Give a frontiersman coffee and tobacco, and he will endure any privation, suffer any hardship, but let him be without these two necessaries of the woods, and he becomes irresolute and murmuring. ~ U.S. Army Lt. William Whiting, 1849

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Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) ‘An Absolutely Hostile Attitude Towards Jews’ In Germany — “Charlotte Knobloch survived Nazi Germany’s genocide on Jews to rise to the head of the German Jewish Council. In a disturbing interview with Der Spiegel, Knobloch — whose personal history gives her the requisite perspective — states that anti-Semitic attitudes have hit levels not seen in years:”

PoliBlog (Dr. Steven Taylor) Harris on Track to Win So that She Can be on Track to Lose — “If anyone wants a lesson in the anemic influence of party leadership and the general fact that the process of choosing primaries candidates is a self-selection process, this race is it. It has been clear for months that Harris has no chance of winning this Senate seat, and while there were attempts by GOP leadership to recruit another candidate, or to dissuade Harris from running, the bottom line is that they have no power to actually make such things happen. Party leadership sometimes can actively and successfully recruit candidates, but on balance it is a catch as catch can in terms of who is willing and able to run.”

GOP Bloggers (Jonathan R.) Europe Begs Iran: “Please Toy With Us” — “With Iran, Europe behaves in exactly the way one would expect, reluctantly imposing an ultimatum and then begging the aggressor to create some blatantly duplicitous facade of compliance that Europe could then point to as a rationale to do nothing.”

Confederate Yankee Pretty/Stupid — “If Hammasa Kohistani wants to change public opinion and stereotypes against Muslims as she says elsewhere in the article, she needs to encourage Muslims to prove, time and again if necessary, that the violent fundamentalist way is not their own. British Muslims should respond to suspicions not by embracing terrorism, but by becoming the most vigilant fighters against it.”

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul. ~ Isak Dinesen

Confederate Yankee Cohen Blames Israel — “Cohen rails against “the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims,” in a land where Jews predated the very existence of Islam by more than three millennia. It was only during the first two centuries AD that the Jews were forced from their ancestral homes in Israel and into slavery around the world, and it wasn’t until after then that Muslims usurped Israeli lands.”

Wizbang (Jay Tea) If you wanna send a message, use Western Union — “One does not wage war to “send a message.” One wages war to kill people, people who pose a demonstrated threat. And wages war until that threat is gone, or you can’t fight any longer.”

Blue Crab Boulevard Culture Of Corruption — “I’ve said it repeatedly, anyone who is in favor of blocking requirements for positive ID when voting is in favor of vote fraud. Period. You can dress that particular duck up in anything you like, try to make it sound all high-minded and very self-righteous. At the end of the day it is still a duck. Requiring an ID to vote is common sense. Forbidding the use of IDs is voter fraud.”

The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks ~ Sir James Mackintosh

Right Wing News (John Hawkins) The Pro-Illegal Immigration Rallies — “Here’s the situation in a nutshell: we have illegal aliens, the businesses that hire them, immigrants whose first loyalty seems to be to Mexico, and the democrats who want to turn the illegals into citizens to get more votes being given preference over a much larger group of law abiding Americans who believe, correctly, that we need to secure our borders and that we should not reward people for breaking our laws.”

The Strata-Sphere (AJ Strata) GMU Class of ‘85 and ‘89! — Final Four bound George Mason Alums AJ and LJ Strata let their school spirit show. “We are so proud of you!”

TMH’s Bacon Bits (The MaryHunter) Islam, the Religion of Peace (Part 3) — “So, it seems that the Afghan Abdul Rahman, the Christian convert from Islam who was to be condemned to death, has been saved from execution. But what does this whole episode, from a budding Muslim democracy (no less), tell us about the Islamic countries for which thousands Christian and Jewish soldiers from America, Great Britain, and the West have risked – or lost – their lives, in order to save said countries from evil Islamofascism?”

Spring break started today, so naturally the kiddies are up earlier than they would be if this were a school day. What’s up with that?