Some spin I like
Gil Troy writes an enormously uplifting article about Israel’s victory, both in Lebanon and at home. I won’t summarize. You should read it yourself. FacebookTweet
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What the ceasefire means
His language is a bit more colorful than mine, but Ron Down Under complete nails the fact that the UN buffer is illusory (something already being demonstrated by the fact that no UN member states want to put their troops there), as well as the dangerous dilemma facing the Arab
Continue readingAnother legend passes
Joe Rosenthal shot the iconic Iwo Jima photograph that shows the Marines raising the second flag on that blood-soaked island. As Rosenthal made clear, this was not a posed photograph; it was not false propaganda: Ten years after the flag-raising, Rosenthal wrote that he almost didn’t go up to the
Continue readingPushing yourself to the limit
One of my favorite bloggers, and the one who gave me that pivotal link that pushed my numbers beyond zero per day, is Rich, at Beef always wins. He started blogging during his tour of duty in Iraq, where he wrote fascinating posts both about his own experiences and about
Continue readingAnalyzing liberal speak
I’m one of those people who never, never has a good comeback in conversation. Hurl an insult or a fallacy at me and I’m the one with my mouth agape. (Typically, the French have a phrase for it: “Esprit de l’escalier.”) I can tell that something is wrong with what
Continue readingSimilarities and differences
I mentioned before that I watched The Long Way Home, a documentary about the Jewish experience in the years between the liberation of the camps and the founding of the State of Israel. One of the things that movie reminded me about was the similarities between the tactics Jewish militants
Continue readingThe will to win — not
Mark Steyn points out that the world sees that the U.S. as once again afraid to us its power to win: What’s the difference between September 2001 and now? It’s not that anyone “liked” America or that, as the Democrats like to suggest, the country had the world’s “sympathy.” Pakistani
Continue readingThe best of man
Beautiful little story here about the human capacity for altruism and self-sacrifice. I’m still wiping away the tears. UPDATE: Sometimes people take something and run with it. Just see what Kathryn did with this one little link. FacebookTweet
Continue readingThe profiling kerfuffle
There’s panic on the Left again at the thought of placing young Islamic males under extra scrutiny when they approach sensitive spots such as airplanes, trains, and nuclear missile silos. At the Patriot Post, we get a little reminder about why this is a good idea. I won’t run the
Continue readingDamn, but we’re slow learners
An Investor’s Business Daily poll that shows America waking up to the threat of Islamic terrorism: A majority of Americans, 51 percent, believe that “militant Islamism is no less a threat in the 21st century than Nazism, fascism and communism were in the 20th century,” 63 percent are “very concerned”
Continue readingIt all depends on how you define victory
The meme has been that Israel lost. Hezbollah still exists, Israel had to cede control of her fight to the UN (blech), and so on and so on. However, winning or losing is often described in terms of what the parties to the engagement sought to achieve. Hezbollah sought to
Continue readingA bizarre juxtaposition, or the Chutzpah of it all
At the UN today, the “Arab Group” made its ad hoc contribution to the Draft International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. To the existing preamble paragraph, they proposed including this language to describe what they perceive as an existing problem: “Concerned that situations of armed conflict, foreign
Continue readingOne of Jimmy Carter’s buddies gets an ugly moment in the limelight
Jimmy Carter has come in for his share of deserved bashing for the heinous interview he gave in Der Spiegel. Now, one of Jimmy Carter’s employees is in the limelight for a bit of racist talk himself: Civil rights leader Andrew Young, who was hired to help Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Continue readingThe obvious thing wrong with Anna Diggs-Taylor’s decision
I knew without reading it that Anna Diggs-Taylor’s decision striking down the surveillance program would be a poorly written, poorly reasoned, legally and factually unsupported bit of garbage. Did I know this because I’m intimately familiar with the legal issues involved? No. Because I know all (or even any) of
Continue readingWorld War II’s legacy
We have had sitting around for months a DVD called The Long Way Home. It’s a documentary about the Jewish survivor’s plight in the three years after World War II. I really didn’t want to watch it, because I knew it would upset me — hence, it’s long sojourn on
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