History

The second fourth day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God […]

As quoted here:

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property-either as a child, a wife, or a concubine-must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. […]

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 […]

I know it shouldn’t come as a surprise that someone would take advantage of a position of trust and exploit it to his own monetary gain. But this makes me mad!

A 40-year-old intern with the National Archives pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing 164 Civil War documents, including an official announcement of President Lincoln’s death, […]

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 […]

by OOTM

I remember election night 2000. I stayed up all night waiting to find out which man would be the next president and which party would control Congress. It took 36 days to fully materialize, but in the end, I was thrilled. The Republicans had both houses of Congress and the White […]

by OOTM

The New York Times (spit!) has a report on the Flight 93 audio aired for the first time in public during the Moussaoui trial.

Here are some of the more chilling parts:

There are also the sounds of what may have been the killing of a flight attendant as the hijackers took control: a woman in […]

by OOTM

Not that it matters to the loonies of the world that refuse to let facts shape their emotions, “but recently declassified documents explicitly show that the Iraqi military had ordered a call for volunteers to carry out suicide attacks on American interests, six months before 9/11 and two years almost to the day prior […]

(Since there seemed to be seemed to be some confusion about whether Extremist or I, writing under the nom de plume Out of the Mainstream, had written this piece or that, from now on, I will preface each of my posts with the letters OOTM.)

So, without further ado…

OOTM

What was Judas’ motivation for aiding the Romans […]

Linda Chavez hits it out of the park this morning (hat tip: WorldMagBlog). This is why the political dynamic of the War on Terror is so familiar. We’ve been here before:

The current hysteria over the president’s authorization of some domestic intercepts by the National Security Agency reminds me of similar reaction […]