Before we homeschooled, my daughter had a 13 year old classmate whose mother died. Before too long, her dad sent her to visit her grandparents… in Gaza. She managed to get out a text message to a friend saying she wouldn’t be back – she’d been married to a cousin. When someone tells me that Islam respects women, I have to fight the urge to do violence to that jackass.   Because that sort of willful blindness is BEYOND STUPID. Because 77% of Gaza women face violence… and when I think of an American-born girl who was raised in freedom forced into a child marriage in such an oppressive society I feel sick.  It’s heartbreaking.

Right Wing News has the best political quotes of the year… my personal favorite:

If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, ‘Your son was vaporized because we didn’t want to dump some guy’s head under water for 30 seconds.’ – Peter King