Month: January 2005

Can Drudge’s report of the Zarqawi capture (already posted by Dennis) be true? If it’s true, it’s the best news in the war in Iraq, and the second best news in the war on terror, short of the capture of bin Laden. Since I saw the report, Drudge has added a cryptical comment, PENTAGON NOT…

Drudge says that there are reports of the capture of al-Zarqawi: Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi, whom the US occupation authorities declared to be the “target number one” in Iraq, has been arrested in the city of Baakuba, the Emirate newspaper al-Bayane reported on Tuesday referring to Kurdish sources. Al-Zarqawi, leader of the terrorist group Al-Tawhid Wa’al-Jihad,…

Much as I’d rather concern myself with pressing issues of the day, the fact remains that this blog has what can only be called a “classical conscience” that nags me from time to time, and won’t let me rest until I do something to ease it. Said “something,” while it might be viewed as an…

Jim Lindgren (via InstaPundit), notes a fascinating outburst from liberal author Gary Wills, when the latter was asked about Michael Bellesiles (famous forger of anti-gun statistics, who was awarded the Bancroft Prize for his fraud): In April 2002, I asked Wills after a lecture at Northwestern what he thought of the book then. He replied,…

A few days ago, I wrote a long post about the movement to insinuate anti-homosexual prejudice into the Constitution (and the American founding) by interpreting the Declaration’s “laws of nature and of nature’s God” phrase as being a Declaration Against Sodomy which controls and supersedes anything in the Constitution. Now (from Eugene Volokh, via Glenn…

The stuff you find on the Internet these days! Sheesh! The following is a rather dark prophecy, which I think may be in need of some interpretation by better minds than my own. But I thought it interesting enough to share, so here we go: 1. There was a certain and known dissection deliberately to…

Speaking of book reviews, David Bernstein has a wonderful review of Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America: I’ve heard that some readers of The Plot Against America see it as some sort of prescient warning about our current political situation. I guess this appeals to the Bush=Hitler crowd, but I honestly didn’t see any reasonable…

In the long and arduous process of trying to get anything resolved, I found myself forced to look at the classical history of New Year’s Resolutions themselves. I hate to be so two faced in my analysis, but the fact is, the god Janus is heavily implicated in any discussion of New Year’s Resolutions: The…

I forgot to bring my camera to today’s Mummers’ Parade! (Waaahh!) But with my flimsy, low-resolution phone camera, I was able to at least document a few of the many classical and paganistic elements which so characterize this annual extravaganza. (This is my second annual Mummers’ Parade post, which makes this an established Classical Values…

Crotchety ol’ Robert Bork is hopping mad about American cultural exports, and he’s arm in arm with the mullahs and censors: … Mr. Bork, author of “Slouching Towards Gomorrah,” thinks some conservative (not to say radical) Muslims have a legitimate point ? as do American evangelicals and others on the religious right. “They have good…