Month: February 2007

Via the Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire, I read about John Edwards’s decision not to fire Amanda Marcotte and the other blogger who had something to do with whatever it was… rabbits from Byzantium or something. What intrigued me the most was not Edwards’s reasoning (which I found about as interesting as his hair rinse),…

I had been thinking of doing a piece on the small arms trade in Gaza when commenter mdmhvonpa nudged me along with this comment to Vengeance: Hatfields and McCoys … swell. Perhaps we should just start dropping boxes of ammo and small arms into ‘Palestine’ to hurry this up. We have a better deal going…

Is Castro really alive and well as he’s been portrayed in the media? (This is not the first time I’ve wondered….) Fausta Wertz has been doing some fascinating digging, and there’s a detailed analysis at Pajamas Media. In particular, French media watchdog Philippe Karsenty makes a compelling argument that there is no proof Castro is…

The Palestinian Civil War is going to be going on for a while if this is any indication. GAZA, Feb 7 (KUNA) — Dagmash family, one of the biggest Palestinian families in Gaza, has claimed responsibility for the killing of two activists from the Izziddeen Al-Qassam Brigades, military arm of Hamas, last night. A family…

America could learn from Israel about how to integrate gays into the military. The US military needs to learn from the IDF and the tolerant Israeli model regarding homosexual soldiers and officers, concluded a research project on gay and lesbian service in the IDF, undertaken at the University of California, in Santa Barbara. According to…

If there’s one thing I hate more than this awful weather, it’s having to pay homage to someone — especially someone most people would consider ridiculous. Insane, even. But, much as I’d like to steal his idea and call it my own original thesis, I can’t. Whether this is out of some sense of intellectual…

How the environmental lobby works very hard to keep the poor impoverished. Video: about 3 minutes. Main site – Mine Your Own Business The blog – Mine Your Own Business H/T Instapundit Cross Posted at Power and Control

In a God-awful long essay yesterday, I concluded that the argument over the immorality of homosexuality was hopeless. This is because there is no way to see eye to eye over basic terms. If person A believes that a certain thing is immoral and person B does not, and person A builds into his argument…

While I don’t want to dwell on on Amanda Marcotte more than necessary, let me put on my tin foil hat for a second, and pose a theoretical question. Might the goal be to discredit the blogosphere? It’s not every day leftists are tarred as “bigots” in the New York Times, so I think it’s…

There is a discussion going on in the comments at Durham in Wonderland about the quality of our justice system and the acceptable error rate. The ever ubiquitous anon. at 9:12AM had this to say: As for rough justice? When most violent criminals are just that, violent criminals with long arrest and conviction records, records…

The story of ‘naut rage (if that’s the proper term) has attracted a lot of attention. While there’s nothing new about jealous rage, even homicidal rage, there’s just something about that diaper. I think that’s what’s really captured the public’s limited attention span. A diaper-wearing adult (especially one from the rational-and-scientific class) having a tantrum…

I suppose we should get the optimism out of the way first. The Mayor of Gaza thinks the fighting won’t last because it is brother fighting brother. The factor preventing an all-out civil war in Gaza is that the Palestinians fighting against each other come from the same families, the mayor of Gaza City said.…

Global Warming skeptic removed from his position as Oregon’s State Climatologist? [George Taylor’s] opinions conflict not only with many other scientists, but with the state of Oregon’s policies. So the governor wants to take that title from Taylor and make it a position that he would appoint. In an exclusive interview with KGW-TV, Governor Ted…

I love what about James Taranto said about William Arkin’s recent outburst. …if you combine Arkin’s viewpoint with the familiar “chickenhawk” canard, everyone who supports the war is disqualified from having an opinion about it by virtue of who he is. All the more true considering (via Glenn Reynolds) the latest — and supposedly “final”…

Pipeline News seems to have a lot of good sources in the Guilford Case. Pipeline has gotten some more details about the thugs who visited The Guilford dorms. The leader of this group stated threateningly that they, “were going to take care of what didn’t get taken care of the other day.” He then opened…

I shouldn’t put people down for suffering from battle fatigue, as I am often prone to fits of what can best be called Culture War fatigue. The interesting thing about this fatigue is it’s what led me to start this blog nearly four years ago. Well, I started it nearly five years ago, only to…

Via Glenn Reynolds, I was fascinated to learn about a blogger who has been criticized for having too many links. Jon Swift (a man after my heart) will blogroll anyone regardless of politics or traffic ranking: when it comes to blogrolling I am surprisingly liberal, as you can see from the Blogroll Policy I have…

It appears that the Palestinians involved in the civil war are using some pretty harsh language against each other. The recent fighting between Hamas and Fatah did not just play out in the streets of the Gaza Strip. The rival groups also pummeled each other over the airwaves, calling each other’s fighters “mercenary death squads,”…

The semi-reliable Pipeline News has posted a piece about the fellows Threatening The Guilford Players. …at North Carolina’s Guilford College the hue and cry over a gamed “hate crime” has reached such proportions that a hit-team composed of self-identified Muslims are actually out hunting the football players involved in the January 21 fracas. “City of…

Romantic entanglements entangle astronuat. An astronaut drove from Houston to Florida, donned a wig and trench coat and confronted a woman she believed was romantically involved with a space shuttle pilot she was in love with, police said. She was charged with attempted kidnapping and other counts. US Navy Capt. Lisa Nowak, 43, who flew…