Recently, an Israeli delegation in the U.S. staying at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in D.C. demanded that no Muslims be allowed near them during their stay. Employees who happened to commit the crime of Living While Muslim had their schedules shuffled or were simply told not to come to work, thereby being cheated of expected wages during hard times.

In the spirit of the Season, we at The H.O.R.N. tender a Christmas Carol to commemorate the day that another nation’s racism became “good business” in our nation’s capital.

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A U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered eight members of an extremist militia group held in custody until they could be tried on accusations of plotting to kill police officers and wage a war on the U.S. government.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Donald Scheer said each defendant posed a flight risk and “would constitute an unacceptable risk of danger to the community at large, and to the law enforcement community in particular” if released on bail.

An indictment unsealed on Monday accused the defendants, members of a Midwestern militia group called the Hutaree, of planning to kill a police officer in Michigan and then ambush the funeral procession using improvised explosives.

Right on, judge! Continue reading this article over at Reuters.

The Pope has spoken of the need not to be intimidated by critics, in a veiled reference to anger at the Catholic Church over past sex abuse scandals.

At a Mass in Rome’s St Peter’s Square, he said his faith would help give him the courage to deflect “petty gossip”.

The Pope has been accused of failing to act over the case of a US priest alleged to have abused 200 deaf boys.

But the Archbishop of Westminster defended the Pope, saying he had introduced rules to protect children.

Sure thing, Bene. When all else fails, blame the media. You can read the rest of this article at BBC News.

Why is this organized destruction of the reputations of innocent people allowed to go on like this? The DA down there should be bringing all the powers of the justice system to bear on this group of jihadists like a ton of bricks.  Arrest Grisham immediately for libel, criminal harassment, and violating citizens’ constitutional rights of life and liberty under the law.

The first amendment shouldn’t protect this crap. They can spend the rest of their lives compensating their victims for the injury and suffering they’ve caused. Not another person should be terrorized by these law-breakers. I have two words for this so-called Army of God: David Koresh. It’s past time to line up the battle wagons against Grisham and his goons.

Wrong country, wrong century, wrong god. Unacceptable on every level. Only twisted religious freaks could believe Jesus would ever endorse this kind of hate and persecution. Oh, and Grisham is also a security guard at a nuclear weapons storage facility? Great. General Ripper meets Randall Flagg. No reason to be concerned about that.

Here’s what you do, Dave. Move your operation to a repressive place like Iran. You’d fit right in over there. Of course, you’d probably have to switch religions. Better yet, save yourself the inevitable court costs and legal fees and drink the Kool-Aid now.

It’s disgraceful that the City of Amarillo is evidently content to do nothing but watch this happen to their neighbors. And always shameful to see some employers in town piling on the people who were libeled instead of turning against the holier-than-thou inquisitors. That they still have a long way to go in Texas has sure become a tiresome observation.

Reverbo

Critic-At-Large