Bookworm on May 06 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Anti-war, Britain, England, Europe
I am a huge Georgette Heyer fan. I consider her one of the most amusing, sophisticated novel writers ever, and think it’s a shame that she got labeled as a pure romance writer, a genre that puts her in the “I browse that section wearing sunglasses and a scarf” category of books at any [...]
Bookworm on Feb 27 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama
Spengler, writing at Asia Times Online, has one of the more fascinating attacks I’ve seen on Barack Obama, and one that exposes some Obama history about which I was blissfully unaware. I knew that Michelle Obama, in her role as candidate’s wife, has forced herself to speak positively about America, to the point [...]
Bookworm on Feb 15 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism
I found Berkeley a desperately unpleasant place when I attended University there in the late 70s/early 80s. It shocks me to realize that, unaware of it though I was, those were the good years. In a report filled with photos and text, Zombie walks us through the depths to which Berkeley has sunk. And I’m [...]
Bookworm on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Communism, Israel
In an earlier post, I asked how America in the 60s managed to swing over to and completely accept its enemy’s way of defining the situation. That is, the logical American point of view should have been that we were defeating Communism, which is an evil scourge that was trying to take over the [...]
Bookworm on Jan 01 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Europe, Leftist morality
While idly browsing the shelves at our local public library, I stumbled across a fascinating book — one that is fascinating on a couple of different levels. It’s called Uncouth Nation : Why Europe Dislikes America, and was written by Andrei S. Markovits, a Jewish man who was born in Romania, and raised during [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Europe
It’s a good day at American Thinker. In one of my preceding posts, I quoted at length from Kyle-Anne Shiver’s article about Mike Huckabee. Now, I’m about to quote from Soeren Kern’s article about the reflexive anti-Americanism that characterizes Europe.
Kern’s starting point is Bill Clinton’s announcement that, if Hillary wins, he and George [...]
Bookworm on Nov 16 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism
Kerry assured us that, because he spoke French and loved the UN, he would have Europeans eating out of America’s hand if he were to become President. How great must his chagrin be with the fact that it is during Bush’s watch that the Europeans are coming back to us. And it is [...]
Bookworm on Oct 18 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Arabs, Muslim violence
The familiar (way too familiar) trope on the Left is that the Bush doctrine is making everyone in the world hate us. That desire to be loved, and the fear of being hated, is a feelings based mentality, of course, that has nothing to do with justice, morality, right, honor, etc. My own view, as [...]
Bookworm on Oct 14 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Children, Parenting
I used to have the worst children in the world. Truly, I did. And I knew that they were the worst children in the world because the evidence came out of my own mouth. I had to criticize them constantly because of the way they ignored instructions, the way they broke rules, [...]
Bookworm on Oct 05 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Anti-war, Media matters
A few weeks ago, I used Naomi Wolf’s latest anti-American article as the springboard for a larger post about the new conspiracy theorists among us. Well, she’s back, and this time the Confederate Yankee is leading the attack, exposing her ignorance about matters historic, as well as her logical fallacies and paranoid fears. She’s very, [...]
Bookworm on Sep 20 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Israel, Leftist morality
One more thing, related in a way to the SF mural post I did earlier. Yesterday, I did a post about that amazing collection of photographs that came to the US Holocaust Memorial, showing photos of the Auschwitz staff (guards/management) at play. My post was fairly banal, in that I made the unoriginal observation about [...]
Bookworm on Sep 16 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Education, Europe, Immigration
As I noted in my post title, this is interesting, if true: it is a post that claims that a European policy institute, working closely with the UN, is determining large facets of American immigration policy, with special emphasis on settling Muslims in the Midwest.
If this is indeed true, it it reminds me of the [...]
Bookworm on Sep 13 2007 | Filed under: 9/11, Anti-Americanism, Germany
Truther madness has invaded Germany at the highest levels: one of the government-run TV stations ran an “investigative” show that examined whether it was OBL or the US government that took down the Twin Towers and tried to destroy the Pentagon and other buildings in D.C.:
Have you heard this one before?
Jupp says to his [...]
Bookworm on Sep 05 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Anti-war, Hillary Clinton, Israel, Jews, Palestinians
Through a reader, I just got wind of the shenanigans (or, should I say, the Sheehan-igans) going on at Beyt Tikkun, the ultra Left wing synagogue in Berkeley. It turns out that the special guest at this year’s High Holy Days is going to be none other than Cindy “get Israel out of Palestine!” [...]
Bookworm on Sep 04 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism
Mr. Bookworm tried to get me interested last night in an endless miniseries from a couple of years ago called Into the West, which has Steven Spielberg as its executive producer. Here’s the IMDB plot outline:
An epic tale of two figures during the American colonization of the west, one white and the other Native [...]
Bookworm on Aug 31 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Anti-war, Europe, Hollywood
Why isn’t anyone in Hollywood making movies about the abuses the terrorists within Iraq perpetrate against Americans and Iraqis? How honest is it to take one incident involving Americans and then to build a Riefenstahl-esque propaganda film about it, when you have hundreds, perhaps thousands, of incidents in which Islamists have engaged in mass [...]
Bookworm on Aug 21 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Europe
My, God! Do I love Mark Steyn’s writing. With elegant, rhythmic, witty prose, he goes right to the heart of an issue — in this case, world wide anti-Americanism:
America is the most benign hegemon in history: it’s the world’s first non-imperial superpower and, at the dawn of the American moment, it chose [...]
Bookworm on Jul 16 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Christians, Islam, Media matters, Muslim violence
I don’t need to tell you how about Islamism (that is, extreme Islam aimed at reinstating Sharia law worldwide), nor how dreadful I think it is. I also don’t need to tell you how I admire Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Nor do I need to tell you that many in the media today, all evidence [...]
Bookworm on Mar 25 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism
This video pretty much speaks for itself:
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Hat tip: American Thinker (where Thomas Lifson notes that it’s not well rated, something you can change by logging into YouTube and casting your vote, here).
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Bookworm on Nov 17 2006 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Arabs, Islam, Muslim violence
Clear an hour on your timetable. Then, watch Glenn Beck’s Exposed : The Extremist Agenda, about the footage CNN, MSNBC and the Times/Discovery Channel aren’t showing you. The Nuremburg rallies look like high school talent shows compared to these things:
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Hat tip: Little Green Footballs
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Bookworm on Oct 30 2006 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Europe, Hollywood
Brad Pitt, who hangs with the usual Hollywood crowd, and shares his life with anti-War expert Jolie, expressed surprise at the fruits of his peers’ efforts:
BRAD PITT discovered how unpopular America is across the globe when a group of drunk Dutchmen threatened to kill him because of his nationality. Pitt ran into the partygoers while [...]
Bookworm on Sep 28 2006 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Bush Derangement Syndrome
This had me rolling on the floor laughing — NOT! This kind of “humor” is so puerile and obvious, not to mention being divorced from reality and completely illogical, that it staggers me that its creator not only gets paid to write this stuff, but that he has a prominent national forum.
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Bookworm on Sep 19 2006 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism
Sometimes a person will open a fascinating little window into his thinking, and you’ll find yourself looking into an ugly, illogical world that the person completely denies exists. This time, that person is Howard Zinn, well-known as one of the best-selling, most-taught, anti-American authors in the market right now.
A couple of weeks ago, Zinn [...]
Bookworm on Sep 11 2006 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism
Some of us are observing 9/11 with tributes to those who died, some with a focus on the war yet to be won, and some — on the taxpayer’s dime — by taking swipes at the United States.
A friend of mine is attending the 2006 Annual Meeting for the Southern California Earthquake Center. The SCEC [...]
Bookworm on Sep 05 2006 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Democrats
One of the most popular posts at WordPress today is musically entitled “America — F*** YOU.“ It’s an interesting post in that it’s a microcosom of everything that’s ugly about today’s Left. This strain has always lived in the fringe Left, but it’s worth noting now, as these views move closer and closer to the [...]
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