Here’s a good question: Is there anyone or anything in the world that hasn’t taken advantage of Obama’s weakness? Even domestically we’re getting gangs involved in trafficking over the southern border. And around the rest of the world, raw, brute … Continue reading →
Here are excerpts from some essays written in 1830 by John Quincy Adams: In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural … Continue reading →
…the rash of MSM editorials and pundits and even politicians on the liberalish side saying that Obama has no effective foreign policy, and counseling him to man up? Where were they years ago? Praising him to the skies. And it’s … Continue reading →
Those of you who follow this blog know that I’ve said from the start that I don’t think Bernie Madoff’s sons were guilty, and that they were among Madoff’s biggest victims because he stole their good name from them as … Continue reading →
…that I’m going to get another wife.” The kid in this video is one smart cookie. He’s making logical sense, and advancing the argument that so many little children secretly (and not so secretly, although most are not so startlingly … Continue reading →
I notice that Dexter Filkins at the New Yorker agrees with me on the first motive I listed for the perpetrators of the Foley and Sotloff beheadings in my PJ piece, which is that the murderers enjoy these killings. Filkins … Continue reading →
My new post is up at Pajamas Media, “ISIS’ theater of evil and the thirst for blood.”
Continue reading →I remember reading some of Lee Harris’s essays post-9/11 and being impressed, but after that I lost track of him. So I missed his book Civilization and its Enemies: The Next Stage of History when it first came out in … Continue reading →
Once again, as with James Foley’s murder video, internet traffic surges in the wake of the killing of Steven Soloff and the dissemination of the terrorists’ video of their revolting and barbaric crime. You find neither the video nor a … Continue reading →
Obama not only knew about the rise of ISIS for a year, but he knew in detail: President Obama was given detailed and specific intelligence about the rise of the Islamic State as part of his daily briefing for at … Continue reading →
A new video has been released purporting to show the beheading of journalist Steven Sotloff. In the James Foley video ISIS had claimed he would be next. Although its authenticity has yet to be established, I would guess that it … Continue reading →
Today’s a holiday, and I decided to mostly take a break from writing about politics. You know what’s going on, anyway, right? So I want to provide a thread about something entirely different: one of the favorite dishes of my … Continue reading →