Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The MSM is bewildered. How is it that nine years after 9/11, people are more hostile to Muslims than they were the day of 9/11, when 20 Muslims murdered thousands of Americans, and sought to decapitate the American government? This article from the San Francisco Chronicle nicely presents the liberal
Continue readingClifford May beautifully explains the fact that Jihadis, who use violence, and Islamists, who use more subtle means, are both threats to the West — and he manages to mention, too, why reform isn’t happening: Terrorism is not the core of the problem. It is merely the weapon of choice
Continue readingMy post caption is mangled version of an English expression popular in the years leading up to and during WWI: “The Hun is either at your throat or at your feet.” It was a reference to the fact that Germany was a deeply hierarchical, undemocratic nation, with only the haziest
Continue readingRemember that old Sesame Street song, “One of these things is not like the others…“? That song kept running through my mind as I looked at this photo essay of the 15 deadliest terror attacks in the world. I leave it to you to consider what distinguishes the majority of
Continue readingCNN is running an opinion piece by Jocelyne Cesari, an Ivy League scholar, assuring Americans (you know, all those bigoted, Islamophobic, ignorant Americans) that Islam is a religion and has nothing to do with terrorism. What’s interesting is that the article doesn’t actually take a doctrinal approach to Islam, one
Continue readingIn America, being stoned is a good thing: it’s hip, it’s cool, it’s “real.” Being stoned in Islamic culture has a whole different meaning. I think it’s worth reading Phyllis Chesler on the subject just so that you can appreciate the true “otherness” of Islam. As Pat Condell said— and
Continue readingI was thinking of headlines to rival the one I saw this morning: Landmark vote opens door to Ground Zero mosque For true parallelism, you can’t have as the new occupier the same person or entity that caused the deaths at the site. Instead, you have to have the fellow-travelers,
Continue readingFrom Charles Krauthammer: President Obama’s National Security Strategy insists on calling the enemy — how else do you define those seeking your destruction? — “a loose network of violent extremists.” But this is utterly meaningless. This is not an anger-management therapy group gone rogue. These are people professing a powerful
Continue readingYou recognize that quotation, right? It’s one of Golda Meir’s most repeated sayings. However, if you’ve been paying attention to the blogosphere lately, you’ll see that the Palestinians, with a lot of help from the Jordanians, are still raising their children to be cannon fodder. Rick, at Brutally Honest, has
Continue readingThe Washington Post has a piece that ostensibly educates WaPo readers about the true nature of today’s terrorists. Interestingly (or do I mean typically) it tries to erase Islam from the equation: 3. Al-Qaeda is made up of religious zealots. To the contrary, rank-and-file terrorists who claim to be motivated
Continue readingJustice Scalia states more eloquently than I ever could the difference between feelings and morality. [Sorry about this — while I was in the midst of editing a longer, pre-existing post, Comcast service died completely and deleted everything I’d written after the above sentence. Sigh. Nine hours later, Comcast is
Continue readingSometimes, to their creator’s dismay, ideas take on a life of their own. In the wake of Comedy Central’s decision to censor a South Park episode that didn’t actually draw Mohamed, but merely suggested the possibility of doing so, Molly Norris came up with the idea of “everybody draw Mohamed
Continue readingIf you read nothing else today, please read Fouad Ajami’s devastating indictment of the Islamic culture, a culture that encourages perpetual disaffection and anger with the world at large: ‘A Muslim has no nationality except his belief,” the intellectual godfather of the Islamists, Egyptian Sayyid Qutb, wrote decades ago. Qutb’s
Continue readingUnless you’ve been visiting some other planet somewhere in the universe, you already know about Comedy Central’s South Park debacle. That’s the one, of course, that saw Comedy Central, the oh-so-hip-and-edgy (meaning often offensive) television station brutally censoring a South Park episode that implied that Mohamed was walking around wearing
Continue readingAs they usually do, the Democrats have picked a non-violent party and tarred it with the extremist brush (that would be Democrats v. Tea Partiers), while ignoring and abasing themselves before a genuinely threatening movement (that would be Democrats v. radical Islamists). And as always, Mark Steyn ties everything effortlessly
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