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In a unanimous verdict, Nidal Hasan has been found guilty on all counts in the November, 2009 Fort Hood massacre. #BREAKING Maj. Nidal Hasan has been found guilty on all counts for the 2009 mass shooting at #FortHood http://t.co/0vnO9yaf2Q — NBC DFW (@NBCDFW) August 23,...

The Fort Hood shooting trial resumed Thursday after the judge refused to grant a request from Nidal Hasan’s standby defense attorneys to drop out of the case.  The attorneys argued Wednesday that Hasan’s strategy in court thus far has demonstrated that the defendant – who...

Day two in the trial of the accused Fort Hood shooter came to an unexpected halt Wednesday morning, after standby defense attorneys for Nidal Hasan requested to either be reinstated as official counsel or be removed from the case entirely.  The attorneys filed a motion,...

First they came for the countryside, now they’re coming for the suburbs From Meg in the Philadelphia “Main Line” suburbs: I thought that you would enjoy this picture of a pickup with bumper stickers. What is very interesting is where it was parked – in...

The much demonized kulaks (a/k/a the top 5%, 2%, 0r 1% depending upon the speech) were the first to rise up against Obama. Now the kulaks have been joined by the common peasantry, via NPR: As Mitt Romney and President Obama get ready for their second...

OMG, the feeling sure is catching on. Another one from Linda and her happy hunting grounds, the Lowe’s parking lot in Nashville:

I posted some time ago about a study by an MIT health economist, Jonathan Gruber, on the supposed cost savings of the Senate health bill, Are Our Liberties Worth Only $200-$500?. Even to my non-mathematical mind, Gruber’s analysis was shoddy: Gruber has based his projections...

It is reported that Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, is paralyzed. So you knew this was coming: How barbaric that the military will seek to kill a man with no sensation in his body from the chest down. He might prefer it (I certainly...

Hot on the heals of the Bush-Balloon Boy connection, and the Iraq-Stupak connection, now we have the inevitable Bush-Cheney-Hasan connection. Writing about the mass murder by al-Qaeda-infatuated Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, a blogger at Firedoglake invokes the evil spirit of Bush/Cheney, Will There Be...

It is not a good thing to jump to conclusions when there is a shooting, at least on the issue of whether the shooting was a mere crime or terrorism. On Thursday, I cautioned against jumping to the conclusion that Nidal Hasan was motivated by...

Douglas Murray, at the Monk Debates, gave one of the most impressive explanations as to why, in the real world, anti-Zionism is antisemitism: "the interesting thing about antisemitism is the Jews can never win because historically ... they were hated for being stateless.... Now they're hated for having a state.... It's about double standards."