Virginia Right!

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week, carved eternally in the akashic records of cyberspace. Last Sunday was the tenth anniversary of 9/11, and this weeks winner, Bookworm Room’s Honoring 9/11 By Remembering We Are Warriors focused like a lazer on an important and often […]

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Cong. Paul does so much better when he is interviewed by those who give him time to explain his positions.  The 30 to 90 second sound bite is difficult to explain the theory of liberty.  I find myself wondering:  Is it better to listen to the debate or catch up later?  I also find myself […]

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I’m having an R. Lee Ermy GEICO, “Tissue?” moment after reading this opinion piece on CNN. Apparently, life has been hell for this muslim since 9/11 .  He feels that people eye him suspiciously.  Sure, he admits that 9/11 was a terrible thing, but he’s in the camp that calls the hijackers a crazed minority.  Missing from his storyare any references to the Fort Dix 6, Christmas Day Bomber, Daniel Pearl’s beheading, the incineration of the American contractors in Iraq, Major Hassan and the Ft. Hood massacre, and numerous other terrorist incidents carried out or attempted by more than just a few extremists. Some people have clearly decided that 9/11 gives them the right to persecute Muslims. And as a result, we are all collectively paying for the sins of terrorists — a radical, crazy few who just happen to share the same religious background. I’m sorry, but I don’t recall any stories about muslim persecution, or if there were any, they are very few and isolated.  Considering what some muslims have done to us, brutal, heinous things, that restraint can only be characterized as remarkable. He’s …

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