After Dr. Jen Gunter took George Will to task for his column calling sexual assault victims a “coveted status,” today she dismantles his response quibbling with the official rape statistics.
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A Heritage Foundation panel event on Benghazi (seemingly about as big a clown show as you could imagine) broke down into taunts and name-calling at Muslim woman in attendance. We join Dana Milbank’s report in progress …
Then Saba Ahmed, an American University law student, stood in the back of the room and asked a question in a soft voice. “We portray Islam and all Muslims as bad, but there’s 1.8 billion followers of Islam,” she told them. “We have 8 million-plus Muslim Americans in this country and I don’t see them represented here.”
Panelist Brigitte Gabriel of a group called ACT! for America pounced. She said “180 million to 300 million” Muslims are “dedicated to the destruction of Western civilization.” She told Ahmed that the “peaceful majority were irrelevant” in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and she drew a Hitler comparison: “Most Germans were peaceful, yet the Nazis drove the agenda and as a result, 60 million died.”
The Israeli daily Haaretz is reporting on a new poll showing a decline in support among the Israeli public for West Bank settlers and the settlements themselves. Haaretz says the pollsters who conducted this survey and six identical ones going back to six years show “a drastic decline in public support for settlers since 2009.”
I was offline much of the day. But I wanted to thank you. We got past the 2/3 milestone this afternoon, 2/3 of the way to our signup goal for our 6 week membership drive. Thank you. If you can spare a moment to take the plunge, click here.
As Dylan Scott notes in this morning’s piece, we haven’t been hearing too much about Obamacare recently. In large part, that’s because the doom-predicting news reports that serve as the fossil fuels powering the anti-Obamacare clown show have been in short supply. In fact we seem to have blown past Peak Clown and onto a genuine Clown Show scarcity crisis. Today Dylan some of the good news that’s driving the scarcity: In every state so far, more insurers are asking to participate in Obamacare in year two than in year one. A simple fact that speaks louder than all the speculative metrics.
He’s got a helluva challenge on his hands if he’s going to come back and beat Chris McDaniel. But Thad Cochran at least seems to be making a fight of it on TV. Here’s a new TV* ad which has what appear to be various off color remarks from a radio show McDaniel used to host: lots of talk about ‘hookers and blow for everyone’, female candidates who are “using her breasts to run for office.” Not totally shocking for what you hear on talk radio. But maybe a problem for a would-be United States Senator. Here’s the ad after the jump …
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Today is the 239th birthday/anniversary of the creation of the United States Army. The Marines are every-so-slightly younger. Theirs comes up in November. What has always struck me – though it makes sense – is that the Army (as are the Marines) is slightly older than the country itself, just over a year.