Category: Bits and Pieces

The UN, in Resolution 1701, agreed to help pay for damages Lebanon sustained in the recent war, but has not even considered doing so for Israel.  You could argue that Lebanon is a non-combatant that got caught in the middle.  I think, though, this is a difficult argument to sustain

Karr was a perverted poser, but Warren Steed Jeffs is the real thing — a genuinely bad guy — and he was just arrested.  If you’ve read or seen anything about the radical polygamist sect Jeffs headed, and about the horrible abuses he’s forced on young girls for years in

David Horowitz and Richard Poe have written a book about George Soros and the negative effect he’s having on American politics. It’s called The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party. FrontPage Magazine has interviewed Poe about the book. I can’t

Although I’m guilty of more than my fair share of typographical errors and am a dreadfully bad proofreader (very, very guilty), I’m actually a stickler about good writing when it comes to my professional work.  One of my all time favorite books is Bryan Garner’s The Winning Brief, a book

Whenever I read books about the Black Death in Europe, whether fiction or non-fiction, I’m struck by the emphasis on the speed with which nature reclaimed formerly populated, domesticated areas. When the human population dies, nature quickly surges back. One of the recurring images in these books, of course, is

Arab despots, leaders who normally would have ended up on the dunghill of history, have maintained their status through petrodollars. The American left, by resolutely putting the kibosh on potential alternative fuel sources (ANWR and nuclear are the ones that spring to mind), have ensured that are money keeps flowing

All of you who are parents remember this scene from when your children were very, very small:  First, you see your child get injured, whether it’s a cut or a blow.  You react instantly but, interestingly enough, there’s a pause before your baby responds.  That pause is so that your

I was only gone one day and two nights, but I’m as tired as if I trekked the Himalayas. The fact that, even now that we’re home, the kids are screaming in the background (“Give it to me. You promised me!” “I did not. You’re cheating.” “Mommy!” “MOMMMMMMYYYYY!!!!”), may go

I’ll keep this short, because I’m struggling with a micro keyboard on my 36 hour holiday. A comment thread some time ago concerned whether I was right or wrong in discounting Human Rights Watch’s endless attacks on Israel. I therefore read this with interest: The New York Sun publishes an

We all have assumptions that guide us, and we’re not obligated to explain them every time, regarding everything we say. However, to be an intelligent audience, we must always understand the speaker’s assumptions. In this excerpt from How The Left Was Won : An In-Depth Analysis of the Tools and

Here’s more, with the author’s permission, from How The Left Was Won : An In-Depth Analysis of the Tools and Methodologies Used by Liberals to Undermine Society and Disrupt the Social Order. This is from a chapter which demonstrates how liberals, rather than having a core believe in individuality in

As promised, and with the author’s permission, here’s an excerpt from Richard Mgrdechian’s How The Left Was Won : An In-Depth Analysis of the Tools and Methodologies Used by Liberals to Undermine Society and Disrupt the Social Order. Promote and Exploit Divisiveness (page 1-3) Let’s face it, when you get