increasing. Whether or not this means that more Sharia-compliant women are immigrating to Dearborn, or that more assimilated women who’ve been living here are T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-80410433081080085512010-10-30T08:50:00.007-05:002010-10-30T09:48:26.370-05:00Oh, oh, Ohio!From Townhall.com:Why is Ohio Dem Hanging with Islamic Extremists?By Joel Mowbray10/29/2010While the news this election cycle has been focused on horse races and high-wattage personalities like Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell, one of the most important races in the country has slipped below the national radar—despite the fact that one of the key figures involved has a nasty habit of T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-30676870892432329602010-10-24T13:19:00.006-05:002010-10-24T13:49:19.366-05:00Dearborn 'Miserable'? Must Be Those Road RepairsOh, boy. It looks as if Adam (“Azzam the American”) Gadhan missed Anderson Cooper 360 the night Mayor O’Reilly declared to the world that there’s no Sharia in Dearborn. Or maybe Azzam’s video for Al-Qaida calling on area Muslims to fulfill their jihad duty and “retaliate” against the infidel leaders “on their own soil” was already in the can for broadcast before last Friday.According to the T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-30815091587193112862010-10-24T11:50:00.004-05:002010-10-24T14:32:07.767-05:00Letter from City Hall Fresh from responding by letter to Senate candidate Sharron Angle, His Honor Mayor Jack O’Reilly has once again had to set pen to paper in response to defamation of the hometown. An Al-Qaida video was released online Friday featuring “Azzam the American” (Adam Gadahn) calling on Muslims to attack on their home soil. In the video, Azzam addresses Muslim emigrants forced to live in the margins of T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-38627100289716134572010-10-24T10:03:00.003-05:002010-10-24T10:35:05.235-05:00Dearborn the Sharia-Free CityLast week Nevada candidate for U.S. Senate Sharron Angle caught some flak for remarking about Sharia in Dearborn. When a tape of the comments surfaced the media whooped with glee and went to work trying to make her look stupid. Angle is supported by the Tea Party and just might save America from any more of Harry Reid and his insufferable scolding. She must be stopped!Her foo poo? T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-28013941905579031032010-10-23T11:59:00.003-05:002010-10-23T12:07:53.110-05:00Take It Up With Your PsychiatristI don’t care what anybody says about Rudy Giuliani. When it comes to fighting back against jihad, I still think he’s great. And he’s not afraid of exercising his free speech. From The Hill: Giuliani questions NPR fundingBLUE BELL, Pa. — Rudy Giuliani defended former NPR analyst Juan Williams Friday, saying Williams was fired for simply explaining his feelings.Juan Williams just expressed T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-73096585771751057432010-10-23T11:46:00.002-05:002010-10-23T11:57:00.072-05:00PBS and CAIR Combat 'Defamation' of IslamYou shouldn’t miss this Big Government post on the relationship between public broadcasting and CAIR in combating “defamation” of Islam: PBS Sends Senior Editor as Presenter to CAIR Conference on ‘Defaming Islam” Posted by Christine Brim Oct 23rd 2010The news about NPR firing Juan Williams is opening the eyes of many in the media and public to the extraordinary rules of censorship that CAIR, T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-91705583135696865512010-10-23T11:33:00.004-05:002010-10-23T11:46:32.677-05:00If Renee Montagne Broadcasts in a Niqab, and No One Can See It, Does It Make a Sound?It’s been a while since CAIR’s had a victory. But credit -- no, blame -- for the firing of Juan Williams by NPR has to go CAIR, at least in significant part. I know George Soros and Media Matters played their role. But out of all them it’s CAIR whose specific object is to halt all criticism of Islam in the United States. They haven’t done it yet. And getting a figure as popular and as T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-53649911137922241262010-10-20T17:48:00.005-05:002010-10-20T20:02:34.647-05:00CAIR and Ron Scott Want To Know: 'Where's Mike Nifong When We Need Him?'The Detroit Free Press ran this last week:Group slams U.S. report on imam's deathFREE PRESS STAFFThe Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality today called the Justice Department announcement Wednesday that there were no civil rights violations in the shooting death of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah “disingenuous and insincere.”Ron Scott, the coalition’s lead spokesman, said the Justice Department T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-3057429714642311592010-10-11T12:07:00.007-05:002010-10-11T13:31:43.842-05:00A Horse Is a Horse, Except When He's an Undercover Fascist Tea Party Spy (Mrs. Clancy and I went to see “Secretariat” this past Saturday night. We both liked it. But this isn’t a review. TRC).Some folks are forever being accused of “Islamophobia.” Depending on who it is hurling the charge, “Islamophobia” can mean anything from criticizing Islam -- at all -- to drawing attention to the rising mountain of evidence that there are a very large number of Muslims on the T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-58511553443515707592010-10-11T09:36:00.003-05:002010-10-11T09:45:07.267-05:00Dingell's Overdue RetirementIt’s just possible that John Dingell may lose the seat that, between him and his father, John Sr., has been a Dingell family heirloom since the elder Dingell first won it in 1932. That means only Democrats, and only a certain flavor of Democrats, have been represented in this district for 78 years. Queen Victoria, arguably a more impressive ruler, reigned for a mere 64.Dingell has most recently T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-6058169665722798772010-10-10T18:31:00.002-05:002010-10-10T18:43:22.354-05:00'Ehr Kumt'I learned about this Rosh Hashanah sermon, “Ehr Kumt,” given by Rabbi Shalom Lewis of Atlanta on The Michael Medved Show.Rabbi Lewis is a self-described “dues-paying, card carrying member of the ACLU,” who voted against George W. Bush, and is still a registered Democrat. He was preaching to his primarily liberal congregation. But his urgent message is not one we usually hear from that quarter: “T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-25012648183993297782010-10-09T22:17:00.007-05:002010-10-09T23:00:55.219-05:00Beware of Sheep in Wolves' ClothingThe Detroit Free Press on Tuesday published two editorials on the long-overdue release of the investigation that exonerates FBI agents in the shooting death of the radical Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah. Would it surprise you to learn that both opinion pieces call for further investigation, and question the use of government informants?Jeff Gerritt wrote the blog version, and we expect he may have T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-52212482925563769852010-10-03T13:55:00.003-05:002010-10-03T14:03:43.233-05:00Abdullah's Son Insists His Father Was No ThreatThe late Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah’s son said on Friday that the Dearborn Police Department report about the incident of his father’s death “sounds a little suspicious to me.”Bet you didn’t see that coming.The DPD report reaches the same conclusions as the Michigan Attorney General’s report on the shooting that was finally released last week. Abdullah’s son, Omar Regan, said Friday that his T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com3