Breakfast Scramble: 13 January

The Breakfast Scramble:

War on the American people, Blondie says people are literally dying for a cigarette in Major Bill’s New York.

Global terror,  war on children, I agree Moochelle that bringing back the girls was a good idea.

Nearly four million people and forty world leaders attended an anti-terrorism rally in France. Notable by his absence, Dim Won, the Snark of the Day, from Thomas Sowell:

Our schools and colleges are laying a guilt trip on those young

Something is rotten in Charlottesville.   The local police could find no evidence to support the fictional rape story published in Rolling Stone. Yet for reasons unknown to rational beings, University President Teresa A. Sullivan, one did not apologize for her

Nearly four million people and forty world leaders attended an anti-terrorism rally in France. Notable by his absence, Dim Won, the Snark of the Day, from Jeffery Goldberg, Atlantic:

“It would have been nice to see the country whose

The federal government, which has Tomahawk cruise missiles and Apache, Blackhawk, Kiowa and Lakota helicopters,
and used the code name “Geronimo” in the attack that killed Osama bin Laden, officially objects to the name of the Washington Redskins.

While Eric is busily posting away on the fate of civilization, I ponder a more trivial, but albeit more complicated subject, to wit Potty Parity. I’ll let the girls have the floor.  Leading off, Soraya Chemaly, Time:

Long lines

This showed up in my mail about an hour ago.

Lt. Col. Ralph Peters tonight gave a detailed plan to Bill O’Reilly on how he would fight terror.

“One: You accept that you are in a war. Two: You name

It strikes me that there’s an awful lot of people who are currently chastising Charlie Hebdo for going too far in offending Muslims, who were just a short decade ago complaining about how George W Bush personally cutting funding  for

Word has it just now that the terrorists in that incident around Paris are in custody, those that are still alive anyway. As are the hostages that were taken. That’s a fairly good outcome, certainly.

But now, the French have

File this under doing the right thing, from Daily Mail(UK):

Two parents turned their sons over to police after recognizing them in footage of an electronics store burglary which showed a group of five teens helping themselves to stacks

The Breakfast Scramble:

Health  tip:   How to say healthy.  Stay away from the Happiest Place of Earth

Be smart.  No commodity worth anything is ever free.    Obama wants to give away free community college education.   But what is Obama’s

Little Dickie Durbin wants you to pay yet more in gas taxes for the privilege of driving your own vehicle, from Laura Barron-Lopez, Hill:

Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) says he thinks “now is the time” to raise

Mark Steyn draws a straight line between the ilk of the Barack Obama and the New York Times and those who invoke Islam to commit mass murder, video:

Hat tip: Nice Deb

The Islamist terrorists could silence what passes for

The Senate Majority Minority Leader, Dirty Harry Reid (NV)  is sporting a shiner.  What gives?   From John Hinderacker, Power Line:

What does it look like happened to Reid? He looks like he has been in a fight, and not

I note with interest, David’s post on this subject. I share his incredulous response to Obama and his nonsense on this matter.

That said, I say out here in the real world it’s time to start fighting back. Past it,