Friday, December 2. 2005
Will Iraq ever be ready to defend itself? Dirty War in The New Republic. No Christmas Tree in Boston this year. Maybe no Christmas either. Blame Bush Whose politics are filled with hate? Michelle Overfishing in inland waters. Science Daily CIA discovers it's been using black highlighters. Onion
Thursday, December 1. 2005
 Gen. Smith on Napoleon. Personally, I think Napoleon was half-crazy. Samizdata.
International complaints about Google's eye in the sky: CSM Send a Christmas card to the ACLU (H/T, Michelle): Crosswalk Weakening of Gulf Stream will cool Ireland and England. Via Science Daily NYT will charge for the op-ed online. Real money? Are they kidding? IBD
1. El Al shows record profits. Must be the folks reading the Tuesday Aliyah Diary and heading to Israel for a visit. 2. Try this one:
1- Go to www.google.com 2- Type in "french military victories", without the quotes
3- Instead of hitting "Search" hit "I'm feeling Lucky"
4- Tell your friends before the people at Google fix it
Conservatives Finally Wise Up Perhaps it was the Miers nomination which pushed conservatives over the edge and made criticism of Bush at last widely acceptable among Republican ranks, but the dissection of Bush's recent remarks on immigration policy represents a real and significant shift on the part of the Right. Everyone from Rich Lowry at the National Review to Tucker Carlson has seen Bush's assurances of increased border security for exactly what they are: empty promises that cover for Bush's long-desired guest worker program (i.e., amnesty) and stated goal to actually increase legal immigration. In the midst of all the debate over illegal immigration, the equally valid debate over the proper role of legal immigration has been somehow pushed beyond the pale of debate, as those who oppose illegal immigration often give tacit approval to legal entry with no consideration given to the scale or quality of such immigration. In truth, the numbers of immigrants and their skill levels matter a great deal, whether or not one has a green card. Yet, as Lowry notes, every time the public has risen up in alarm over out-of-control rates of immigration, Congress has acted to increase legal immigration. Bush's proposals are only the latest act in this sad series of events, but this time it appears the public is not going to be fooled by the same tired old rhetoric.
Wednesday, November 30. 2005
A nicotine vaccine for smokers? Good idea. How journalists spread crazy rumors during Katrina. Reason The moslem war in southeast asia. Awaiting Saddam's return - Libertarian Leanings: "Only Saddam can save us. It felt terrible but I am willing to hang and torture again. Saddam taught us about force. He is a strong personality," he said. Boston Globe advises the Church on theology? Squaring the Boston Globe John Dos Passos, Hemingway, the Spanish Civil War, and useful idiots: neoneocon
Tuesday, November 29. 2005
Did anyone miss this? Frank Rich's War, in the NY Sun. Or this on civilian deaths in Iraq: Logic Times? In praise of Joe Lieberman. Ex-Donk
Thomas Fraser to enter Country Music Hall of Fame. Who? A Scotsman. Here. H/T, Norm. Brits censor Christopher Marlowe, to not offend Moslems. WTF? What happened to the progressive line that art is meant to unsettle people (a loony idea with which I disagree, anyway)? : GOP Bloggers Iowahawk has a Christmas present suggestion - a charming item. Tax cuts for whom? Env. Repub. Democide numbers. Marg. Revolution
Monday, November 28. 2005
The Bible as a career handbook? Christian Science Monitor Repub pushback works. Protein and No Oil comment. Willis to make film about Michael Yon: Michelle Vouchers for Special Ed? Acton Inst. Roggio blogging from Iraq: Fourth Rail
Barone on the plight of the car companies: Op. Journal: "The end, or the beginning of the end, of a familiar and comfortable world: That's how General Motors' announcement last week of massive layoffs and plant closings, following the bankruptcy of Delphi last month, strikes one who grew up in the Detroit area in the two decades immediately after World War II." Increase immigration? I don't think this is what Americans have in mind. Calif. Yankee Another take on the Iraq poll: optimism about freedom in Iraq: Pardon my English Cindy's book signing. Kinda sad. Synthstuff Ice cores reveal carbon dioxide level changes. CSM Our shortage of skilled workers: Cafe Hayek
Sunday, November 27. 2005
We're all victims, aren't we? John Leo on the victim culture: Town HallConcubines are back in style in China, but it gets expensive: LAT The Administration's immigration reform plan: Fred Barnes in the Daily Standard
Saturday, November 26. 2005
Another charming offering from the refined Brooklynite, on terrorists and Louisville Sluggers: myfeelingsexactly.wmv. At least he isn't hung up on political correctness.
Deconstructing the Pew polls on Iraq: Dinocrat The Second Amendment in New England: Alphecca Scott at Powerline on multiculturalism: " I don't know enough to judge whether France is in better shape than Great Britain with respect to the corruptions of multiculturalism. Moreover, it seems to me that elites in the United States -- the "leaders" whom John wrote about yesterday -- have similarly elevated multiculturalism into an operative principle, if not a principle of governance." A Marine reports the good news from Iraq: Democracy Project Grandma takes on Liberal Larry: Blame Bush Free Jack Idema. Cao's Blog Why did Welfare lose political popularity? Marginal Revolution Bill Richardson mishandles a baseball lie: Tammy Bruce Charitable giving, by red and blue states: Irish Pennants Why do Europeans work less than Americans? Kenneth Anderson
Friday, November 25. 2005
Liberal fear of American power: LLBS Buying medical insurance: Right Thinking Postal service eliminating Christmas stamps? Tell me it's not true. Darleen. Is anti-muslim racist? Daniel Pipes The great Aldous Huxley died the day JFK did. Grampa remembers. The new DDX destroyer: Calif. Yankee. Very cool. Makes you want to join the Navy. Nagin bitches from Jamaica: Sweetness The Chinese blogosphere: Samizdata
A Brooklynite, on Terrorism Crude, straight-talking, humorous, X-rated video: Terrorists.wmv
Thanks, Steve, for this charming slice of real New York.
Thursday, November 24. 2005
A Promise Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday because it arrives during hunting season, and because it's not about giving and getting stuff - it's simply about gratitude and family bonds. But we hereby promise our readers to utter no party-pooper pieties about the commercialization of Christmas this year. However, we must also say that we
Get off the internet, for once. Get in the kitchen and help - or turn on the TV, fix a drink, start getting numb, and watch the moronic Macy's parade like a normal person! Gee, will there be a problem with the balloons? (I swear that the parade coverage is targeted to Alzheimers patients tied into wheelchairs.) But first...relax and spend a few peaceful and intelligent minutes of serenity with us: Orson Card discusses divorce and the useful and important Between Two Worlds by Marquardt Iran executes more gays: Classical Values Dating website fraud? Phin. Yes, very bad. Understanding the terrorists. Ace: "We took Chris Matthews' advice, and really endeavored to understand these people," a Pentagon spokeman said. "And then, once we sufficiently understood them, we atomized them with high-explosive precision munitions. I think this is a compromise approach both the left and right can agree." Chavez exporting revolution. TCS Oh no! Not innovative math again. Education Matters. From neoneocon's archives: Leaving the Fold "Someone who leaves the fold is much worse than someone who was never in it. There's a special rage reserved for those who have rejected the ideas that others hold dear. " A retrospective review of Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism: "Lasch subtitled his book, “American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations,” and it is useful to question just how far the diminishing of expectations he first identified has gone. Looking back on The Culture of Narcissism more than 25 years later, what did Lasch get right and what did he get wrong? What developments did he presciently identify and which ones did he miss? In the interim decades, has Lasch’s narcissist given way to a new type of American character and, if so, what are that character’s defining traits? A descriptive tour revisiting some of Lasch’s themes — especially the transformation of the family — suggests that the narcissism Lasch described has not disappeared. It has simply taken on a different and in some ways more exaggerated form."
Wednesday, November 23. 2005
A few URLs that were not thought through carefully enoughSuch as PenIsland.com. Here.
Tuesday, November 22. 2005
More Drucker: Interview at Claremont Inst. The "Katrina Experiment." Star Parker Coveney on the state of theater cricitism: Prospect US can be free of oil dependence? Without a single mention of nuclear power? Doubt it. And the writer doesn't seem to know that it requires more energy to produce ethanol than ethanol contains. IndyStar. Ethanol is alcohol: would you pour Grey Goose into the tank of your F-150? Even if Grey Goose were cheaper per gallon than gas? Heck no. Economics isn't everything, because things have meaning to people. What's wrong with this essay on French riots in Jurist? I have my ideas. The priest shortage. The Week Foxman discovers conspiracy to Christianize America. Or, could you say, Front Page discovers conspiracy to de-Christianize American culture?
Advice to the Brits, on school bullying: Ankle-Biter The Prof. didn't like the Iraq vote stunt. He has a point. Pro-war vote a "disgrace", said Pelosi, before voting for it. Never understood why airlines just don't allow smokers to walk out on the wing and have a smoke outside.
Vonnegut on Iraq: SDA Socializing medicine: Cafe Hayek The cost of freedom: Confed. Yank Chris Matthews in denial: LGF. Would he have said the same of Hitler and Stalin and Pol Pot? To deny the human potential for evil is dangerously foolish, not virtuous. A quote from Dinocrat, re the Iraq vote: "The Left is in a profound crisis, a crisis which they have as yet failed to recognize. They are living in a country in which they are outnumbered 3 to 2 by conservatives, and they refuse to consciously recognize that the liberal position is no longer the default position in American public opinion, even as they are forced to cast humiliating votes. The religion of the Left has failed to capture the hearts of America. Their religion has failed, but it’s all they have. Imagine a young man at a madrassa in Pakistan who wakes up one day to discover that he no longer believes the Koran to be literally true. He still carries on with lessons and prayers, perhaps all the louder and more fervently. The Left too has its playbook; it is all they have. So one should expect more of the same, perhaps louder and more fervently."
Monday, November 21. 2005
RRWH becomes calm and unemotional about the New Orleans mess.
The Big O? Comments on OSM from Least Loved Bedtime Stories and from Buzzmachine. On studying it, I can't figure out exactly what OSM is supposed to be, nor do I see that I need it. On the other hand, I rely a great deal on those extraordinary bloggers who put it together. Good luck to them.
Carnival of Digital Cameras. H/T, Instapundit Dems fell into their own trap: RWNH, and New England Repub summarizes. Michelle pushes back. Good piece on the essential Peter Drucker in The Economist.
Manners and civility: Geo. Will Katrina money still unspent: Drudge Clinton's change of mind re Iraq? Op. Journal Organic vs. non-organic: The Milk Wars. Intell Cons. Chinese New Yorkers sending their kids back to China. NYSun
Is Zarquawi dead? Inquiring minds want to know. Internet use in China. Bird flu vaccine and the trial lawyers. How about a blog named "No Vaccine for Trial Lawyers" - like No OIl for Pacifists. Welfare and the aborigines. They call it "sit down money". Al Quaida caught on Mexican border. $100 laptop for the third world. Synthstuff. Wonderful.
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