Author: Eric Scheie

News reports about the beheading threat against Geert Wilders caused me to Google the man who called for the beheading, one Sheikh Feiz Muhammad. There’s an in-depth profile of him here. He’s considered the most dangerous sheikh in Australia: Here, we profile Feiz Muhammad (a.k.a. Feiz Mohammad, Sheik Feiz), an Australian citizen now residing in…

Via Dr. Helen, I am reminded of the obvious fact that the Alpha Male is dying in Hollywood: The masculine, alpha-male movie star – brought to life in films such as “Rambo,” “Die Hard,” and “Rocky” – is becoming extinct in Hollywood, according to actress Michelle Rodriguez. “The alpha man is dying in film, the…

In the wake of the psychotic environmentalist gunman who took hostages at the Discovery Channel, a lot of people are wondering what it is with Al Gore and his vast power to do what the left so loves to accuse Rush Limbaugh of doing? As Glenn puts it sarcastically in his roundup, “Won’t Al Gore…

Via an email from a friend, who commented on Palin’s latest victory (“another win for Palin, and I love how she drives the left insane”) comes a trivia question he likes to ask his leftie friends: “Who’s the most significant US politician to come out in favor of decriminalizing marijuana?” He then watches their heads…

In the second part of his excellent series (Part I of which I discussed here), Zombie concludes with a question: It all comes down to a matter of intent. WHY does each side mutilate the truth? To what end? In the case of the left, the ultimate goal is to overthrow the United States as…

As the idea of government health care becomes ever more unpopular with the taxpayers, the federal government’s top health care bureaucrat has issued a statement which is at least insensitive, and (in light of the word used) quite possibly inflammatory: As a widely-watched survey shows support for the new health care reform law slipping, the…

In what I think is a very important post titled “Ideological War Spells Doom for America’s Schoolkids,” Zombie touches on an issue near and dear to my heart which I have ranted about for many years. That is the way the culture war tends to be exacerbated by increasingly extreme ideological positions at both ends.…

Sorry not to have had anything to say today. I’ve been swamped with errands, and poor Coco (who has been inexplicably sick) had to be taken to the vet for innumerable tests. She has an acute GI infection and according to the vet she is so filled with gas that they’re going to have to…

I just had a rather unsettling experience while running (from which I just got back), and were I a superstitious person, I’d be convinced that I’d had a “premonition” beforehand. For no particular reason (other than the fact that the thought just popped into my head), just before the run I recalled a legal (“equitable…

As I pondered the comments to an earlier post about transsexualism and added one of my own, I remembered a snarky remark I heard yesterday about the religious aspect of the issue. A man making a speech cited Jesus Christ as being in support of his view that transsexualism is wrong. I thought that was…

Glenn Reynolds mentioned the “overwhelmingly white” meme, and malcontent that I am, I just had to click. The first link went to a story with the following “headline” (more editorial than headline, really): “Tea Party rally big on God, short on colour” If they were interested in mathematical balance, you’d think they could have at…

The Tea Party has been likened to herding cats, and I think that’s a good (if sometimes exhausting) thing. M. Simon sent me a link to a local writeup of what is being called a Tea Party takeover of the GOP here in the Ann Arbor area. The piece also refers to an Idaho “coalition…

Much as it tires me to discuss it, some people are insistent on making the transgender issue into another one of those stupid political litmus tests. Candidates for Secretary of State are being asked to take positions on the vital issue whether transgendered individuals should be allowed to have the sex on their drivers licenses…

In local news, the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department has been conducting raids on medical marijuana sellers. The Oakland County Sheriff’s Narcotics Enforcement team raided three businesses and 12 homes Wednesday and confiscated marijuana, $30,000 in cash, guns, grow lights, patient records and two guard alligators, authorities said Thursday. Prosecutors contend the operators of Clinical Relief…

Every once in awhile, I see something so completely and thoroughly incomprehensible that it defies logical analysis, and a recent statement from New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg about the NYC cabbie-slasher suspect is one of them. It appears that the mayor is trying to connect some dots, and his mental processes leave me feeling dumbfounded.…

In a post titled “The government is pushing these food poisoning events because they want to over-regulate,” Ann Althouse quotes a commenter who says this: You should look into some of the regulations currently being considered by the FDA and USDA. These regs are going to increase the price of food considerably, if they are…

Now that Joe Miller is within victory over Lisa Murkowski, it looks like Sarah Palin is more popular in Alaska than Slate’s Alexandra Gutierrez predicted yesterday in a piece titled “Why the candidate of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Express is losing in Alaska.” …Tuesday is likely to be a disappointment to Palin and…

The above expression relates to some practical advice I was given years ago during the course of my travels to Mexico. It means, “to sweeten your day,” and while there is nothing wrong with sweetening people’s days, the context of the usage of that travel phrase might very well be considered immoral, especially by moral…

A lot of words are spewed forth in the War on Drugs, and when the drug war is combined with trouble at the border, the result is quite predictable. Every once in a while, though, I see things that push credulity beyond what I consider acceptable. I saw a recent example in this AP story,…

Perhaps because of the Ground Zero Mosque flap, more people than ever are speculating over whether Barack Obama is a Muslim. This may sound counterintuitive, but I honestly hope the most powerful man in the world is in fact a Muslim. That’s not because I think he is one, but only because I think Islam…