Trussed Turkey

The Turkish government, under the increasingly dictatorial President Erdogan, has seized the country's largest newspaper Zaman because of  its opposition to his corrupt regime ... see: Earthlink News Article. This type of tyranny is unlikely to happen here in the United States as most newspaper outlets have long been voluntarily under the thumb of our left-wing politicians.

Afterward: See also: Bloomberg Article.

Conflicted

President Erdogan of Turkey has just claimed that Muslims discovered the new world and not Columbus (nor, presumably, the Norsemen) ... see: Yahoo News Story. Now this machismo boast presents an interesting opportunity to push back against the growing hegemony of Islam. There are many loony liberals in this country who are prone to embrace sharia law while at the same time denouncing Columbus for what his voyages wrought upon the indigenous people of the Americas ... see: Minneapolis Star Tribune Story and Atlas Shrugs Story.

Perhaps if we were to relinquish the kudos for discovering America to the Muslims, then these very same liberals would be so conflicted that they might screw themselves into the ground?

Afterward: To see some of the details of Erdogan's claim ... see: Powerline Blog Entry.