Everything Marc writes is worth reading but I found his recent essay about George Orwell’s criticism of the British left during WW II and the early Cold War fascinating because it so effortlessly caused my many dislikes of and doubts about our modern Americal liberals to coalesce into comprehension. Particularly to the point of today’s…
Op-Ed Blog
Immigration Reform, 2007
Usually it’s good news when illegal immigrants and their supporters are unhappy with proposed legislation – that’s an indication that legislators might be on the right track. Unfortunately I don’t think that’s the case with George Bush’s new plan, which centers around the nonsensical notion of illegals going home before re-applying for admittance into the…
Moral Judgments
One of the fundamental pillars of American liberalism is that we should not make moral judgments about the worth of others or the worth of their actions. We’re all more or less the same according to liberal dogma. The death penalty is the ultimate moral judgment and the forbidden nature of moral judgment is, in…
Bernard Lewis: We’re in the 3rd Islamic War on Europe
(Hat tip to Melanie Phillips) Bernard Lewis gave a must-read speech at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research on March 7th. Old news to many, but new to me. Very interesting reading. A key paragraph: The declaration of war begins at the very beginning of Islam. There are certain letters purported to have…
UN Watch: UN Human Rights Council “Criminal”
Watch UN Watch’s presentation to the UN Human Rights Commission at Little Green Footballs – it’s a good thing. Here’s the transcript as lifted from UN Watch’s own web site: (Note that it’s not exact. But it’s close. And damning.) Mr. President, Six decades ago, in the aftermath of the Nazi horrors, Eleanor Roosevelt, Réné…
Assimilation
I’ve written about the need for immigrants from other cultures to assimilate when they come to the United States but as a conclusion to my last couple of posts I felt like I wanted to bang that drum again. It’s been said that the writing on Black Shards is anti-Mexican, anti-immigrant, and anti-Muslim and from…
Inside Threats
One of the problems with W’s War in Iraq (Wii – coincidence?) is that it has taken America’s eye almost completely off the ball, which is the global struggle against Islam. The enemy – and they are a real enemy, in case anyone’s not convinced yet – is not just in Iraq. Or even in…
Drunk + Illegal = Murder
Check out the Texas Rainmaker’s post on the recent drunk driving crash in North Houston that killed two women. Turns out the driver was an illegal alien who had 3 prior DUI convictions. TTR says: Is anyone in immigration and law enforcement awake anymore? Consider the deaths of these three innocent people yet another tragic…
It’s a Only a Book…
…and you know the one that I’m talking about. It is, after all, the only article on the planet made of little bits of wood pulp, horse hooves, and black drops of dye (die) whose supernatural synergies grant the reader the inalienable right – nay, the duty – to kill anyone who thinks differently than…
Death Penalty Revisited
The horrific murder of a Texas co-ed at the hands of an obsessed ex-boyfriend and a report of an even more sickening fate suffered by an innocent 6 year-old boy have been lodged in my psyche as if the stories were shards of glass blasted into my mind’s eye. I’ve read a lot lately about…