The New York Times is reporting 80 dead in the shooting spree attributed to Anders Behring Breivik. That’s almost certainly a mistranslation or a wild exaggeration. While theoretically possible, it would make him not only far and away the most deadly “active shooter” ever, but the death toll for his victims would be higher than that of Texas Tower Sniper Charles Whitman, Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho and Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold combined.
I’m not buying it.
So it was Ansar al-Jihad, as predicted by Jihadwatch.
Now at least four more appear to be at a most-likely related shooting at a Youth camp.
Remember, the only thing unusual about the Norway attacks is the location. Islamic terrorism kills this many people in other places around the globe pretty much every single day.
Fox News is reporting one person dead and several injured.
JihadWatch is saying that the explosion might possibly be related to terror charges against Mullah Krekar, founder of the Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-Islam.
Norway had declared Krekar a danger to national security, but is refusing to have him deported to Iraq. Why? Because he could be subject to the death penalty.
More details as they occur.
Sean Hubbard now has company in the “Declared Democratic candidates sure to be ignored by the MSM” purgatory, although Stanley Garza’s website says he’s only formed an exploratory committee.
In 2008, he ran for Tax Assessor/Collector in San Jacinto County…as a Republican. He says border control bills in the most recent legislative session caused him to switch parties. (Someone should tell him that pictures of him with Rick Perry and Michael Williams are not the ideal way to win Democratic votes.)
A threat to split the Hispanic vote away from Ricardo Sanchez? Given that Garza raised a grand total of $140 in his first quarter of fundraising (including a $100 loan to himself), the answer would tend to point towards no…
Tom Leppert says he considers Dewhurst, not Ted Cruz, his main competition. Which is what you would expect him to say.
More details and reactions tomorrow.
Shawn McCoy of the Tom Leppert campaign clarifies Leppert’s Q2 fundraising numbers:
Yes, Tom invested more of his own money in the campaign. That was not part of the 750k.=
Not sure if you received our press release—it may help clarify further.
[Excerpt from attached press release]
DALLAS, Texas, July 15, 2011 – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tom Leppert announced today that his campaign banked $1.25 million in the second quarter of 2011. Fueled by over $750,000 in second quarter contributions and another personal investment in the campaign, Leppert continues to lead the field of announced candidates in fundraising. Leppert now has $3.4 million in total cash on hand, with almost $3.2 million in all-important primary cash on hand to spend before voters go to the polls in March.
Thanks for the clarification. I was half-right in spotting the loan, and mostly wrong in my interpretation of its meaning.
Still waiting for Dewhurst to announce his candidacy. (It would be tempting to write a Waiting for Godot parody with Dewhurst in the Godot role, except I suspect the intersection between Texas political junkies and people who would appreciate a good Samuel Beckett parody would result in a fairly small set.) But there’s still plenty of news on the race:
Over at Talking Squid, Chris Lawson has come up with a flow chart to determine whether criticism of Jews and/or Israel is anti-Semitic or not. Since its seems pretty useful, and since Lawson says “Anyone else is also free to use it as they please,” I’m including it here.
