Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I found intriguing a Reuters story entitled “Imams in Denmark seek to cool cartoon row.” Based on that headline, I thought it would be a story in which thoughtful Imams, looking at the anarchy abyss their followers created during the cartoon riots, stepped back from the precipice, and urged their
Continue readingMy blog title is an exaggeration. The hardline Islamists in Nigeria who are denying children polio vaccinations are not planning on creating a worldwide polio epidemic, or even a pan-African epidemic. They are just operating on a paranoid, anti-Western intellectual model that doesn’t have a problem with sacrificing children to
Continue readingFrom American Thinker: The French will flex military their “military muscle” to shoot down Israeli observation jets. After years of ignoring Hezbollah preparations to terrorize Israel, after hiding a video that could have helped Israel find out what happened to soldiers murdered by Hezbollah in 2001 (the kidnappers used trucks
Continue readingBecause the comments section in my blog has seen a lot of activity about the Lancet report positing almost 700,000 Iraqi war dead in a few years, I thought it would be useful to direct your attention to the fact that an anti-War website, Iraq Body Count, has had the
Continue readingMy Dad told many war stories, most of which have stuck because they were so vivid. One story was about training he underwent during the Israeli War of Independence. For my Dad, this was a review class, since he’d spent five years in combat during World War II. The class
Continue readingIf you want to learn a little bit more about North Korea, which seems to have something at least approximating real nuclear bombs, check out all the information Laer has gathered on the subject. I’m still feeling green around the gills and emotionally horrible from reading it. This is a
Continue readingThe Germans have some interesting words that encompass deep philosopical ideas. The ones that spring easily to my mind are Weltanschauung (“a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity’s relation to it“); and Weltschmertz (“Sorrow or sadness over the present or future evils or woes of the
Continue readingThomas Lifson writes a remarkably sanguine article in which he posits that the recent fizzle-pop out of N. Korea was not a show of strength, but a last ditch effort to keep the N. Korean army in line: Any dictator who can allow a million or two of his 20 million countrymen
Continue readingIn October 2004, the once respectable British medical journal, The Lancet, published an article in which it vastly overestimated Iraqi war deaths. Those who contended then that the article’s timing was purposeful, and was intended to affect the American elections, were pooh-poohed. I’ll concede, for the sake of argument, that
Continue readingOn its face, it looks like an article in the New York Times that points out something we have figured out already; namely, that the Europeans have been nursing a viper to their bosom: Europe appears to be crossing an invisible line regarding its Muslim minorities: more people in the
Continue readingA bomb went off in Tel Afar yesterday, but that’s not the news. From the SF Chronicle, which is reprinting a short article from the Washington Post, the lede and the first paragraph make sure we understand the real story: 2nd bombing in city Bush had touted as safe A
Continue readingBush has shown remarkable courage in sticking to his guns in the war. However, his actions are not matched by his words. He’s too polite, too worried, to well-counseled, too restrained for whatever reason to call things as they are. John Howard, Australia’s Prime Minister, is not so constrained, as
Continue readingIsrael has been a very lonely country for a very long time. But for the United States’ continuing support, nation after nation has abandoned Israel to her fate, little caring that she is a bastion of enlightened Western thought in the midst of a churning battlefield of Islamist fascism. Things
Continue readingMr. Bookworm still finds troubling my political transformation, which is actually something I understand. After all, when we stood under the chuppah so many years ago, he knew what he was getting — a stalwart Democratic life partner. It was bad enough when his siblings, after 9/11, betrayed him by
Continue readingThere are no words: A hardline Muslim teacher who caused a furore by denouncing pupils for celebrating Christmas has been made a Government schools inspector. Israr Khan’s Ofsted appointment was described by a former colleague as ‘absolutely astonishing’. Mr Khan, now headmaster of an Islamic school, launched into his tirade
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