The 100 push-up program. Like Joe Carter, I will begin today. Naw, maybe tomorrow...
The AP wallows in a parody of gloom.
"Could be seen as patronizing" Really?
Iran's "nightmare scenario" mulled: NY Sun
Defending the faith: LaShawn on Christian Apologetics
Another Obama flat-out lie.
McCain gets meaningful endorsement.
A Coney Island of the Mind, revisited. The first time I read it, I was blown away.
Academic cannon fodder.
A lesson in economics from a Chinese finance minister.
Look at job growth in Texas.
The Bush Paradox. David Brooks. A quote:
Bush is a stubborn man. Well, without that stubbornness, that unwillingness to accept defeat on his watch, he never would have bucked the opposition to the surge.
Bush is an outrageously self-confident man. Well, without that self-confidence he never would have overruled his generals.
Quoted at EU Referendum:
He was asking, "Has Europe's terminal crisis begun with a triple no vote?", telling us that, "The ultra-Europeans have overplayed their hand," and then asserting: "We can now glimpse a chain of events that will halt, and reverse, this extremist push towards an Über-state that almost no one wants."
He may be right when he says: "the attempt to override the triple "no" votes of the French, Dutch, and Irish peoples has brought the EU to a systemic crisis of legitimacy," adding, "A line too many has been crossed. Any sentient citizen can see that the process has become unhinged."
Girls forbidden to whistle at construction workers
Quote from a speech posted at Brussels Journal:
To say that the luminaries of the conference disappointed my hopes is to understate things. But to say that that were luminous is to be perfectly accurate. I’ll just name three of the most prominent and powerful:
• Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Ekmeleddin Ihsanouglu of Turkey.
• Former Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
• His Royal Highness Prince Turki bin Faisal al Saud, former director of Saudi intelligence, and until recently the Saudi Ambassador to the United States.
These men are educated… well traveled… experienced… wealthy… and Westernized. And each of them told the conference that for the West and Islam to reconcile, the West must abandon the principle of free speech.
