Pakistan looks to be a very, very bad place to be right now. Many have been killed in rioting; chances are many more will follow. Such is it ever, in places that are primarily tribal yet have a veneer of Western civilization. Pakistan is one such place.
According to this Wall Street Journal [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Our problem; beyond our control
Posted in War and Peace on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Black Marxism?
Posted in race on December 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A writer in today’s WaPo bemoans the sad state of the made up non-holiday holiday Kwanzaa, which is Swahili for, “you must be truly stupid to celebrate this pap.” In the article entitled “Kwanzaa’s Lilghts Go Dim”, we are told that “just 13 percent of African Americans observe the holiday.”
Unstated is how many moronic [...]
Durban II
Posted in Islam, United Nations on December 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Durban hate-fest of September 2001 should be well remembered, and at least some have done so. Read Anne Bayefsky’s report on the planning for a followup hate-fest, Durban II.
Durban was an unabashed orgasm of anti-Semitism and anti-Western ranting. It’s what the United Nations specializes in, apparently. Ms. Bayefsky reminds us that we are [...]
Interesting observations
Posted in Politics on December 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Some interesting observations about John McCain from the Prince of Darkness, Bob Novak in today’s New York Post. While we should be wary of extrapolations from pre-caucus polling in Iowa, these two are worth noting:
Numbers for both Huckabee and Romney dipped sharply when Iowans were asked their second choice. In contrast, McCain was the [...]
Honor
Posted in Politics on December 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There is one candidate who fully embodies duty, honor, country. That is John McCain, who, by his service and sacrifice, stands head and shoulders above the crowd in the Republican ranks. Which also places him in a totally different political universe than the me-first, triangulating, sleazoid Hillary Clinton.
John McCain: Navy fighter pilot; [...]
“corrupt, divisive, dishonest”
Posted in Terrorism, War and Peace on December 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Strong words from a man who doesn’t quite view the late Benazir Bhutto as a savior for her country. From Ralph Peters in today’s New York Post:
We need have no sympathy with her Islamist assassin and the extremists behind him to recognize that Bhutto was corrupt, divisive, dishonest and utterly devoid of genuine concern [...]
Need another reason not to vote for Obama?
Posted in Politics, War and Peace on December 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Two things are clear concerning the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. The first, and most important is that Islamists, the most likely culprits, will never be deterred by talk or noble intentions about building democracy. One need not be an expert on Pakistan to know this; one need only know that Islam [...]
President and Veep
Posted in America on December 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A great picture of the President and Vice President. Say what you will about Iraq and other difficulties, these are two serious, mature men.
God bless and keep them both.
States still have rights
Posted in Liberty on December 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sanford Levinson is a professor at the University of Texas, and, to judge from his books (e.g. Our Undemocratic Constitution and his blog of the same name, he is a dangerous radical.
No; of course he doesn’t attend Communist Party rallies, and (probably) isn’t too high on Islamic terrorism. So, how is he dangerous? [...]
Bleeding Kansas the norm?
Posted in Idiotarians, Politics, race on December 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ron Paul’s interview on Meet the Press should seal the deal. So let’s call a spade a shovel, at the least. Ron Paul is an extremist, and he is not scrupulous about the company he keeps. The most interesting (for which one may read “is this nutcase serious?!?”) is his claim that [...]
Who lost Afghanistan?
Posted in War and Peace on December 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, technically, it was never ours in the first place, as a long list of would-be conquerers have found throughout history. Afghanistan is a place that one could bomb and it would be an improvement. But geopolitics being what it is, there are some politicians around who claim that we should have been [...]
unto us a son is given
Posted in Christianity on December 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
– Isaiah 9:6
Merry Christmas
Profeten ønsker en glædelig jul
Posted in Islam on December 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In Dansk, “The Prophet wishes you a Merry Christmas.” Gotta love those pesky Danes. Some of them have not lost that Viking spirit. Cartoon via Gates of Vienna.
God bless my Scandinavian cousins on this dan före jul.
“perfect candidate”
Posted in Politics on December 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The current tussle for the GOP nomination might be taken as a sign of weakness, or of strength for the party of Lincoln, TR, and Ronald Reagan. For instance, it appears that John McCain, who I’d call Stainless John for his honor and his straight talking ways, is now within the margin of error [...]
So that’s why it’s now called “climate change”
Posted in environment on December 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the Church of Global Warming, some heresies are getting pretty damned hard to stamp out. One of those heresies is that, perhaps, the world is not actually getting warmer. But in the all-powerful CoGW, we don’t tolerate such dissent from the official dogma. So we just changed the imminent peril’s [...]
“too evangelical to be elected”
Posted in Christianity, Politics on December 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Peter Schramm of the Ashbrook Center, in his recent Ashbrook Update, recently wrote about the Huck phenomenon. That his appeal is not limited to folks who can’t abide Mormons or their faith, and that he is “too evangelical to be elected,” I have to agree.
For the record, I’m a Baptist; part of Mike [...]
“it’s pitiful what people give you”
Posted in Nanny State on December 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The caption on this picture from the New Orleans Time-Picayune (via NOLA.com) is thus:
Sharon Jasper sits in the living room of her voucher-backed private residence. “I might be poor but I don’t like to live poor. I thank God for a place to live but it’s pitiful what people give you.”
Well, missy, none of us [...]
…and a free bong in every dorm room
Posted in Idiotarians, Liberty on December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Seems that some of the students down at UNC-Chapel Hill don’t know much history. Or economics. Or common sense. Consider this article from the John William Pope Center, titled “Mock constitutional convention at UNC-Chapel Hill produces a document inspired by radical politics.”
The thought of any constitutional convention is somewhat scary. Let’s [...]
Boo-hoo, redux
Posted in Arabs. Israel on December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yet another article from the WaPo, reminding us of the plight of Arabs in the Middle East. This particular one is especially egregious, given the almost uniformly hostile reception that Jews had when they re-founded Israel in 1948. And by “hostile” I mean armed attack.
The headline for this sob story? “For Israel’s [...]
God help us all
Posted in Politics on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Jay Nordlinger captures one of the principal reasons Republicans should hope that Hillary is the Democratic nominee: she’s just so unlikeable. From his Impromptus today:
Consider: The last two elections, the Democrats ran possibly the two most dislikable people in the United States. The first time, they won the popular vote, and the second [...]
Starry Night
Posted in Culture on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sitting here, sipping some Jameson’s, feeling mellow. Sick unto near-death with politics, so a gentle change of pace.
And you thought Starry Night was just a song by Don McLean. Great, expressive work by Van Gogh; evocative song by McLean.
Civilization
Posted in America on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was not a SEAL; in fact, I was physically disqualified from Naval Aviation (20/30 uncorrected vision; grr), let alone the SEALS. And, from what I know and have heard about their training, it’s far from clear I’d have made it through.
Stated differently, those who get through without ringing that bell have my utmost [...]
Lions, and Tigers, and Real ID, Oh My!
Posted in Idiotarians, Immigration on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Federal Real ID Act will now cause Virginia drivers to provide proof of citizenship or legal residence prior to renewing their licenses. According to this article in the WaPo, my state of Virginia is actually ahead of most, insofar as it has allocated funds to make the necessary changes.
The Real ID Act, and [...]
Nurse Ratched for President
Posted in Politics on December 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, that’s Nurse Ratched, played brilliantly by Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Peggy Noonan’s essay today at the Wall Street Journal reminds us of one essential thing about Hillary: she is the personification of Nurse Ratched in the primary campaign.
The topic is the Bill and Hill Show; the cosmic [...]
Common sense on immigration
Posted in America, Immigration on December 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Amy Chua, despite teaching at Yale, applies some common sense in a WaPo article to what used to be obvious to Americans: e pluribus unum, from many, one. We are, or at least used to be, at least culturally, an Anglo-Saxon and Protestant nation. Not that we had any state religion, of [...]
Latter-day revelation
Posted in Mormonism on December 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Byron York, writes at the Corner today about Mitt Romney and the Mormon’s latter-day revelation that blacks really were fully human beings. Since this happened only in 1978 as the result of a revelation to the president of the Latter Day Saints, it raises some questions.
The obvious one is raised by Byron: will Romney admit [...]
Allah, the Tyrant
Posted in Islam on December 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Spengler has a fascinating essay on why Islam is more akin to paganism. The essential difference? Free will. Which Jews and Christians both believe has been given them by our creator. Free will, along with an ordered universe created by God, requires us to reason; requires rationality.
This is a stark contrast with Islam, where the [...]
Boo-hoo
Posted in Islam, Israel, Terrorism on December 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You’ll have to excuse my lack of sympathy for those who live in the Gaza strip. This morning, the ever-sensitive WaPo has a front page story describing the woes of those poor, wretched victims of Israel. Why, those dastardly Jews have gone so far that they have”limited daily diesel deliveries to Gaza to [...]
Saint Obama, cokehead?
Posted in Politics on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Saint Obama has been pilloried; accused, at least indirectly, of being a coke-snorting drug dealer in his youth. Said youth not exactly having passed, but that’s another matter.
It’s an obvious campaign dirty trick, rendered by, hope you’re sitting down for this, a friend of the Clintons. From the Manchester Union Leader, the basics:
A [...]
Wretched excess?
Posted in Americana, Churches on December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Romanesque bread and circuses gala shown in the picture is the Fourth of July celebration at First Baptist Church of Fort Lauderdale. One wishes two things: first, that a church of our Lord was not used to celebrate a worldly power, the United States. Second, that if it were done, it wasn’t done in [...]
