THE DAILY BLADE: Red Is The New Green
Red state voters - particularly those who listen to conservative talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck - are expected to propel Sarah Palin's memoir, “Going Rogue,” to the top of the best-seller list.
Beck’s book, “Common Sense,” and “
Worked into a lather by a troubled economy, the health care battle and a charismatic president who is now seen as vulnerable, Republicans, Libertarians and unaffiliated others have been turning bookstores into their polling booths, pumping up sales in an otherwise beleaguered industry. …
“People vote in bookstores,” says Adrian Zackheim, publisher of Sentinel, the conservative imprint of Penguin Group (USA), which recently brought out A Simple Christmas by Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee. The book is No. 3 on the New York Times best-seller list. “They buy a book because they want to express agreement with what it says,” he adds.
Meanwhile, a new Washington Post poll of 1,306 adults finds that more Republicans and GOP-leaning independents cited Palin as being most representative of the party's core values than any other prominent Republican (18 percent). But Palin was cited by 48 percent of those who “regularly” listen to Limbaugh’s radio show and by 35 percent of those who watch Beck’s TV show.
The Swiss Are Not Neutral About Minarets
“That
The result represents a deep embarrassment for the government, which had strongly opposed the motion, and leaves it with a complex political and legal tangle. With the vote Sunday, the ban on minaret construction automatically becomes part of the Constitution, said Lukas Goldber, an analyst at gfs.bern, a political and social research institute.
The Swiss cabinet, or Federal Council, issued a statement that it “respects this decision. Consequently, the construction of new minarets in
But as a result, the government is now bound to draw up a supporting law, a process that could last for years, Mr. Goldber said. Human rights groups say the vote also risks putting
The law is more a symbolic protest against the Sharia-creep that has infected Western Europe like a retrovirus – only four of the 150 mosques in
Note that Amnesty International completely ignores the extreme religious intolerance in Muslim countries. For instance, Saudi law forbids infidels (that is to say, Christians and Jews) to practice their religions in public – or even to pray in private with the aid of a bible (third item) - and violence against them and their businesses is driving Christians from the Holy Land en masse.
Compared to Muslim intolerance – which too often takes the form of murderous rampages (sixth item) – this vote is neither grotesque nor particularly discriminatory, since Swiss Muslims are still permitted to practice their religion openly.
Thanksgiving Leftover
President Barack Hussein Obama pardons a jive turkey (or is that a jive Obama pardons a turkey?), reported The Associated Press ("Thanks to the interventions of Malia and Sasha - because I was planning to eat this sucker ...") [Emphasis, The Stiletto.]
[Hat Tip: Mack The Knife, a regular reader of this blog]
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