Is the apocalypse back in fashion? Anderson in New York Magazine thinks so, from Greenies to Jihadists to Christians.
The Beer Revolution. Small breweries sell only 3.5% of beer in the US, but they have had a large impact. Beer update, at Reason.
Why are your medical costs going up? Defensive medicine accounts for a lot of it. Scalpel or Sword (h/t, Kevin MD)
Free speech for me but not for thee. When the Left loses something, they seek to limit speech. It never fails. Very scary impulse, and deeply un-American. Blue Crab
John Hinderaker collated and edited the Al Quaida tapes, with the WTC bombers - from 2000. Bless his heart - I would have no idea of how to do that. Link here.
Paddling is still allowed in many US school districts - which is excellent - but I see that in most places PE teachers can no longer give extra push-ups as punishment. What kind of pussy country are we becoming? Education Wonks
Hezbollah is being very generous with funny money. Synthstuff
Larry Kudlow continues to praise our "Goldilocks economy." Funny how few in the media are celebrating these good times. Glenn
Betsy quoting Jonathan Last re Bernard Lewis' view of the hopelessness of appeasement:
Some argue that these conflicts arise not from a clash of civilizations, but from specific grievances, such as the West's support of Israel. This is an unsatisfactory argument. In his 1990 essay "The Roots of Muslim Rage," professor Bernard Lewis pointed out: "The French have left Algeria, the British have left Egypt, the Western oil companies have left their oil wells, the westernizing shah has left Iran, yet the generalized resentment of the fundamentalists... against the West and its friends remains and grows and is not appeased."
The cause of conflict is not what the West does, but what the West is.
