Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Ignatius Insight Scoop explains why you don’t want to go to The New Yorker for a reasoned critique of the Pope. (Hat tip: Paragraph Farmer.) Then, just to round things out, CDR Salamander offers a video explaining what the Pope actually said last Fall that excited so much Muslim outrage,
Continue readingFjordman, who is not afraid to “out” jihadist violence in Europe has a long, long post at Gates of Vienna about the violent crime wave in Europe that has its root, not in socio-economic factors, but in jihad. The following paragraphs are just the beginning: Although the European Union warns
Continue readingChildhood is a modern construct. Before the Victorian era, children were perceived as mini-adults, albeit with a higher mortality rate. Since the early Victorian era, however, all Western nations have recognized and cultivated the special bond between a parent and a child and, more importantly for purposes of this post,
Continue readingYou’ve no doubt heard that the Six Imams, as part of their legal strategy, have named as “John Doe” defendants in their lawsuit some of the people who alerted the authorities about the fact that the Imam’s were behaving in a peculiar and threatening way. That threat, to drag citizens into
Continue reading“Oh, my gosh,” I said to myself. “Reuters is actually writing an article about Islamic violence.” I mean, what else was I to think when I read this headline: Misery tempts Palestinian Christians to flee. After all, to the extent Christians are dying or being burned out of their homes,
Continue readingYou don’t need a scorecard to know the players; just a picture.
Continue readingBecause Holocaust denial is so much in the press today, we’re hearing a lot about the 6 million Jews who perished during the Holocaust. We hear less about the 250,000 (more or less) who managed to survive. (If my math is correct, that tells me that only 4% of the
Continue readingNext time someone accuses you of Islamophobia, explain to them that it’s only a “phobia” if it’s an irrational fear, not a rational one. Then explain to them why Islamophobia is probably a very rational fear indeed. del.icio.us | digg it
Continue readingSan Francisco has been in the press a lot lately (and inspired some pretty funny Jay Leno riffs) because of Gavin Newsom’s sexual misconduct with his ex-campaign manager’s wife. It’s sordid, it’s sexy, and, at bottom, it’s not troubling. That is, as with all good sex scandals, we can purse
Continue readingIn the long ago past, Jews were accused of heinous acts such as kidnapping Christian children and using their blood to make matzoh, or of poisoning wells, accusations that existed entirely separate from actual fact. That is, there was never any evidence that Jews actually engaged in these heinous acts.
Continue readingA trope on the Left is that, if Israel will just give the Palestinians back their land, glorious peace will instantly descend upon the entire Middle East, whether in the West Bank, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, or Iran. All of those nations are convulsing, runs this trope, not
Continue readingI like Mitt Romney. I like his ability to get things done and his presence. I agree with many, if not most of his viewpoints. I hope that his Mormonism does not get in the way of people evaluating the man and his policies. After all, he’s not inviting us
Continue readingI’m less interested in “Little Mosque On the Prairie,” a new Canadian show aiming to take a humorous look at how stressful it is to be a Muslim in the West (which is entirely different, of course from the stresses placed on Christians living in Muslim dominated countries), then I
Continue readingI think for many of us, England is one of the old world countries inextricably entwined with images of Christmas. When I think of England, I think of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol; of the Christmas tree, which the Germanic British royals elevated from a quaint German custom into a
Continue readingMy host during the Thanksgiving break introduced me to a newspaper called Muslim World Today. It’s editor-in-chief is Tashbih Sayyed, who is also the president of the Council for Democracy and Tolerance, which sponsors the paper. The CDT is a grassroots organization which has as its unabashed goal the dethroning
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