Bookworm on Mar 31 2006 | Filed under: Uplifting stories
Tweet I glanced out my office window, looked over the hills and the water, and saw glowing in the sky a perfect rainbow. What a lovely gift. Since it's been raining ridiculous amounts in my neck of the woods, one hopes that the rainbow is a sign of a remembered promise: And God spake unto [...]
Bookworm on Mar 31 2006 | Filed under: Immigration
Tweet Gail alerted me to the Mexica-Movement's proud photo-montage about the March in L.A. I think it's a great site, since it really gives you an idea about the marchers' goals and belief system. I wonder if, once you get insight into these things, you'll be for or against firmer border controls and enforcement. I [...]
Bookworm on Mar 31 2006 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
Tweet Patrick alerts me to Ace's take on the new, improved Democratic plan: An amazing new national security plan has two key provisions: 1) "Responsibly redepolying" US troops from Iraq (i.e., bugging out as soon as we can get the transport ships and planes in); and 2) "eliminating" Osama bin Ladin. Eliminating Osama bin Ladin! [...]
Bookworm on Mar 31 2006 | Filed under: Arabs, Islam
Tweet Do you have a strong stomach? If you do not, definitely avoid this website, which collects information and photographs about the atrocities routinely committed against women, children and gays across the Muslim world. Here, you can see what it looks like when a person has been flogged hundreds of times for being gay, or [...]
Bookworm on Mar 31 2006 | Filed under: African-Americans
Tweet I'm generally a Jonah Goldberg fan, but his column today really adds to my respect for the man. In it, he takes on black leaders in Congress, who pursue far Left policies that are often inconsistent with beliefs held by many black Americans, and that advance social and economic policies that consistently fail black [...]
Bookworm on Mar 31 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet That sound you hear in the title of this post is me blowing my own horn. I've got another article published in American Thinker, which is going to have to take the place of blogging this morning. It's about morality and how we teach it to our children in the modern age. UPDATE: To [...]
Bookworm on Mar 30 2006 | Filed under: America, Culture, Education, Immigration, Multiculturalism
Tweet In a rather stumbling way, I asked why immigrants don't love America, and said that I wished our schools would be required to teach students what's great about America. Ironically, one day later, the Wall Street Journal published Peggy Noonan's elegant, lyrical reflection on the same point. She begins by speaking of Medal of [...]
Bookworm on Mar 30 2006 | Filed under: Islam, Media matters
Tweet The Western Standard in Canada, as part of its reporting, published copies of the Mohammad cartoons. To my mind, that's good journalism. To the Alberta Human Rights Commission, it's a hate crime, and it initiated a government prosecution against Western Standard. The Western Standard has now put out an SOS for help footing its [...]
Bookworm on Mar 30 2006 | Filed under: Euthanasia
Tweet Rumors about organ harvesting surface constantly when it comes to China, and they probably have a good foundation given that, working through China, you can get any organ you need, any time. Now, Jay Nordlinger comes with a fairly detailed report (with lots of links) that China is using Falun Gong practitioners as their [...]
Bookworm on Mar 29 2006 | Filed under: Euthanasia
Tweet In a recent Weekly Standard article, Wesley Smith takes on the infant euthanasia that is gaining traction in Holland. His opening paragraphs are models of clear writing: At last a high government official in Europe got up the nerve to chastise the Dutch government for preparing to legalize infant euthanasia. Italy's Parliamentary Affairs minister, [...]
Bookworm on Mar 29 2006 | Filed under: Islam, Media matters, Muslim violence
Tweet Jack, my favorite Retired Preacher, has republished in his blog, with the original publication's permission, a lengthy article about radical Islam's goal of creating a worldwide Caliphate governed by the purest expression of 7th Century Islamic law. Aside from generally being an interesting article, I found especially fascinating the way in which the author [...]
Bookworm on Mar 29 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet I wanted to let you know about a "blog collective"* that I was invited to join. It's called Webloggin, and it's sort of a clearinghouse for posts that Webloggin community members do on their own blogs. When I got invited, I checked it out and really jumped at the chance to join. For one [...]
Bookworm on Mar 29 2006 | Filed under: Multiculturalism
Tweet I haven't blogged about the immigration protests because, well, because I didn't feel like blogging about them. During a lunchtime conversation, Don Quixote and I decided we were in agreement: We believe the vitality of immigrants is good for the nation's health, and we strongly disapprove of those who break the laws as they [...]
Bookworm on Mar 28 2006 | Filed under: Islam, Mormons, Religion
Tweet Much ink has been spilled (or should I say, many bytes have been generated) about whether Islam can be modernized so that Muslims can integrate with the modern world. As many have pointed out, devout Muslims feel themselves absolutely bound to live by Mohammed's principles — principles that involve such anachronisms as polygamy, death [...]
Bookworm on Mar 28 2006 | Filed under: America, Revolutionary War
Tweet Mike, at The Deep Freeze, lives in Philadelphia. Doing something called geocaching, he headed out of town and went for a treasure hunt in his neck of the words — the treasure being a moment where one touches history. Here is what he found: It was a modest grave site right along the side [...]
Bookworm on Mar 28 2006 | Filed under: Bush Derangement Syndrome
Tweet James Taranto (and Co., I guess), writing at Best of the Web Today, has an excellent mini-essay about the tortured relationship between the Left on the one hand, and President Bush and foreign policy (vis-a-vis terrorism) on the other hand: Al Qaeda and the former regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq are enemies of America. [...]
Bookworm on Mar 28 2006 | Filed under: Culture
Tweet The Drudge headline is that Sharon Stone advocates oral sex, but that's not really the whole story. The real story is how this well-intentioned lady goes about carrying out her advocacy: She [Stone] explains, "I was in the store the other day and I watched a young girl trying on clothes, showing her abdomen. [...]
Bookworm on Mar 28 2006 | Filed under: Iran
Tweet You know the monkeys: The monkeys' message — see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil — may be a useful one in the context of ordinary social relationships, where gossip is poisonous, but it's an utterly insane way to run the world. Nevertheless, that's precisely what the world is doing vis a [...]
Bookworm on Mar 28 2006 | Filed under: Uplifting stories
Tweet This is a nice story about a man who did a decent thing (although he didn't realize, at the time, quite how decent it was): When Shahla Ghannadian's husband accidentally left her purse on a park bench during a visit to Sausalito, the family didn't have much hope of getting it back. For one [...]
Bookworm on Mar 28 2006 | Filed under: Europe, Islam
Tweet Lowell Ponte spells out in sad, scary, excrutiating detail the world our children will inherit — not directly, if they stay in America, but indirectly by having a weirdly Arabized Europe as their planet neighbor. To begin with, the numbers are compelling: * In Brussels, Belgium, the most popular name for baby boys is [...]
Bookworm on Mar 28 2006 | Filed under: Crime and punishment
Tweet Yesterday, I did a post about how forgiving the judicial system is in Lithuania, where an 85 year old Nazi was given a free pass because of his age and because he no longer posed a risk to society. After reading my post, Kathryn, of Suitable for Mixed Company, shared a link in the [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2006 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Nazis, War crimes
Tweet What is wrong with this picture? An 85-year-old Lithuanian was convicted for cooperating with the Nazis and persecuting Jews but he will not serve jail time because of his age, according to a BBC report.A court in Vilna ruled that Dailide will not go to jail "because he is very old and does not [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2006 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
Tweet As if the world weren't a scary enough place, it turns out that the "mullet" is back. What, you ask, is a mullet? A mullet is what happens when a man lets his hair grow in an undifferentiated block down the back of his neck. It has all the cool of the least cool [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2006 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Religion
Tweet A few days ago, I posted about the Presbyterian Church USA — or, rather, I linked to an American Thinker article that highlighted major doctrinal changes in the Church that have crossed the line from rather silly anti-Israel posturing into old-fashioned anti-Semitism. That post sparked a lot of comments, and one very interesting email [...]
Bookworm on Mar 26 2006 | Filed under: Education
Tweet Have you heard of Joanne Jacobs? She's a former San Jose Mercury News editorial writer and Knight Ridder columnist whose beat (at least in recent years) has been education. I've consistently enjoyed her articles whenever I've read them, and you can track what she's writing here, at her website. A few years ago, though, [...]
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