The back and forth between Robert Spencer, author of “Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t“, and John Derbyshire is ancient history in terms of Net time. But the subject is still highly relevant. Derbyshire said this in his initial review of Spencer’s book: I understand that this bogus equivalence must be very…
Month: September 2007
Shah and the Case for Isolationism
Syed Maaz Shah was sentenced to 6 and a half years in prison Friday after a Houston federal jury convicted Shah in May of two counts of unlawfully possessing a firearm while in the country on a student visa. Born in Pakistan, Shah, 20, was on full scholarship at University of Texas at Dallas last…
A Liberal’s Take on Condi Rice
I recently followed a memeorandum link to a piece by Michelangelo Signorile about an interview with Glenn Kessler, the author of a new book titled The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy. The focus of the post is squarely on Rice’s sexual orientation, as if that were the most interesting and…
Who do we like in ’08?
Unity08 Candidate Rankings
Unity08, an attempt to influence the presidential nominating process on-line, has published a new set of results. A few of the slides caught my interest. First, the slide that ranks the presidential candidates (at the time): Unity voters are nonplussed by the field, that’s for sure. Obama garnered a distinct preference, which leads me to…
SFWA, Scribd.com and ePiracy and why its important
Over the Labor Day weekend there blew up a weird story that involved the Science Fiction Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) and the website scribd.com. For those not in the know (like me), scribd.com allows users to upload text files and share them with users in a collaborative format (not unlike Flikr). Now the problem arose…
Environmental Mis-conceptions
I came across a press statement release by the Hudson Institute http://www.hudson.org that I found interesting, relating to one of the pet peeve’s I have towards the whacko liberal left. Among other elements, the statement says: A new analysis of peer-reviewed literature reveals that more than 500 scientists have published evidence refuting at least one…
Newt Gingrich and WW IV
Gingrich has a long and fascinating post entitled "What If? An Alternative History of the War since 9/11" up on his web site. I recommend reading through the entire thing as it is very good and consolidates several important ideas into a coherent vision of the Islamic problem facing the U.S. and the rest of…
Islamic Apostates Unite
In Holland, a group of brave young former Muslims has taken a stand – dare I say declared a jihad? – against the de rigueur of Islamic intolerance. The Committee for Ex-Muslims promises to campaign for freedom of religion but has already upset the Islamic and political Establishments for stirring tensions among the million-strong Muslim…
Hispanics and the GOP
Let’s face it: Republicans have never (which politically speaking means “within recent memory”) been popular with Hispanic voters. The Houston Chronicle says that the GOP’s latest losses have been self-inflicted, brought on by their recent initiatives to reform immigration policy. Lionel Sosa has been a proud Republican for years. He produced campaign commercials for the…