Bookworm on Feb 26 2010 | Filed under: Europe, Israel, Media matters
Finally, Israel lashes back . . . at the misrepresentations in the European media.
Anyone who speaks Hebrew, French or Spanish, will have a huge advantage over me when it comes to appreciating the videos at that site.
To learn more about the ad campaign if you don’t speak those languages, here’s a little [...]
Bookworm on Feb 09 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Europe
As part of a larger opinion piece giving thanks that America is still un-European enough to resist Obama’s European-izing efforts, Jonathan Rosenbloom has this to say about the modern European character:
In A State Beyond the Pale: Europe’s Problem with Israel, Robin Shepherd analyzes the cast of mind that predisposes Europeans to hate Israel so much, [...]
Bookworm on Jan 04 2010 | Filed under: England, Europe, Religion
There’s been a fair amount of talk lately about Brit Hume’s “come to Jesus” suggestion to Tiger:
I don’t have a whole lot to say about that, other than it goes a long way to explaining why Hume left the MSM. Not only could he not say that when he worked for ABC, he’d probably be [...]
Bookworm on Nov 17 2009 | Filed under: Democrats, Europe, Islam, Leftist morality, Liberal Fascism, Muslim violence
I’ve been saying for some years that the biggest mistake the Islamists made was impatience. Demographically, between their fecundity and the sterility of Western culture, Muslims were headed towards societal tipping points all over Europe within a couple of decades. Had they set tight, they could have completed what they started in the Middle Ages [...]
Bookworm on Nov 06 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Europe, Leftist morality
Had Europe been able to vote last November’s presidential elections, Obama would have swept into office with a vote above 95%. Over there, they loved him. He was the antithesis of the ugly American who rode into town and imposed law. This was a guy who would be kind and gentle, and extremely deferential to [...]
Bookworm on Oct 15 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Europe
Even some of Norway’s ruling class choked when it came to awarding the Nobel to Obama.
Bookworm on Jul 30 2009 | Filed under: Europe, Islam, Muslim violence
I want to recommend two interesting things to read as a prelude to my core post. The first read comes from a reliably good source: Rusty Shackleford. Over at The Jawa Report, he looks at the banality that exists side by side with the evil that is North Carolina’s recently arrested home grown jihadists. It [...]
Bookworm on Jul 08 2009 | Filed under: Christians, Europe, Islam
I just finished reading a very bad book, although I owe it thanks for leading me down some interesting intellectual paths. The book is Derek Wilson’s Charlemagne, which came my way through my book club (and it’s because of the book club that I actually finished a book I normally would swiftly have abandoned). The [...]
Bookworm on Jun 14 2009 | Filed under: Europe, Holland, Muslim violence
Sometimes, you have to be poised on the edge of the volcano to realize the threat you face. Until you get there, you might just think you’re climbing a beautiful mountainside. Bruce Bawer, a gay man living in Europe, reached the edge of the volcano and wrote While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying [...]
Bookworm on Jun 11 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, Europe
Britain, which has shown a certain lack of spine when it comes to the Islamists on its shores, nevertheless stood up to Al Qaeda representative Abu Qatata. Britain, however, is no longer a sovereign nation. It handed over its sovereignty to the EU, which gets the final say in matters. And the EU thinks it [...]
Bookworm on May 13 2009 | Filed under: Europe, Islam
To the extent that this video may be the production of a pro-Muslim organization, it could also be seen as a boast, not a warning. Regardless of the intentions behind it, those of us who cherish a Judeo-Christian, Western civilization must sit up and take notice — although I’m not sure that, in the end, [...]
Bookworm on May 02 2009 | Filed under: England, Europe
Charles, at LGF, is concerned that the “extreme right white supremacist” (his phrase) BNP party in England is gaining political ground. If you check out the party’s blog, though, racial purity a la the Nazis or the KKK is not part of the party’s platform. As far as I can tell, it wants to close [...]
Bookworm on Apr 06 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Europe
Even my kids have figured out that the best negotiation is one in which you negotiate in good will from a position of strength. Barack Obama probably agrees with this principle, but it’s becoming obvious that he’s misidentified the source of America’s strength in any negotiation. When presidents from prior administrations (excepting Carter, of course) [...]
Bookworm on Mar 22 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Europe, Military
I know nothing about US Admiral James Stavridis. I don’t know whether he attained his high rank because he’s a brilliant military strategist or just another political hack. I don’t know if he believes in a strong America, or believes America’s best defense is to role over and play dead. Indeed, as of this minute, [...]
Bookworm on Mar 17 2009 | Filed under: Britain, Europe, Health, Medicine
For three years, a single British hospital that was obsessed with following government health care mandates to the letter, succeeded only in killing 1,200 patients unnecessarily:
Twelve NHS trusts are being investigated following a damning report which today slammed ‘appalling’ care at a single hospital.
Hundreds of patients may have died after bosses at Staffordshire General focused [...]
Bookworm on Dec 14 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Crime and punishment, Europe
The quest for ever greater bureaucratic efficiency, especially in a Europe without borders, means that Britain’s local Big Brother database is probably going to be released to the whole of Europe:
Britons could find themselves forced to prove they are innocent of crimes abroad after the Government agreed to EU-wide access to its ‘Big Brother’ databases.
All [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Economics, Europe
I’m still developing the same theme I’ve been hammering at for a week, because I think it’s important. The ideas in this post should be familiar to you, but I’m trying to express them with more factual data and lucidity:
My mother, bless her heart, said something very important the other day. She said that Europeans [...]
Bookworm on Oct 16 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Europe
I wrote it a few days ago, but it just got published today:
The other day, Mr. Horace Engdahl, a man who normally occupies a rather obscure outpost when it comes to public awareness, bought himself a few minutes of fame by engaging in everyone’s favorite pastime: America bashing. Mr. Engdahl’s statements in this regard were [...]
Bookworm on Oct 12 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Europe
It’s short, so I’ll quote this post from Power Line in its entirety:
America: Last Refuge for the Left?
Mark Steyn makes a good point:
If Obama is elected in November, at G7 meetings, for the first time since time they began, America will have a more left-wing leader than any other member of the group – [...]
Bookworm on Sep 30 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Europe
I like to read British publications, as well as the Spiegel, and whatever other English language versions of European papers strike my fancy. It’s useful to see what’s going on in other parts of the world and, more than that, to see how the local press views its own events.
One thing I’ve noticed in all [...]
Bookworm on Sep 04 2008 | Filed under: Europe, Sex
I won’t comment. You know what I’m thinking:
They have amused us, angered us and sometimes – just occasionally – they have actually made us buy something.
But now the end could be in sight for adverts which use sex to sell after they came under the unforgiving gaze of Brussels.
And, this being [...]
Bookworm on Jul 23 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Europe, Media matters
In an amusing article that compiles examples of American and European media hysteria about Obama’s world tour (think Madonna and the Beatles, only bigger), Denis Boyles makes an interesting point about the European fixation with an Obama (read: black) Presidency:
Anyway, the gist: Europeans really really want Obama to be the next U.S. president, just as [...]
Bookworm on Jul 22 2008 | Filed under: Europe, France, Socialism
Terry Sater writes about the fact that, coddled by loving euphemisms, Americans are marching headlong into the same dreadful socialist experiment that failed all over Europe — a failure that took place within the lifetime of every single American voter. This is not a case of a few centuries or even decades having dimmed the [...]
Bookworm on Jun 26 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Bureaucracy, England, Europe, Government
People around the world are facing food shortages but, in the magical bureacracy that is the EU, food is being destroyed for being a millimeter off of Brussels regulations:
A market trader has been banned from selling a batch of kiwi fruits because they are 1mm smaller than EU rules allow.
Inspectors told 53-year- old Tim Down [...]
Bookworm on Jun 20 2008 | Filed under: Europe, Islam
Charles Johnson of LGF periodically gets into spats with the people at Gates of Vienna because of their (possible?) ties to organizations that have the whiff of neo-Nazism about them. As for me, I don’t know where the truth lies in those arguments.
I do know that Europe in the 20th (and, apparently, in the 21st) [...]
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