By Debbie Schlussel
**** UPDATE: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales denies these reports, which he says are completely false. He says that he only met with Marsden once, that she was never his girlfriend. He also says that he never edits Wikipedia entries, that when Rachel Marsden contacted him before they ever met, complaining about her entry on Wikipedia, that he sent it to an independent committee of Wikipedia editors, and that he had nothing to do with it. Based on what he’s said, I find his case very credible, and I believe him. ****
I almost never link to Wikipedia. The site is bunk, pure fiction. And it’s anti-conservative. In the few instances in which accurate info is actually posted there, the person who posted it gets marked for “vandalism”–while the entry reverts to its original fiction because some dopey slacker guy self-appointed “editor” smoking a doobie doesn’t like it.
That is, unless you’re sleeping with the guy in charge, Jimmy Wales.
Wikipedia founder and chief, Wales, got caught doctoring his girlfriend’s, er . . . ex-girlfriend’s entry on Wikipedia, and didn’t admit it until he was outed by a number of online websites and got caught. **** UPDATE: Wales says Marsden was never his girlfriend and that an independent committee of Wikipedia editors reviwed and changed her entry, not him. ****

Is Wikipedia’s Wales Sleeping w/ Plagiarist “Dr.” Monica Crowley, Too?
Wales’ ex-girlfriend, pseudo-conservative Rachel Marsden, falsely accused one man–a swimming coach she was harassing–of rape. Initially, he lost his job over it. Another man, she stalked and then hijacked and monitored his e-mail account. But you’ll read a much more sanitized version of that on her Wikipedia entry (yes, in this rare instance I’m linking to Wikipedia). That’s because Wales–while sleeping with her–secretly changed and “cleaned it up” to her liking. **** UPDATE: Wales says Marsden was never his girlfriend, that he only met up with her once, and that an independent committee of Wikipedia editors reviwed and changed her entry, not him–and that it was done before he ever met her in person. ****
And strangely, the same thing has happened with another pseudo-conservative, Monica Crowley, who claimed that as a teenager she was a foreign policy advisor to Richard Nixon. (Uh-huh. Who needs Kissinger when you have little (then teen-aged) Monica?) Oh, and there’s that little issue of a whole article that Monica Crowley plagiarized that ran in the Wall Street Journal in 1999. The Journal apologized and never ran Crowley’s “work” again. That’s because “Dr.” Monica Crowley actually didn’t know enough about her former boss (on whom she “wrote” several books), Nixon, so she ripped off word-for-word an article written by the great British conservative writer Paul Johnson.
Since then, several prominent parties–including a former conservative professor of hers who actually did, in fact, advise several Presidents–have raised questions about whether her Ph.D. thesis and books on Nixon were fabricated and plagiarized. And I believe that they are. (Since she’s better looking than Jayson Blair, she’s gotten away with it.)
But that’s not how it reads in Wikipedia. That’s because apparently Crowley, herself, lied and doctored her Wikipedia entry, sanitizing it to claim that she only copied one phrase, “with credit,” when in fact, she knows that she copied five whole passages, as documented by former Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Timothy Noah, here and here. Unfortunately, whenever anyone edits Crowley’s Wikipedia entry to reflect the truth–that she actually did steal a whole article from Paul Johnson and presented it as her own work–the edits are labeled as “vandalism” and the changes are erased. Check the discussion section of her entry, and you’ll see the complaints about this. Ditto for the link to Noah’s 2nd article on Monica Crowley’s blatant plagiarism, which Monica and her Wiki friends keep deleting and labeling “vandalism.”
So, is Monica Crowley sleeping with Jimmy Wales, too? Don’t put it past her. Remember, she stole from Paul Johnson. So her morals aren’t exactly “conservative” ones (conservatives believe in property rights, remember? liberals believe in usurping for the common Monica “good”). She’s not a conservative. She just plays one on TV . . . and rips one (or more) off in print, then lies about it.
These are the passages Crowley stole from Paul Johnson, as documented by Timothy Noah. Do you believe that Wikipedia’s/Monica Crowley’s claim that she only copied two words from Johnson is correct?:

From Paul Johnson’s “In Praise of Richard Nixon,” Commentary, October 1988:
“There was none of the personal corruption which had marked the rule of Lyndon Johnson, let alone the gross immoralities and security risks of John F. Kennedy’s White House.”
From Crowley’s “The Day Nixon Said Goodbye,” Wall Street Journal, August 9, 1999:
“There was none of the personal corruption that had marked the rule of Lyndon Johnson or the base immoralities and outrageous security risks of the Kennedy and Clinton White Houses.”
Johnson:
“Nixon … consistently underestimated the unscrupulousness of his media enemies and their willingness to sacrifice the national interest in the pursuit of their institutional vendetta.”
Crowley:
“Nixon, though always suspicious of his political enemies, consistently underestimated their ruthlessness and willingness to sacrifice the national interest in the pursuit of their institutional vendetta.”
Johnson:
“So great was the inequity of Nixon’s downfall that future historians may well conclude he would have been justified in allowing events to take their course and in subjecting the nation to the prolonged paralysis of a public impeachment, which at least would have given him the opportunity to defend himself by due process of law. But once again his patriotism took precedence over his self-interest …”
Crowley:
“Given the inequity of Nixon’s downfall, historians may yet determine that he would have been justified in allowing events to take their course and subjecting the country to a prolonged process of impeachment, which would have given him the chance to defend himself by due process of law. His allegiance to the country, however, overrode his political self-interest.”
Johnson:
Characterizes the 1960 election as “one of the most corrupt elections of modern times.”
Crowley:
Characterizes the 1960 election as “one of the most corrupt elections of modern times.”
[This assertion, unlike the others, has some merit, and it’s possible the two arrived at the phrase independent of one another; but given the other examples cited here, that likelihood is not great.]
Johnson:
“By a curious paradox Richard Nixon was one of the very few people who emerged from the Watergate affair with credit.”
Crowley:
“Ironically, Nixon was one of the few people who emerged from Watergate with credit …”
[Johnson is British, Crowley American; why would she, on her own, use a Britishism like “with credit”?]

As Timothy Noah reports, the Wall Street Journal clearly thought Crowley ripped Paul Johnson off:

The Journal ran an editor’s note that read as follows: “There are striking similarities in phraseology between “The Day Richard Nixon Said Goodbye,” an editorial feature Monday by Monica Crowley, and a 1988 article by Paul Johnson in Commentary magazine . . . Had we known of the parallels, we would not have published the article.”

I think you can read between the lines.
So, again, I ask: Is Wikipedia dictator Jimmy Wales dating (euphemism) “Dr.” Monica Crowley? And if so, how long until she sells his belongings on ebay the way Rachel Marsden is?
**** UPDATE: Again, Wales says Marsden was never his girlfriend and that an independent committee of Wikipedia editors reviwed and changed her entry, not him. ****

By Debbie Schlussel
Every day it’s published, the front page of the Wall Street Journal has two columns running down the news headlines of the day. These headlines ran on Saturday, and they illustrate with vigor the folly of Israeli policy.
Israel–with U.S. encouragement, and Olmert’s gushing willingness–is pulling no punches to help Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah group, because they “rival” HAMAS. But while Israel allows Russian tanks to go to its “former” (and, actually, current and eternal) enemy, Fatah, in the Palestinian Authority, Fatah is in reunification talks with HAMAS. Yup, it’s not such a “rivalry.” And while this particular set of reunification talks failed, sooner or later–probably sooner– they will reunite. The only thing they hate more than each other is us–Jews, Christians, Westerners, Israelis.
And when they re-unite, guess who will have those Russian tanks to use against Israel–the tanks that Israel just allowed in to the Palestinian Authority? HAMAS. That’s who. So when a headline says Israel is allowing tank delivery in “a bid to aid Abbas,” aid him for what? He’s clearly trying to get back with his old boyfriend, HAMAS. And like a jilted lover of a diseased paramour, Israel keeps courting him for yet another case of crabs. Or is that, syphilis?

By Debbie Schlussel
I’ve never liked Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan Democrat/Republican speechwriter, Peggy Noonan. I find her to be phony, full of air, and, frankly, she says a whole lot of nothin’. An Empress with No Clothing, whose hype you just can’t believe.
Noonan’s incessant gushing over people for whom she wants to become the next speechwriter is beyond gauche. I remember once how she was on a Detroit radio station and the interviewer could not get her to start the interview, because she was so busy gushing over morbidly obese, tax-raising, then-Republican Governor John Engler. You got the impression that even she didn’t believe the fertilizer coming out of her mouth. Redhead Peggy Noonan reminds me of another redheaded phony–the redhead heckler of Jerry Seinfeld on “Seinfeld” episodes–the gushing woman who gets the publishing job Elaine wanted, out of sympathy because she lost her pinky toe.

Peggy Noonan: Obama Gusher Lies About Rev. Wright/Obama’s Church
And Peggy Noonan’s gushing is not only phony, it’s not correct. I remember how she gushed over Al Gore’s choice of an Orthodox Jew for his Veep nominee. As a religious Jew, I was embarrassed by her incessant gushing about this alleged huge civil rights achievement. It was a lot of BS. Then, there was her column after 9/11, claiming that now, once and for all, machismo was back and feminist man-hating was out. Guys, do you feel–6.5 years later–that Peggy Noonan was right, just because some fireman and police officers got our respect on 9/11? Is your wife/girlfriend/daughter treating you better? Didn’t think so.
Now, Peggy Noonan–ever the phony she’s always been–is apparently yearning to become an Obama speechwriter. On Saturday, she wrote in the Wall Street Journal praising Obama’s Throw Granny Under the Bus speech, incessantly. And yesterday, she excused Obama and his church by telling Tim Russert, on “Meet the Press” that, if you watch the video, Obama’s church elders sitting behind Wright looked bored and didn’t praise him when he delivered his sermons and that the church attendees sitting in the audience also looked bored and in disagreement with Rev. Wright’s sermons.
Um, is there anyone who agrees with this delusional assessment? If you do, please watch these brief ABC News and FOX News videos, below, and tell me if the church elders or members look bored and in disagreement with Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s hate . . . or do they look like they are jumping up and down in agreement with him? I don’t wear contacts, so maybe it is I–not completely lying and delusional Peggy Noonan, the uber-gusher–who is wrong. Do their enthusiastic cheers sounds like “boredom” or “disagreement” to you?
Please do tell . . .


Peggy Noonan will be whatever she thinks the person who will help her most wants her to be (kinda like Barack Hussein Obama). That’s why she’s now falling all over herself about Barack Obama and Rev. Wright’s parishioners, lying about how they cheered Wright on. That’s why several years ago, she gushed all over Oprah on her show and all over working moms in O Magazine.
But Oprah-dom didn’t work out for her, just like roly-poly ex-Michigan Gov. John Engler didn’t.
So, now she’s on the Obama Obandwagon. But don’t listen to a single thing she says. It simply ain’t credible . . . if you believe what you see (versus what she claims you should see).

By Debbie Schlussel
**** SCROLL DOWN FOR HILARIOUS VIDEOS OF KWAME “THE KINGPIN” AND HIS CRAZY FAMILY****
**** LIVE UPDATE, 11:15 a.m.: The Jig Is Up. Prosecutor Kym Worthy announces charges–a 12-Count Criminal Complaint–against Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and extramarital girlfriend/ex-chief of staff Christine Beatty for Conspiracy, Obstruction of Justice, Misconduct in Office, Perjury in a Court Proceeding, Perjury Other Than a Court Proceeding–All Felonies. She Threw the Book at The Kingpin Pimp-Daddy Mayor. Good News. But Wait for the Trial, Where Johnny Cochran/O.J. Tactics Will Grossly Manifest. ****
It’s big news here in Michigan. Today, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy will announce her decision on whether she is prosecuting liberal Democrat Detroit Mayor Kwame “The Kingpin” Kilpatrick for lying under oath. For background, read my column on this, “On Detroit’s Lying Pimp-Daddy Mayor and His Latest Scandal.”

Kwame “The Kingpin” Kilpatrick, Detroit’s Pimp-Daddy-Thug-in-Chief:
Will He Face Justice? UPDATE: YES.

Prosecutor Kym Worthy Also Charged
Kilpatrick’s Ex-Chief of Staff/Lover Christine Beatty w/ Multiple Felonies

Mike Cox: GOP’s Islamo-Pandering Michigan Attorney General
Covered Up Mayor’s Crimes, Tamara Greene Murder
As I’ve written, this isn’t just about lying under oath. It’s about a party that took place at the Manoogian Mayoral Mansion, at which two strippers performed, and were later assassinated. It’s about a cover-up of that party and the later drive-by shooting of one of those strippers, Tamara Greene a/k/a “Strawberry” by police bullets. It’s about the Mayor’s Ms. Thang wife, Carlita Kilpatrick, walking in on Strawberry en flagrante delicto with the Thuggish, Pan-Islamist Mayor (many of whose family members are in the Nation of Islam) and beating the stripper with a baseball bat, giving her a concussion (for which the stripper was rushed to the hospital), and the subsequent cover-up.
And, more importantly to me, it’s about a corrupt, lying Republican Michigan Attorney General, Mike Cox, who claims to be a conservative, but is just another operator in the same Wayne County political machine as the liberal Democrat Detroit Mayor. Republican Attorney General, Cox, covered up the party, what happened there, and the resulting execution-style assassination of two strippers who performed there. And Cox stopped Michigan State Police at every turn as they tried to investigate–all while he called it “an urban legend that never happened” (which he knows is false).
That’s called “obstruction of justice,” one of the crimes for which Mayor Kilpatrick may have to stand trial. But Mike Cox won’t stand for trial for his cover-up. And now, Cox is running for Governor (the site MikeCoxforGovernor.com has been reserved by his apparatus). The Michigan Republican primary will be his trial. All of the voters in Michigan can be self-appointed jurors by voting in that trial.
Don’t forget that Cox is also the man who pandered to a Hezbollah agent of the Government of Iran and other Islamist supporters of terrorism as he sought re-election, and allowed illegal aliens to get Michigan Driver’s Licenses for five years. He also allowed Muslim alien women to continue to defraud Medicaid to have their children here, and allowed them to leave the country before he put out meaningless warrants for their arrest. Even worse, he took actions to tip off these women and their American helpers that they were under investigation, so they would avoid future detection. The guy is a sleazebag, as much as the Detroit Mayor is.
And this story is also about prosecutor Kym Worthy. Will she throw the book at Kilpatrick? All signs and indications–she talks about a lot of “paperwork”–are that she will charge him with something, but will it be a slap on the hand? Probably not. Why? Well, the Black Worthy has to run for re-election in a largely White county (but for Detroit and a few Black suburbs). So, she really has no choice but to do the right thing and pursue Kilpatrick for his very serious crimes, and I predict that she will.
On the other hand, let us not forget that Kym Worthy is a completely politically-motivated prosecutor, and in many cases, that motivation has been led by the race card.
In the late ’90s Worthy ruined the lives of two Detroit cops who went after and arrested a crack cocaine-addicted alleged drug dealer, Malice Green. Green was Black. The two cops, Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn, were White. They chased this man, who was (crack)coked up to the nth at the time (plus he had alcohol in his system), and he had a heart attack and died. Oh, and that was after he tried to grab Larry Nevers’ gun while resisting arrest.
Yet, their lives were made miserable ever after for doing their jobs. And their tormentor was Worthy. Had they been Black cops or Malice Green a White coked up decedent, none of that would have happened. Instead, Worthy charged both of these cops with murder. And in a circus of a trial like you’ve never seen, they were predictably convicted, or–to be frank–railroaded and sent to prison. And Larry Nevers got cancer.
It was the reverse O.J. trial–White guys convicted on the “murder” of a Black victim, without much evidence to support it. But the message was the same as that sent by the O.J. not guilty verdict: “Let’s show Whitey. We gotcha.”
The “trial” show Worthy put on was so beyond the pale of a fair trial that Federal Judge Lawrence Zatkoff threw out the convictions and ordered new trials for the men. He wrote page after page in his decision about Worthy’s racially-motivated shenanigans against these two men. Officer Nevers wrote a book about the rotten deal he received, “Good Cops, Bad Verdict.”
So, will Worthy play the race card today and merely charge Kwame “The Kingpin” with misdemeanors, which will enable him to retain office, even if he does not beat the charges? Or will she do the right thing and throw the book at this thug with no conscience–a man who likely ordered the murders of two strippers and for certain ordered the firing of the two (Black) cops investigating the goings on at the Manoogian Mansion?
Even if Worthy charges the Pimp-Daddy Mayor with the toughest possible charges for his crimes, Kwame “The Kingpin” Kilpatrick is already a martyr in the eyes of racist (against White people) Detroiters who re-elected him with a wide margin, once he played the race card on them, and they responded like trained Pavlov’s dogs. They’ve already said in poll after poll that, were his re-election held today, they’d vote him back into the Manoogian Mansion in droves. So, he must go to jail to be done. We shall see if that happens. I’m not holding my White cracker breath.
I reported the scoops on this case on my top-rated Detroit radio show in 2003, a full year before it surfaced in Detroit’s “mainstream” media. And I’ll be following Ms. Worthy’s statements today, closely.
Stay Tuned. Again, for background, read my extensive column on this matter.
And remember, despite his sudden calls for Kilpatrick to resign and announcement that he will reopen the investigation he stopped cold, Republican Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is as much to blame for the cover-up of this whole set of episodes as the dishonest, thuggish Mayor of Detroit it.
Neither of them should be holding office, today, let alone (for Cox) seeking the Michigan gubernatorial slot in 2010.
***
Fortunately, for the good citizens of Michigan, a good man–my friend, Bill Schuette–has announced he will not seek re-elected to the Michigan Court of Appeals, where he has issued excellent opinions.
The rumor is that Schuette will seek the Republican nomination for the Attorney General slot. But he may also oppose Cox and others in running for the open gubernatorial slot. I am proud to have known Bill Schuette (pronounced “Shoo-Tee”) since I was a teenager and worked on Capitol Hill. He is a good conservative, a decent man with a solid conscience, and, in Congress, was an unabashed, strong supporter of Israel who defeated an anti-Semitic incumbent liberal Democrat. I will support hiim for whatever office he seeks, as Michigan is fortunate to have him. Plus, the independently wealthy Schuette has deep pockets to self-finance a viable campaign.
I can’t wait until he runs for higher office . . . and until Mike Cox is gone from it.
***
My favorite part of this story is that extremist Osama Siblani–Shi’ite Muslim publisher of the Arab American News, open supporter of Hezbollah and HAMAS (he praised them at Hezbollah rallies and elsewhere), and identified as an agent of Hezbollah by Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Seyassah–is all over Detroit TV, saying that he’s calling for Kilpatrick’s resignation.
PUH-LEEZE.

Osama Siblani:
Hezbollah’s American Agent Hung w/ Kwame “The Kingpin” Kilpatrick
Siblani and the Muslims in town were in bed with Kilpatrick for the last five years, taking him to Dubai on a lavish trip, getting him to make Dubai a sister city of Detroit, and getting him to agree to nix profiling of Muslim illegal aliens by Detroit Police, making Detroit a sanctuary city for them.
Siblani’s crocodile tears over Kilpatrick now are pure, oozing snake oil.
**** UPDATE: Watch These Funny Short Videos of Detroit Mayor, Kwame “the Kingpin” Kilpatrick and his psychotic Mommy, the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel Democrat Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (FYI, Steve Wilson and Ray Sayah are Detroit investigative reporters; Sayah’s now left town) . . .



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By Debbie Schlussel
Looks like I was totally on target when I named New England Patriots QB Tom Brady as 2007 DebbieSchlussel.com Woman of the Year.
And this year is not much better for him. First, he goes from the whole press coronating him as all-time football great forever to losing the Superbowl to the New York Giants. And now, he’s been reduced to playing errand chick for supermodel girlfriend (actually, she’s apparently the man in the relationship now) Gisele Bundchen, going to pick up her fanmail (and opening it–nice). Wow, that’s kinda shabby work for a multi-millionaire who was this close to winning his gazillionth Superbowl.
And what’s more, he enlists a New York cop to protect him from the dangerous “criminals” videotaping him. Let’s hear it for cleaning up New York’s streets from “violent criminals” with video cameras and paychecks from TMZ.

Woman of the Year, Tom Brady:
Shallowest Puddle on the New England Sidewalk & Now Gisele’s Errand Boy
Watch the hilarious video (the photogs’ comments are what make it, so turn your sound up). Best line: “Hey, Tom, [New York Giants player Michael] Strahan’s around the block.”
TMZ asks: “Tom [Brady] or Tony [Romo], Who Wears the Biggest Skirt?”
Indeed.
Exit Question: How long ’til she sends him out to buy tampons . . . or has that already taken place long ago?
I vote the latter.

By Debbie Schlussel
I love the story of Magdi Allam, the pro-Israel, anti-HAMAS, non-practicing Muslim, who, today, was converted by the Pope to Catholicism. He represents the fact that the only “moderate” Muslims are non-practicing ones and former ones.
Magdi Allam is brave, indeed, as his life has already been in danger for his courageous views, but now, he’s become the ultimate apostate, converting away from Islam at the hands of the Pope and in a publicly broadcast ceremony:

Italy’s most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter service.

An Egyptian-born, non-practicing Muslim who is married to a Catholic, Magdi Allam infuriated some Muslims with his books and columns in the newspaper Corriere della Sera newspaper, where he is a deputy editor. He titled one book “Long Live Israel.”
As a choir sang, Pope Benedict XVI poured holy water over Allam’s head and said a brief prayer in Latin. . . .
Vatican Television zoomed in on Allam, who sat in the front row of the basilica along with six other candidates for baptism. He later received his first Communion.
Allam, 55, told the newspaper Il Giornale in a December interview that his criticism of Palestinian suicide bombing provoked threats on his life in 2003, prompting the Italian government to provide him with a sizable security detail. . . .
Allam, who has a young son with his Catholic wife and two adult children from a previous relationship, indicated in the Il Giornale interview that he would have no problem converting to Christianity. He said he had even received Communion once – when he was 13 or 14 – “even though I knew it was an act of blasphemy, not having been baptized.”
He did not speak to the press Saturday and his newspaper said it had no information about his conversion.
Allam said in the interview that he had made a pilgrimage to Mecca, as is required of all Muslims, with his deeply religious mother in 1991, although he was not otherwise observant.
“I was never practicing,” he was quoted as saying. “I never prayed five times a day, facing Mecca. I never fasted during Ramadan.”
Allam also explained his decision to title a recent book “Viva Israele” by saying he wrote it after he received death threats from Hamas.
“Having been condemned to death, I have reflected a long time on the value of life. And I discovered that behind the origin of the ideology of hatred, violence and death is the discrimination against Israel. Everyone has the right to exist except for the Jewish state and its inhabitants,” he said. “Today, Israel is the paradigm of the right to life.”
In 2006, Allam was a co-winner, with three other journalists, of the $1 million Dan David prize, named for an Israeli entrepreneur. Allam was cited for “his ceaseless work in fostering understanding and tolerance between cultures.”

Sadly, he is among the infinitesmally tiny fraction of Muslims who think this way. And like I said, he epitomizes that this tiny fraction is either non-practicing and completely assimilated or converted away, as he has just now become.
Congrats to Mr. Allam, and may more of your former fellow co-religionists join you in ideology and faith.

By Debbie Schlussel
Sometimes you have to use stick figures and drawings of a kid to illustrate things. In this case, even a kid understands what the mainstream media apparently don’t want to understand, regarding what Barack Hussein Obama did to his grandmother. Short, sweet, and to the point:

Thanks to reader Miluimnik for the tip.

By Debbie Schlussel
Today, I’m quoted by the great Spectator columnist Melanie Phillips in the UK’s Spectator:

Americans are aghast at the spectre of Islamist violence in Europe. They had better look to their own. Debbie Schlussel reports that, earlier this week,

four to five Muslims viciously attacked Rabbi Uria Ohana in Brooklyn, New York, while shouting, ‘Allahu Akbar.’ Rabbi Ohana, assistant head rabbi of Chabad-Lubavitch of Massachusetts, was about to get on the F-Train at Fourth Avenue and Ninth Street in Brooklyn. The young Muslim assailants grabbed rabbi Ohana’s yarmulke (skullcap), and when he went to them to get it back, they beat him and shouted, ‘Allahu Akbar.’

This attack on an orthodox Jew in the US follows the murderous onslaught on the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Read the rest.
Thanks, Melanie, for publicizing this important story about Islamofascism’s infestation of America. FYI, Melanie Phillips is the coiner of the term “Londonistan,” the title of her excellent book about Islam’s takeover of Britain.
Then, there’s my Letter to the Editor published in today’s Wall Street Journal about Hezbollah. It was cut almost in half. Read the full version here (and also background about what I was writing about). Here is what ran in today’s Journal:

Suicide Bombers and Revisionist History
Mr. Kendall claims that Hezbollah got its “start struggling for justice for the Palestinians.” He could not be more wrong. Hezbollah, originally known as “The Organization for the Oppressed of the Earth,” was founded in response to Palestinian occupation of Lebanon. At that time — from the mid-1970s until the early 1980s — Palestinians captured and destroyed Shiite (and Christian Lebanese) property and killed the sons and raped the daughters of the Shiites of Southern Lebanon who are now the nucleus of Hezbollah in Lebanon. South Lebanon — today’s Hezbollah sub-state of Lebanon — was then known as Fatah-land, as the PLO dominated it by force — allied with a brutal leftist Lebanese militia, the Morabeitoun, headed by Ibrahim Kleilat. That is why Hezbollah was founded — not in support of the Palestinians who oppressed Hezbollah’s members. To assert otherwise is to engage in myth and revisionism.
Debbie Schlussel

Read the other three letters to the editor on this topic, as they are all very well written and make excellent points.

By Debbie Schlussel
**** SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE ****
Like most normal people, I’m an opponent of polygamy.
But, as I’ve written before, the media in this country, have an incongruous concern and obsession with Christian polygamy (mostly radical offshoots from Mormonism, which long ago outlawed polygamy), while they think Muslim polygamy is just fine–Al-Grrrl Power. We all know about the HBO show “Big Love.” But there’s no show about “Big Jihadi Baby Machine Non-Love.”
Today on Oprah, HRHSBotU [Her Royal Highness Supreme Being of the Universe] Oprah and her pro-HAMAS reporterette, Lisa Ling, spent the whole hour on the horrors of Christian polygamy. Ling said, “I really felt like we were in Iran.” But we heard not a peep about Iran or the rest of the Muslim world, where polygamy and temporary marriages to women for the purpose of sex are commonplace.

Islamofascist Oprah by Preston Taylor Holmes/Six Meat Buffet
Nope. Instead, we heard Oprah tell a Christian man who has three wives that people are upset by this because of the allegations of underage marriage, child abuse, and forced marriage.
Um, are these not symptoms of Muslim polygamy (and even Muslim monagamy)? They are, indeed, and I’ve repeatedly written about all of them. There’s a reason that many Muslim girls are suddenly missing from British elementary schools. And it’s not because they’ve been sent away for forced marriages to Mormons or any kind of Christian.
How many Christians are in polygamous marriages versus millions of Muslims in such relationship, worldwide?
The Oprah episode was deceptively titled, “Polygamy in America.” But there’s plenty of polygamy by Muslims in America, and yet, we didn’t see anything about the multiple wives of men in Dearborn, Minneapolis, etc. Last time I checked those were part of America, er . . . supposed to be part of America.
Why aren’t the latter ridiculed and excoriated by Oprah and Lisa Ling?
We know why: Because, as I’ve documented extensively, Oprah is a vital part of the pan-Islamist propaganda machine.
But this should be instructive to you about Oprah. She holds out this very minor segment of Christianity out to the world (her show airs globally, including in Saudi Arabia) as representative of American Christianity, when we all know that there is only one religion where polygamy is representative.
Hint: It starts with an I, ends with an M, and has an S-L-A in the middle.
When will we see an Oprah show dedicated to the evils of Islamic polygamy?
Oh, yeah . . . NEVER.
**** UPDATE: Reader Barry Popik writes:

How does Oprah do a show called “Polygamy in America” and not show Muslims? No mention of Barack Obama’s polygamist father?
What a dishonest SOB!

Exactly. Only in her case, it’s a dishonest “DOB” . . . we think. But only her doctor and Gail King know for sure.

By Debbie Schlussel
While there are several movies I detest at the movies, this weekend, there’s one I thought was hilarious. Tyler Perry’s “Meet the Browns” was not screened for critics, usually a bad sign:
* “Drillbit Taylor“: This comedy is getting panned by the critics, but I loved it. Finally, a Judd Apatow movie I like. I couldn’t stop laughing–the funniest movie I’ve seen in a long time. It’s the story of three nerds who are bullied and terrorized by an Eminem-style fellow student in high school. They pool the little money they have–including Bar Mitzvah money–to hire a bodyguard. The problem is, the bodyguard is really just a homeless Army deserter, Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), who is scamming them for money and property.
The thing is, Drillbit soon finds he enjoys impersonating a substitute teacher, mingling with the upper middle-class non-homeless, and cares a little bit about the welfare of his “protectees”. And he gives the kids the pride to fight back.

This movie is hilarious, fast-paced, and very entertaining and fun. While it’s aimed at teens and college students, adults out of that age group will enjoy it, too. My one reservation was some of the language, as in a scene where the kids rap, and the rap is very crude. It could have been left out, since it adds nothing to the movie and takes away from the movie’s suitability for younger crowds. They won’t be offended, but their parents will, rightfully, be (and they might object to some of the other language in this movie, too).
This is the only movie I recommend, this weekend. If you liked “Revenge of the Nerds,” chances are you’ll like this.
* “Snow Angels“: This movie was not only very overtly anti-Christian, but it was depressing, pointless, and a statement against small-town/middle America. This is a template for how Hollywood sees Christians and mainstream America.
The story: Kate Beckinsale plays a mother and waitress who formerly babysat another character, a high school student–and that’s the only connection between two almost completely unrelated, but equally boring and uninteresting stories in the movie. Beckinsale is having an affair with a loser married man in her hometown. Meanwhile, her loser estranged husband, a devout Christian, is an unemployed drunk. Beckinsale’s daughter wanders off and dies in a frozen pond. Her estranged husband, while still making prayers to G-d, murders her and commits suicide. The end. Oh, and did you forget–he’s a Christian?
Skip this bigoted, dark waste of time at all cost.

* “Shutter“: A newly-married young American photographer (Joshua Jackson) and his wife (Rachael Taylor) move to Tokyo, Japan, where he is a fashion photographer. They get into a car accident and hit a Japanese girl. Soon, they start seeing her image in all of there photos. They learn that she is dead and is haunting them.
This movie, a remake of a Thai horror film, was so silly and absurd that the test audience who saw it when I did laughed repeatedly (as did I) when we were supposed to be scared. The story is preposterous, as is the ending.
You know “the ugly Americans”? This one shows them in spades. No thanks.
* “Paranoid Park“: Don’t let the cool, ominous-sounding title of this flick fool you. It’s neither cool nor ominous. Just flat out dull. Moves slower than paint drying, and far less exciting than watching it dry.
Sadly, I think this film may be the future of movies. It doesn’t have an ending or resolution, and it barely has a plot. But, hey, it’s about slacker skateboarder losers whose split-up parents are covered in tattoos, so it must be gold, right?
The “story”: A slacker skateboarder who frequents the skater park, called “Paranoid Park,” is questioned by police in the death of a trainyard security guard. The slacker skateboarder did it by accident, and we’re shown the disgustingly graphic scene in which the guard falls under a train, is split in half and–while still alive–crawls with one of the halves. Disgusting.
Other than that, we just see the skateboard slacker moping around, going through the motions of this empty life, and skateboarding. The crime isn’t even solved. The end.
Extreme sports? This movies is also extreme . . . Skipworthy to the extreme.

* “Doomsday“: This debuted, last week, and wasn’t screend for critics. After seeing it on my own, now I know why. It starts out well enough, with all of Scotland infested by a deadly virus, quarantined, and left for dead by the rest of Britain. But 30 years later, a female cop who escaped from there as a child goes back in to find new life and how it survived, since the virus has now spread to other parts of Britain and the Prime Minister (played by a Muslim Arab–how prophetic) seeks a cure for political reasons.
I walked out on this movie, after I watched scary humans bite off and eat the ears of a cop (yes, this is far more gruesome stuff than the Ear of Evander (Holyfield) that Mike Tyson bit), and saw a scene where they were about to cut up and eat alive another cop.
Skip this movie, which was made only to shock and gross you out. We have enough dehumanization in our world. Sick.