Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
A few days ago, I wrote a post examining why I believe Islam is not a religion like other religions, so that pluralist societies should view it with a distrust they do not extend to other religions. Daniel Pipes also tackles that issue. I’ll give you the first and last
Continue readingOne thing I have to give credit to Barack Obama for being is a complete pragmatist, even if that pragmatism operates to the exclusion of moral decency. Witness his decision to jettison Israel entirely (something Elliott Abrams explains carefully here) in order to placate the Muslim world. Many think that
Continue readingI want to recommend two interesting things to read as a prelude to my core post. The first read comes from a reliably good source: Rusty Shackleford. Over at The Jawa Report, he looks at the banality that exists side by side with the evil that is North Carolina’s recently
Continue readingI just finished reading a very bad book, although I owe it thanks for leading me down some interesting intellectual paths. The book is Derek Wilson’s Charlemagne, which came my way through my book club (and it’s because of the book club that I actually finished a book I normally
Continue readingIn the wake of President Sarkozy’s suggestion that France ban the burqa, here are three goodies: Seraphic Secret Mona Charen Pat Condell: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlkxlzTZc48[/youtube] UPDATE: Abe Greenwald notes that women are not as excited about the burqa as Obama was in his Cairo speech (an excitement I pointed out too).
Continue readingHere’s your matched set for today: Richard Baehr comments on Obama’s allegiance to Islam. Pamela Geller points out that radical Islamists groups that explicitly seek to overthrow America and replace it with a caliphate are staging coming out parties. And to those who feel like saying that we’re being just
Continue readingSometimes, you have to be poised on the edge of the volcano to realize the threat you face. Until you get there, you might just think you’re climbing a beautiful mountainside. Bruce Bawer, a gay man living in Europe, reached the edge of the volcano and wrote While Europe Slept:
Continue readingYou can read what I wrote about the speech here. Others have been writing too. The Anchoress, in addition to her must-read Ich bin ein Muslimer takedown of the speech, has a list of blogs thinking about what he said, which I’ll just copy wholesale: Andy McCarthy: Koranic text Obama
Continue readingThis is the substantive part of Obama’s speech (introductory language omitted), with my comments. Overall, I’d give the speech a C. He made some obvious points, he made some good points, and he made some idiotic and offensive points. It would be nice if his speech was effective in bringing
Continue readingIt’s been two days since our Commander in Chief lost one of his own in an attack on American soil — and his silence is deafening. When an abortionist died, our CIC instantly issued a public statement and used federal marshals to beef up security at abortion clinics. When one
Continue reading[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU[/youtube] To the extent that this video may be the production of a pro-Muslim organization, it could also be seen as a boast, not a warning. Regardless of the intentions behind it, those of us who cherish a Judeo-Christian, Western civilization must sit up and take notice — although I’m
Continue readingPastor Martin Niemoeller, after the war, penned the famous “first they came for the Jews,” with regard to the way non-Jewish demographics turned a blind eye to Nazi depredations, confident that the Nazis would stop after the Jews, and then after the Communists, and then after the gays. But they
Continue readingRight now, Church of England officials are upset that the BBC’s religious programming department (which is, apparently, a very important department) is going to be headed up by a practicing Muslim. It is unclear whether he got the position as a result of political correctness or employment mandates, but there
Continue readingThe other day, I asked “can it happen here?” The Radio Patriot reminded me that it is already happening there, in France. Mark Steyn talked about the demographic destruction of Europe in his book America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It. But he didn’t include maps.
Continue readingIn an earlier post, I directed your attention to the incredibly disturbing footage of Pakistani village authorities brutally whipping a teenage girl before a throng of men, because she violated Sharia norms by being seen in public with her father in law. The footage is disturbing on many levels, not
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