I think the best way to celebrate today would be to strap Je$$e Jack$on and Al $harpton into their chairs, making them listen to this and this over and over again until it sticks.
15 January, 2007
11 January, 2007
Walking the Line
Michael Yon is back in Iraq, providing his usual, clear and sobering perspective.
This war is fraught with more paradoxes and seeming contradictions than I can track, but one thing I’ve encountered on every embed is the high number of people who know the most, and suffer the most, still believe we are winning. For the most part, anyway. While most of the young soldiers still hold hope for a good outcome here, others think it’s a lost cause. The same is true for Iraqis. Many are still pushing for better days, while others guzzle apathy tea.
Check out part one and part two, and stand by for part three.
Did Bush find his backbone?
I certainly hope so. This raid on an Iranian government office in Iraq is encouraging. Also, Larry Kudlow reports that the Treasury Department is barring Iran’s oldest bank from American financial markets.
The day is brightening a little.
Faster, please.
10 January, 2007
Nasty Little Man Update
Alan Dershowitz calls the Nasty Little Man* a hypocrite.
YOU CAN ALWAYS tell when a public figure has written an indefensible book: when he refuses to debate it in the court of public opinion. And you can always tell when he’s a hypocrite to boot: when he says he wrote a book in order to stimulate a debate, and then he refuses to participate in any such debate.
*America’s Worst Ex-President is never mentioned by name in Buttle’s World.
Updating the Classics
Credit (blame?) me for this one:
What are the four shortest books in the world?
- English Gourmet Cooking
- Italian War Heroes
- Two Thousand Years of German Humor
- Artistic, Cultural and Technological Contributions of the Muslim World
CAIR refuses to answer the question
LGF has video of a CAIR spokesman doing a very, very bad job of making his group look civilized.
But, then, “Islamic civilization” is an oxymoron.
You gotta see this.
9 January, 2007
Veto Bait?
Great new blog
Someone is blogging right from Iraq. The part I don’t get is that it’s being published in the LA Times. But, credit where credit is due. Hat tip: Wade Major.
Read the Legacy of Lawrence of Arabia.
Vital Reading
Shortly before I left on vacation, an author I hear from now and again emailed me to “put down whatever you are reading and pick up Mark Steyn’s new book. I mean it. Now.” I ordered it, and finally got to read it while in Mexico.
Steyn is a treasure. He is clear-eyed, funny, and perceptive. And he has written what may be one of the most important books of our age. I’ve felt like part of a tiny minority who recognize that there is no “Iraq war”, but rather a regional conflict.
I was wrong. Steyn tickles with a feather in one hand, and slams with a sledgehammer in the other. It’s a world war, and nothing less than “the world as we know it” is at stake.
And right now we’re losing. Big time.
Europe is dead. Within a generation there will be no Europe as we know it. (I plan to take my daughter to Italy within the next 5 years, because the art in Florence will not survive Sharia “law”.) Why? Because Europe’s Western population is shrinking, now past the point of no return, and Islam is breeding like bacteria in mayonnaise.
In fact, while reading the book I was struck by the supreme irony: Evolution is selecting for religiosity. Right before our eyes.
America Alone is a doom-and-gloom book with a silver lining. Steyn sees a way out of this mess. I won’t spoil it.
Read the book. Now. I’m not kidding.
8 January, 2007
I’m baa-aaack
Jet lagged, catching up (I had over 14,000 email messages waiting). More stuff later.
But, meanwhile, what do you suppose would happen if the Bush White House couldn’t understand the plain English in the constitution?
It’s enough to make one despair.
