Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The Hydra of mythology was a fearsome multi-headed monster. One of its great strengths was the fact that, if you severed one of its heads, another head (or maybe more than one) would grow in its place. Nevertheless, the Hydra could be defeated. Here’s one version of how Hercules defeated
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 readingIt's not uncommon to liken the world envisioned by Islamic fundamentalists to a medieval world, where women are shrouded in heavy draperies and are second class citizens; where beheading and torture are the punishments of choice; and where there is supposed to be one universal religion (with Jews as the
Continue readingDuring lunch with Don Quixote, he noted that I ‘ve concluded that both the ideology of Islamofascism and its followers are completely evil. He’s right. I do. We had a great lunch-time discussion while I sought, in very convoluted fashion, why I thought this way, but still managed not to
Continue readingHere's the story, brought to you of jurors who still don't get it: A federal jury rejected the death penalty for al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui on Wednesday and decided he must spend life in prison for his role in the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history. After seven days of
Continue readingI love it when people hostile to the current administration get onto every TV show and garner column inches in every newspaper to voice their complaints about censorship and suppression. Irony doesn't seem to be an operative word in their vocabulary. These same people are always remarkably quiet when the
Continue readingThose suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome like to claim that the increase in Muslim vs. everyone attacks are all George Bush's fault, because he had the temerity to strike back. Certainly, we're more aware of Muslim vs. the world attacks, because 9/11 got our antennae up. It's useful, though, to
Continue readingIt seems to me that most of the violent death in the world today would be capped if we could do away with the more violent adherents of the Religion of Pieces. Today, 9 died in Tel Aviv, with more almost 70 injured, thanks to yet another Muslim who went
Continue readingJack, my favorite Retired Preacher, has republished in his blog, with the original publication's permission, a lengthy article about radical Islam's goal of creating a worldwide Caliphate governed by the purest expression of 7th Century Islamic law. Aside from generally being an interesting article, I found especially fascinating the way
Continue readingImagine my surprise to learn that NPR — NPR! — gave airtime to Joe Loconte, who spent several minutes explaining what Islamofacism is, and why it’s so dangerous. You should take the time to listen to it. It’s good. And — another surprise — it’s one of the most emailed
Continue readingIf you’ve been thinking that official agencies and mainstream media outlets have been remarkably coy about reporting Muslim violence, you’re not alone. The examples are easy to find: it took a month before anyone bothered to make the anti-Semitic connection with Ilan Halimi’s murder; the Oklahoma University bombing was presented
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