“To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.”
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“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”

- both: Anatole France

“Not to engage in the persuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.”

Yesterday I saw a bird, a black reasonably big crow, sitting on the very top of a tree without any leaves. He was sitting there, calm, like a king standing on a hill, overseeing his kingdom.

The crow was confident, almost cocky. Nothing seemed to bother him.| MORE ›

I linked to this article at Pajamas Media today at TMV. In the comment section of my post at TMV Munaeem Jamal linked to three articles written by Tarek Heggy. They are all very interesting reads:
Islam Between Copying and Thinking
The Future of the Moslem Mind
Disastrous “Steadfastness”

Yes, seriously, in England. When you’re over 16 the British government wants your fingerprints and a facial or eye scan. When you’re between 11 and 16 years old it ‘merely’ wants you fingerprints.

David Davis, the shadow home secretary, said: “This borders on the sinister and it shows the government is trying to end the presumption of innocence.| MORE ›

Now that’s remarkably convenient for Putin, isn’t it? Joyal said about Litvinenko’s death: “A message has been communicated to anyone who wants to speak out against the Kremlin: ‘If you do, no matter who you are, where you are, we will find you and we will silence you — in the most horrible way possible.’”

However convenient it might be for Putin it seems to be a ‘normal’ street crime though.

More at Macsmind

It seems that members of a U.S. Christian delegation who had a meeting with Ahmadinejad, were quite impressed by the latter’s personality: they described him as reasonable and witty.

Yes, he sounded very witty to me when he advocated wiping Israel off the map. Same for when he prayed for the return of the hidden Imam.

Since the MSM is largely ignoring whatever is happening in Afghanistan, I thought it would be a good thing to link to The Blotter: U.S. and NATO forces have attacked a known al Qaeda hideout in Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan. It is believed that Osama Bin Laden himself or another senior al Qaeda leader is hiding there.

Senator John McCain, former NY mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney have condemned Ann Coulter for the bigoted remark she made when she spoke at CPAC. As all of you will remember she referred to John Edwards as a “faggot”. Howard Dean and others called on Republicans to denounce Coulter(‘s remark)… and they did.

Good decision of all to do so: they need to distance themselves from Coulter and delikes.| MORE ›

Swaraaj Chauhan forwarded me the following, inspiring story.

STORY NUMBER ONE

Many years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago. Capone wasn’t famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for enmeshing the windy city in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder.

Capone had a lawyer nicknamed “Easy Eddie.” He was his lawyer for a good reason. Eddie was very good! In fact, Eddie’s skill at legal maneuvering kept Big Al out of jail for a long time.| MORE ›

John Podhoretz wrote an interesting article for The Corner. He explains why, in his opinion, it was a wise decision of McCain not to speak at CPAC:

If I were a McCain adviser, there’s no way I would recommend he attend CPAC. The stakes are simply too high. It’s a total sandbagging opportunity for people who want to derail him.| MORE ›

Some must read posts on CPAC:
Ed Morrissey: CPAC Interview: Bill Simon, Rudy, & The Judges. Important to know:

I asked Simon about the recent issue with judges. The Politico posted an article on Rudy’s track record on judicial nominations, and reported that Giuliani appointed more Democrats than Republicans to the bench as Mayor. Hower, Simon called this misleading. The mayor does not have a free hand in judicial appointments in New York City.| MORE ›