What It Means Posted By Roger Kimball Yesterday, in the dead of night, the U.S. House of Representatives took a small step for Nancy Pelosi and a giant step for despotism. Freedom, David Hume famously observed, is seldom lost all at once. More often, it leaks out slowly. The petty tyranny of good intentions colludes […]
By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704795604574519852324673902.html Fidel Castro learned a lot from Chilean President Salvador Allende’s failed power grab in 1973. And he used the lessons of that bitter defeat to coach Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez to dictatorship under the guise of democracy more than 25 years later. Now Latin America’s revolutionaries may be experiencing another setback […]
All the Warning Signs Were There Posted: 08 Nov 2009 07:27 PM PST He is inside your borders. He works deep inside your political and social structures. Openly he expresses his support for your murderers and enthusiastically promotes his message of hate. The bumper sticker on his car reads, “Allah is Love”, but that love […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487 Â OOOH WE WON!!! The Lords of Entitlement http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704402404574523613159447566.html Every medical insurance decision will be subject to rationing by politics. Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied policy logic and public opinion late Saturday night, ramming through the House a nearly 2,000-page health-care leviathan that counts as the biggest expansion of the federal government since the New Deal. […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/09/lieberman-vows-probe-of-fort-hood-rampage//print/ Lieberman vows probe of Hood rampage Sean Lengell Sen. Joe Lieberman plans to start a congressional investigation into Thursday’s shooting rampage at Fort Hood, saying that if initial reports hold true, it would be “the most destructive terrorist act to be committed on American soil since 9/11.” Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim Army […]
The Hole at the Heart of Our Strategy We’re scrupulously non-judgmental about the ideology that drives terrorism. By Mark Steyn Thirteen dead and 31 wounded would be a bad day for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, and a great victory for the Taliban. When it happens in Texas, in the heart of the biggest military […]
Germany celebrates fall of Berlin Wall By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, Associated Press Writer Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press Writer 26 mins ago BERLIN – With prayers, music and pomp, Germany on Monday remembered the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to […]
MARK STEYN http://nrd.nationalreview.com/print/?q=OWRjOWMwY2RiMTU4MjY3MTc5ZTM0NDk2NjA5ZDI2ZWE= Neatherworld ‘Would it not be easier,†wrote Bertolt Brecht after the East German uprising in 1953, “for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?†The thought has occurred to several governments over the years, and I don’t mean the dictatorships. Andrew Neather, a former speechwriter for Tony Blair, wrote a […]
Islamist Perfidy and Western Naivety: Which Is More Lethal? By Raymond Ibrahim http://pajamasmedia.com In a blog entry for Islamist Watch [1], David J. Rusin shows how the word “jihad†continues to be euphemized in the West. Despite Islamic law’s unequivocal portrayal of it as a military endeavor to empower Islam, jihad is still being peddled […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/11/philippines-jihad-against-school-principals.html Philippines: Jihad against school principals This just in from our “This Is Why You’re Poor” Department. Allah promised paradise to those who “slay and are slain” in the cause of jihad (Qur’an 9:111), but shooting your own society in the foot is also quite popular as a consequence. “Islamic rebels behead Philippine teacher: police,” […]
