Swords and ploughshares
Soccer Dad ruminates about the different ways in which at least one Ethiopian and all Palestinians handle the tools of war. FacebookTweet
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Busy day
You know it’s going to be a busy day when you wake up worrying, not about the great number of things you have to do throughout the day, but just about the great number of things you have to do before 8:30 in the morning. FacebookTweet
Continue readingRIP, Catherine Seipp
Catherine Seipp died today. She was a trenchant and witty commentator about the silliness that is West Coast liberalism, and I know that I will miss her columns. My thoughts and wishes go to her family. FacebookTweet
Continue readingThe American front of the war against Israel
What do you get when you put a deep and wide fund of knowledge, a logical mind, and a profound intellect into the service of a single article? You get Richard Baehr’s article at The American Thinker entitled “The War in American against Israel (part one).” Unsurprisingly, Mr. Baehr does
Continue readingCan we vote for the Czech president in 2008?
Common sense from a man who has seen Marxism’s ugly hand: Czech President Vaclav Klaus said on Wednesday that fighting global warming has turned into a a ‘religion’ that replaced the ideology of communism and threatens to clip basic freedoms. The right-wing president, a free-market champion, wrote to the U.S.
Continue readingA little hole in British security
The British revealed today that, because of lax security, they issued 10,000 passports last year to bogus applicants, including at least two terrorists: The Home Office today revealed that around 10,000 British passports were issued to false applicants last year, as it released details of new measures to combat identity
Continue readingHow not to get scammed at the ATM
I first heard about this ATM scam when I read of it in Rick Steve’s excellent travel book on Italy (it is, apparently, a very popular European scam). You can view this easy to read slide show to understand what not to do when your card apparently gets sucked permanently
Continue readingI always knew I didn’t have an accent
What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you’re a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be
Continue readingIndoctrinate U trailer
As an added incentive to you to go to the Indoctrinate U website, and let them know that, in your community, there is at least one person who wants to see the movie about some of the things that happen in American universities, here’s the movie trailer: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHZGepplG2Q] Remember, distributors
Continue readingThe EU versus individual countries
This is the story: The European Court of Human Rights has awarded a Polish woman 25,000 euros ($33,000; £16,000) in damages after she was refused an abortion. Alicja Tysiac’s eyesight worsened drastically after she had her third baby and she fears she may go blind. The 35-year-old mother was refused
Continue readingBizarre media inversion
An Israeli is shot at and wounded, and the Palestinian coalition is “embarrassed” that it managed, once again, almost instantly to breach a cease fire. Guess which gets the headline? (And you’re right if you bypassed that poor Israeli man.) Somehow this strikes me as different from those endless stories
Continue readingAnti-Semitism is as ugly from the Right as it is from the Left
This blog spends a lot of time hunting down and attacking the anti-Semitism that comes from the Left. It’s worth remembering, though, that anti-Semitism also has a long and honored history on the Right. Lately, Patrick Buchanan is the poster boy for this kind of ugly thinking. He exposed himself
Continue readingThe triumph of the mundane
The more I learn about Obama, the less — much less — that I like him. Over at Cheat-Seeking Missiles, Laer brings up the fact that Obama’s moderate posturing for his presidential candidacy is just that: posturing. In fact, he’s about as liberal as liberal can be, which is fine
Continue reading“Shut yer mouth”
One of the things that irritates and amuses me in equal parts is the Left’s habit of crying “censorship” whenever someone disagrees with them. They deliberately (I think) confuse the distinction between government acts shutting down debate and mere disapprobation. Nothing shows the difference more clearly than this story about
Continue readingThe un-Michael Moore
Evan Coyne Maloney has spent the last three years working on a film about American universities, and the complete breakdown of freedom of speech or thought at those publicly funded institutions. Unfortunately, the same distributors that are all over Michael Moore (even though his films only get mileage in blue
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