CCR Cerahide
I’ve posted a few pictures of my Sigs refinished in CCR‘s “Cerahide” finish at various times on this blog, but I’ve never shown readers what the different finishes look like side-by-side.
Faisal Shahzad an AntiWar Activist, hated Bush, even a 9/11 Truther?
by Eric Dondero
Naturalized citizen and Islamic Terrorist Bomber Faisal Shahzad opposed the War in Iraq. New reports suggest he held views much in line with leftwing AntiWar activists who fiercely opposed the Bush administration’s policies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There are even indications he may have been aligned with the so-called “Truther movement.” A witness told the Associated Press, that Shahzad believed that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the attacks of 9/11. In truth, Hussein harbored top Al Qaeda Terrorist Abu Massad al Zarcawi and hosted two Al Qaeda-linked Terrorist training camps: Salman Pac and Answar Al-Islam.
Investigative journalist, and author of two Best Selling NY Times books Richard Miniter in his book “Shadow War: The Untold Story of How the Bush Administration is winning the War on Terror” (2005) documented 23 hard instances where Hussein and the Iraqi government were cooperating and actively assisting Al Qaeda prior to the 9/11 attacks.
From Tampa Bay On-line (via Memeo, Memeo): 
Shahzad’s behavior sometimes seemed odd to his neighbors, and he surprised a real estate broker he hardly knew with his outspokenness about President George W. Bush and the Iraq war.“He mentioned that he didn’t like Bush policies in Iraq,” said Igor Djuric, who represented Shahzad in 2004 when he was buying a home.
Djuric said he couldn’t remember the exact words Shahzad used about Bush but “something to the effect of he doesn’t know what he’s doing and it’s the wrong thing that he’s doing.”
“I don’t know if he mentioned 9/11,” Djuric said, “but something like that, Iraq has nothing to do with anything.”
The New York Times (via Memeo) adds this ironic note:
a real estate broker who helped him buy the house, in Shelton, Conn., in 2004 remembered that Mr. Shahzad did not like President George W. Bush or the Iraq war.“I didn’t take it for much,” said the broker, Igor Djuric, “because around that time not many people did.”
Yes, indeed. Around that time many Americans did not like Bush either: Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, Al Gore, NetRoots, the Greens, the entire Progressive wing of the Democrat Party, and a host of other AntiWar advocates.
Is it safe now to begin referring to Shahzad as a “Liberal Progressive”?
(H/t Memeorandum)
The Left’s Worst Nightmare: NYC Bomber Faisal Shahzad a Muslim, an Immigrant and a Democrat
Militant Pakistani, not a White Male Tea Partier
by Eric Dondero
Oh how things have changed so dramatically in this 24 hour news cycle of ours. Yesterday, the Right was on the defensive, fearing that indeed the Terrorist in New York would turn out to be some crazed Militia type, or Tea Party supporter. NPR led off their news report, “Top suspect a White Male…”
As Sister Toldjah describes below, some of the usual leftwing suspects, chimed in with the same talking points:
This is great news, and I hope the Feds have indeed got “their guy,” and I also hope that he leads them to other Islamofascist terrorists who were involved in this plot and perhaps who have been in the proceess of planning future terror attacks on Americans and other innocents both on our soil and abroad.That said, I won’t hold my breath waiting for apologies from Democrat strategist Bob Beckel and Democrat Congressman Jerrold Nadler, both of whom yesterday suggested the Times Square bomber might well have been part of some “right wing” plot. Liberal NYC Mayor Bloomberg speculated it might be someone who “didn’t like the healthcare bill.” Beneath contempt all.
Watch the story now die a slow death on the back pages of the NY Times, WaPo, and relegated to the sidebar at CNN.com.
TeaBagger Pakistani?
HuffPo (h/t Memeo) is already spinning, saying that the bigger story of the day is the court ruling in Detroit on the alleged Militia members, the Hutaree. A liberal judge released them on bail saying the Feds had not made a strong enough case. Wrote HuffPo writer Louis Klavas, an NYU prof. “Do the Hutaree Militia Members Pose a Terrorist Threat?”:
On Monday, while Americans were fixated on the hunt for and subsequent arrest of Faisal Shahzad for his alleged role in the Times Square bomb plot, an equally important terrorism-related story that was breaking in Detroit went relatively unnoticed.
It’s also going to be interesting to watch the “head-in-the-sand” on Islamo-Fascism leftside of the libertarian movement. Leftwing libertarians, with the notable exception of Nick Gillespie of Reason, always seek to downplay the importance and the threat of Radical Islam. It doesn’t fit their template. After all, if they acknowledge the threat, than they also have to offer a solution. And that solution more than not, involves their dreaded foreign intervention with US Troops.
We on the rightside of the libertarian movement acknowledge the threat we face, recognize it, and wish to fight back on all fronts. The bombing two days ago in Times Square just highlights how much we’ve been right all along, and all our opponents, liberals, pacifists, paleo-libertarians, paleo-conservatives, socialists, and most especially Obama Democrats have been dead wrong.
Dump Bloomberg: Bring back Rudy
by Jim Lagnese, Right Guy
It tuns out the great NYPD has arrested a suspect in the attempted Times Square Bombing. It turns out the suspect is a Pakistani Muslim, not a Tea Party member as Michael Bloomberg, the ersatz mayor of New York City has asserted.
“If I had to guess, twenty five cents, this would be exactly that,” Bloomberg said. “Homegrown maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.”
From the AP via Fox News:
A Pakistan-born U.S. citizen accused of driving a bomb-laden SUV into Times Square and parking it on a street lined with restaurants and Broadway theaters was to appear in court Tuesday to face charges that he tried to set off a massive fireball and kill Americans, federal authorities said.The suspect, Faisal Shahzad, was taken into custody late Monday by FBI agents and New York Police Department detectives at Kennedy Airport while trying to board a flight to Dubai, according to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and other officials. He was identified by customs agents and stopped before boarding, Holder said early Tuesday in Washington.
It turns out Bloomberg was wrong again. Will he apologize? I doubt it. He’s too busy with other things, like pushing for idiotic regulations in NYC such as restricting salt or some other nanny state non-sense. Man, don’t you wish Rudy was back? May be someone should put up a billboard in NYC with that.
(H/t Memeo)
Editor’s Note – Jim Lagnese is an ex-New Yorker.
Libertarian Party candidate to run on Republican line in California – Congress, San Jose area
From Eric Dondero:
As reported here at Libertarian Republican earlier, Edward Gonzalez is taking a unique road to Congress. He is the Libertarian Party nominee for Congress against ultra-liberal incumbent Democrat Rep. Zoe Lofgren. But he’s also seeking the Republican nomination.
From Offshoreinn.com:
Edward Gonzalez is in a unique position in California District 16 which includes San Jose and Silicon Valley. There are no Republicans running in the primary, yet he is running as the Libertarian candidate. California allows one person to run on multiple tickets.Here is an explanation from Gonzalez…
Hi Mish,The primary is June 8th. I am currently on the ballot as a Libertarian, running against an incumbent democrat, Zoe Lofgren. There is no Republican on the ballot, so I have also submitted myself to be the write-in candidate for the Republican Party. I need 2,053 Republicans to write me in. I have over 50 volunteers helping, each walking their own neighborhood with my postcards. If I get the write-ins, I will appear on the general election ballot as a Libertarian/Republican.
Thank you for the support.
Sincerely,
Edward Gonzalez
Note – in New York, Warren Redlich has won the Libertarian nomiantion for Governor, and is also seeking the Republican nomination. Also, Dino LaVerghetta is seeking both the Libertarian and Republican lines for Congress, on the upper Eastside of Manhattan.
Texas on top for Business yet again
Thank the Fiscal Conservative climate set by the States’ Elected Republicans
From Eric Dondero:
Number one again. The Lone Star State has just been rated as “America’s best state in which to do business.” And my homestate scored that distinction far above all others.
The Republican Party of Texas reports:
The Lone Star State stands alone as America’s best state in which to do business. That’s how more than 600 CEOs across America rate Texas. Chief Executive Magazine polled a total of 651 corporate CEOs, who, for the fifth year in a row, gave Texas top honors for the state’s openness to business, our reasonable regulatory environment, the level of taxation, quality of our workforce and living environment.
Republican Party of Texas Chairman Cathie Adams commented on the findings:
“Texas’ unrivaled success over the past several years is no accident. Texans are can-do people who maximize our freedoms to pursue the American dream. And conservative governance, led by Gov. Rick Perry and our Republican statewide officeholders and legislature, is our secret to empowering Texans. Under Republican leadership, Texas keeps government out of the way by keeping our government small, our regulatory system predictable, our reformed tort system fair, and our tax burden on families and businesses among the lowest in the nation. This all translates into one thing Texans need:
Jobs.”
“Big Government kills Jobs, Period!”
Added Republican Party spokesman Bryan Preston:
“When you look at the Chief Executive list, after you see Texas on top again, it’s hard not to notice who’s at the bottom. The states where the entrenched Democrat left has grown government the most are also the states that are the least friendly to business. And they all happen to have the highest unemployment rates, too. It’s clear that in those states, Democrat leaders care more about a whole bunch of other issues than about fostering free enterprise. Big government kills jobs, period.”
The top states to do business:
Texas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Nevada, Florida, Georgia, Colorado, Utah and South Carolina.
The big losers in the survey:
California, New York, Michigan, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Illinois.
See the full list here.
Get rid of the Capital Gains Tax, just abolish the Sucker
New from Dan Mitchell, Senior Fellow for the Cato Institute
The correct capital gains tax rate is zero because there should be no double taxation of income that is saved and invested.
Answering E.J. Dionne of WaPo, Who’s calling Who Predjudiced?
by Clifford F. Thies, Senior Editor
E.J. Dionne’s op-ed “Tory Lessons for Republicans” would be a joke if the guy wasn’t a profound thinker about things political. He starts by asking how can the Republican Party be the party of the Big Tent when, in Florida, former Speaker of the House of Representatives Marco Rubio was so far ahead of Governor Charlie Christ in the race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator, that Christ re-registered so as to run for the Senate as an independent?
In today’s GOP, someone like Cameron would be condemned as a big-government sellout and buried under a mountain of tea bags. For even as the news in Britain focused on Cameron’s comeback courtesy of his effort to detoxify the Conservative Party brand, the political news here was Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s decision to abandon the Republicans and run for the U.S. Senate as an independent.
Could it be that, in the Republican Party, the candidate who better connects with the party’s base will win the nomination, without regard to the fact that the candidate is a Roman Catholic, an Hispanic American, the son of immigrants to our country, whose parents who worked in jobs such as bartender and hotel maid?
Dionne then derides Republicans for passing a law in Arizona what he characterizes as anti-immigrant. Well, what does Rubio say about that legislation? He says, “I think aspects of the law, especially that dealing with ‘reasonable suspicion,’ are going to put our law enforcement officers in an incredibly difficult position. It could also unreasonably single out people who are here legally, including many American citizens.” So, on this legislation, Rubio shares the opinions of Dionne, yet Dionne wants to characterize the Republicans as monolethic on the issue. Rubio is an inconvenient Republican, just like the African Americans who join in the Tea Parties, and the women, starting with Sarah Palin, who are emerging as the real leaders of our party. Dionne has his idea of what a Republican is, and he’s not going to let Rubio get in the way.
Dionne also derides Republicans for not endorsing the welfare state. He says we Republicans should be more like the Conservatives of Great Britain. Dionne is apparently unaware of the reform of the welfare state proposed by center-right parties throughout the world. The issue is how to fashion social insurance. Will it be, as in Chile, actuarilty-sound, pro-work and pro-saving, and run by the private-sector? Or, will it be pay-as-you-go, undermine work and saving, and be run by a government bureaucracy? For Dionne to bring up the U.K. Conservative Party while criticizing the U.S. Republican Party on this matter means he is as ignorant of what the British Conservatives are proposing as he is of the American Republicans.
Dionne then concludes by saying Latinos now know why it is important to vote this fall. He doesn’t mean so Hispanics like Rubio can be elected to the U.S. Senate. No, he means, reflexively, Hispanics will vote Democratic. Hispanics, in Dionne’s mind, don’t think like White People where some are liberal and some are conservative, while others are neither. For elitist liberals like E.J. Dionne, making broad generalizations about people based on their gender, race or ethnicity is considered to be profound thinking.
Faisal Shahzad in the libertarian media, Leftwing libertarians mostly ignore
Commentary and repoting on the World’s now most famous Pakistani Islamic Terrorist has been light for the most part in the libertarian media, and particularly scarse on the leftside of the libertarian movement.
Reason has one single Hit & Run post by Radley Balko where he offers short snarky commentary making fun of all sides, in a “Round-up” of other reporting from major media on Shahzad.
LewRockwell.com has a bizarre post “Did Alan Greenspan cause the Semibombing in Times Square?”:
Knappster has no blog entries on the NYC Bombing. Though, Knappster has informed us that his other blog has covered the story:
The Libertarian Party at www.lp.org has no reporting on the Terrorist attack.
AntiWar.com has re-posts of articles from major media on the Terrorist Bombing, but no Blog posts from Eric Garris in their Blog section.
Kudos to Doug Mataconis at BelowTheBeltway.com. He is running an article, “Faisal Shahzad Charged With Five Counts Related To Attempted Times Square Bombing.”
Cato@Liberty Blog has no posts directly on the Terrorist Attack. Though, Julian Sanchez curiously has a well-timed piece on surveillance cameras in Times Square, “The City that Never Blinks.” Sanchez makes no mention in the piece of Shahzad or Islamic Terrorism.
The Liberty Papers has no stories at all on the Bombing. Rather, they saw fit to highlight the 40th Anniversary of the Kent State Massacre as their headliner.
Of course, the Right Libertarian media has taken an entirely different tact. Articles galore at Left Coast Rebel, Right Guy, Atlas Shrugs, The Other McCain, HotAir.com.