Month: February 2007

Leon Kass has been awe-fully quiet lately, and I’ve been rather too preoccupied with the demands of mere living to go digging for him. Sometimes I disappoint myself. But, as a diligent collector of Kassiana, when I unexpectedly stumble across the great man’s freshly steaming spoor, well, the whole world seems just a little bit…

In a comment to an earlier post, Darleen Click said something which ought to be read by everyone, and which, if true, ought to chill the bones of every conservative, libertarian, and libertarian conservative, and conservative libertarian: RE the GOP, IMHO this is why you’re seeing the anti-Romney sentiment amongst a lot of Republicans… he…

I was over at one of my daily reads Little Green Footballs and came across this Penn and Teller episode of their program Bullshit on Recycling. Very interesting. Very Funny. And laced with profanity. Kind of like Amanda Marcotte only they make you laugh. So I started noodling around and found a bit they did…

Warning: brutal honesty follows. Reader discretion advised. A few weeks ago, I wondered whether Barack Obama might be Hillary Clinton’s stalking horse. And for the past week, I was so caught up in blogging about the blog scandal in John Edwards’s um, campaign, that for a moment I almost forgot that he really isn’t a…

Israel says it will break ties with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas if the quartet conditions – the renunciation of violence, recognition of Israel, and adhering to past peace agreements – are not met. If the new Palestinian unity government is based solely on the agreement reached in Mecca and does not include the three…

The Palestinians have formed a national unity government to avoid a civil war. However, that will not end the internal Palestinian disagreements. So how does a government wracked with internal disunity create a real national unity? Start a war with a neighbor. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Arabs in Gaza are holding a memorial service for Saddam. (IsraelNN.com) Arabs in Gaza on Saturday held a memorial service for Saddam Hussein, marking the 40th day since his hanging, reports in the Arab media said. “Saddam has won more dignity after his murder, far beyond what his enemies had expected. Poets and writers and…

The Palestinians will soon have the long awaited National Unity Government. It will not be renouncing violence, recognizing Israel, or accepting past signed peace agreements. The requirements for restarting aid to the Palestinian Arabs. Recognition of Israel is one of three conditions set by the “Quartet” of international Middle East negotiators for lifting sanctions on…

What was fascinating? An article I read in the Jerusalem Post about prostitution in Israel. The article is about a woman who ran a whorehouse as a police sting operation. Today, three years after her unpaid eight-month stint as a brothel proprietor, she still recalls not only the social stigma and neighborhood harassment but her…

Here’s Coco caught in midair! Maybe this post should have been titled “Make Love AND War,” for that’s what the pandemonium resembled earlier today, when Coco was paid a visit by her amorous young suitor Trey. As soon as the two were let off their leashes, they were moving so fast that it was very…

A bullet made the front page of today’s Inquirer, and I guess that’s progress. At least the headline didn’t say that the gun did it. However, there’s something unsettling about the tone of the headline — which is “One stray bullet forever changed 2 lives.” It’s as if they’re blaming the bullet — and not…

Hemp is happening in North Dakota. The political landscape in North Dakota is interesting. One of North Dakota’s US Senators, Byron Dorgan is a Democrat. Their other US Senator Kent Conrad is also a Democrat. Their only Representative, Earl Pomeroy is also a Democrat. So who is this Republican spearheading hemp in what appears to…

A commenter to my post ACLU Gives Up has this to say: I think the footballers should demand a public apology from the faculty member who sent out the email and staged the private assembly of non-white students. She stated that the Palis were victims of a hate crime. As I understand it, she also…

When I clicked on Glenn Reynolds’s link to the National Review’s editorial review of Rudolph Giuliani’s candidacy, I expected to see the usual conservative objections addressed. While NR allowed that “there is a lot to like” about the candidate, reading on, I knew there’d be no way to avoid the obvious: there are serious obstacles…

The usually reliable Pipeline News thinks the accusers in the Guilford College case may be ready to give up due to deportation proceedings on some of the accusers. By Beila Rabinowitz and William A. Mayer February 8, 2007 – San Francisco, CA – PipeLineNews.org – With possible deportation looming over Osama Sabbah, Faris Khader and…

While it might be a generational thing (possibly aggravated in my case because I had a classical education of the old school variety), I’m often frustrated by what seems like an utter failure of simple logic. I’d say “logical error” except that attacking arguments by focusing instead on things like people’s sources of income, their…

Confidence in the latest cease fire in Gaza is in short supply. So naturally people are stocking up on food. (IsraelNN.com) Gaza regional Arabs are stockpiling food and basic goods in anticipation of another outbreak of violence following talks in Mecca between Fatah and Hamas leaders on establishing a unity government. Street vendor Mazen Kheil…

In so many ways this is Sarajevo 1914 all over again, on a much smaller scale. Mistrust and misunderstanding lead to war. The wave of killings in Gaza on Thursday of last week was sparked by a suspicion: Hamas members feared that containers Israel allowed to enter Gaza held weapons for the Presidential Guard. They…

I thought I should lay bare my bottom line. Unlike a lot of bloggers who’ve been in the news lately, I am not for sale. But Classical Values has value. And values don’t come cheap. I’d take a million for the name. But just to prove I value my values, I’d want two million if…

As someone who tends towards First Amendment absolutism, I have always opposed the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” and I find the idea that anyone would want to bring it back most annoying. For starters, how is anyone supposed to define who or what is the other “side” of a given issue? Are libertarians entitled to weigh…