Bookworm on Oct 06 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
The following video draws heavily from a documentary KQED did about the Weather Undergroundbefore anybody really cared about Barack Obama. (I remember watching, and being revolted by, the documentary back when it first came out.) Then, the video neatly ties together the package of these very, very bad people and Barack Obama.
At the end, the [...]
Bookworm on Sep 22 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Israel, Palestinians
I don’t have much time to write now, but I read a trio of stories at the Jerusalem Post that remind us why moral relativism regarding Israel is wrong. Israel, for all her flaws, is a better, more moral country that the surrounding Arab nations, and that’s regardless of any of their virtues:
Another Arab resident [...]
Bookworm on Jul 02 2008 | Filed under: Gun control, Israel, Palestinians
This is not a picture in America, but the top two pictures in this story illustrate perfectly why it matters that a nation’s citizens — the vast majority of whom are law abiding — can bear arms.
It is also interesting to note that, while the Beeb instantly tried to paint the Israelis as killers, this [...]
Bookworm on Jul 02 2008 | Filed under: BBC, Britain, Israel, Media matters, Palestinians
Honest Reporting captured the first spin that the BBC put on the terrible story of the latest massacre in Israel (a Palestinian versus Israelis, of course) — and, as always, it was Israel who was spun as the brutal aggressor. Orwell clearly understood something in the British psyche when he wrote 1984 — or, more [...]
Bookworm on Jun 06 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Bureaucracy, England, Jihad
I can’t add anything to this that you haven’t already thought of yourselves:
A solicitor who specialises in representing terror suspects and tells them not to cooperate with police was paid almost £1 million in legal aid last year.
Muddassar Arani’s firm represented Abu Hamza, dirty bomb plotter Dhirin Barot and three of the 21/7 bombers in [...]
Bookworm on May 20 2008 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
At this particular moment — 4:47 p.m., PST — the counter in my sidebar from The Religion of Peace records that terrorists acting in Islam’s name have committed precisely 11111 acts of terror since 9/11. That’s quite a number, both in terms of that string of ones, and in terms of what all those ones [...]
Bookworm on Apr 15 2008 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
Andrew C. McCarthy, author of the newly published Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad, sat down for an interview at NRO, and voiced some unpleasant truths about our suicidal sensibilities:
Lopez: What’s the most devastating lesson from 15 years ago we still haven’t learned?
McCarthy: That the primary cause of Islamic terrorism is Muslim doctrine, and [...]
Bookworm on Apr 13 2008 | Filed under: Muslim violence
Niall Ferguson, whose book Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power was an excellent primer about the virtues of the British Empire (a tough argument in an anti-imperialist age), has written a rave review about Philip Bobbit’s newest book, Terror and Consent : The Wars [...]
Bookworm on Apr 03 2008 | Filed under: Jihad, Muslim violence
I will never again complain about having to throw away my unfinished drink before going through airport security:
A gang of alleged British Muslim fanatics plotted to cause “carnage on an almost unprecedented scale” with simultaneous suicide bombings on up to 18 transatlantic airliners, a court has heard.
Bombs made from hydrogen peroxide liquid explosives, and disguised [...]
Bookworm on Mar 07 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Muslim violence, Palestinians
These are happy Palestinians:
You can see more wildly happy Palestinians here.
This is why they are having a celebratory party, complete with drums, bagpipes, guns and babies:
You can see more examples of the images and facts that give the Palestinians their jollies here and here.
Do you still get the honorific of “human being” if you celebrate [...]
Bookworm on Mar 06 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Muslim violence, Palestinians
I noted a couple of posts ago that the UN, predictably, is up in arms about the fact that Israel finally took action against the militants firing rockets at civilians. I’m sure, though, that the UN will greet with mind-numbing silence the fact that terrorists invaded a school in Jerusalem and killed seven (with [...]
Bookworm on Feb 14 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Multiculturalism
I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for England. I adore British history, especially because I’ve always admired its trajectory towards true enlightenment. It had all the bad qualities of other European nations — serfs, Crusades, slavery, inhumane work conditions, etc. — but it always seemed to shake them off sooner [...]
Bookworm on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Muslim violence
I would like to be upset with what the British judge did, but I think he’s right:
The country’s top judge has dealt a significant blow to a key plank of the Government’s anti-terrorism legislation after he overturned the convictions of five Muslim men jailed last year for downloading and sharing extremist terror-related material.
The Lord Chief [...]
Bookworm on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Barack Obama
Here’s the Wall Street Journal on yesterday’s overwhelming bipartisan vote to protect from lawsuits telecommunications companies that, in good faith, cooperated with the government to help apprehend terrorists:
Now and then sanity prevails, even in Washington. So it did yesterday as the Senate passed a warrantless wiretap bill for overseas terrorists while killing most of the [...]
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