Month: February 2007

Lest anyone think the genital sex culture war is limited to arguments involving homosexuality or the use of words like “scrotum” in children’s books, the mud flap flap demonstrates that adults are the targets too. And not urban sophisticates, but plain old non-metro, hetero, truck-driving, adults at that. I kid you not. The great issue…

Madam Speaker, I am privileged to be a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Our chairman, Mr. Lantos, has scheduled for March a hearing to discuss the different proposals relating to the handling of the war in Iraq. He has promised a lot of time for debate on all the different bills introduced…

Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna is reporting on aerial survelance of the Jamaat ul-Fuqra compound in Georgia. Some photo analysis is provided. The Baron is asking for help from any one who could assist in further analysis. The Christian Action Network [CAN -ed] recently made another aerial run over a Jamaat ul-Fuqra compound, this…

I don’t know whether this children’s book (containing the word “scrotum“) is what Antonio Gramsci and WorldNetDaily would call “cultural Marxism,” as I haven’t asked the author whether that was her intent.* But Glenn Reynolds’ link to the discussion reminded me of M. Simon’s post from yesterday as well as some earlier ones on the…

Lest anyone think I was condemning everyone who received a draft deferment during the Vietnam war in my prior post, I was not. In fact, it wasn’t my goal even to condemn draft dodgers. My complaint is not with people who saved their own skin. All of us have done things that were less than…

American Thinker looks at Cultural Marxism There are two misconceptions held by many Americans. The first is that communism ceased to be a threat when the Soviet Union imploded. The second is that the New Left of the Sixties collapsed and disappeared as well. “The Sixties are dead,” wrote columnist George Will (“Slamming the Doors,”…

Christopher Hitchens has a fine piece on the trajectory of our war with Iraq. …it was on the initiative of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, both of whom delivered extremely tough speeches warning of another round of confrontation with Saddam Hussein, that the Senate passed the Iraq Liberation Act that year, making…

The Victory Caucus is a new blog devoted to Victory in the war against Islamic fascism. What is their mission? This will be a long and serious effort, but it starts now. We have established a team within the site that will focus on identifying strong candidates — veterans, ideally — as well as teams…

I agree with Glenn Reynolds and J.D. Johannes: “Support the troops. Let them win.” But the Vietnam generation is still sharply divided. I can’t find a more perfect example than Senator Charles “just-like-in-the-days-of-Vietnam” Schumer who is bound and determined to plunge the country into another glorious defeat. Of course, he’ll say the war was “unwinnable,”…

It looks like the Palestinian Civil War has resumed. The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) condemned Thursday an attack by unknown gunmen at the house of MP Yousef Alsherafi in northern Gaza Strip. In a released statement, the PLC condemned the attack, reminding all Palestinian factions of abiding by the recent agreement on ending all forms…

I’m writing a test post on a Dell laptop motherboard I just hooked up to see how well it works. My older laptop (a Latitude c600) has a motherboard problem which isn’t worth the money it would cost to fix, so I bought a new board on Ebay. Basically, it’s the bottom of a laptop,…

A very funny video by a black man who gets the Duke Lacrosse case.

(which possibly ought to be called the “perilously white classically bendable values agenda” or something) was held in Philadelphia yesterday. Visiting dignitaries Sean Kinsell of White Peril (who traveled all the way from Japan) and yours truly of Classical Values arrived at Philly AIDS Thrift (514 Bainbridge Street) — a charitable thrift store which doubled…

For someone who bills himself as a humorist, Garrison Keillor doesn’t seem to have much of a sense of humor. First there was his threat to sue a blogger for parodying the Prairie Homo Home Companion with a t-shirt. And now there’s his latest pissy hissy over Giuliani’s Marilyn Monroe parody in drag: Say what…

Coco has a visitor, Sean Kinsell, and she’s convinced that he traveled all the way from Japan just to see her. As you can see, Sean has mastered a rare Japanese massage technique which never fails to put pit bulls to sleep: (If only the Humane Society put pit bulls to sleep that way instead…

Murtha has a plan for American defeat in Iraq. MoveCongress.Org says John Murtha will speak to them about removing support for our troops and thus ending the War in Iraq. Evidently they would prefer genocide followed by a full scale Middle East War. MoveCongress has spoken and here are their words. The Appropriations Subcommittee on…

I just ordered Clayton Cramer’s new book, Armed America: The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie — the thesis of which I thoroughly agree. (Among other things, he debunks the notorious Michael Bellesiles.) It’s reviewed here, and despite the insane weather (and a series of travel glitches from…

It looks like the American government is jumping off the Abbas ship. The United States has informed Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that it will shun a future Hamas-Fatah coalition government because it will not explicitly recognize Israel, Abbas aides said Thursday. That position would be a severe blow to Abbas, who is trying to…

I don’t keep up with professional basketball as I should, but according to CBS there’s apparently been “a groundbreaking revelation made by former player John Amaechi, who became the first professional basketball player to openly identify himself as gay.” (Of course, he waited till he retired to jump through that hoop.) Another player, Tim Hardaway,…

Yes they are. And as M. Simon reminded me this morning, they — the Democrats — are pushing for a renewal of the (so-called) assault weapons ban. Les Jones has the scoop: “Well, all you folks who voted for anyone but a republican now know what the next 2-10 years are going to be like.…