Global War on Terror

Debra Burlingame reminds us in her anniversary article today that it is important to look directly at the horror rather than blunting it with euphemisms:

Our fellow human beings were not “lost” in 1993 or on 9/11. They were torn to pieces. We must not give the enemy any quarter. We must confront the reality of […]

That cracking sound you hear is the foundation of liberal academia at Boston College beginning to crumble under the weight of truth spoken by Dinesh D’Souza.

I’d love to see the video of D’Souza taking apart the “star professor” and head of the religion center at BC, Alan Wolfe. Then we could see for ourselves […]

CNN aired some much-watch tv tonight.  Excellent stuff.

While London’s Dhimmi mayor, Ken Livingstone, defends Muslims in the wake of a Muslim terrorist attack, Tony Blair goes out with a bang, ripping into Islamists for nurturing a false sense of grievance:

“The idea that as a Muslim in this country that you don’t have the freedom to express your religion or your views, I […]

From The Guardian: Relativism has made liberal openness appear weak, empty and repugnant compared with the clarity of dogma[.] …The clash of civilisations is happening not between Islam and the west, as we are often led to believe, but between pragmatic relativism and dogmatic certainty. * * * What was shocking when Nietzsche […]

I saw this on the Corner.

American commanders cite al-Qaida’s severe brand of Islam, which is so extreme that in Baqouba, al-Qaida has warned street vendors not to place tomatoes beside cucumbers because the vegetables are different genders, Col. David Sutherland said.

Read the whole article if you like.

Thank goodness. Iran has told us what to think about the tragedy at Virginia Tech:

“Attacking innocent people, irrespective of their race and nationality, is contrary to divine and human values no matter which group or person carries out such an act under any name,” the Iranian statement said.

Yeah, I guess the Mullahs […]

Name that speech:

[W]e must never forget that no government schemes are going to perfect man. We know that living in this world means dealing with what philosophers would call the phenomenology of evil or, as theologians would put it, the doctrine of sin. There is sin and evil in the […]

Mark Steyn, describing President Bush’s recent interview with a group of conservative journalists:

The president’s view is that before it was Iraq it was Israel; with these guys, it’s always something. Sometimes it’s East Timor — which used to be the leftie cause du jour. And, riffing on the endless list of Islamist grievances, […]

Watch the video. Anything a normal, sane person is willing to pay $800 to have done to himself and then laugh about minutes later cannot possibly be considered torture.

To me, this looks like a measured and humane alternative interrogation technique. It is preferable to actual torture, which has historically been far more barbaric. Obviously […]