Rhetorical Outbursts

Speaking of Muslim extremists, one of the self-proclaimed “moderate” Muslim organizations in the United States has now been exposed for the fraud that it is. Daniel Pipes has all the details, including documents from the recently settled litigation.

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) sued Andrew Whitehead, the operator of Anti-CAIR, claiming that Whitehead […]

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In an effort to be politically correct by avoiding the word “terrorist,” the Transportation Security Administration accidentally sent a warning shot screaming across the bow of Occasional Outbursts:

Extremists may target private US planes: TSA

(And I thought there was only one… Perhaps it is part of the plot…)

The following is a bit of light-hearted, derivative satire. The original work is discussed in a previous post and is available here. This is intended to poke-fun at certain attitudes, not to insult particular individuals or mischaracterize anyone’s views. It’s also intended to make a point about both the original subject matter […]

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I remember election night 2000. I stayed up all night waiting to find out which man would be the next president and which party would control Congress. It took 36 days to fully materialize, but in the end, I was thrilled. The Republicans had both houses of Congress and the White […]

Bill Hobbs, Tennessee blogger and Lipscomb University graduate, resigned from his job at Belmont University (more links at Mainstreet Journal and Michelle Malkin). His resignation followed a hit piece by a “professional” journalist — whose anti-blogger agenda is apparent in the first sentence: “If, as the saying goes, all politics is local, then what […]

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There are those who flirt with pacifist ideologies (from the cozy confines of West Texas, mind you), and there are those who are actually pacifists (returning from captivity in Iraq, mind you).

For the latter, the struggle over what to make of pacifism in action is much more difficult than the former sometimes leads others […]

Much of what is being said here about homosexuality and how Christians ought to behave toward homosexuals may be correct.

But it’s irrelevant.

It is irrelevant because most of the comments presume that the homosexuals in question are repentant or “struggling” with their orientation. Yet, the position of Soulforce and similar pro-homosexual groups is just the […]

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The New York Times (spit!) has a report on the Flight 93 audio aired for the first time in public during the Moussaoui trial.

Here are some of the more chilling parts:

There are also the sounds of what may have been the killing of a flight attendant as the hijackers took control: a woman in […]

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Not that it matters to the loonies of the world that refuse to let facts shape their emotions, “but recently declassified documents explicitly show that the Iraqi military had ordered a call for volunteers to carry out suicide attacks on American interests, six months before 9/11 and two years almost to the day prior […]

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What do you get when you cross a black person, a Republican, and a Church of Christ preacher?

Whether or not it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, what you really get is Herman E. Wesley, a black Church of Christ preacher from Montgomery, Alabama who is making news by trying […]