For those whose Latin is a little rusty, the title is “Who shall watch the watchers?” We’ve got one of those moments at that intrepid (not) ever-vigilant (not) watchdog (not), the United Nations.
The latest obscenity? Having Iran assist in the next UN-sponsored “racism” confab. Iran, whose government is one of the foremost [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Quid custodiet ipsos custodes?
Posted in Iran, United Nations, anti-Semitism on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We’re in the House of War
Posted in Islam on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Victor Davis Hanson writes, “No Arab intellectual wishes to see Western force used against fellow Muslims — apparently even if they are murderous Saddamites or primordial al-Qaida jihadists.” This points to what may be at the root of our troubles with the Muslim world.
People, very much including the president, talk blithely of Islam as [...]
Don’t come back from that vacation
Posted in Culture, Hypocrites, Politics on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This seems to be the message for the disgraced but still in office Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID). From the WaPo, one can almost smell the glee with which this reliably left-of-center paper views the slightest mis-step by any conservative Republican. The essence:
Sen. Larry Craig went on vacation with his wife Wednesday, [...]
Not so easy…
Posted in America, Law and order on August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
…to live in the Big Easy. New Orleans, or NOLA as she’s called by some residents and the local press. NOLA, where Texans and Yankees come each year to get drunk and wallow in the slime of Mardis Gras. NOLA, the failed city, the welfare queen of the South, needs something basic. [...]
Why we fight?
Posted in Iraq on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s see if we can recapture the rationale for going into Iraq. Firstly, it was to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction. Secondly, it was to remove a tyrant who fostered sectarian hatred and ethnic cleansing, and, more broadly, to install a free and democratic government. Thirdly, it [...]
They’re at war with us…
Posted in Iran, War and Peace on August 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
…even if we won’t, or, more accurately, can’t, return the favor. From a serious article by a serious man, Michael Barone, the casus belli:
Iran is the leading state sponsor of terrorism. The mullah regime is providing weapons to kill our soldiers in Iraq. It is working furiously to develop nuclear weapons…We may not be [...]
The real deal
Posted in War and Peace on August 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is a hero. The real deal; a man who has given his working life to defending our freedom. The next time you exercise any of your freedoms, religious, speech, assembly, protection from unreasonable search and seizure, whatever — give a thought, and a thank you to George “Bud” Day.
From Military.com, consider this [...]
Just plain dumb
Posted in Politics on August 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This announcement, from the “We Really Don’t Want to Win” Party, a/k/a the Democrats, to the effect that Florida will not be able to send any delegates to the 2008 Democratic nominating convention. This, for the crime of the Florida Donks moving their primary up to January 29. The story is [...]
Dems fear a terror attack…
Posted in Politics on August 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
…because it would boost GOP chances to retain the White House. Or, perhaps I misunderstood Hillary. According to the New York Post,
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday raised the prospect of a terror attack before next year’s election, warning that it could boost the GOP’s efforts to hold on to the White House.
Yes, indeed. [...]
We’ve failed in Iraq
Posted in Iraq, Islam on August 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The failure isn’t military; it’s not even our misguided effort to make Iraq into some sort of a pretense at democracy. No, the failure is that we’ve allowed them to install Islam as the state religion. This is a failure; the ethnic cleansing of Christians in Iraq is a symptom. Andy [...]
The American Way
Posted in Americana, Idiotarians on August 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s the American Way. No, not the traditional mantra of Superman: Truth, justice, and the American way. Rather, it’s sue the bastards. No matter who’s at fault. Perhaps this is one consequence of letting illiterates into law school. Hey, stupid people have rights, ya know…But it seems that [...]
“febrile”
Posted in Iraq on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is George Will’s all-too-accurate description of the true believers. Those who think that our continuing mission in Iraq is both necessary and worthwhile. In simplest terms, a good thing, that, were we to leave, would lead to horrors not seen since…well, perhaps today in Darfur. But, of course, Sudan has nothing [...]
“Separationism”
Posted in Islam on August 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Presented for your interest, in case you missed it: Mark Krikorian’s essay at NRO, “Two, Three, Many Islamic Republics — How to achieve our strategic objectives.” This extract on “separationism” is especially worth reading:
Islam willchange, but only (or at least sooner) if we pursue some variation of what Larry Auster calls “separationism.” “Separationism” [...]
Animals
Posted in Sports on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s an obligatory post on the endless depths to which human depravity can sink. The subject is the immensely talented but immensely thuggish Michael Vick, a pro football player. Who will plead (or has pleaded; my Thuggovision™ is on the blink just now…) guilty to the crime of organizing and abetting [...]
More British dhimmitude
Posted in Islam on August 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There is so much that is just wrong about this: some Brits are putting together a one-hour “special” on the Muslim view of Jesus. From this story in the far-left’s birdcage liner of record, the Guardian, the essence of Islam’s view of Jesus:
There was no manger, Christ is not the Messiah, and the [...]
Moral dilemma
Posted in Israel, War and Peace on August 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
According to this story in the WaPo, some 2,000 refugees fleeing Sudan. From the WaPo, the basics:
Israel closed the door Sunday on a surge of asylum-seekers from Sudan’s Darfur region and from other African countries, the largest influx of non-Jewish refugees in the modern history of the Jewish state.Authorities announced that they had expelled [...]
Why we failed in Iraq…
Posted in Arabs, Iraq, Islam, War and Peace on August 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
…and why we will fail every time we attempt to change centuries of tribal, blood-and-soil Muslim culture overnight. Rich Lowry’s opinion piece at the New York Post, “Taming the Tribes,” claims that we are winning in Iraq precisely because we have turned away from this neo-Wilsonian, and doomed, mission.
That we are now winning is [...]
“people who can do something”
Posted in Politics on August 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The WSJ’s “Weekend Interview” is with Mike Huckabee, the “surprise” second-place finisher in last week’s Iowa straw poll. I suppose the element of “surprise” was that Gov. Huckabee is still a candidate for president, given that he’s almost no funds and, as the interviewer writes, “represents the Republican wing of the Republican Party.”, the [...]
Spooks
Posted in Security on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps you have to be an unabashed Anglophile to truly appreciate it, but one of my guilty pleasures is watching MI-5. The real MI-5, Her Majesty’s Secret Service, is, roughly, the equivalent of our FBI and Department of Homeland Security. Roughly; very roughly.
Britain’s approach to law enforcement is both more, and less, rigorous [...]
pious hand-wringing
Posted in Immigration, Law and order on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If the heinous execution-style murder by an illegal alien of three school kids in Newark doesn’t get your blood up to a good, frothy boil, then you’ve no blood in you. The basic story, as recounted by Newt Gingrich:
Americans are killed by violent criminals all too often, of course. But the senselessness and [...]
What is Christianity for?
Posted in Christianity on August 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
That certainly is the big question: What is Christianity for? Rod Dreher at CrunchyCon poses this, in an essay I would commend for your reading. My comment is below.
As a former Roman Catholic (is there really such a thing?), now attending a Baptist church, I thought I knew the answer. [...]
Magic Bullet Lady
Posted in Iraq, War and Peace on August 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
[photo and caption via Michelle Malkin's website] Caption: AFP/Yahoo!News Caption: Tuesday August 14, 2007: An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. At least 175 people were slaughtered on Tuesday and more than 200 wounded [...]
Bush’s Brain
Posted in Politics on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Jonah Goldberg has an interesting essay up at NRO, which pursues what has become a central question for those of us who like to think we are men of principle, standing in the gap against the raging heathens at the gate, well, enough already. The question is, “Republican or Conservative? As in, did [...]
In their own words
Posted in Islam, Terrorism, War and Peace on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From Deroy Murdock today, some useful words. First, his introduction needs to be read, again and again, as a corrective whenever an apologist for terror (read: CAIR) starts whining about “islamophobia:”
Give Islamic extremists this: They are as clear as the desert sunshine about their plans for us infidels. Unlike America’s former Cold War [...]
Press one for English
Posted in Immigration on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If you Google the expression “press one for English” you’ll get some 39,000 hits, including this video, which, I’m sorry to state, very much appeals to my inner Tom Tancredo. I don’t consider myself to be an anti-immigration Pat Buchanan Know-Nothing. I do consider myself to be an American.
What does being an American [...]
So much for equal protection
Posted in Liberty on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The ability to read is apparently optional for some Virginia judges. The subject at hand is the recent addition of confiscatory fines for drivers on Virginia roads adjudged, by the police, to have been driving “recklessly.” This misbegotten and unfair tax became effective July 1, and has been challenged.
Tyranny, it seems, can [...]
$800 a vote
Posted in Politics on August 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, Pander Bears don’t come cheap. Seems as if the expected victor in the Ames straw poll, Mitt Romney, spent over $4 million to achieve this. Mike Huckabee thanks you, Mitt. He’s now poised to become the un-Romney, the un-Rudy, a genuine social conservative who a lot of Republicans will look at [...]
“An American Hajj”
Posted in Christianity on August 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One thing that is offensive to me is when Americans employ a foreign-sounding or Eastern term to describe something that is a normal part of the Western Christian tradition.
The use of the term “hajj” comes about in an otherwise worthy article by Charles Krohn in today’s WaPo. Krohn’s thesis? We should honor our fallen brave; [...]
Not even fit to line a bird cage
Posted in Politics on August 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So the Village Voice (I will not link to this rag) has some harsh things to say about Rudy. Boo effin’ hoo. Or perhaps I should say, “Thanks, stoners. That’ll get Rudy more votes out there in the real America.”
Look, first things first. As a native New Yorker, I’m here to [...]
what causes radical Islam to thrive
Posted in Israel, Terrorism on August 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of the mantras of the blame-Israel brigades, which very much includes the United States State Department, is that if only the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could be resolved, all would be well, and peace would descend on the world of Islam. To which, the man with common sense will holler, “bulls***.”
Why is it common sense? [...]
