Media ignoring US assassination?

Bagherzadeh protests Iranian theocracy, 2010

We're hearing a lot about Mitt's (100% legal) income tax rate today.  Why aren't we hearing about this?

Police are looking into whether a young Iranian molecular scientist shot dead in her car on Sunday night as she drove home to her upscale neighbourhood  was followed by her killer.

Just after midnight, Gelareh Bagherzadeh, a 30-year-old genetics student who lobbied on behalf of Iranian women's civil rights, was struck by a single bullet that entered the passenger door window as she talked on the phone with her ex-boyfriend.

The victim was a well known activist for Iranian civil rights.  It's hard to believe this cold blooded killing on US soil wasn't in retaliation for the recent rash of exploding Iranian nuclear bomb scientists.

Last US troops exit Iraq

The last US soldiers to leave Iraq crossed the Kuwait border this morning.  

US aid workers remain in the country.  From our in-country correspondent, US forces inspect a B-7 level armored Mercedes in which three aid workers were killed by an anti-tank mine.  We hope the Iraqi people appreciate the opportunity they have been given.

Schumer pops a cold one

Schumer with his former intern

With a no end for our national depression in sight, a real unemployment rate around 16%, our yet-unborn grandchildren facing a life of crippling debt, and the Middle East being overrun with US taxpayer-supported Islamist regimes, what's on New York's senior senator's to-do list?  Beer.

Sen. Chuck Schumer wants his constituents to drink more beer this holiday season — as long as it's brewed in New York.

Schumer unveiled a campaign on Wednesday to sell more New York beers in restaurants, bars and convenience stores throughout the state. He said the initiative will boost the growing micro-brew industry in New York, which supported nearly 60,000 jobs and produced more than a million barrels of beer last year.

New York already produces some classic brews - we're enjoying one as we write this.  In our experience, Upstaters are actually capable of producing and consuming beer without federal assistance.  None the less, every minute this putz spends bothering brewers is another minute he's not driving our country further down the road to serfdom.

The last word

Bill Hobbs tweets:

“Dude who nailed bin Laden will never be ‘one-upped’ anytime he’s in a group swapping war stories.”

 Via Glenn Reynolds