To win a war

The past  year has seen our troops in Iraq embroiled in a low-intensity conflict, which they are not allowed to win. Although they could, easily, but for the political sensitivities of the Bush administration. This post is to provide a simple remedy. Simple to state; devilishly hard to execute.
The essence of the argument is that [...]

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America First

The left-leaning media, whose standard bearer is the New York Times, would doubtless agree with today’s “analysis” on the Bush administration’s response to the tsunami disaster. The word analysis is in scare quotes, as what this piece is, is nothing more than partisan swiping at the president. Hey, Times, your dog lost. [...]

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"Stingy"

Here’s a story that speaks for itself. From the Washington Times, this concerning biting the hand that feeds you:
The Bush administration yesterday pledged $15 million to Asian nations hit by a tsunami that has killed more than 22,500 people, although the United Nations’ humanitarian-aid chief called the donation “stingy.”
“The United States, at the [...]

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It’s your fault…

If you drive a car, heat your home, or just have the audacity to not live in a cave and eat grass. It’s global warming, you see, that’s behind the massive loss of life, that caused the tsunami. You can see that, can’t you? Perhaps we Americans drove just one too many [...]

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"Can Catholics Vote Democratic Anymore?"

This is the title of a provocative essay at the Claremont Institute’s website by Dennis E. Teti. The essay is based on a new book by George J. Marlin and Michael Barone.
The money quote, as they say, is “it is no longer possible to be a loyal Democrat and a loyal Catholic American”. [...]

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Depravity of men

28 dead in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Including four children, which makes it even worse. Why? According to the story in the New York Times, The nominal cause is that some supposedly defunct leftist guerrilla group, the Cinchoneros, blamed the “government’s anticrime campaigns.”
Well, it likely wasn’t this bunch of thugs. It [...]

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Slouching towards Babylon

As the national Democratic Party wanders wondering in the wilderness (a little donk alliteration), it seems they’ve glommed onto the answer: Let’s talk as if we weren’t abortion first, abortion last, abortion forever. Sort of as they were in a previous incarnation, when it was segregation that they were in favor of and [...]

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“It’s their country”

It’s a bit of an inside-the-Beltway sport to pin labels on folks, and then use those labels rather than argue the facts. The current struggle by some on the right to get Donald Rumsfeld fired illustrates this rather nicely. Trent Lott, the former Majority Leader, joins flaky John McCain and the senator from [...]

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Stay the course

The moans and groans are as predictable as the stars. An horrific attack that claims 18 American lives starts yet another round of incessant “should we stay or should we go?” questions. The New York Times is, of course, those who in favor of freedom and democracy — just so long as nobody [...]

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Just read this one post…

Not by me. By Chaplain Lewis, on the aftermath of the homicide bombing on our men in Mosul. The post may be found here.
Americans should thank God that we have such a one as the chaplain, and the men and women he serves — all of whom serve us and the cause [...]

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Framing the debate

The two sides in the abortion debate are not usually presented accurately in the mainstream media, and the Washington Post’s treatment of the pending improvement in the Senate Judiciary Committee is just a recent exemplar. Yes, improvement, insofar as the Republicans will be adding two men who are in pro-life.
In [...]

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The headline in yesterday’s Arts Section of the Gr…

The headline in yesterday’s Arts Section of the Gray Lady is “Revisiting Rwanda’s Horrors With an Ex-National Security Adviser.” The story is about the self-absorption and total ineffectiveness that highlighted the Clinton administration, this time in the personage of Anthony Lake, who was Clinton’s Condi Rice, but without the stones Dr. Rice has. [...]

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Self absorbed and ineffective

The headline in yesterday’s Arts Section of the Gray Lady is “Revisiting Rwanda’s Horrors With an Ex-National Security Adviser.” The story is about the self-absorption and total ineffectiveness that highlighted the Clinton administration, this time in the personage of Anthony Lake, who was Clinton’s Condi Rice, but without the stones Dr. Rice has.
The nominal [...]

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The Fall of Man

The horrific story of a grisly murder and the cutting of an unborn child from the womb of the victim was just a reminder of our depraved nature. This heinous act should not surprise anyone who has even a rudimentary knowledge of the history of mankind, and who has read Genesis 3.
It is [...]

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He is nigh

Luke 2:10-12
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye [...]

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Only 10 percent

Tom Friedman, the peripatetic font of wisdom on things Middle Eastern for the Gray Lady, has taken the Bush administration to task for not embracing a report by Arabs of which only 10 percent blames us and Israel for their problems. In an op-ed yesterday, Friedman tells us, with respect to the third [...]

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Wheelgun

When I was young and responsible for things like arming our agency’s guards across the country, I recall having long discussions with various range and training officers about which type of sidearm would be best. Our mission was counterterrorism, and even back in the dark ages we knew that the bad guys would come [...]

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Tuvalu, o my Tuvalu

Now, with all due respect, I suppose I might have heard of Tuvalu at one time or another. It’s in Micronesia, somewhere. Nifty flag. Looking them up on the CIA’s World FactBook site, we may find that there are fewer than 12,000 Tuvaluans, their capital is named Funafuti, although our ever-vigilant CIA [...]

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Conscience

David Warren takes the usual suspects to task as to their saying one thing, and doing another. This, with regards to conscience. While much of his article concerns Canada’s Liberal Party and a forthcoming vote on same-sex “marriage”, the introduction skewers John (I ran in 2004!) Kerry’s stand on abortion. And [...]

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The Rat Squad

Every large organization has one. An internal group dedicated to ensuring perfection in the ranks and slavish attention to regulations. They go by various names; like the Devil himself, they are legion and their names are varied: inspector general, internal affairs, quality assurance. Regardless of title, these organizations exist because those [...]

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"a toppled Eiffel Tower"

Victor Davis Hanson has written another piece (December 10, 2004) of hard-hitting clarity, whose whimsical-sounding title is “The Ents of Europe.” The thesis, however, is anything but. One of the threads is that Europe, although now militarily weak and seemingly without a spine, would rise up in righteous fury were they [...]

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“a toppled Eiffel Tower”

Victor Davis Hanson has written another piece (December 10, 2004) of hard-hitting clarity, whose whimsical-sounding title is “The Ents of Europe.” The thesis, however, is anything but. One of the threads is that Europe, although now militarily weak and seemingly without a spine, would rise up in righteous fury were they [...]

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Feliz Navidad al Lider Maximal

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Found, via Jay Nordliner’s Impromptus today. From the Cuban American National Foundation’s website, this picture of one of our guys making an overt statement in support of, gasp, freedom. Freedom for Cubans. From the CANF website:
In an unprecedented act, the United States Interest Section in Havana has constructed an immense billboard [...]

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Scripture and the Koran

On reformation in the Muslim world, some reflections on the three so-called “religions of the book.” Note that “book” isn’t capitalized; Muslims use the term not in reference to our Bible, which they trashed as being incompatible with their version of truth, but in the generic sense. That is, there is a book that is [...]

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"excellent in his job"

Well, this is hearty praise. Or it could be, if you thought that his job was as advertised: the head of the United Nations’ “nuclear watchdog agency”, the International Atomic Energy Agency. The man in question is an Egyptian national, Mohamed ElBaradei, who made the front page of today’s Washington Post because [...]

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“excellent in his job”

Well, this is hearty praise. Or it could be, if you thought that his job was as advertised: the head of the United Nations’ “nuclear watchdog agency”, the International Atomic Energy Agency. The man in question is an Egyptian national, Mohamed ElBaradei, who made the front page of today’s Washington Post because [...]

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"quick to listen, slow to speak"

Some of the best advice ever, from the letter of James, chapter 1:
19 My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of all moral [...]

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“quick to listen, slow to speak”

Some of the best advice ever, from the letter of James, chapter 1:

19 My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of all moral [...]

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Rum, Romanism, Rebellion

Just a quick post, meant to antagonize those who think that the Democratic Party can rehabilitate itself. Pace Peter Beinart’s call in The New Republic , I join with Stanley Kurtz at NRO, who notes that the problems with the Dems are much, much more substantial than Beinart alludes to.
Mr. Beinart writes for what [...]

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"You cannot divide Islam into pieces"

No, you can not. Islam, however, is rather busy dividing human beings into pieces, hence the name, “religion of pieces”. Sotto voce offstage: no, Jack, that’s religion of peace. Oh. Sorry, how could have I made such an error?
The quotation in the title is from one of those [...]

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