Glenn Greenwald and the projection of political vice. (more…)
Two movies. Both “monster” movies. One has a huge star. Maybe the biggest star in the world. In addition to a megastar in the lead, it has a megastar director. The biggest director in the world.
The other movie’s got no one you’ve heard of.
The star vehicle had a summer release. Humongous publicity and marketing. The other movie opened toward the end of January, a dead time in theaters.| MORE ›
The following article is an exhausting, yet extremely comprehensive, sketch of the most important issues in contemporary Turkish society. The author, Niels Kadritze, is the editor of the German edition of Le Monde Diplomatique. While Mr. Kadritze’s essay is somewhat lacking in terms of the organization of ideas, the quality and range of his observations are absolutely first rate. (more…)
Why do advocates think that people who speak out against illegal immigration are guilty of using hate speech? “It’s personal, it’s intolerable, and it has to end.” Does it?
If a Mississippi legislator were to get his way, such signs would move off of redneck bumpers and on to restaurant entrances. (more…)
Since I am not in the Netherlands I will write only a every now and then. I wanted to publish this post to let you all know that I am doing fine and that Turkey is just as beautiful in the Winter as she is in the Summer. I am having a great, tremendous time and will publish posts in the coming weeks with photos and accounts of what I did and saw. (more…)
Al-Qaeda in Iraq has been reduced to forcing mentally handicapped women to carry bombs for them. This indicates not only the moral depravity of our enemy, but also their strategic plight. If it were true, as many from the anti-war camp continue to desperately claim, that the U.S. effort is bearing little fruit, why would al-Qaeda find it necessary to violate the religious and cultural taboos that are the very basis of their legitimacy anyway? It seems more likely that al-Qaeda is scraping the bottom of their strategic barrel. (more…)
One of the most consistent themes of the anti-war movement since 2003 has been that it is possible to support the troops and oppose the war at the same time. Unfortunately, however, this theme has been exposed as a fraud by the folks from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s own neighborhood. Supported by the angry-left group “Code Pink”, the city of Berkeley has passed resolutions attempting to bar recruiting stations.| MORE ›
I thought I had Barack Obama figured out. I thought he was no more liberal than Hillary Clinton but far more likely to bridge the divides in this nation. But, if that’s what I am seeing, why are America’s leftists seeing something entirely different? A day after Obama gets the MoveOn.org arch-liberal seal of approval, there’s this Christopher Hayes piece in The Nation, encouraging the left to rally behind Obama. (more…)
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