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May 6, 2009 By Fausta

Time for an afternoon roundup

Todd Bensman, who’s been my podcast guest, has a new report on US companies that still host terrorist websites. Any sign the US government will actually make them stop?

Victor Davis Hanson writes on Illegal Immigration realities

My gut feeling is that integration, intermarriage, and assimilation even may be going on far more slowly in progressive Palo Alto than is true of more conservative Selma and Fresno. I’m sure the sophisticated exec here can make the argument that “I’m not social engineering with my children!”, but there is something nonetheless odd about hyper-liberalism in the abstract, and 1950s segregation in the concrete.

Hanson’s experience matches mine, but I’ll post on that some other time.

Betsy explains How not to fire a teacher, and she includes this mind-boggling flow chart on all the necessary steps for the LA School District to fire a teacher, which they don’t.

Speaking of education, here’s a A Huge Serving of Academia Nuts, along with a link to the FIRE Report: Public Universities Overwhelmingly Violate First Amendment.

wsv-783361Maria sent The Suffering of Abu Zubaydah. Play Abu the world’s smallest violin when he turns up somewhere.

It’s snowing all over the world. Must be that illegal weather Tim Blair’s talking about.

Also at Tim Blair, a photo of the interior of the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car, which appears to be the size of an iPod Nano. Coincidence?

Via Larwyn, The “Madman theory of the presidency”, exposited by the excellent Doug Ross.

Yes, it’s Wednesday and I can use words like “exposited.”

White House puts UAW ahead of property rights, via Instapundit. Look for the union label, says Neoneocon. It’s enough to make Obi’s Sister post about the bully in the big chair.

The Non-TARP Lenders Aren’t Making Stories of White House Pressure Up; That Means Establishment Media Will Investigate, Right? Not So Far

Via Maggie, John Bolton has an op-ed at the WaPo on Obama’s prosecutions by proxy

Despite uncertainties here, developments overseas proceed apace. Spanish Magistrate Baltasar Garzón opened a formal investigation last week of six Bush administration lawyers for their roles in advising on interrogation techniques. Garzón did so over the objections of Spain’s attorney general, as he did in 1998 in proceeding against former Chilean president Augusto Pinochet. Under Spain’s inquisitorial judicial system, Garzón is essentially unaccountable, whatever the views of Spain’s elected government.

Asked repeatedly about Garzón’s investigation, the State Department has said only that it is a matter for the Spanish judicial system. Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder went further, implying that the Obama administration could cooperate.

Bottom line, When a U.S. attorney general helps a foreign judge hunt down U.S. officials for carrying out America’s defense policies, it threatens our very sovereignty.

Via Larwyn, Discovered: 200 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

Stratford on The Geopolitics of Pandemics

Gerard introduces a proposal: The Slipstream Media: Creating a New American Network – Part 1

Danelle sent a slide show of some of the ugliest clothes on the runway. Turbans? We don’t need no stinkin’ turbans!

As if all of this wasn’t enough to give you indigestion, Dan has Tacqeaux with dijon mustard!?

Jules put up the All You Need Is Love roundup (generous person that I am, I include it here even when he didn’t include any of my posts. I’m that nice). All that love is very well and good but I also need good shoes, tango and a sandwich.

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