Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Libby, a Bookworm Room friend, came up with one of the most accurate statements I’ve ever seen distinguishing Islam from other religions. I have to share it with you: The difference between Islam and other religions is that while other religions inspire their followers to control themselves to avoid sin,
Continue readingA picture truly is worth a thousand words (h/t Powerline Blog):
Continue readingI was trolling through Facebook, where one of my friends posted this article about last weekend’s events in Kenya. (Read only if you have a very strong stomach or, if you don’t, are willing to be sick to yours.) One of his friends, in turn, commented that Al Shabab’s acts
Continue readingAs you’ve gathered, I do not support President Obama’s promised “show” strike against Syria to protest the Assad regime’s alleged use of toxic nerve gas against a community that presumably supported the al Qaeda rebels. To justify my position, I’ve pointed to the fact that there is no benefit to
Continue readingDid you know that the military has it’s own version of the inimitable Onion? For those unfamiliar with the Onion, it is a brilliant satire site — and frankly, in today’s world, it’s very hard to maintain satire when the reality in which we live is so ridiculous and bizarre.
Continue readingFor a bibliophile, one of the joys of blogging is getting to review books. I actually don’t review a significant percentage of the books I get because I find them unreadable. This isn’t always an indictment of the books I receive. They may be exquisite examples of their genre, but
Continue readingA friend sent me an email which reminded me that I have been remiss insofar as I have not posted about Lt. Col Matthew Dooley. I’m reprinting the email here to make up for that omission: Lt. Col Matthew Dooley, a West Point graduate and highly-decorated combat veteran, was an
Continue readingOne of the standard paradigms of modern Western culture is that the Middle Ages were a dark, primitive time. While that’s true for the era between Rome’s fall and about 1,000 A.D., after 1,000 A.D. Europe enjoyed an explosive, intellectually vibrant time. (To understand the groundwork for this intellectual explosion,
Continue readingBeheading is a peculiarly devastating form of murder, more so than shooting or stabbing. Human identity is tied to the head. From birth, we are programmed to recognize faces and voices. It’s the human face and the mind behind it that separate us, not only from other animals, but from
Continue readingThe Economist has a chart that tracks the data Pew gathered when it polled Muslims around the world about their beliefs. It turns out (no big surprise here) that those of you who denied the existence of assimilated, “moderate” Muslims were right. To the extent these MINOs (Muslims in Name
Continue readingDavid Remnick, writing at The New Yorker has a very interesting article about “The Brothers Tsarnaev” (and yes, we all appreciated the little Dostoyevsky reference there). It’s interesting at two levels. At the first level, the beginning is an elegant piece of journalism that looks at the region and at
Continue readingAs was to be expected (and all of you predicted), the media is rushing to indict . . . America for having failed to give two Chechen immigrant brothers the love they needed. Because of this, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 years old, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19 old, became disaffected losers longing to
Continue readingThe day the bombing took place, I looked at the MO and thought it more likely than not to be a Muslim attack. I stated: There are two ways Boston can go. It can be a liberal mugged by reality and get over its delusional belief that, if America will
Continue readingAs of this morning, the Washington Post earnestly tells us that, with one bomber in custody and one dead, we still have no idea why they did it. We know that they’re brothers and that they come from Chechnya, a region that’s been having unnamed troubles leading to terrorism. One
Continue readingNow that the police have dismissed as a suspect the Saudi man originally being questioned, the perpetrator behind the atrocity at the Boston Marathon is swathed in mystery. Although Muslims distinguished themselves in a disgusting way by celebrating the bombing, no group has stepped forward to take responsibility for what
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