Iowawawk’s Chaucer-esque recounting of Great Britain’s fatal affair with accommodation and appeasement is, sadly, both hilarious and true. It starts a bit slow, but give it a chance!
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Quotes To Remember
Mark Tapson: As for Islamophobia, an “irrational fear of Islam” does not even exist; it is a trumped-up charge designed to bully us into silence and deflect criticism from the Islamists as they go about plotting terrorism and trying to shoehorn sharia law into our culture. A perfectly rational concern about the demonstrable threat of…
World Opinion in the Age of Hope
Hillary Clinton wasn’t greeted warmly in Barack Obama’s boyhood home of Indonesia. This picture says it all. Don Surber puts it this way: “Hope. Change. The world still hates us.” No surprise, given that nothing has really changed. Moreover, nothing can change in the space of a month or even a presidential term, regardless of…
More Congressional Censorship, Inadvertent This Time?
I recently wrote about public libraries planning to ban older books because of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act passed by Congress last year. The NY City Journal has picked up on the story now that the damage seems to be spreading to retail book resellers. Not until 1985 did it become unlawful to use…
Lies, Damn Lies, and We’ll Force You to Listen to Them
More members of the Democratic Congress are revealing their desire to re-regulate the talk radio marketplace by breathing new life into the corpse of the Fairness Doctrine. The reason behind the plans is obvious and it has nothing to do with the public welfare. AM radio was essentially worthless until conservative political talk shows began…
Democrats Pass Spending Bill, Ignore Republicans
A sardonic congratulations must go out to Congressional Democrats who, after some years in minority exile, have made up for lost time by bringing home $800B worth of bacon. The massive spending bill, equivalent to around 25% of the total annual federal budget, was passed with no Republican votes in the House and only 3…
Intellectual Honesty
Andrew Sullivan says that conservatives are being intellectually dishonest by opposing the Democrats’ $800B spending plan because of the deficits the nation ran under the Bush administration. There’s a grain of truth in what Andrew says – both Reagan and Bush 43 were big spenders whose policies have contributed substantially to the problems our children…
Love in the Time of Melancholy
Anyone who’s been struck by Cupid’s arrow knows the result is messy. Love is made of high emotions: great affection, sexual chemistry, bitter arguments, petty annoyances, and, if it’s to last, painful compromises and endless sacrifice. Do we truly love in this day and age of disposable partners and rich, empty lives? What is love…
In God We Trust (not in Government)
Even readers of MSNBC know that much.
Geert Wilders Denied Entry into Britain
Geert Wilders, current member of the Dutch parliament and the producer of the short film Fitna that is reviled by many Muslims, has been denied entry into Great Britain after defying a warning that this would be the case. Wilders plane touched down at Heathrow at around 2 PM local time and was immediately "marched…