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 May 02 2008 | Filed under: Europe, John McCain
One of the Democratic selling points — and it was certainly one that Monsieur John Kerry tried to hit hard — is that American conservatism is out of step with Europe, and that Democrats, with their advanced European attitudes, will help us be friends again with the rest of the civilized world. This sales [...]
Bookworm on Apr 24 2008 | Filed under: Europe
In America, we think of historical Europe as a place were voiceless mastered were ruled by high-handed aristocrats. We assume that those days are over, wiped away by war, revolution, and the simple passage of time. The European Union, however, periodically provides timely reminders that Europe is still ruled by high-handed authoritarian figures [...]
Bookworm on Apr 19 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Europe
A political kerfuffle is never over until Mark Steyn has weighed in. He’s now got a full column on Obama’s “bitterness” remarks and, of course, mixed in with the wonderful word play is a perfect analysis about America’s Guns and God “bitterness,” when compared to Europe’s no-guns, no-God “Eutopia.”
In my book “America Alone,” I note [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Europe, Hamas, Israel, Palestinians, United Nations
In today’s Guardian, there is a glowing review of Ron Paul, particularly with regard to Paul’s stance on American support for Israel:
If that weren’t enough, when the House of Representatives was recently passing another denunciation of Palestinian violence, Paul refused to support it. He abhorred all attacks on civilians, he said - but on Palestinians [...]
Bookworm on Mar 24 2008 | Filed under: Europe, Holland, Islam, Muslim violence
As I’m sure you’ve heard, Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician has made a 15 minute long film that demonstrates how violent Islam is. He describes it as a film made with a split screen that has, on one side, passages from the Koran and, on the other side, modern footage of Islamists putting those passages [...]
Bookworm on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: Denmark, Europe, Islam, Media matters, Muslim violence
I don’t need to remind any of you of the Cartoon jihad rampage that Islamists went on a couple of years ago when a Danish paper dared to print cartoons of Muhammad, most innocuous, but some a little edgy. Actually, they weren’t edgy enough because, as you may also recall, everyone ignored them until [...]
Bookworm on Feb 12 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Europe
Reading this, you can’t tell if it happened in 1938 or 2008:
An American tourist was kicked out of a cafe in Belgium for being Jewish.
Marcel Kalmann, a 64-year-old professor, told the Antwerp Jewish magazine Joods Actueel that he was ejected from the renowned restaurant Le Panier d’Or in Bruges after a waiter saw his yarmulke [...]
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 26 2007 | Filed under: Europe
I’ve traveled in America, Canada, England, Western Europe, Israel, Mexico and North Africa. My experience about driving (and walking) in these countries, is as follows: In America and Canada, roads are really exceptionally well-organized, with clear rules, and the drivers, for the most part, following those rules. In England, roads are fairly well-organized, with clear [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2007 | Filed under: Europe
Dennis Prager wrote an article examining the common complaint that religion is the source of all evil and that, if you just got rid of religion, the world would be at peace. This argument is always framed in terms of historical references to the Crusades, the religious wars that ravaged Europe in the 17th [...]
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 Dec 13 2007 | Filed under: Europe
This is the beginning of James Lewis’ excellent summary of Democracy’s death in Europe, and I know you’ll want to read the rest:
With the signing of the Lisbon Treaty on December 13, 450 million people are now under a new, single government, called the European Union, headquartered in Brussels. Individual countries like Britain and France [...]
Bookworm on Nov 25 2007 | Filed under: Economics, Europe
I’ve disliked the EU ever since, in a moment of absolute insanity, I took a class on EU law when I was in law school. It was a Kafka-esque nightmare — and that was just studying about it, not experiencing it.
If you want some small insight into experiencing it, read this Spiegel article that [...]
Bookworm on Nov 14 2007 | Filed under: Europe
Little Green Football’s Charles Johnson has been engaged in a very hostile to-and-fro with Fjordman, Gates of Vienna and Brussels Journal, all of which initially garnered a lot of support for being European blogs/bloggers (or Euro-Centric) that were aware of the Islamist threat to the West. Johnson’s concern is that these people/sites have ties [...]
Bookworm on Oct 15 2007 | Filed under: Europe, Immigration, Multiculturalism
As you may recall, about 10 months ago, when I returned from a European vacation, one of the things I blogged about was Switzerland as part of a larger post I did about Europe’s changing face:
A train conversation with an unusually sweet lady in Switzerland resulted in my learning (correctly or not) that Switzerland, the [...]
Bookworm on Oct 02 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Europe, Islam, Welfare
Here in America, we are (rightly) unhappy about illegal immigrants who instantly sign up for all the welfare benefits they can get. Of course, they’d be stupid not to, because only a fool says no to free money. Also, I don’t think any of us doubt that the immigrants who come here, legal [...]
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 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 24 2007 | Filed under: Bureaucracy, Education, Europe, Law
Don Quixote will correct me if I’m wrong, but I think one of the core things about being a libertarian is that you don’t try to control people’s conduct, but you do step in if they break certain clearly stated rules. Indeed, you don’t need to be a libertarian to have that view. [...]
Bookworm on Aug 23 2007 | Filed under: Christians, Europe, Islam, Jews, Religion
Many of us on the conservative side bemoan the decline of religion on moral grounds. The Judeo-Christian tradition spells out moral absolutes, so that we don’t have to keep reinventing the wheel to figure out the big “rights” and the big “wrongs.” (David Klinghoffer points out the disaster that happens when you keep having to [...]
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 Aug 20 2007 | Filed under: Capitalism, Europe, Islam
I am routinely thankful for my good blog friends, many of whom help me find interesting stuff in the blogosphere that I might otherwise miss. Since this was a busy, busy weekend, and since I have the kids for another few days before school starts, I can assure you that, had Earl not given [...]
Bookworm on Aug 18 2007 | Filed under: America, Europe
One of my favorite of the many conservative slogans printed on products sold at Protest Warrior is the one that says “Except for Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism, War Has Never Solved Anything.” To me, it’s always been self-evident that there are good wars, just as there are bad and pointless wars. [...]
Bookworm on Aug 15 2007 | Filed under: Europe, Islam, Israel, Muslim violence, Palestinians, Presidential elections, Rudy Giuliani, United Nations
Islamists have, for a long time, been singing a Siren song to Europe: “If you stop support for Israel, we’ll leave you alone and make nice with everyone.” (Tra la la!) A lot of people have actually be seduced into believing that, if they abandon Israel to the Muslim countries surrounding her [...]
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