David Solway’s Hear, O Israel!: A Feast for the Conservative Mind Posted By Barbara Kay By David Solway Canadian Values Press (Mantua Books) 181 pages; $25 On September 10, 2001, Canadian David Solway was merely an acclaimed poet, educator, and literary critic, warming himself (and his unexamined 1960s-era left-wing views) on a tranquil Greek island. […]
How bad is it? Posted By Roger Kimball The bad news is that Senator Ben Nelson is not up for reelection until 2012. The good news is that today, December 19, 2009, is the day we got clarity on the Obama-Pelosi-Reid effort to steal medical care and call it “reform.†I hope that Ben enjoys […]
http://nrd.nationalreview.com/print/?q=YTI5YzVjYzAwZDEzYzNjOGY1NzliN2U4MDZlNmIwYzc=  MARK STEYN   Czar Vlad’s Guano We pundit types are expected to have opinions on everything, but I confess I would have been momentarily stymied had I chanced to be in the big geopolitical-analysis chair on some cable network the moment the news broke that Nauru had recognized Abkhazia. If you can’t […]
Climate Hypocrites Island nations underwater, and offsetting princes. By Mark Steyn The best summation of the U.N. climate circus in Denmark comes from Andrew Bolt of Australia’s Herald Sun: “Nothing is real in Copenhagen — not the temperature record, not the predictions, not the agenda, not the ‘solution.’†Just so. Reuters, for example, carried a […]
My Word: Prosecution or persecution in the UK? Liat Collins , THE JERUSALEM POST I was born and raised in London and although I long ago gave up drinking tea with milk, I still have the lower-middle-class tendency to swallow the letter “t” in words like “better.” And now and again I discover that nobody […]
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/12/muslims-deface-british-war-memorial-islam-will-dominate-the-world.htmlMuslims deface British war memorial: “Islam will dominate the world” British war memorial defaced with “Islam will dominate the world” Jihadwatch  The graffiti was removed with lightning speed and the news report of the incident doesn’t say what it said, but rather blames the “far right.” Apparently there are forces in the U.K. who […]
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/12/lt-colonel-allen-west-.html Washingtoons 19 December 2009 Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret) “2010: America’s Decisive Year” Greetings fellow riders, South Floridians, and indeed America, time for another monthly installment of our Wheels on the Road (WOTR) political assessment. By the time this edition goes to print we shall be in the New Year, 2010, […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/ Al-Qaeda second banana’s wife: jihad is a man’s job Sorry, ladies A woman’s place is in the home, not killing kuffar. “Wife of Qaeda number 2 urges women not to join jihad,” from AFP, December 17 (thanks to all who sent this in): DUBAI — The wife of Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has appealed […]
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6962867.ece December 20, 2009 Police expect Mumbai-style terror attack on City of London David Leppard Scotland Yard has warned businesses in London to expect a Mumbai-style attack on the capital. In a briefing in the City of London 12 days ago, a senior detective from SO15, the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism command, said: “Mumbai is coming […]
www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.keillor16dec16,0,225627.story baltimoresun.com Nonbelievers, please leave Christmas alone By Garrison Keillor December 16, 2009 I’ve just come from Cambridge, that beehive of brilliance, where nerds don’t feel self-conscious: There’s always someone nerdier nearby. If you are the World’s Leading Authority on the mating habits of the jabberwock beetle of the Lesser Jujube Archipelago, you can take […]
