The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday
...so they can get a better look at ME!!! I've only just seen President Obama's video address to the people of Berlin. It's the now familiar mush of evasive generalities, until finally he drops the abstract nouns and cuts to the specifics : Few would have foreseen on that day that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or that their American ally would be led by a man of African...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
As an historic day closes in Berlin, a reader asked me to post this excerpt from the prologue of America Alone , which to be honest had clear slipped my mind. But he seems to think it helps explain how we got from Reagan to Obama, and from the Berlin Wall to the Fort Hood media stonewall. So here it is: There were two forces at play in the late 20th century: in the eastern bloc, the collapse of Communism;...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
For the purposes of argument, and in defiance of the evidence, let's accept the media's insistence that Major Hasan is an isolated nut. So who's nuttier? The guy who gives a lecture to other military doctors in which he says non-Muslims should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats ? Or the guys who say "Hey, let's have this fellow counsel our traumatized veterans and then...
Gavin Sullivan (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is the sole suspect in the Nov. 5 Fort Hood shooting . What have local conservative bloggers been saying about Hasan and his killing spree? In Murder Does Not Need A Label , Conservative Cravings laments our (supposedly) recent practice of dividing 'murder' into various degrees --and our still more recent addition of the 'hate crime' designation. To the Edina blogger, murder...
American Power (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Something I've been arguing around here for some time now. From Rasmussen, " 58% Say Next President Likely To Be Republican " (via Memeorandum ): Fifty-eight percent (58%) of likely voters say it is at least somewhat likely the next president of the United States will be a Republican, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. The number has been trending in this...
The Key Monk (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall fell. Ronald Reagan's moral clarity resonated in the four words he spoke in West Berlin in 1987: "TEAR DOWN THIS WALL." But Obama did not deem the 20th anniversary of the fall of the preeminent symbol of Communist evil significant enough as the president of the country that fought such evil for 44 years to fly to Berlin to commemorate its fall, signifying...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Mark Steyn and Roger Clegg have already mentioned his (repeated!) claim that it would add to the tragedy of Ft. Hood if "diversity" were to become a casualty. This is the same Gen. Casey who strongly resisted the surge in Iraq. Bad judgment at home and abroad.
American Power (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Via Fausta's Blog and CNN, U.S. Muslims cheering the bloody mayhem at Fort Hood: See also, Mark Steyn, " MULTICULTURAL ILLUSIONS KILL - NO STRATEGY TO DEFEND AGAINST IDEOLOGY ."
Blue Crab Boulevard (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Mark Steyn: Thirteen dead and 28 wounded would be a bad day for the U.S. military in Afghanistan and a great victory for the Taliban. When it happens in Texas, in the heart of the biggest military base in the nation, at a processing center for soldiers either returning from or deploying to combat overseas, it [...]
neo-neocon (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Mark Steyn says it well: If “health care” were about health care, the devil would be in the details. But it’s not about health or costs or coverage; it’s about getting over the river and burning the bridge. It doesn’t matter what form of governmentalized health care gets passed as long as [...]
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Step One : Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother's funeral was held there in May that year. The preacher at the time was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni scholar who was banned...
From Sea To Shining Sea (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
With the mainstream media afraid even to mention that the Fort Hood massacre was carried out by a Muslim terrorist, we continue to march over the cliff like lemmings. It is one of the worst faux pas even to mention that Islam is not only a religion, but is also a political movement all the members of which are dedicated to imposing the Sharia on any country in which they live - the Sharia, a body of...
Petrified Truth (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Mark Steyn on why the fight over health care really, really matters: [All] the poor befuddled sober centrists who can't understand why the Democrats keep passing incoherent 1,200-page bills every week are missing the point. If “health care” were about...
The Rhetorican (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano should resign. Related: Mark Steyn on Hasan: A Traitor. Not a Victim. Tagged: Crime, News, Politics, Security
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I don't like to say I told you so, but I've been saying for months now that the trick is to drag this thing across the finish line with 50.0000000000001 per cent of the vote as soon as possible. From my "Happy Warrior" column in NR back in July: Obama believes in “the fierce urgency of now”, and fierce it is. That’s where all the poor befuddled sober centrists who can’t...
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