October 2010
25 posts
Education: Why Johnny Can't Read from TIME... →
Under the word method, if a child comes up against a new word, all he can do is guess—not at its pronunciation, but at its “looks.” As a result, says Flesch, word-method pupils make outlandish errors, reading “said” for “jumped,” “caps” instead of “houses.” One youngster who had successfully recognized “children” on a...
Obama's plea for retribution By Charles... →
In a radio interview that aired Monday on Univision, President Obama chided Latinos who “sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us.’ ” Quite a uniter, urging Hispanics to go to the polls to exact political revenge on their enemies - ...
Campaign Countdown by Mark Steyn →
A Republican victory is not the end but merely the means. The Tea Party and other members of America’s beleaguered productive class decided that this time round it suited them to work within the diseased husk of the GOP. This is really the last chance for the unloved Republicans. If the party establishment is sufficiently dimwitted to see November 2nd as the restoration of the 2004-2006 GOP, ...
“I’m not in favour of fairness. I’m in favour of freedom. And freedom...”
– Milton Friedman
Israel’s Conflict as Game Theory By Prof. Yisrael... →
Two men—let us call them Rick and Steve— are put in a small room containing a suitcase filled with bills totaling $100,000. The owner of the suitcase announces the following: “I will give you the money in the suitcase under one condition…you have to negotiate an agreement on how to divide it. That is the only way I will agree to give you the money.” Rick is a rational person and realizes...
Juan Williams Told the Truth But at NPR, only... →
But also, in attempting to ban the obvious truth from its airwaves, NPR is subscribing to the madcap illogic of its fellow left-wingers. So desperate are leftists to deny that their multicultural paradigm collapsed with the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, they are embracing a panicky and dishonest category error: they are determined to treat Islam as if it were a race rather than a...
Fire Juan Williams Right Now! Our Sneering Liberal... →
2 ) Note how the NPR CEO Vivian Schiller herself slanders Williams by suggesting that he talk with “his psychiatrist” — and a subsequent brief apology cleans up her mess. So digest this: the person who fired Williams for supposedly inflammatory speech explains the firing by far worse inflammatory ad hominem invective, made worse by McCarthyite allusions to vague and unsubstantiated...
Multiculturalism? Check, Please By Arnold Ahlert →
The way the world actually is underscores the fatal conceit of multiculturalism: if all cultures are equally viable, then why are we witnessing massive movements of people away from some countries and cultures towards other ones? Why for example, if Mexico and the United States are merely “two sides of the same coin,” do we have millions upon millions of Mexicans sneaking into ...
The War Against the Jews, by Rupert Murdoch →
Some believe that if America wants to gain credibility in the Muslim world and advance the cause of peace, Washington needs to put some distance between itself and Israel. My view is the opposite. Far from making peace more possible, we are making hostilities more certain. Far from making things better for the Palestinian people, sour relations between the United States and Israel guarantees...
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without...”
– Winston Churchill - The Gathering Storm - page 348.
Will Islam conquer the Netherlands? by Diana West →
What we know now we knew then: that this trial presented a watershed moment. Wilders, leader of a growing democratic movement to save his Western nation from Islamization, risks one year in prison for speaking out about the facts and consequences of Islamization. Such speech is prohibited not by the Western tradition of free speech Wilders upholds, but rather by the Islamic laws against free...
Capitalism Saved the Miners by Daniel Henninger →
If those miners had been trapped a half-mile down like this 25 years ago anywhere on earth, they would be dead. What happened over the past 25 years that meant the difference between life and death for those men?
Short answer: the Center Rock drill bit.
This is the miracle bit that drilled down to the trapped miners. Center Rock Inc. is a private company in Berlin, Pa. It has 74 employees....
Trading cape for the burqa by Andrea Peyser →
Hide your face and grab the kids. Coming soon to a TV in your child’s bedroom is a posse of righteous, Sharia-com pliant Muslim superheroes — including one who fights crime hidden head-to-toe by a burqa.
These Islamic butt-kickers are ready to bring truth, justice and indoctrination to impressionable Western minds.
Scheduled for release on the new network The Hub — formerly...
For the Truth, for Israel, by Melanie Phillips →
The obsessive Israel-hatred now coursing through so much of the western world needs to be fought with the greatest possible urgency and strength.
This unprecedented campaign of demonisation and delegitimisation against a democratic country essential to the defence of the west is not merely an offence against decency. It does not merely threaten the security and existence of Israel. It is...
AMERICAN JEWS AND PRESIDENT OBAMA, Part II By... →
Some critics blame Obama’s advisers, including former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, whose Israeli father was a member of the Irgun underground during Israel’s struggle for statehood; David Axelrod, the president’s chief political adviser; and Valerie Jarrett, a close friend of the Obamas’, who attends practically all of the president’s meetings and is often the...
AMERICAN JEWS AND PRESIDENT OBAMA (Part 1) By... →
The Jewish problem with Obama can be traced back to his first full day on the job. On January 21, 2009, he summoned his national-security team to the Oval Office and laid out a tough new policy toward Israel. According to a source who is in touch with the situation, Obama said that, in order to make good on his campaign promise to extricate American troops from the war in Iraq, the U.S. had...
Che Guevara; Guerrilla Doofus and Murdering Coward... →
“When you saw the beaming look on Che’s face as the victims were tied to the stake and blasted apart by the firing squad,” said a former Cuban political prisoner Roberto Martin-Perez, to your humble servant here, “you saw there was something seriously, seriously wrong with Che Guevara.” As commander of the La Cabana execution yard, Che often shattered the skull...
How radical Islam seduced the academics by Nick... →
I do not need to overcomplicate the question, however. Vice-chancellors and their staff do not engage in robust debate with extremists and try to show vulnerable students the moral and intellectual virtues of liberalism because they are frightened. By far the most revealing comment on Abdulmutallab did not come from Philippe Sands or Malcolm Grant but from UCL’s professor of English,...
Egyptian Cleric Sa'd Arafat: Islam Permits Wife... →
Sa’d Arafat: “Allah honored wives by instating the punishment of beatings.”
Interviewer: “Honored them with beatings? How is this possible?!”
Sa’d Arafat: “The prophet Muhammad said: ‘Don’t beat her in the face, and do not make her ugly.’ See how she is honored. If the husband beats his wife, he must not beat her in the face. Even when...
“Virtuous motives trammelled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and...”
– Winston Churchill from, The Gathering Storm - chapter 11, Hitler Strikes
The anti-Peretz pose by Julius Krein →
The controversy arose because, for the leftist professoriate, Peretz’s statement represents an unspeakable heresy. He suggests that the idols of the academic left—those radical jihadists who violently oppose their permissive liberalism, as well as the economic system which allows them to practice it—may not be entirely virtuous. This transgression is made infinitely worse because Peretz also...
August 15, 2010 Israel vs. Iran vs. Obama by... →
If history has taught us anything, it is that when fanatics announce their intention to kill Jews as soon as they get the means to do it, and then get the means, they kill Jews.
Iran’s current government of evil fanatics (evil being defined as “willing to kill anyone to remake the world as they think it should be”) has repeatedly announced its intention to destroy Tel Aviv,...
