Month: July 2004

Via an email, I just learned about an extinct race of giants in ancient Arabia: They were so tall, wide and very power full that they were able to pull out big trees just with the one hand. But what happen after when they become misguided and disobeys Allah SWT, Allah SWT destroyed the whole…

Shouting “fire” in a crowded mosque is not free speech…. So why would it be freedom of religion? Wretchard at the Belmont Club posted a very interesting response to David Warren: One need only look at our cities, airports, and streets, at the schools with their security guards, even the systems of public transportation, not…

This remark by Ramesh Ponnuru certainly passes muster as the quote of the day: [T]he split between libertarians and social conservatives is likely to determine the shape of politics over the next decades. I agree. And I am beginning to think that “social conservative” is a more descriptive term than “moral conservative.” But as I…

WARNING: GRAPHIC AND VIOLENT LINKS ARE GIVEN IN THIS POST. Via Paul at Wizbang, I just discovered that the actual Paul Johnson beheading video has been released, and is available for download here. (I posted about Paul Johnson before here.) I feel pretty strongly about this issue, and despite repeated criticism, I have made available…

Whoopi Goldberg recently stated her view on America’s heart and soul: “America’s heart and soul is freedom of expression without fear of reprisal,” she said in a statement. Cool! I hate reprisals too! QUERY: Does the no reprisal rule apply to Dr. Laura too? Or are some expressions more free than others? In a way…

Is it conceivable that terrorists or their supporters might resort to litigation as one means of pursuing their goals? I don’t know, but I have something I thought I should share. James Lileks makes an excellent point while contemplating a scary recent example of inadequacies in airline security: Our present enemy will nuke us as…

It’s poetry review time, like it or not! (Which means that it’s time to analyze drivel — which I tend to hate….) An unfortunate truth about me is that I’m really not all that into poetry. But John Kerry came to Philadelphia yesterday and in a speech to the NAACP, singled out in a praiseworthy…

The End of Affluence was published in 1974. A dark time for the Republic. Darker than many younger people, today, might credit. The reality was quite bad enough, but life is never so challenging that a little panic mongering can?t help the zeitgeist along. And what the zeitgeist back then said was that America was…

Well, I can’t really accuse the Philadelphia Inquirer of refusing to acknowledge Iraq’s attempts to purchase uranium from Niger. But most people — if they read this article without any other reference — would remain clueless: First, Butler, formerly Britain’s top civil servant, said Britain had received information from “several different sources” to substantiate reports…

Via an email from a friend, I have a collection of fascinating and apparently true quotes which seem worth sharing. While I have not verified each quote, I have read some of them before, so I suspect the rest are true. (Anyone who can show otherwise, please let me know…..) “One way or the other,…

Is this country headed for another Civil War? And is gay marriage the last straw leading to secession? Cory Burnell thinks so. And so do his supporters, who are spearheading a modern secessionist movement to take over the state of South Carolina. (Via Nick Gillespie.) More here, an even more partisan view here, and a…

I received a chain e-mail this morning from a well-meaning acquaintance who thinks she’s somehow fighting for reproductive rights and other ‘good’ things (‘good’ because somehow connected with the U.N.) by spamming her address book with an ad for Molly Ivins’s latest hootenanny–a rollicking, down-home blend of countrified wit and wisdom from the Smith College…

Solar power looks poised for a breakout over the next few years. Over on Futurepundit, Randall Parker has provided an excellant roundup of recent news in this post. Apparently, while all our backs were turned, the fellas in the lab have figured out a whole new paradigm for collector structure. Instead of relying on rigid,…

David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke, authors of the latest bestseller about Michael Moore (Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man) are interviewed here. Their assessment of Moore? In our book we explore the parallels between his behavior and an emotional illness known as Narcissistic Personality Disorder — an illness which also features…

I’m not a religious man, but there must be some kind of higher power at work here, tipping this tower of babble toward the re-emerging Red-threat. Get in your bomb shelters, kiddies, ’cause the Commies are coming. I jest, but lately I can’t escape the prevailing silence and revisionism surrounding communism and particularly Stalinism, and…

Finally! The Philadelphia Inquirer has at last let its readers know about the U.N. scandal: At least eight official investigations have begun into the largest financial rip-off in history: preliminary estimates from the GAO point to $10 billion skimmed or kicked back or otherwise stolen in the United Nations dealings with Saddam Hussein. Seeking to…

If this is is true, I find it completely unacceptable: the government of Iran is sponsoring an “Army of Martyrs,” which claims to have 10,000 volunteers for suicide attacks on the U.S., including attacks with atomic weapons. I mentioned this suicide army before, and the fact that a government is behind it is bad enough.…

Glenn Reynolds asks whether the proponents of the Federal Marriage Amendment are being played for suckers. The Amendment is sure to fail, and its failure could embolden the other side to go ahead with the drive for same sex marriage. So why are they pushing for it? I think that the proponents are more cynical…

I wish it hadn’t happened, but it has. The great Rachel Lucas has quit blogging again, and this time it appears permanent. Reasons? I don’t have time and my typing fingers literally do not have the strength, and besides, honestly, if I were to blog at this point in America’s history, it would almost entirely…

Over the past few days, the Philadelphia Inquirer has been — as the NAACP holds its convention here — glorifying W.E.B. DuBois . And in vintage Marxist terms like this: ….[S]ince the 1980s, the maldistribution of income in the United States has become greater in favor of the rich than in any other modern democracy,…