When will the madness end?

This is the first sentence of Andrew McCarthy’s must-read piece on the “moderate” Fatah. The madness in question is our government’s willingness, nay, eagerness, to fund the Palestinian terrorists.
Here is what all Americans should, and must, know about Fatah: they, along with their feuding cousins Hamas, want Israel gone. And the Jews [...]

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I miss the Soviet Union…

…not much, really. But they did have a grand national anthem. At once singable (unlike ours), and classical in a dark, brooding, Euro-cum-Slavic way. What brings this to mind is that I happened to hear the Red Army Men’s Chorus version, and it is truly, truly inspiring.
Until you get to the lyrics, [...]

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Not just another "human tragedy"

The recent passage by the United Nations General Assembly of a resolution that condemns Holocaust denial was interesting, and useless. Interesting insofar as the UN’s worthies felt it necessary to delve into the subject at all (Iran, of course); useless in the same way the the entire United Nations is useless. Or worse [...]

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Palestinian flack

Jay Nordlinger is providing his annual reporting from the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Today’s installment includes reporting on a joint session with Saeb Erekat, Palestinian flack, and his Israeli opposite number, Ephraim Sneh.
Now, all by itself, the presence of these two at the same forum is [...]

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Socially conservative Muslims

Dinesh D’Souza gives a spirited, logical, and compelling defense of his latest book, “The Enemy at Home,” in an opinion piece in the WaPo. Here’s where publisher’s blurbs can be misleading.
Here’s the offending quotation, which I received in an email flogging D’Souza’s book:
“a traditional conservative in America would have more core values in common [...]

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"groups of many stripes"

“Groups of many stripes” is how the WaPo characterized the relatively few, sane, and otherwise, who came out to protest a) the war in Iraq, b) war in general, c) hetero culture, d) who the hell knows, they were wearing tinfoil helmets. From the WaPo story, this very brief description is really all [...]

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"the start of a new seriousness"

This is actually a question, but it is also the implied conclusion of Peggy Noonan’s laudatory column on Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE). “Laudatory” insofar as Ms. Noonan approves of Chuck Hagel speaking his mind on the war in Iraq. And, most importantly, of asking for a serious stand by his Senate colleagues on [...]

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"too fine to be perceptible"

David Pryce-Jones now has a blog at NRO. It is well worth the time. Today’s entry concerns the just-departed Abbé Pierre, an acclaimed holy man of the Christian persuasion.
Perhaps he was holy, that is. As is sometimes the case, what you see isn’t all of what you get. in [...]

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Why they hate us, redux…

Dinesh D’Souza, scourge of political correctness since his days at Dartmouth, has written a new polemic of the “why they hate us” variety. The “they” are the so-called Islamic extremists, the “us” is America and its culture. Or lack thereof.
In his new book, The Enemy at Home, D’Souza targets “the lack thereof” as [...]

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He’s no neocon

These days, it’s best to stay hidden if you are one of those dreaded neocons. Depending on who’s talking, neocons have been blamed for the Iraq war, the 9/11 attacks, bad breath, and cancer. And, of course, if we ever do anything remotely looking like standing firm against the mad mullahs of Iran, [...]

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"Clinton generates great passions"

The Hillary made it official: yes, she’ll run for president in 2008. Which ought to surprise no one, since she’s been running for that office since before Monica had that run-in with Bill’s cigar.
Yes, that was an ugly image, but that is what you get with the Clintons — moral [...]

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"I have not eaten all the eclairs I always wanted"

Now that’s my kind of epitaph. It is from Art Buchwald’s farewell column, titled, appropriately enough, “Goodbye, My Friends.”
Art Buchwald, who died Wednesday, January 17, had written this column last year, with the proviso that it not be published until after his death. It was published in today’s Washington Post. In it, this [...]

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Pat Buchanan, you’ve got a friend…

…in William Pfaff, who is a columnist for the International Herald Tribune. What they share is an apparent fear and hatred of that sinister “Jewish lobby” (or, as Pitchfork Pat used to say, Israel’s “amen corner”) and, naturally, the Zionist Entity. Although neither Buchanan, nor Pfaff, so far as I know, go so [...]

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"Like it or not, g exists"

That pesky co-author of “The Bell Curve”, Charles Murray, is at it again. In today’s Wall Street Journal, he reminds us all of an ugly little fact: Half of all children are below average, and teachers can do only so much for them.
This is heresy, and oh, so, politically incorrect. The [...]

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“be a light unto the nations”

The Jerusalem Post has a Q&A with Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger. My first reaction to this is, “who gives a fuzzy white rat’s tuchas” to what some haredi thinks? And who died and made him melech, anyway?
But then I read some of the responses, and, for all of my lack of belief in formal Judaism, [...]

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Involved or committed?

When it comes to cooking up some ham and eggs, it’s said that the chicken that provides the eggs is involved in the process. But the hog that provides its flesh is committed. In the Iraq “war,” the vast majority of Americans aren’t even chickens, let alone hogs.
I use quotation marks around [...]

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All you need to know

Once again, an eager if naive American secretary of state goes into “shuttle diplomacy” mode. Condi Rice is an admirable woman, but is clearly still playing the good and loyal analyst by going to the Middle East to listen to the whines of the Arabs about those frightful Israelis.
There is only one thing wrong [...]

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Victory is possible if…

Victory in Iraq first needs definition. I suggest that victory will be achieved when the only armed force in the country (besides our troops) will be loyal to and under the full control of the central Iraqi government. These troops will destroy, as needed, any and all militias or other armed groups who [...]

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“America’s cruelty and meanness”

Perhaps our troops will start acting more like an armed force and less like a girl scout troop handing out cookies and sympathy to the locals. Perhaps; I won’t hold my breath. But there is a ray of hope that the president may have found the spine he appears to have lost over three years [...]

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The burquini

This might be fun to make fun of — swimwear for the muslim babe who doesn’t want her parts to show. The “burquini” is made Down Under for the athletic daughter of Islam. It might be fun to make fun of, but for what you might see at a nudist beach. When [...]

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"America’s cruelty and meanness"

Perhaps our troops will start acting more like an armed force and less like a girl scout troop handing out cookies and sympathy to the locals. Perhaps; I won’t hold my breath. But there is a ray of hope that the president may have found the spine he appears to have lost over [...]

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So, what’s their position on gravity?

So, some Hamas schmuck has told the world that, yes, Virginia, there is an Israel. But we still want to destroy it, and we won’t even talk about recognizing the Zionist Entity until a Palestinian state is created.
And, oh, by the way, we’ll tell you Jews what land is yours, and you’ve got to [...]

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"Immoral" options in Iraq

There is an all-too typical mainstream, liberal media piece by Sally Quinn in today’s WaPo.
Typical in that it portrays our losses in Iraq, and they are grievous, in a vacuum. Every day one may find the grim numbers of our soldiers killed, and human interest stories abound concerning the wrenching personal and [...]

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"the speaker wants us to succeed in Iraq"

The speaker in question is Nancy Pelosi, who just today threatened to cut off funding for any more troops for Iraq. On the Democratic house radio organ, NPR news, I heard that Pelosi claimed that the country had just voted to end the war in Iraq.
Those were not her precise words, but that was [...]

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"most abhorrent"?

First, let me say that, although I think he is an idiot of the first water, I pray for Jimmy Carter. Pray that he will read the Scriptures he seems to have forgotten in his very public persona of piety.
Nice alliteration, there, Jack, now get to the point. The point is that I [...]

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"defiant use of force"

Ralph Peters writes with his usual clarity, and this time he is right on the mark. His piece in today’s New York Post is about the return of the impressive and now-four star general David Petraeus, called “Malik Daoud”, King David, by the Kurds.
Gen. Petraeus appears poised to take over from Gen. Casey in [...]

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Now that’s abuse

It is not hard to know which side the ACLU is on: they’re more concerned that jihadi warriors not be offended than we obtain intelligence to prevent further deaths of Americans. What is puzzling, however, are the lengths to which our own government wastes our money investigating such concerns.
For reasons that should by [...]

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"house of condolences"

Got to hand it to the Palestinians. They never seem to miss an opportunity to get on the wrong side of history. There is, now, in the (Christian) holy city of Bethlehem, a “house of condolences” for paleos to mourn the passing of a man who was, apparently, the best friend a terrorist [...]

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"They want victory"

Today you may find, in an abbreviated version, the heart of the reason why our investment in Iraq will not pay any dividends. Not if one expects a return in the form of a peaceful, truly democratic nation called “Iraq” that is not just a bunch of ethnic and confessional -stans cobbled together with [...]

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Koranic blues

Jonathan Tobin has a thought-provoking essay at Jerusalem Post online on the mini-flap caused by Keith Ellison’s statement that he would use a Koran to be sworn into office (as a Democrat congressman from Minnesota).
Rep.-elect Ellison, other than being a Muslim, would appear to be just another left-leaning politico. Leaving aside [...]

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