There is an over-long paean to progress in bustling, booming Dubai on the front page of today's WaPo. You remember Dubai, don't you? The city-state at the heart of the United Arab Emirates, launderer of terrorist monies, financier to who-knows-what, and would-be controller of six American ports. Want to smuggle a nuclear weapon into the [...]
Archive for April, 2006
Bling in the desert
Posted in Culture, International on April 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
“religion of peace”
Posted in Islam on April 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Those with eyes to see and ears to hear should already know this, but Islam is not exactly what President Bush says it to be. The only “peace” is the peace of submission or the grave. There is no peace possible with Islam for free men.
Islam is a religion of striving (“jihad”) and beheading; a [...]
Profits
Posted in Politics on April 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
If there is one thing that liberal Democrats hate, it is the thought that a corporation can invest its money and make a profit. This six-letter-word, a word that dare not speak its name, is the principal reason for why corporations exist in the first place.
Of course, when a corporation is a Middle-East suckup, obscene [...]
Imagine that
Posted in Politics on April 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Via today’s Best of the Web, we learn that Gov. Bill Richardson, (D, what else?, NM) has, like any good demagogue, blamed oil company profiteering for the current gas prices. Richardson’s gone one step further, however, by suggesting that the “oil and gas industry” provide $50 million to help ease the pain at the [...]
Yes, there’s a double standard
Posted in Politics on April 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The WaPo presents the Democratic Party line in a story today that is headlined "Democrats Suggest Double Standard on Leaks."
The Donks, assisted by their pet media, make the claim that the damaging leak of classified information concerning current operations by a Donk partisan at the CIA (the now-fired Mary McCarthy) is just the same as [...]
Mealy-mouthed
Posted in Politics, War and Peace on April 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
John Kerry equates his "dissent" to some form of patriotism. As the sympathetic writer for the WaPo puts it, "Thirty-five years after Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry (D) appeared before a Senate committee to call for an end to the war in Vietnam."
Can you spell "quagmire" boys and girls? Kerry is certainly correct in noting [...]
Ignoring reality
Posted in War and Peace on April 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
One of the most annoying of the "presentable" leftist rags is the American Prospect. There's a piece by one of their evil spawn that tells us that "following the neoconservatives to Teheran would be far, far, far more insane." Well, you know those pesky Jews who control the banks, the media, the tides, Bush's brain, [...]
“far, far, far more insane”
Posted in Idiotarians, War and Peace on April 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Would that this simple HTML code worked. One of the most annoying of the “presentable” leftist rags is the American Prospect. There’s a piece by one of their evil spawn that tells us that “following the neoconservatives to Teheran would be far, far, far more insane.”
Well, you know those pesky Jews who control [...]
The cost of de-nuking Iran
Posted in War and Peace on April 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Mark Steyn has a must-read piece at City Journal. Of course, it's only must-read if you care about allowing an international bandit bent on annihilation to aquire, and, as they've already promised, use nuclear weapons.
From that piece, this quick checklist:
Anyone who spends half an hour looking at Iranian foreign policy over the last 27 years [...]
Cake, anyone?
Posted in Politics, Religion on April 18, 2006 | 1 Comment »
As in, having your cake and eating it, too. This would seem to be the essence of a Democratic Congressional group's "Catholic Statement of Principles." Which, in plainer language, should be titled "How we can be loyal Democrats and still claim to be faithful Catholics."
What gives the game away is this from the screed: "we [...]
“legitimate response”
Posted in Israel, War and Peace on April 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The wall that separates much of Israel from the Palestinians has been quite effective in reducing the number of terrorist attacks. But not effective enough, as today's homicide bombing shows (story here). The target was a falafel restaurant in Tel Aviv, no doubt bustling with armed troops just waiting to invade the West Bank.
The Paleos [...]
Heretic
Posted in Politics on April 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, has made his public confession. He's become a heretic to the enviros. He's learned that nuclear power isn't a tool of Satan, and won't result in the apocalypse. Moore has an apologia in today's Washington Post, in which he touts the many virtues of commercial nuclear power.
As a former nuclear [...]
Nuclear deterrence, redux
Posted in War and Peace on April 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Back in the bad old days of Mutually Assured Destruction, the conventional, and, in retrospect, correct assumption, was that if we had a robust nuclear weapons arsenal, the Soviets would never attack us. For the simple reason that the price they would have to pay, in destroyed cities, for any such attack would be horrendous. The [...]
10:03:02: Allah is the greatest
Posted in Islam, War and Peace on April 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Go, team Allah. These are, apparently, the last words heard on the Flight 93 tape. They were broadcast at the convicted terrorist Moussaoui's penalty trial. We already know that Moussaoui is an animal, barely human. And, we've got him dead, as it were, to rights. We would be well without our legal right to fry [...]
Si vis pacem para bellum
Posted in War and Peace on April 13, 2006 | 1 Comment »
If you want peace, prepare for war. But it’s so much cooler-sounding in Latin, and, being sometimes attributed to Cicero, it’s got that patina of ancient wisdom. It’s as true today as it was in the first century BC. And it will be just as valid three, five, or ten years hence when the Iranian [...]
Re: Illegal Conundrums
Posted in Crime and Punishment on April 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
My response to WFB’s article at NRO today:
Dear Mr. Buckley:
Sending our illegal immigrants to France would serve them both right. And, after all, is not Spanish also a Romance language? Then our former would-be neighbors wouldn’t have to crack their jaws trying to pronounce our horrible Germanic sounds…
But you are, of course, [...]
Perhaps he should have learned English?
Posted in Crime and Punishment on April 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Just asking. The man in question is an illegal immigrant who was arrested on drug charges and who spent six months in the lockup without a trial. That he was in Prince George’s County, Maryland, is not much of a surprise. “PG County — it’s the new District of Columbia!” seems to be the unofficial [...]
First, turn off the faucet
Posted in Crime and Punishment, Politics on April 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
When you're trying to mop up the floor in a room with a leaky faucet, the first thing you must do is turn off the faucet. This seems trite, but is being either willfully ignored, or demonized as being somehow racist and xenophobic. Let's try some basics.
First, no one has an unfettered right to enter [...]
Nuke Iran…or Iran Nukes?
Posted in War and Peace on April 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Bridget Johnson, the GOP Vixen, has a semi-serious column today at NRO. It's worth your time. Here's my comment to her:
Outstanding column at NRO today. OK, I know it’s not quite real political commentary, but here’s one thing on which I’d like to take you to task, you unrepentant warmonger:
You wrote “I love the Iranian people, and [...]
Res ipsa loquitur
Posted in Islam, War and Peace on April 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This wouldn't make the cut if it were intentional satire. But here's what one of the top Hamas mokes is up to (via WorldNetDaily):
United States churches are secretly run by Jews who converted to Christianity with the intention of controlling religious Americans including President Bush, a top Hamas official claims.
"Even the churches where the Americans [...]
Sojourners, all
Posted in Crime and Punishment, International on April 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
In this life we are sojourners, all. We live by the grace of God, on, as it were, time borrowed from Him. Since this life is also the province of Satan, we must protect ourselves from others of our fallen kind. This protection includes artificial divisions of the earthly kingdom into nations.
Like it or not, [...]
a permanent impediment
Posted in Iraq, War and Peace on April 4, 2006 | 1 Comment »
In today’s Wall Street Journal, there’s an apologia for our struggle in Iraq. The piece, “The Wrong Time to Lose Our Nerve — A response to Messrs. Buckley, Will and Fukuyama,” is by Peter Wehner, who is described as “deputy assistant to the president and director of the White House’s Office of Strategic [...]
“often even graduate”
Posted in Americana on April 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
George Mason University is an amazing local story for those of us blessed to live in Northern Virginia. We've seen it grow from a third-rate commuter school to a nationally-ranked institution of higher learning.
Oh, did I mention I'm not writing about basketball? GMU just had its 15 minutes of fame on the nation's tv screens, [...]
Action, not words
Posted in War and Peace on April 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Here's the lead sentence in a front-page story in today's WaPo: "As tensions with U.S. grow, intelligence officials say they think Tehran would mount global attacks."
As James Taranto might write in Best of the Web, what would we do without intelligence officials? The story goes on, in best liberal-angst fashion, to worry, worry, worry about [...]
