Rhetorical Outbursts

Wow Extremist! Who would have thought you’d catch the attention of the Mexican President Vincente Fox?

Just kidding of course. Y’all probably do disagree on several points but I doubt that he’d bring it up in a speech.

Mark Steyn, is definitely my favorite Canadian-born, gun-toting, half-Jewish, half-Catholic, confirmed Anglican, practicing Baptist journalist living in New Hampshire. No wonder he extols the virtues of Western pluralism. In this amazing speech, he illustrates why some cultures are better than others, no matter what the multicultural fetishists say:

Two hundred years […]

Check out this article by Kathryn Jean Lopez on NRO:

Nazanin and her 16-year-old niece were about to be raped last year when the older girl stabbed two of their three attackers, killing one.

Nazanin reportedly told a criminal court that “I wanted to defend myself and my niece. I did not want to kill that boy. […]

Read Strongest Dad in the World, from Sports Illustrated, by Rick Reilly:

Eighty-five times he’s pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he’s not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedaled him 112 miles in a […]

I’m so glad the TSA is on top of things. John Derbyshire shares his recent traveling experience on The Corner:

(1) The lady who scrutinized my driver’s license at Missoula airport told me it was out of date. It reads “EXPIRES 06-03-11.” After some argument, I showed her my pistol permit, which says: […]

Scary? Creepy? Disturbing? Not at all. It’s a feel-good family frolic:

The audience is introduced to Jack Torrance, driving up to the Overlook Hotel in the mountains of Colorado, to be interviewed for the position of caretaker for the winter. The hotel is completely blocked off by winter snows […]

John Hood at The Corner excerpts this piece by Chuck Raasch of the Gannett News Service:

The 9/11 generation is both traditional and iconoclastic. Talking heads often depict it as selfish and disengaged, often symbolized by the empty pursuits of Paris Hilton. In fact, according to social scientists, Generation Y has a […]

A big segment of Hollywood spoke out against terrorism in a full page advertisement in today’s Los Angeles Times:

The actors listed included: Michael Douglas, Dennis Hopper, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Danny De Vito, Don Johnson, James Woods, Kelly Preston, Patricia Heaton and William Hurt. Directors Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, […]

I don’t think I saw this Jonah Goldberg article when it was originally written in 2002. But it was resurrected on The Corner today and I think it’s worth a mention.

“Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell” was one of the first headlines from “The Onion” about September 11. “God Angrily Clarifies ‘Don’t Kill’ […]

I haven’t seen it yet, but World Trade Center is definitely one those few movies I will see in the theater, rather than waiting for the DVD. Lots of people seem to be surprised at what a good job Oliver Stone did, given his history and politics. From all accounts, it strikes […]