Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Those 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 readingIt is illegal to be Jewish (or Christian, or anything but Muslim) in Saudi Arabia. It is deadly to be a Muslim apostate in Afghanistan. It's fatal to be Christian in Indonesia. With scattered exceptions, Jews were long ago evicted from Iraq. I won't belabor my point: Jews (and other
Continue readingBookworm was rather suddenly called away on a trip, so I'll be pinch-hitting for a while. Right now, all I've got is a question. My father sent me an e-mail with a picture of what was supposedly Casey Sheehan's grave, without a tombstone. Does anyone know whether it is true
Continue readingI found this great picture at Flopping Aces. He found it through Buck Sargent. I don't think I need to add any comment. UPDATE: G-Raze left a comment pointing to what s/he (don't know which) thinks is a tremendous irony: that I published this picture on the same day the
Continue readingLast year, I watched a video called Death in Gaza, shot by a British film maker. It was a sympathetic portrayal of Palestinian families, with a special focus on young boys and their fascination with emulating the Hamas killers. The video ended in a No-Man's land, with a fire fight
Continue readingFor a truly strange story about sex roles amongst the Saudis, and for a wonderful pun, go here.
Continue readingWhen is news not news? When it's rumor and propaganda — and this remains true even if every major news outlet prints it. I'm sure you haven't forgotten the New York Times' gruesome headline: "30 beheaded bodies found; Iraqi death squads blamed." The first paragraph repeated this point, and made
Continue readingI love Mark Steyn. If you don't have time to read his whole column (and who wouldn't have a few minutes for such a treat?), at least get a little fix here: [M]y point is there's no mass anti-war movement. Some commentators claimed to be puzzled by the low turnout
Continue readingDo you have a strong stomach? If you do not, definitely avoid this website, which collects information and photographs about the atrocities routinely committed against women, children and gays across the Muslim world. Here, you can see what it looks like when a person has been flogged hundreds of times
Continue readingYou know the monkeys: The monkeys' message — see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil — may be a useful one in the context of ordinary social relationships, where gossip is poisonous, but it's an utterly insane way to run the world. Nevertheless, that's precisely what the world
Continue readingLowell Ponte spells out in sad, scary, excrutiating detail the world our children will inherit — not directly, if they stay in America, but indirectly by having a weirdly Arabized Europe as their planet neighbor. To begin with, the numbers are compelling: * In Brussels, Belgium, the most popular name
Continue readingI’m in the midst of listening to Terry Gross’s Fresh Air interview with Kevin Phillips, a former Nixon operative who is deeply hostile to the Bush family and to the religious right (and he’s just written a book about how the religious right is destroying American politics). I’m about ten
Continue readingIt’s easy to point the ideological finger of blame at today’s MSM — a finger deservedly pointed, I think. However, there’s more to shoddy reporting than just rampant belief systems. There are simply too many mistakes to be explained away that way. (For example, even anti-Bush hysteria couldn’t completely account
Continue readingI offer you this Power Line post in its entirety. It’s short, and there’s no way I can adequately summarize the fascinating point it makes: Last August, I did a post titled Some Thoughts on Casualties In Times of War and Peace, which later became an article in the Orlando
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