Why we like dogs
I like dogs, in large part because they are goofy. This is one of my favorite goofy dog moments. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL6JBGrICzo]
Continue readingMonth: July 2006
A most ingenious paradox
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. It’s been said so often, it’s hackneyed, but it deserves repeating in the face of the neo-peace movement. Those of us who remember the lead-up to WWII also remember that it was the peaceniks who gave Hitler the room he
Continue readingMore on anti-Semitism and the Left
I posted yesterday about the pact with the devil that Spain made when it scurried from bombings into the Socialists’ waiting arms. I got one comment (polite, I might add), saying that I didn’t show that Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Prime Minister of Spain was anti-Semitic, because I showed
Continue readingMore analyses I like about the Israeli-Hezbollah war
My prior “updates” post was getting too long and unwieldly, so I’m starting a new one which, again, I’ll move to the top whenever I update it. So, if this is at the top, be sure to scroll down for new posts you may not have seen yet. WEDNESDAY UPDATES:
Continue readingWork in Iraq goes on
Much attention right now is focused on the border between Israel and Lebanon, but that doesn’t mean the US isn’t continuing to do its work in Iraq. It looks as if there’s another fairly big initiative going on to drive out terrorists from one of their local bases. What’s interesting
Continue readingThe Left’s anti-Semitism infects a new country
Spain distinguished itself after the 3/11 train bombings by instantly backing down from the fight and infecting itself with Leftism. The fallout from this infection is clear: Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain and Secretary General of the Socialist Party, arrived to power at a time nobody expected,
Continue readingThe morals of romance novels
I’ve already confessed to my weakness for chick lit, and expanded upon my disgust with the recent imports from Britain, which assure incompetent, drink-sodden women that the best looking guy in the room will see through the miasma of failure that hangs about them and sweep them off in a
Continue readingA modest proposal to decrease air pollution
Let’s get rid of carpool lanes. As far as I can tell, they are completely counterproductive. Carpool lanes were created to give people an incentive to band together so that there wouldn’t be so many lone cars on the freeways guzzling fossil fuel. The theory was that people stuck in
Continue readingAnd the religion of pieces marches on
The well-disciplined Islamists are making headway in Somalia: Heavily armed militia loyal to Somalia’s Islamic courts have arrived in Burhakaba, a town 60km from the base of the interim government in Baidoa. Somalia’s interim prime minister says it is clear the Islamists, who control the capital, plan to advance on
Continue readingHas the ground war begun?
I don’t know if this was just an isolated sortie, or if the ground war has finally begun: Two Israeli soldiers and a Hezbollah militant have been killed in fierce fighting in southern Lebanon. Clashes erupted after Israeli tanks and infantry crossed the border in search of Hezbollah weapons and
Continue reading“Disproportionate force” explained
Sometimes, a picture is worth way more than a thousand words. Michael Ramirez gets it. This goes to the point I’ve been trying to make, which is that the anti-American/anti-Israel groups are willing to countenance a war only if they can assure that there is no possibility that the USA
Continue readingEverything you need to know about temper tantrums
My policy, when my children were little enough to have temper tantrums was, as I always said, “to walk over the body.” I simply won’t deal with someone behaving that way. One of my all time favorite videos shows beautifully how even children are wise enough to use temper tantrums
Continue readingSome people really aren’t mentally equipped to vote
Next time you read that your fellow citizens have, by signing petitions, put something totally ludicrous on the ballot (such as Arizona’s initiative to use lotteries to bribe people into the voting booth), think of this video:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uPcthZL2RE] Hat tip: PalmTree Pundit
Continue readingGood news at two levels
One of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces is being turned over to the Iraqi government: MOSUL, Iraq – Task Force Band of Brothers will turn over control of the former Saddam Hussein presidential compound here to Iraqi government officials in a ceremony in Mosul July 20. The Mosul VIP Residence site,
Continue readingPlaces to go for analysis about Israel’s situation
I’ve decided to place this post at the top periodically as a good way to publish links that I find interesting in analyzing the situation in the Middle East. Scroll down for any new posts I may have put up. Here are two good places to go for information about
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