Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
One of Obama’s (and Clinton’s) many sins is the desire to nationalize medicine, so that the government gets to decide who deserves treatment and who doesn’t. Britain, as always, serves as a useful horrible example of what can happen under such a system: A 61-year-old grandmother has been denied vital
Continue readingYou recall the uproar a few weeks ago when the Archbishop of Canterbury said that it’s unfair for Muslims to have to follow British law and that it would be a good thing to incorporate elements of Sharia law into British law. It turns out that he’s not the only
Continue readingFrankly, I don’t know if I’ve ever said it on my blog, but both my mother and Don Quixote can corroborate the fact that I’ve been saying for years that mutually assured destruction is not deterrent when dealing with Iranian leaders because they not only believe in the Muslim equivalent
Continue readingI’ve always referred to the numbers we used as Arabic numerals (as distinct from Roman numerals), and I’ve accepted that it was under Islam that medicine flourished during the Dark Ages. Turns out I was wrong: FP: So how about Muslim claims of accomplishment that aren’t real? BetBasoo: Muslims claim
Continue readingI’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for England. I adore British history, especially because I’ve always admired its trajectory towards true enlightenment. It had all the bad qualities of other European nations — serfs, Crusades, slavery, inhumane work conditions, etc. — but it always seemed to shake
Continue readingTwo excellent articles out of England about the folly behind the Archbishop’s idea: Our British laws are there to protect Muslim women What parallel sharia means in practice
Continue readingAt Treppenwitz, David Bogner describes a scenario in Israel in which both Olmert and the Shas opposition, blind to anything but their own desire to stay in government, sacrifice the country to disastrous politics. This is not the kind of power of corruption one sees in someone like Mugabe, where
Continue readingI get emails from Kayak.com, a travel site. The most recent email offers this cutting edge travel opportunity: Immigration and border patrol seems to be at the top of every political conversation. At Parque Eco Alberto, you can go on a pretend ‘Night Border Crossing Experience.’ The parque is owned
Continue readingI would like to be upset with what the British judge did, but I think he’s right: The country’s top judge has dealt a significant blow to a key plank of the Government’s anti-terrorism legislation after he overturned the convictions of five Muslim men jailed last year for downloading and
Continue readingIn an earlier post, I asked how America in the 60s managed to swing over to and completely accept its enemy’s way of defining the situation. That is, the logical American point of view should have been that we were defeating Communism, which is an evil scourge that was trying
Continue readingI don’t need to remind any of you of the Cartoon jihad rampage that Islamists went on a couple of years ago when a Danish paper dared to print cartoons of Muhammad, most innocuous, but some a little edgy. Actually, they weren’t edgy enough because, as you may also recall,
Continue readingI don’t really know what to say here. This is just so sad. If I had to guess, I’d say it was a combination of unlimited immigration, unlimited welfare, and the stagnant economy of the socialist state: More than 2.2 million British children – one in five – now live
Continue readingReading this, you can’t tell if it happened in 1938 or 2008: An American tourist was kicked out of a cafe in Belgium for being Jewish. Marcel Kalmann, a 64-year-old professor, told the Antwerp Jewish magazine Joods Actueel that he was ejected from the renowned restaurant Le Panier d’Or in
Continue readingLater today, a government’s representative is going to make the following important announcements: Western governments have “the moral imperative to intervene – sometimes militarily – to help spread democracy throughout the world.” The same speaker says that “fostering democracy in the Middle East ‘is the best long-term defence against global
Continue readingI’m about to show my youth and ignorance here with regard to the Vietnam War (’cause even though I lived through it, I was truly a child then). But first, let me back up a bit. Mr. Bookworm rented Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe. If you haven’t heard of it,
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