Watching Ep 9 of The Legend of Korra,

( Minor Spoilers )

This post is almost a year old, but extremely pertinent. It is from View from the Right, and the comment from Sage McLaughlin is here reproduced in nearly its entirety. The owners of View from the Right, and Mr. McLaughlin, rather than I, presumably have rights to the content -- I post it here for purposes of discussion ( Read more... )

I've been hearing about this story for a while now, but didn't see fit to comment, until I saw it re-iterated and analyzed by P. David Hornik in Front Page magazine ( Read more... )

From Bill Christensen at ( Read more... )

Jimmy Carter continues to disgrace America:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/04/report-jimmy-ca.html

Jimmy Carter plans to meet with the leader of Hamas during an upcoming visit to the Middle East, according to a report in Al-Hayat newspaper ( Read more... )

The following interesting dissection by Kathy Shaidle of "Black Liberation Theology," the philosophy of the now-notorious Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who is the trusted friend and mentor of Barack Obama ( Read more... )

In my study of military and diplomatic history, I have noticed that one often-important factor, both in public perception and sometimes even in the reality of a conflict, is the "bandwagon effect," which is to say: "Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan ( Read more... )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080322/wl_time/signsofiranshandiniraq

I trust I'll hear less nonsense about a "lack of proof" that the Iranians are committing acts of war against the United States of America and her ally Iraq?

Read this by Youssef M. Ibrahim, of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

http://pajamasmedia.com/2008/03/hamas_neverland_in_gaza.php

In 2006 I published an open letter op-ed addressed to my Palestinian brethren, imploring them to declare defeat and ( Read more... )

Mark Steyn, one of the people persecuted by what the Canadians jokingly call their "Human Rights Commission," makes an important point here

http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/1052/128/

namely

Just to recap, if you don't believe in freedom of speech for speech ( Read more... )