tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337982242024-03-07T01:30:19.187-06:00Dearborn UndergroundThe voice of resistance in DearbornT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.comBlogger1305125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-28929066264040679062015-05-16T10:22:00.001-05:002015-05-16T10:22:37.226-05:00Carmen Harlan Is Dangerous?Who could possibly find fault with Carmen Harlan? Lonnie Scott of Progress Michigan, that’s who, when he accused Harlan of “racial profiling at its worst.” And Nadia Tonova of the National Network for Arab American Communities, that’s who, when she said Harlan’s comments were “appalling, offensive, and dangerous.” ('I Apologize,' Carmen Harlan Says About Remark Blasted as 'Dangerous'). And whatT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-27670643727432004132015-05-09T11:33:00.001-05:002015-05-09T11:35:26.666-05:00Poking the BunnyHow is it that after all these years since 9/11, and all these thousands of instances of Islamic violence, that so many people still believe that Islam is a religion of peace? The answer is, they don’t. They know the same thing the rest of us know, but feel obliged to tell a white lie when it comes to this subject. A handful may be trying to be polite, but the majority are simply trying to T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-89609863063313517842014-10-09T05:40:00.001-05:002014-10-09T05:40:25.587-05:00‘Terrorism Is Not Islamic’–Canadian VersionAndrew C. McCarthy reports on a new sharia-supporting manual produced by Islamists in Canada.  (“State Department Endorses Canadian Islamist Manual that Describes Jihad as 'Noble'”):  At the Washington Free Beacon, Adam Kredo reports that the State Department has issued a tweet endorsing a manual that promotes sharia and admonishes investigators not to use terms like “jihad,” whichT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-5737396950984557572014-10-09T05:30:00.001-05:002014-10-09T05:30:45.114-05:00CAIR Goes to WashingtonDaniel Pipes writes at NRO: André Carson, Islamists’ Choice for the House of Representatives In politics, the adage goes, follow the money. And so, data abound for contributions from trial lawyers, insurance brokers, and even optometrists. But what about Islamists, those Muslims who seek to replace the Constitution with the Koran and apply Islamic law in its entirety and severity — who,T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-12136585310219021792014-10-09T05:23:00.001-05:002014-10-09T05:23:59.525-05:00Peace Through DeathRev. James V. Schall, S.J has taken the issue with ISIS head-on at Crisis Magazine. The Islamic State and the broader jihadist movements throughout the world that agree with it are, I think, correct in their basic understanding of Islam. Plenty of evidence is found, both in the long history of early Muslim military expansion and in its theoretical interpretation of the Qur’an itself, to T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-61626235163259170482014-09-27T15:15:00.001-05:002014-09-27T15:15:04.741-05:00Nothing To See HereMSNBC had this to report yesterday about the jihadist attack in Moore, Oklahoma: In recent weeks, several Westerners have been beheaded by terrorists aligned with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has called for Muslims to carry out similar attacks around the world. Moore police said there is no evidence that the attack was inspired by any similar events in the Middle EastT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-72842265233864723382014-09-27T14:49:00.001-05:002014-09-27T14:49:52.512-05:00And Still More on Holder’s Going AwayIf you’re wondering why all these Holder-centric posts just now, they’re because, second only to his boss, I consider Attorney General Eric Holder the worst actor in the crowded stage of bad actors who have made up the Obama administration. His departure is one of the few glimmers of hope in and ugly and disheartening year. People need to know who Holder is, and who he has been all along. PeterT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-74369894983506572442014-09-27T14:35:00.001-05:002014-09-27T14:35:23.850-05:00On Holder’s Departure, IIFrom the NRO: Eric Holder’s Rap Sheet Eric Holder’s legal mercies have typically been reserved for Clinton donors and unrepentant terrorists, but his decision yesterday to step down as attorney general of the United States after nearly six years is an act of mercy toward the American public. In an administration characterized by outsized misadventures — from the use of the nation’s tax T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-36265590557163901512014-09-27T14:31:00.001-05:002014-09-27T14:31:14.450-05:00On Eric Holder’s DepartureAt AEIdeas John Yoo writes: The nation can wave goodbye to Attorney General Holder with relief, as to a bad house-guest who almost burned down the house during his unwelcome stay. His political missteps were legion, and his choices on law enforcement policy revealed a stunning combination of ideology and incompetence. He called for the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other al Qaeda T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-24708329333691090132014-09-27T11:41:00.001-05:002014-09-27T11:41:24.797-05:00Keystone Kops versus QuranWhy doesn’t it make us feel better that the FBI have been called in to investigate the motives of the jihadist who beheaded his coworker in Moore, Oklahoma? Police in Oklahoma said on Friday that they have asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation for assistance after determining that a man who allegedly attacked co-workers after being fired the previous day beheaded one of his victims and, T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-82344127479019425382014-09-17T10:21:00.001-05:002014-09-17T10:21:34.269-05:00The Muslim Brotherhood, AgainAndrew C. McCarthy writes: In Search of the ‘Moderate Islamists’ It is not out of ignorance that President Obama and Secretary Kerry are denying the Islamic roots of the Islamic State jihadists. As I argued in a column here last week, we should stop scoffing as if this were a blunder and understand the destructive strategy behind it. The Obama administration is quite T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-91844832641238541702014-05-06T18:26:00.001-05:002014-05-06T18:26:07.179-05:00Let’s Be Clear on ‘Legacy’ PreferencesPart of the Left’s grouchy reaction to the Supreme Court’s recent blow to race-based college admission practices has been to ask why “legacy” points for the kids of alumnae aren’t discriminatory as well. As restated by Mark Rosenbaum, one of the ACLU lawyers who argued the case before the Supreme Court, the ban “unfairly keeps students from asking universities to consider race as one factor in T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-11416353554924244052014-05-05T16:50:00.001-05:002014-05-05T16:50:20.909-05:00While America SleptCaroline Glick sheds light on Obama’s foreign policy at RealClearPolitics: During his joint press conference in Manila on Monday with Aquino, Ed Henry from Fox News asked Obama to explain his foreign policy doctrine. “What do you think the Obama Doctrine is in terms of what your guiding principle is on all of these crises and how you answer those critics who say they think the doctrine is T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-45774123171089290472014-05-05T16:41:00.001-05:002014-05-05T16:41:53.473-05:00‘We Are Offended, We Are Offended, We Are Most Grievously Offended’Oh my!, Oh my!, Oh my! Sarah Palin has the Left, including the Left’s religulous wing, angry at her again for something she said about jihadists at the NRA convention: “Oh, but you can’t offend them, can’t make them feel uncomfortable, not even a smidgen. Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.” The reference to baptism is irreverent to the T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-64174796487136746632014-05-03T21:25:00.001-05:002014-05-03T21:25:05.597-05:00Al Sharpton, In HeelsNow that a single federal judge has decided Michigan will have same-sex marriage, it’s time for the next step. Under the guise of a coalition of concerned business leaders, the gay lobby is pressing forward to write special status for homosexuals into Michigan law.  As reported in the Detroit News, Some of Michigan’s top business leaders are launching a campaign to expand the state’s T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-84094936977404380142014-04-19T08:10:00.001-05:002014-04-19T08:10:02.815-05:00Our Compliments to the ChiefRevolutionary? Detroit Police Chief James Craig has been voicing his support for Detroiters who’ve defended themselves during home invasions by shooting the intruders. "I think it's a deterrent," Craig said in January, regarding armed law-abiding citizens. "Good Americans with CPLs translates into crime reduction, too." At a meeting of the Detroit Police Commission on T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-11885313433067051002014-04-12T08:19:00.001-05:002014-04-12T08:19:27.947-05:00Media Still in Denial on Mob AttackI understand the reluctance of many Detroiters to admit that racism in the black community exists at levels that could explain the monstrous attempted murder of Steve Utash last week.  Even as sensible a commentator as Frank Beckmann hit the guard rail pretty hard on Friday when he wrote this about the mob attack on Utash: All the evidence — including the eyewitness account of the T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-33236856839467830002014-04-11T17:02:00.001-05:002014-04-11T17:02:10.036-05:00The Do-Nothing Congress Does SomethingHere’s some cheering news.  From the New York Times:  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday said it would bar an Iranian diplomat nominated as United Nations ambassador from entering the country, in a rebuke to Iran at a time when the United States is engaged in delicate negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear program.  (“White House Says No Visa for Iran’s U.N. T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-14171915147578350232014-04-10T19:59:00.001-05:002014-04-10T19:59:25.902-05:00‘It Was Vigilantes!, Slow Response Times!’ Take 2In an astounding piece of delusional journalism, Brian Dickerson at the Detroit Free Press is rehabilitating the savages who attempted to murder Steve Utash as “vigilantes.” People don’t feel the need to take the law into their own hands when they can count on police to enforce it, and even those predisposed toward criminal behavior are less likely to assault or steal from their neighbors if T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-86281201208493068592014-04-10T19:20:00.001-05:002014-04-10T19:20:47.395-05:00Cool! Is That for Strangling Babies? I guess they just mean to kill us with irony. Reportedly, at the high-level gift exchange at the Vatican between Pope Francis and President Obama, the president received a copy of the Holy Father’s Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, and a rosary that the Pope had blessed. We don’t know yet how Obama got rid of the Pope’s book, but he thought it was fitting to pass on the rosary to theT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-32629418396504530992014-04-09T19:02:00.001-05:002014-04-09T19:02:36.758-05:00Heard From: Detroit’s Scribes, Pharisees, and Hypocrites Race is not important, a Chicago newspaper editor assures us. That denies the obvious: America is the most race conscience society in the world. We learn that fact every day from black caucuses, black unions, black ministers, black teachers, black music, black art, black poets, black salon owners, black public employees, black names, black police officers, and black media. We learn it in T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-85308942101880102502014-04-05T09:28:00.001-05:002014-04-05T09:28:04.314-05:00“And They Cast Him Out”America has exchanged a toothless regime disapproving of sodomy in the privacy of one’s own bedroom for an iron-gloved tyranny forbidding disapproving of sodomy in the privacy of one’s own mind. I think that’s what they mean by a “bad bargain.” Friday’s NRO has a fine analysis of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich’s being hounded out of his employment as an Unmutual: The various tendencies that T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-83953035869445197762014-04-04T19:37:00.001-05:002014-04-04T19:37:15.980-05:00Dearborn 7-Year Old Worried About Church-State InterferenceAt one point we wondered if Majed Moughni was for real, but now it appears he’s just interested in self-promotion. That, and burnishing his Muslim props as one way to drive up business for his personal injury law firm. Nothing else explains his dangling this absolute non-story in front of the Islamic Affairs desk of the Free Press just to get his picture in the paper. A flyer headlined “T.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-87113363961190206832014-03-29T15:52:00.001-05:002014-03-29T15:52:24.641-05:00JustifiedOn the more-guns, less-crime front, metro Detroit continues to disprove the myth that armed citizens cause more harm than good and are a poor defense against violent crime. Since last Saturday: In Redford  A Jet’s Pizza delivery driver fired shots at two men who attempted to rob him Saturday night when they posed as customers, Redford police said. The driver was making a delivery toT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33798224.post-28381170148494827152014-03-29T15:17:00.001-05:002014-03-29T15:17:55.980-05:00Isn’t That Your House On Fire?According to an editorial in Thursday’s Detroit News, “[g]ay marriage is coming to Michigan” whether we like it or not. (“Michigan gay marriage landscape is changing”).   The writer credits this to a swelling “national tide for extending marital rights,”  a metaphor suggesting that social progress is arriving by way of a natural catastrophe.   I suspect this editorial wasT.R. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006703919981365974noreply@blogger.com0