Month: January 2007

As Larry Elder makes clear in a recent piece about “flipping the bird” sometimes, what can seem like racism or bigotry really isn’t racism or bigotry at all: When driving to work a couple weeks ago, the convertible in front of me, with three young black men and a young black female driver, stopped for…

Gates of Vienna has a post discussing Delegate Frank D. Harwood’s recent remarks on Black slavery in America and the genocide of Jews in Europe. He quotes from a local paper: A Hanover County delegate’s comments that Virginia’s black residents should “get over” slavery and discussing whether Jews might “apologize for killing Christ” drew angry…

It appears that one of the great pioneers of socialized medicine, Fidel Castro, may soon die as a result of what appears to be bad health care: U.S. doctors said Tuesday’s report in El Pais suggested Castro had received questionable or even botched care. “It sounds like they tried to spare him the colostomy, which…

An excavation in Syria appears to have dug up the real thing: CHICAGO (Jan. 16) – It was the ancient version of a last stand: Twelve clay bullets lined up and ready to be shot from slings in a desperate attempt to stop fierce invaders who soon would reduce much of the city to rubble.…

Israpundit has an excellent post up about Christian Zionism. It reports on a Christian’s observations of a dinner gala at the Capital Washington Hilton honoring outgoing Israeli Ambassador Daniel Ayalon and incoming Ambassador Meridoron that discussed Christian Zionism. The chatty crowd quieted as Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA), spoke eloquently about the past and the present…

“Not even Barack Obama can save us now.” There’s no way I could ignore an essay that starts out that way, so I read Stanley Kurtz’s review of “A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Today (linked by Glenn Reynolds) with great relish. This is a familiar topic for me, as I try to…

I now see that Glenn Reynolds’ New York Times Op-Ed “A Rifle in Every Pot” (which I first heard read over the air yesterday by G. Gordon Liddy) has now made it to the number two position in the New York Times. (Last night it was at Number Three.) Number Two position places it just…

I got a link from The Muslim Brotherhood. I asked Michael Totten if this was a good or a bad thing. He replied: Considering which post they linked to, it is neither good nor bad. The MB tries to put on a moderate face. And they are moderate compared with, say, Al Qaeda, the Taliban,…

The way a loaf of bread is protected from theft is you put it in a store. If you put it on the street it is harder to keep opportunists from taking what they want. You know at one time recorded music was feared because it would put an end to live entertainment. Movies were…

Think a man’s home is his castle? Think again. Thanks to the relentless efforts of the anti-smoking bureaucracy, Americans are losing one of the last vestiges of privacy — the right to smoke in their own homes: A year ago last month, the [Seattle] voter-approved Initiative 901 took effect. It prohibits smoking in work settings…

Earlier on today’s G. Gordon Liddy Show, I heard Pajamas Media president Roger L. Simon (who Liddy noted is a member of Motion Picture Academy) discuss his view that “An Inconvenient Truth” has a lock on an Oscar. “I don’t want to hear from politicians; I want to hear from scientists,” said Roger, who thinks…

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer’s political analyst Dick Polman, Bush is only the ostensible president. The real president? Dick Cheney, of course. And this arrogant pretender to the throne refuses to acknowledge that he lost the election: He actually performed a valuable public service, by reminding all Americans that he is still the power behind…

Air is Free How do you get people to pay for air? 1. Sell them an air purifier 2. Sell them an air freshener 3. Sell them oxygen in a bottle 4. Sell them an air conditioner etc. The cost of air is zero. What is its value? Cross Posted at Power and Control

America since its founding has had an interest in the Middle East says Michael Oren: The stalled U.S. mission in Iraq has prompted calls for a return to “realism” in American foreign policy. Instead of striving for freedom and national cohesion in the Middle East, realists argue that the U.S. should negotiate with Syria and…

“Say ‘ello to my leetle fren’” I would have loved to have made that the title for this post, except I saw it in Pajamas Media and didn’t want to plagiarize Fausta, nor do I want to imply any moral equivalency between Coco’s normal and wholesome love life and the disgusting displays of affection between…

Yep they really exsist. No foolin’. Here is Muqtedar Khan, Ph.D.’s view on what a moderate Muslim’s attitude to the West should be: Both Muslims and the media are generally on the mark when they identify moderate Muslims as reflective, self-critical, pro-democracy and human-rights and closet secularists. But who are they different from and how?…

For some people, the most important issue facing a potential United States president is, is… Gay marriage: A prominent Christian leader whose radio and magazine outreaches are solidly in support of biblically-based marriages – and keeps in touch with millions of constituents daily – says he cannot consider Arizona Sen. John McCain a viable candidate…

Barbara Boxer’s ad hominem attack on Condoleeza Rice has been getting a lot of attention, as it should. While the Boxer remark manifested itself unmistakably as a left-versus-right issue, it touched on a widespread popular prejudice. A New York Post editorial focused on the former: Rice appeared before the Senate in defense of President Bush’s…

In a comment to my post Oil Outlook Jay Draiman outlines a plan to get all new housing on renewables, with a ramp up period of 10 years followed by full roll out for all new housing after the ramp up. Here is the essence of his proposal without technical details: The federal, state and…

There is a lot of talk on Little Green Footballs (LGF) on the subject of why the United states is giving money to the Palestinians. (mainly the $86 million to Fatah). A lot of folks at LGF (myself included) think the purpose of the money is to make sure Hamas and Fatah are fairly evenly…