Month: April 2004

Sheesh! After that last post, my only question is, what would Baghdad Bob say now? Because, it’s official! The NRA is now part of the news media: WASHINGTON – The nation’s gun lobby is creating an “NRA news” company that will produce a daily talk show for the Internet, buy a radio station and seek…

Air America is far from finished! Click on Baghdad Bob for the truth! UPDATE: There has been some discussion about whether the Air America page is satire, and whether the Infidel Reynolds knew this at the time he linked to it. This is all deadly serious, folks, this is war! Baghdad Bob does not work…

Speaking of something not to be missed, the 41st Bonfire of the Vanities is hosted by The Extremely Reverend Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony. Excellent fire pictures throughout; I didn’t know Pixy was such a pyro! Too burned out to do any burning of my own right now, but I wanted to get the link…

Whatever happened to the idea of Bayesian spam filtering? I mean, any idiot these days can tell a SPAM email from a real email, so how on earth do these stupid things keep getting through? I am not talking about covert advertising cleverly disguised as real text; that may take time. But the vast majority…

The Carnival of the Vanities just keeps getting better and better! Boi from Troy hosts it this week, with a genuinely West Hollywood theme — because he’s right there in the thick of things. What’s more, he was nice enough to link my very late post on Islamic fashionism, and I owe him one. (Maybe…

Jamie Gorelick has been asked to resign over a clear conflict of interest? Glenn Reynolds points out, she shouldn’t have been on the Commission at all. She should resign now, but she won’t. Unfortunately, this is not new. Glenn Reynolds noted this conflict of interest as early as August. Shortly thereafter, he noted it was…

This blog has frequently been critical of Dr. Leon Kass, the chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics. This is simply a notice to all interested readers that a live interview of Dr. Kass by Morton Kondracke can be streamed here. (HT Justin Case, who says he got this link from FightAging.org.) ICE CREAM UPDATE:…

My blogfather Jeff recently articulated his position on abortion, which happens to be quite similar to mine. I’m in an unusual situation since my positions are all over the place. I believe in gay rights. I believe in an unadulterated Second Amendment (as well as all the other Rights too.) I find abortion repellent and…

Via Little Green Footballs, I found a very thoughtful article by Theodore Dalrymple: When Islam Breaks Down. An excerpt: My historicist optimism has waned. After all, I soon enough learned that the Shah?s revolution from above was reversible?at least in the short term, that is to say the term in which we all live, and…

According to John Leo, it will soon be a crime [in Canada] to state negative opinions about homosexuality: Bill C-250, a repressive, anti-free-speech measure that is on the brink of becoming law in Canada. It would add “sexual orientation” to the Canadian hate propaganda law, thus making public criticism of homosexuality a crime. It is…

Roger L. Simon thinks it’s time for the blogosphere to recognize the sinister role of the Iranian mullahcracy in the widening war (especially in light of Iranian puppet Muktada al Sadr). The media are engaged in the presidential campaign, as if the contest between Bush and Kerrey was of greater significance than the battle between…

Indymedia classifies as “animal abuse” the play in which an actor dressed as the Easter Bunny was whipped: Now, some Christians are even abusing animals to make their point, after the Torture of the Christ movie fever. Um, wrong. It might have been child abuse to make kids watch the scourging of the Easter Bunny,…

While it feels like the election is right around the corner, if I look at my calendar I see that we still have seven months to go. So why the constant polls, the outburst of Watergate nostalgia, the treating of a rather lame witness as another Great White Hope John Dean? I know that a…

Let’s see if I can get this right. The United States knew or should have known that al Qaida was planning to hijack planes with box cutters, then fly them into buildings, because there were warnings that this could happen. Imminent threat, perhaps? Not my words: Clear warnings: Clinton administration officials say they bluntly warned…

Aren’t fanatics wonderful? Michele points out the latest spin from Indymedia — a picture of one of the Japanese hostages, knife held to his throat, with the following caption below: How do we know these are not actually American special operatives terrorizing Japanese citizens? Perhaps they are Blackwater recruits? Maybe they’re all actors? In other…

It’s Good Friday, which is nonetheless Online Test Day at Classical Values, so I dare not break with tradition, although I do promise to try to be good. The first test has gotten around quite a bit. I’ve seen it all over the blogosphere, but first at David Ferguson’s Sketches of Strain, where David earned…

Here’s something which hasn’t been reported as widely as it should (although I am not entirely sure why….): Iraq: A Shia Muslim mob has destroyed a city they declared to be ‘debauched’. Hundreds of militiamen from the Mahdi’s Army group besieged the town of Kawlia, 10km south of the city of Diwaniya, with mortars and…

This post is not about Sean Hannity. Well, at least I don’t want it to be about Sean Hannity. That’s because, first, I don’t know all that much about Sean Hannity. I don’t listen to his radio show and I don’t watch much television. From what I do know about him, I disagree with his…

First, Spain was intimidated by terrorists. Now, the target is Japan: ‘We will burn them alive’ An Iraqi group has kidnapped three Japanese hostages, including one woman, and promised to burn them alive if Japan does not withdraw its forces from Iraq. Al Jazeera television screened a video today showing three Japanese dressed in civilian…

Ross White is hosting the 81st Carnival of the Vanities with an Academy Awards theme. The stars began by endorsing Graham Lester’s blog (he’s an old Classical Values favorite, and longtime link, so that’s fine with me). My post about Jodi Wilgoren was nominated for Best Business Post, and while I don’t know whether I…