Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Sometimes, you stumble across an expert who has such manifest expertise, it might be a grave mistake to ignore him. And sometimes, if you’re not the stumbling kind, you’re lucky enough to have someone tell you how to find information from that expert. Thanks to Kevin, I can tell you
Continue readingMy posting was light yesterday, in part because I had a lot of work and childcare obligations, and in part because I’d sort of run myself out of energy working on a contribution to the American Thinker‘s series of articles about religious wars. For the American Thinker, I ended up
Continue readingMark Steyn on the vile Islamist whirlwind the European and American dilettantes must now reap after having cultivated the PLO and its ilk so assiduously: In Causeries du Lundi, Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve recalls a Parisian dramatist watching the revolutionary mob rampaging through the street below and beaming: “See my pageant passing!”
Continue readingNot a day goes by that we don’t hear a drumbeat of stories about the “civilians” being killed in Lebanon and the growing “civilian” crisis there. But what is a civilian? If Israel bombs the home of a civil Hezbollah leader and kills the leader, his wife and his four
Continue readingThe 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 readingI’m really enjoying the periodic forays I’ve been making into Leftie land regarding the current Israeli/Hezbollah war (you can see my previous posts here and here), so I thought I’d keep going. No survey would be complete without checking in with Howard Dean. I know it’s already old news (two
Continue readingOn it’s face, Richard Cohen’s most recent op-ed for the WaPo looks like a self-hating anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli screed. It’s not really, although it’s inartfully written (very), and some of the conclusions he draws aren’t necessarily correct. I thought, therefore, that I’d give the article a polite fisking to try to
Continue readingWhile I work, I like to listen to talk radio in the background. (I use KRLA’s site, which has great streaming audio.) Today, however, I couldn’t stick with it. I was listening to Michael Medved talk about the very real possibility that the same portable missiles that are raining down
Continue readingHezbollah has bombed major Israeli cities: A missile fired from Lebanon on Thursday evening exploded in the northern city of Haifa, officials said. Firefighters and rescue services who reached the scene of the attack didn’t report any civilian casualties. Earlier, six Katyusha rockets exploded in central Nahariya on Thursday evening
Continue readingThis is an NPR story about a “how to” Jihad book that ended up published on line. William McCants, a West Point scholar, discusses the larger principles in the book, including the admonition to manipulate the press better. I wondered if Steve Inskeep, as he conducted the interview, realized
Continue readingMr. Bookworm is one of the smartest people I know. He’s also someone who gets his news exclusively from the New York Times, NPR and The New Yorker. He’s fond of repeating in a loud voice that President Bush is the worst president ever, that he’s an idiot, and that
Continue readingThis time, Bombay took the hit from the religion of pieces (AP calls the actors in this drama “Kashmiri militants”) in the latest chapter about the jihadist assault on the civilized world. Only in the story’s last paragraph does AP carefully reveal the truth about these “militants”: Seven explosions hit
Continue readingI am indebted to Laer, at one of my faves, Cheat Seeking Missiles, for leading me to a Gates of Vienna post about the attraction jihadist Islam holds for all the world’s nihilists. To fully appreciate the post, you have to pay close attention to the blog’s masthead, which is
Continue reading“When religion teaches, I respect it; when it coerces, I fear it.” That was Dennis Prager this morning, nailing the difference between the Western approach to religion and Islamofascism. He made the comment on air while talking about the religious police who slaughtered some Somalis for watching TV. The same
Continue readingIt's no secret that large chunks of the Western world are in demographic decline. Mark Steyn has focused on the fact relentlessly in a series of articles (with the most recent being an article, first published in the New Criterion and then republished in the WSJ). The most recent article
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