"Respected Imam" killed in FBI shootout

A big FBI shootout at a Detroit mosque is the subject of huge headlines Radical mosque leader killed in FBI shootout Feds say goal was Islamic nation in U.S. on the front page of today's Detroit Free Press. Luqman Ameen...

Who's expanding the Culture War?

I hate the culture war. Yet I have been writing about it for years, spilling tens if not hundreds of thousands of words in post after post. As to how many hundreds of hours of my life this has consumed,...

Our news is not your news!

I was all set to write a post about the LA Times withholding the video of Rashid Khalidi's farewell party (which featured the Ayerses and the Obamas among other luminaries), when I saw that WorldNetDaily has stepped right up to...

More on the respectable Mr. Ayers

In a riveting interview piece titled "Eyewitness to the Ayers Revolution,"Bob Owens has more on the incredible story of the plan (by Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and others) to kill 25 million Americans:Pajamas Media: You stated in your interview in...

Respectable dedication?

Yesterday's post about Ayers became so long with updates that it's looking cluttered. When I started it, I had not seen the video about Ayers and his buddies' plans to murder 25 million Americans, nor had I had a chance...

Ayers didn't do enough

I've written a number of posts about Bill Ayers, and I was especially horrified by his organization's plot to blow up American soldiers at the Fort Dix NCO club. And while I know that terrorists are generally unconcerned with civilian...

How Bill Ayers became respectable

If there's one thing that's worse than Bill Ayers, it's his respectability. How did it happen that a guy like that came to be respectable? The same way bad people always become respectable, of course. Nice respectable people fail to...

Mainstreaming the despicable

As I have been saying, there's a bigger problem than Bill Ayers' unrepentant terrorism and his present day radicalism, and that is his mainstream respectability. For. The. Umpteenth. Time. Bill Ayers should not be respectable or mainstream. For some reason,...

"ex" bombers and double standards

Jeff Jacoby takes issue with the claim that calling attention to Barack Obama's close working relationship with Bill Ayers constitutes unfair guilt by association: ...Obama's defenders have been insisting that to call attention to these deplorable associations is to engage...

Bill Ayers' better (and successful!) half

I don't normally correct historical details in stuff I read, but in this case I thought I should, because it sheds a little light on the truly horrid background of one of Barack Obama's political sponsors who hasn't been getting...

"Why would Barack Obama be friends with someone who bombed the Capitol and is proud of it?"

Asking such a question can apparently lead to legal trouble. Amazingly (and stupidly, IMO), Barack Obama's campaign is taking legal action against a group which produced a video asking that question. The video (claims the campaign) is malicious and false....

Respectable Terrorism

Tom Maguire at Just One Minute has lots more on the Obama/Ayres relationship here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here. Whew. And that is just in the last week. Update: A...

How do I tell Coco they want to kill her?

...when pit bulls are criminalized, only criminals will own pit bulls. -- Radley Balko In an ominous Pennsylvania development, a group of legislators want to do away with Pennsylvania's ban on breed specific legislation: State Rep. John Galloway (D., Bucks)...

Why they like them

In an earlier post discussing Barack Obama's political "friendship" with Bill Ayers, I maintained that people are missing a larger point. Wright may have talked the talk, but Ayers walks the walk. This, IMO, makes it necessary for Obama to...

Worse than Jeremiah Wright? As bad as David Duke?

Here's something Ben Stein calls interesting, and I think it is interesting:Interestingly, McCain chooses Ayers as a line of attack, rather than Wright (perhaps because he has his own troublesome pastor). "I think not only a repudiation, but an apology...

From gotcha games to passive-aggressive, true-feelings gotcha games...

I have no idea who Patrick O'Hara is, and I don't especially care. Certainly not enough to Google him and find out whether he's really the lifelong Republican he says he is. So for the purpose of this post, I'll...

A conservative argument against the "War On Drugs"

I'm subscribed to receive a daily article from the rather radical Libertarians over at the Mises Institute. I don't always agree with the folks at Mises--in fact, I often find quite a few of their views disagreeable. Nonetheless, their scholarship...

Reporting the digging before it's been dug?

Are Republicans digging up irrelevant dirt on Melody Townsel? According to Ms. Townsel (who wrote a letter to Amy at Daily Kos) post, they are: Hello, Daily Kos-ers: Tonight, my deepest fears regarding my pending testimony in the John Bolton...

Leon and Me

I first heard of Leon Kass through the good offices of Virginia Postrel, under whose editorship Reason magazine became one of my favorite periodicals. Back then, I never missed an issue, and wouldn't you know it, it just hasn’t been...

M.D. (Medieval Doctor?)

How does one fight medieval thinking? Well, one way is with more medieval thinking. Leon Kass has shown himself to be a deep medieval thinker, and the man has been much derided in the blogosphere. I tried to answer his...