…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 →
Every now and then I get an email or a comment asking me to explain whatever happened to my “a mind is a difficult thing to change” series. Why did I stop writing it in early 2008? And will I … Continue reading →
Labor Day is the bookend on the opposite end of summer from its holiday beginning, Memorial Day. July Fourth is summer’s early peak, with the promise of long light-filled days ahead. But Labor Day is summer’s last gasp, the moment … Continue reading →
The first duo: And the second:
Continue reading →I wonder. It’s not that conservatives lack courage. But from the evidence I see around the blogosphere, many would rather throw up their hands and say that it’s already over, so let it all go to pot and wait for … Continue reading →