Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Is there any question that, when Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş killed Andrei Karlov in cold blood, he was doing so either at ISIS’s behest or as part of a lone wolf ISIS-inspired assassination? To me, this picture provides the only evidence one needs: We’ve seen that gesture before: The Islamic State
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Everything that’s wrong with the Left in one website. At City Journal, Oren Cass has written a short article that looks at modern Progressivism through the filter of Hillary’s campaign website. In some ways, the article says something we all know, which is that the modern Democrat party is not
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The coup that wasn’t and the coup that could be. The more news that comes out of Turkey, the more I believe that what happened there was a coup in the same way that the Reichstag fire was a “coup” — it was a staged event that gave a despot
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I was on the phone with a friend when he suddenly started yelling, “Oh, my God! Oh, my God!” He had just received in his email a news bulletin announcing a military takeover in Turkey. First reports indicated that the takeover was led by mid-level military officers accusing the government
Continue readingSadie tipped me off to two interesting articles, both of which concern Turkey (not the fowl food, but the increasingly foul Islamist nation). The first notes a peculiar co-inky-dink: all of America’s policies since the 1990s have just coincidentally helped return to the Islamic fold myriad nations that were once
Continue readingInexplicably, the US Ambassador in Ankara seems to have endorsed the ruling AKP party in Turkey’s upcoming elections. This is inexplicable because the AKP is Islamist, anti-American and antisemitic (but other than that, it’s a great party). My multiple choice question for you: (1) Was this pure stupidity? (2) Is
Continue readingAn Austrian MP has finally had enough of the way the Turkish government complains about the treatment Turks receive in Austria. I have no idea what kind of treatment Turks receive in Austria, although if it’s like the rest of Europe, they get welfare, and they do not integrate, both
Continue readingApropos my apparent fascism, one neocon, an former Communist, and also an Italian Jew, suggests that supporting Israel may be enough to earn that appellation from the Left. (H/t Soccer Dad) Speaking of Soccer Dad, at his blog we have another reminder that Ataturk‘s western nation is vanishing, to be
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