Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It’s no surprise that I’m not the only one thinking about the nature of the war waging around us. Mark Steyn is thinking about it too, but he’s added the other layer to the problem, which is the West’s willful refusal to acknowledge the enemy. Thus, after briefly discussing the
Continue reading(It will give you a sense of just how busy my weekend was that it took me two days to do this one post!) A very popular bumper sticker in Marin since 2003 is one that has the phrase “Endless War” in blue type, with the “less” then crossed out
Continue readingI 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
Continue readingI’ve been finding very disturbing the intense hostility that conservatives direct against John McCain. So much so that I wrote a very long rant on the subject, which American Thinker was kind enough to publish and which I reprint below: Perhaps because I’m a neocon, and not a dyed-in-the-wool, native-born
Continue readingAt 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
Continue readingWARNING: British bloggers — do not write about this story. In England, a convoluted case played out in which the government froze funds in British banks that were to be sent to Al Qaeda, the funds’ owners challenged that action, and the court held against the government. As a result
Continue readingAndrew 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
Continue readingOne of the things about conspiracy theorists is that they live in a hazy world of innuendo and speculation. There’s never any hard evidence to support their theory, just a lot of disparate facts that can be spun together into a tangled and usually nonsensical tapestry. As often as not,
Continue readingI 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
Continue readingDennis Prager likes to say (and I’m paraphrasing here) that liberals and conservatives have entirely incompatible world views. They understand facts in such a different way that there are few points of intersection. I had a reminder of that truism the other day when I watched Oliver Stone’s World Trade
Continue readingI have one more school children post I want to do today, and this one is scary and depressing. It’s also not new, because it’s an issue that’s been around and about which I’ve blogged before: the possible terrorist threat to our children. Danny Lemieux gave me the heads up
Continue readingSamir Khan is a devoted jihadist who blogs viciously against America out of his bedroom in his parents’ home in North Carolina. Apparently being a devout Muslim, though, hasn’t insulated Samir from the sin of theft (a small sin, I agree, compared to arguing for the violent overthrow of your
Continue readingI’m not saying this is the inevitable by-product of multiculturalism, but it’s very clear that, as to one Scottish young man, he failed completely to acquire a European/Scottish/British identity: A British-born Muslim student has been jailed for eight years for a series of Islamist terrorism offences. Mohammed Atif Siddique, 21,
Continue readingThere’s a new movie out about “homegrown religious fundamentalists who kill in the name of God” — and Manolah Dargis, who writes movie reviews at The New York Times really wants to like it. You’ve got to admire Manolah. After all, who in America doesn’t want a solid documentary about
Continue readingThe media is congratulating itself for “exposing” Ahmadinejad with its constant focus on it’s “we have no gays in Iran” statement. Ha, ha, ha! Isn’t the man an idiot! Look, America, he thinks there are no gays in Iran! Ahmadinejad is right, of course, when it comes to Iran. But
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