I hope NRO doesn’t mind the hot link

Steyn on Multiculturalism

“It’s a denial of reality.”

Watch the video. Prepare to laugh and cry at the same time.

I think Noel Sharkey is a bigger threat

than these are.

Teaching a computer-driven machine — even an intelligent one — how to distinguish between civilians and combatants, or how to gauge a proportional response as mandated by the Geneva Conventions, is simply beyond the reach of artificial intelligence today.

And that’s why those decisions aren’t in robot hands yet. Just as giving robots remote-control weapons didn’t happen until the technology was ready. There’s a reason for gradual progress, Professor Sharkey. Stop groveling for truly dangerous things like “international agreements”.

WFB is gone

KLO’s sad duty this morning.

Keep an eye on The Corner. There’ll be lots more.

Hail Montanans

They believe in contracts and, by extension, gun rights.

Who is Terry Fator?

He’s a ventriloquist. I know, I know. But he’s a ventriloquist who does impersonations.

Some of them are pretty good, too. Like Etta James, Kermit and Satchmo, Roy Orbison, and some guy in a hat. His Dean Martin is OK, but nobody should try impersonating Tony Bennet.

The most amazing thing about these videos is that David Hasselhoff is still getting work even after this.

Warmer?

Colder.

Horse’s Mouth Department

If you like to get your military news direct from oh, say, the military, tune in to the podcast motherload.

You can also subscribe for free right from the iTunes store: Just search for DVIDS under podcasts.

I’ve also linked to to the blogroll, as the observant will have noticed.

Like, whoa

Indeed.

Kermit Was Right

It isn’t easy being green.

My Apparent Concern About the Appearance of a Possibility

Michael Kinsley gets straight to the point.

Obama Smackdown

Black Five, who has actually been to Afghanistan, takes Senator Gantry to school.

No, Senator Obama, the situation you described at the debate never happened anywhere I went.  That assertion by you is as full of crap as a Christmas Goose, and I think you know it.

The Fidel Shuffle

Jonah Goldberg warns us not to be suckers.

I’ll only add that if Fidel Castro dies peacefully in his sleep there is no justice in the world.

The Beatles

I was never a really big Beatles fan. Often I enjoy someone else’s version of their songs better than the originals. You just can’t beat Earth Wind and Fire’s take on “Got to Get You Into My Life”.

And the Beatles could never top this.

I’d like to ask Obama

what he thinks the word infringe means.

Oh, brother

Need another reason to feel hinkey about Obama?

I guess it helps explain the Che Guevara flag.

Swooning

Is this for real? Or is it just this?

Mr. Obama, Tear Down That Flag

It’s bad enough that Barak has said next to nothing about this, but the MSM also remains completely uncurious.

Meanwhile, I’m left with the impression that Obama’s volunteers are squirming hypocrites.

Mughinya Dead

Probably.

Michael Ledeen is the man to lay out the situation.

Shamefully Cynical

So Derb describes a correspondent who, I also fear, has hit the Obama nail on the head.

So I’m a cynic. I’m not ashamed.

An Archbishop of Canterbury Tale

Dying by theyr own thousand cuts.

I think Chaucer would approve. And if he doesn’t, who cares? He’s dead.

Awwww

“…and treated them to a round of energy drinks.”

Stunning is the new Predictable

I mean, who saw this coming?

Multiculturalism Kills

In England alone it is killing up to 17,000 women.

Per year.

Or it may be 35 times higher.

I’m With Hitch

At least in large measure, in his parsimonious advice for Rowan Williams.

Where we part company is here:

The alternative—don’t have any blasphemy laws and let religious people’s feelings be hurt, just as the feelings of the secular are regularly offended by religion—doesn’t occur to the archbishop and people who think like him.

I have no more sympathy for the secular than the religious when it comes to feelings being offended. Nobody’s religion (or secularity, for that matter) offends my feelings. Why should it? Now, if someone’s religion involves replacing my constitutional republic with barbarism, then I’m offended. In that case it’s not my feelings, but my freedom which is threatened.

In the end, Hitch is right: there should be no blasphemy laws. If your beliefs can’t take ridicule, maybe they aren’t worth much.

Obama’s Got Some Splainin’ To Do

He disavows this quickly, or he’s a bigger disaster than even I thought.

Update:

That’s it? OK. That’s it.

No More Excuses

Members of congress who still support CAIR can only claim stupidity, not ignorance.

Lost Cause?

I’d like to hear Reid, Pelosi and, especially, Obama remind us exactly who is losing in Iraq.

Liberal Mugged

A woman who tried to convince Niel Bush, Dubya’s younger brother, that women were fine in Saudi Arabia has had her eyes opened. And her clothes forcibly removed.

Pushing the Boundaries of Coincidence

Who could be better at suspicious timing than Bill and Hill?

(And what’s he spending the other $15 million on? Cheeseburgers and lap dances?)