Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I don’t even have a link for this yet, but here’s the latest from CENTCOM about the link between crime and terrorism: COMBINED FORCES COMMAND – AFGHANISTAN COALITION PRESS INFORMATION CENTER KABUL, AFGHANISTAN FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 18, 2006 Release # 060718-07 Extremists linked to drug trade KABUL , Afghanistan
Continue readingOn it’s face, Richard Cohen’s most recent op-ed for the WaPo looks like a self-hating anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli screed. It’s not really, although it’s inartfully written (very), and some of the conclusions he draws aren’t necessarily correct. I thought, therefore, that I’d give the article a polite fisking to try to
Continue readingWhile I work, I like to listen to talk radio in the background. (I use KRLA’s site, which has great streaming audio.) Today, however, I couldn’t stick with it. I was listening to Michael Medved talk about the very real possibility that the same portable missiles that are raining down
Continue readingI can’t decide if this is the beginning of the end for any hope of normal society in Holland, or if it is an appropriate event in a free society, which allows issues to be aired and decided upon by the voters: A Dutch court refused Monday to ban a
Continue readingSometimes, when children die in horrible accidents that could have been avoided if the parents had been responsible, I feel that the child’s death is punishment enough for the parent, and that imprisonment would be redundant. In the case of Maureen Faibish, however, who killed her son by pitbull, I
Continue readingThis is part of a longer post at American Thinker, which I think nails an issue about the current war being waged all over the world — the Leftist’s self-defeating alignment with the Islamists: Islam was founded as a religion that is the state, where the state is the religion.
Continue readingThere’s more and more talk lately of a UN peacekeeping force going in to put a fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. Now, Putin is chiming in to say he might help out with this. I sure hope that Israel, who has less reason than any nation in the world to
Continue readingDQ again. Just read a news article with some good background on the current crisis. I’m not writing about the background, though, but about its assumptions as to the public’s reaction. It suggests that if Israeli civilians are killed they will “begin clamoring for a cease-fire.” But if Lebanese civilians
Continue readingDQ here. I’ve been silent about the recent events in the Middle East because Bookworm knows the topic far better than I do and is doing a fine job of blogging about it. I do want to make a couple of suggestions, though. I keep hearing calls warning
Continue readingIsrael used to win wars because she was smarter than her enemy. I’m not so sure now. Israeli intelligence was deeply asleep when it was unaware of Hezbollah’s ability to tap into her computer, when it was surprised by the tunnels under her borders, and when it didn’t know that
Continue readingCourtesy of a timely email from a friend (thanks, Sharon), I was reminded again of all the Leftist organizations around the world that have crawled into bed with Hezbollah in the last several years. Here’s one story: In September 2004, there was a huge gathering of anti-American, anti-Israeli organizations in
Continue readingI was listening to the radio today, and heard the top of the hour news. As the announcer said “The G8 issued a statement today regarding the situation in the Middle East,” I expected the sentence to finish “condemning Israel.” Boy, was I surprised: Group of Eight leaders told Hizbollah
Continue readingNot only does Mark Steyn get it, he does it with such great prose: The forces at play in the Middle East are beyond the Geopolitical Friars’ Club. The median age in Gaza is 15.8 years old. How likely is it that any of those bespoke Palestinian “moderates” who’ve been
Continue readingMr. Bookworm cannot understand why Israel started a major war over three soldiers. No matter the horrors of their kidnapping, and the infiltration of Israeli terroritory associated with those kidnappings, he thinks that the kidnappings are not a sufficient reason to go to war. I asked, “What about the thousands
Continue readingThere used to be an old expression to describe a situation in which a behind-the-scenes power was manipulating a situation. That power was called a “fine Italian hand,” which spoke to the British scene that the Italians were all Machiavellian schemers. I’ve been thinking of that expression, suitably mutated, to
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