Love, Love, Love

Maybe Romney should downplay the whole “I got elected governor in Massachusetts” thing. The current governor has illustrated what a mental weakling and a boob one can be and still get the office. Mark Steyn has the goods.

The money graph:

Why do radical imams seek to convert young Canadian, British and even American men and women in their late teens and twenties? Because they understand that when you raise a generation in the great wobbling blancmange of Deval Patrick cultural relativism – nothing is any better or any worse than anything else; if people are “mean and nasty” to us, it’s only because we didn’t sing enough Barney the Dinosaur songs at them – in such a world a certain percentage of its youth will have a great gaping hole where their sense of identity should be. And into that hole you can pour something fierce and primal and implacable.

No War for Oil

TigerHawk explains what it really means.

In any case, you can’t simultaneously watch the price of oil over the last six years and claim that we invaded Iraq to “get” its oil.

What if Moveon.org existed 65 years ago?

Now we know.

Sorry, Michelle

I don’t disagree often with Michelle Malkin, but she’s wrong to call for Fred Thompson’s campaign to take a stand on Terry Schiavo.

It’s not that it isn’t an important issue. It’s that it has nothing at all to do with being president. A couple of elections ago when Pony Tail Boy asked the candidates to speak as his “parents” I wanted at least one candidate to say, “I’m not running for dad, son.”

This is yet another reason why I say the Democrats ruined presidential elections by making it a direct vote. The original plan where the Electoral College represented the states and acted as an executive search committee was much better, and would avoid all this pandering and yacking about things that are simply not the federal government’s job, let alone the president’s.

There Will Be Blood

Some brave Muslims – or, I should say, ex-Muslims – have opened another front in the war on Islamic Facism.

They are going up against barbarians who commit murder just for movies they don’t like. I wish them success in what promises to be a tense, but vital battle.

Soldiers in Iraq React to Petraeus Testimony

The Confederate Yankee has the story of how they unload on him.

Manekin Pis(sed off)

Mark Steyn reports on an interesting development in Brussells.

The country could have a glorious future ahead of it, free of domination by either of its ancient tribes. Already, the Mayor of Brussels, Freddy Thielemans, presides over a ruling Socialist Party caucus, ten of whose seventeen members are Muslim.

That’s to say, the capital city of the European Union has a Muslim-majority governing party.

Another 3-Parter From Yon

Be sure to read Hunting of al Qaeda, Part I of III.

Especially note the part about the 1920’s. Talk about strange bedfellows. Still, it’s a sign of impending victory.

The email Yon sent announcing the dispatch is almost as noteworthy:

Successes are occurring, and accruing, in Iraq. Al Qaeda is still a powerful enemy, but they cannot be happy with their Iraqi franchise this summer.

Readers of my dispatches have gotten first hand reports of the kinds of positive indicators that General David Petraeus described in his progress report.

The atmosphere is changing in Iraq and I’ve been posting dispatches and videos that illustrate just how profound this change is in some cases.

I was the first to say Iraq was in civil war, and many readers were angry to hear me say it. Well, I’ll be the first to say that I predict some sort of milestone for the war in Iraq will occur early in the next year. It’s dangerous to predict like this, but something fundamental has changed in Iraq.

There is one important qualifier: this will only happen if General David Petraeus is supported by our elected officials to implement his proposed plan, without meddling from those same elected officials. Oversight and accountability are not the same thing as backseat driving after siphoning out half of the gas tank.

When MoveOn.org Calls Petraeus a Traitor

that’s called projection.

Sign here.

Idiots at School

Proving once again that no student is ever as stupid as some “educators“.

The superintendent of schools in Sampson County calls the situation unfortunate, but says educators didn’t want to be forced to pick and choose which flags should be permissible.

Not to mention cowards.

Update:
The school has now shown that it’s possible to do sorta the right thing, and still hang on tight to their treasured idiocy. (Just another word for “moral equivalency”.)

Wake Up

Rod Dreher on the tip of the iceberg at the HLF trial. The key paragraph from the Muslim Brotherhood:

The process of settlement [of Islam in the United States] is a “Civilization-Jihadist” process with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that all their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” their miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who choose to slack.

I thought the Big Lesson about WWII in retrospect was that we should have payed attention to what Hitler was saying he was going to do. The lesson seems to have been lost.

This has got to stop. Six years after 9/11, we’re still asleep. Islamic radicals have declared war on us – and some are fighting here in what looks like a fifth column. Read their strategy document. It’s there in black and white, for those with eyes to see.

Know the enemy.

Pithy Advice from Michael Yon

In case the press wants to know what he thinks of the Petraeus Report.

More Remembering

Damn.

Fred Watch

One up, one down.

(NB: The “down” comes from TNR which has, of late, hardly been a bastion of truth telling.)

Yon Spanks the Times

If the NYT wants to whore its pages to nutcases, Michael Yon won’t suffer it gladly.

Last Word on Beauchamp

Expect the MSM to trumpet this*.

…[T]here is no credible evidence that TNR made any attempt at fact checking prior to publishing the articles. Furthermore, not one of the soldiers interviewed under oath in the investigation corroborated Beauchamp’s story.

*When pigs fly.

Anbar Awakens

You must read Totten’s latest.

“One night,” Lieutenant Markham said, “after several young people were beheaded by Al Qaeda, the mosques in the city went crazy. The imams screamed jihad from the loudspeakers. We went to the roof of the outpost and braced for a major assault. Our interpreter joined us. Hold on, he said. They aren’t screaming jihad against us. They are screaming jihad against the insurgents.“

Osama

His real tape has been found.

Crystal Morning

Remember.

In detail.

How To Lead

Michael Yon presents a Marine who does it the right way. By example.

And the last part of Ghosts of Anbar is up.

“They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks’ food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.”

T.E. Lawrence, “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom”

Despair

I’m not a big believer in polls. But one this lopsided is certainly discouraging. If true, it means that a frightening percentage of putative adults in this country are simply incapable of rational thought.

And a lot of them vote.

Government to CAIR: Nyeh, Nyeh

Andy McCarthy posts the DOJ’s response.

CAIR fails to demonstrate any injury resulting from its inclusion [as an unindicted co-conspirator], and fails to explain why any alleged decline in membership did not result from evidence already in the public domain well prior to the government’s May 29, 2007 brief, and now in evidence as a part of record in this case. Indeed, CAIR’s request to strike its name from the government’s co-conspirator’s list is moot, since its conspiratorial relationship with the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) was confirmed by testimony and documentary evidence admitted at trial prior to the date CAIR even filed its brief.

So the Hamas-supporting, unindicted co-conspirator, Islamist front organization called CAIR can just stop calling itself anything but. Now if the DHS would just get the news about these organizations…

Fred’s First Ad

Here you go.

What if your job title were an oxymoron?

It would be if it were New York Times Fact Checker.

Hsu-nami Hits!

Look for the MSM to be all over this.

I wonder just how much scandal has to hit Hillary before they succumb to blood-in-the-water syndrome and turn on her. Probably more than this. And probably not until after the election. But it’d be fun to watch.

Indoctrinate U. Update

It’s finally got a premiere Friday, September 28, 2007 at 7:30 pm in Washington, D.C. If you’re in the area, tickets are here.

When is 38% a consensus?

When you want to use science to justify your bad politics.

Speaking of Viet Nam

If you’re going to, at least get it right.

It is also a mistake to assert, as many have asserted in recent days, that the United States never should have intervened in Vietnam in the first place because Vietnam was predestined to become capitalist. In my research, I found that American intervention in Vietnam saved Indonesia from going Communist in 1965. It probably also prevented countries such as Thailand, Japan, the Philippines, and Malaysia from becoming Communist or pro-Communist. Furthermore, American intervention fractured the Sino-North Vietnamese alliance and tamed China. In the absence of these developments, socialism might well have persisted in Vietnam and other Asian countries to this day.

You know you are winning

when the shooting stops.

Michael Yon’s latest dispatch is a thing of beauty.

Marines and Soldiers who are in areas of Anbar where fighting has abated are sometimes criticized by commanders who think they are avoiding contact with the enemy. I have heard this complaint at least a couple dozen times.

These Marines definitely weren’t avoiding contact. They were just winning.

The Wages of Misogyny

Amy Alkon looks at the consequences of Arab culture coupled with Islam. It’s not just the women who get sexually mistreated.