Who our troops are
If you want to know something about our military, check out this and this. (Hint: they are not jackbooted, childkilling, undereducated, brutal, murderous thugs.) FacebookTweet
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The politics behind Mark Foley’s exposure
As more facts and counterfacts dribble out regarding Mark Foley, I’m slowly getting a handle on a bigger picture. Here’s what I see: Foley was, until recently, a closeted gay. As of about a year ago, the Republican leadership knew that Foley had sent emails to pages. The emails were
Continue readingReality check
Am I right to be irked that my daughter’s public school teachers have missed three days of school to go on a charity walk? Charity is fine, but I feel that this is being done at my child’s expense. After all, we’re talking about a professional demographic that enjoys three
Continue readingThe scandal behind the Foley story
Curt, at Flopping Aces, has been following the story behind the Foley story: while his unbecoming conduct probably took place, it’s becoming ever more clear that the resulting scandal was very carefully orchestrated. That is, this was not the spontaneous revelation of information that abruptly came to light. Instead, it
Continue readingClosed door; open window
This story, about Thomas Quasthoff, a world renowned bass-baritone is an amazing and wonderful one: Thomas Quasthoff titled both his autobiography and a recent CD compilation “The Voice,” underscoring the bass-baritone vocal instrument that has made him an internationally acclaimed singer. But it is safe to say that the main
Continue readingThe anti-War movement in a paragraph
One of the frequent themes I see from the anti-War crowd (including a theme in my own Comments sections) is the belief that Iraq has created terrorism. This view conveniently ignores the fact that the single greatest act of terrorism against Americans happened before the Iraq War, as well as
Continue readingPoetry with a message
Victor Davis Hanson, in a must-read article, rises to poetic heights as he surveys civilization’s end: But now all that hard-won effort [toward Enlightenment] of some 2,500 years is at risk. The new enemies of Reason are not the enraged democrats who executed Socrates, the Christian zealots who persecuted philosophers
Continue readingMore on the virtues of a little perspective
Mr. 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 readingIslamic fox watching British education henhouse
There 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
Continue readingTwo can keep a secret if one of them is dead
Something bad and embarrassing happened to someone I know. I’ve now been told the story three times in complete confidence by three people who heard the story from the source and promised not to pass it along. I myself have not passed the story on to anyone, but it is
Continue readingMark Steyn puts Gitmo and Leahy’s rants in perspective
Mark Steyn just got back from a Gitmo visit. In his most recent column, he describes what he saw there (better living than my “neighbors” in San Quentin, that’s for sure), and contrasts it with Leahy’s unhinged rant over trials for military terrorists: [I]t surely requires a perverse genius to
Continue readingAttacking paper tigers
I’ve now watched two episodes of Aaron Sorkin’s new show, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Well, to be completely honest, I sort of watched two episodes, sinced I slept through most of the second. The show has the usual Sorkin trademarks — incredibly rapid-fire dialogue, some of it clever;
Continue readingGet a first life!
Mr. Bookworm came home from work yesterday quite excited. A friend had introduced him to one of those interactive online worlds, this one called Second Life. Here is how Second Life describes itself: Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to
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Al-Zawahri has emerged has the newest spokesman for the “Bush lied, people died” meme. Frankly, if I were a major party during a time of war, I’d kind of prefer to distance myself from the enemy’s rhetoric and I’d be deeply disturbed to find that the enemy is echoing mine.
Continue readingIraq is not the problem — or, at least, not the only problem
Lovely, lovely writing from Jonah Goldberg [updated link that might actually work]: Every serious analysis of the Islamic world today describes a genuine tectonic shift in a vast civilization, an upheaval that cuts across social, religious and demographic lines. This phenomenon dwarfs transient issues such as the Iraq war. Are
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