Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I wrote about the fact that Muslims are seeking to impose on us their non-religious traditions. Dennis Prager says much the same thing, only better, and with a clear focus on the difference between morality and ritual. Here’s just a bit of a longer column you may enjoy reading: The
Continue readingMy blog title is an exaggeration. The hardline Islamists in Nigeria who are denying children polio vaccinations are not planning on creating a worldwide polio epidemic, or even a pan-African epidemic. They are just operating on a paranoid, anti-Western intellectual model that doesn’t have a problem with sacrificing children to
Continue readingWe Americans are very respectful of other people’s cultures. The old “ugly American” of 1950s stereotypes died on college campuses in the 1960s, to be replaced by the multiculturalist, PC American who would never dream of challenging the way in which another culture conducts itself. The most recent example of
Continue readingThe Germans have some interesting words that encompass deep philosopical ideas. The ones that spring easily to my mind are Weltanschauung (“a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity’s relation to it“); and Weltschmertz (“Sorrow or sadness over the present or future evils or woes of the
Continue readingSteve Feldman, who hosts and produces “The ZOA Middle East Report”, gives us the back story on the beating Shoaib Chourdhury sustained when he attempted to be a pro-active moderate Muslim. (You can read more about Choudhury here.) You’ve often heard me (read me?) ask where the moderate Muslims are hiding,
Continue readingMark Steyn has written an about-to-be-released book: American Alone : The End of the World as We Know It. NRO runs him through some questions about the book and about his world view. Since it’s Mark Steyn, even the interview is interesting. A lot of what he says is familiar
Continue readingNo, I’m not calling you, my readers, stupid. I’m riffing off of James Carville’s message to Bill Clinton during the 1992 elections, in order to keep him on message. Everywhere Clinton looked were signs saying “It’s the economy, stupid!” I’ve just updated that thought, and I’ve updated it with a
Continue readingBush has shown remarkable courage in sticking to his guns in the war. However, his actions are not matched by his words. He’s too polite, too worried, to well-counseled, too restrained for whatever reason to call things as they are. John Howard, Australia’s Prime Minister, is not so constrained, as
Continue readingOne of the frequent themes I see from the anti-War crowd (including a theme in my own Comments sections) is the belief that Iraq has created terrorism. This view conveniently ignores the fact that the single greatest act of terrorism against Americans happened before the Iraq War, as well as
Continue readingThe reclusive Aga Khan, who is known for his wealth and race horses is, in fact, the spiritual leader of the Ismalis, the world’s second largest Shiite Muslim sect. He spoke to reporters recently. The NPR report is here. I assume there was more than this little bit on NPR,
Continue readingI’ve always been fascinated by history. It was only because Bezerkley Marxist teaching sucked the life out the subject that I didn’t get a Ph.D. in history. I’ve therefore had a well furnished mental backdrop about Islam’s continuous incursions against the West, including its final conquest of the Byzantine (Christian)
Continue readingMartin Luther King, 1963: And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of
Continue readingMuslims societies are honor based. While we may tie the concept of “saving face” to the Japanese, they’re pikers when it comes to the Muslims. That’s because Japanese, when they lose face, turn on themselves; Muslims turn on others (hence the prevalence of honor killings). This is true of even
Continue readingBeing Jewish, I can’t reach Patrick’s ultimate conclusion that “Jesus is the answer,”* but I sure can agree with everything else in his post. He explains why we must support the Pope’s thesis that reason and religion have to take a role in public debate today because our enemies, using
Continue readingFor quite a while, the fanatic Islamists have been in the catbird seat. No matter what they did, as long as it was directed against (a) Israel; (b) George Bush; (c) America; (d) the American military; (e) the West; or (e) disrespectful cartoons, the West gave them a free pass,
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