Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
A political kerfuffle is never over until Mark Steyn has weighed in. He’s now got a full column on Obama’s “bitterness” remarks and, of course, mixed in with the wonderful word play is a perfect analysis about America’s Guns and God “bitterness,” when compared to Europe’s no-guns, no-God “Eutopia.” In
Continue readingIn today’s Guardian, there is a glowing review of Ron Paul, particularly with regard to Paul’s stance on American support for Israel: If that weren’t enough, when the House of Representatives was recently passing another denunciation of Palestinian violence, Paul refused to support it. He abhorred all attacks on civilians,
Continue readingAs I’m sure you’ve heard, Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician has made a 15 minute long film that demonstrates how violent Islam is. He describes it as a film made with a split screen that has, on one side, passages from the Koran and, on the other side, modern footage
Continue readingI don’t need to remind any of you of the Cartoon jihad rampage that Islamists went on a couple of years ago when a Danish paper dared to print cartoons of Muhammad, most innocuous, but some a little edgy. Actually, they weren’t edgy enough because, as you may also recall,
Continue readingReading this, you can’t tell if it happened in 1938 or 2008: An American tourist was kicked out of a cafe in Belgium for being Jewish. Marcel Kalmann, a 64-year-old professor, told the Antwerp Jewish magazine Joods Actueel that he was ejected from the renowned restaurant Le Panier d’Or in
Continue readingWhile idly browsing the shelves at our local public library, I stumbled across a fascinating book — one that is fascinating on a couple of different levels. It’s called Uncouth Nation : Why Europe Dislikes America, and was written by Andrei S. Markovits, a Jewish man who was born in
Continue readingI’ve traveled in America, Canada, England, Western Europe, Israel, Mexico and North Africa. My experience about driving (and walking) in these countries, is as follows: In America and Canada, roads are really exceptionally well-organized, with clear rules, and the drivers, for the most part, following those rules. In England, roads
Continue readingDennis Prager wrote an article examining the common complaint that religion is the source of all evil and that, if you just got rid of religion, the world would be at peace. This argument is always framed in terms of historical references to the Crusades, the religious wars that ravaged
Continue readingIt’s a good day at American Thinker. In one of my preceding posts, I quoted at length from Kyle-Anne Shiver’s article about Mike Huckabee. Now, I’m about to quote from Soeren Kern’s article about the reflexive anti-Americanism that characterizes Europe. Kern’s starting point is Bill Clinton’s announcement that, if Hillary
Continue readingThis is the beginning of James Lewis’ excellent summary of Democracy’s death in Europe, and I know you’ll want to read the rest: With the signing of the Lisbon Treaty on December 13, 450 million people are now under a new, single government, called the European Union, headquartered in Brussels.
Continue readingI’ve disliked the EU ever since, in a moment of absolute insanity, I took a class on EU law when I was in law school. It was a Kafka-esque nightmare — and that was just studying about it, not experiencing it. If you want some small insight into experiencing it,
Continue readingLittle Green Football’s Charles Johnson has been engaged in a very hostile to-and-fro with Fjordman, Gates of Vienna and Brussels Journal, all of which initially garnered a lot of support for being European blogs/bloggers (or Euro-Centric) that were aware of the Islamist threat to the West. Johnson’s concern is that
Continue readingAs you may recall, about 10 months ago, when I returned from a European vacation, one of the things I blogged about was Switzerland as part of a larger post I did about Europe’s changing face: A train conversation with an unusually sweet lady in Switzerland resulted in my learning
Continue readingHere in America, we are (rightly) unhappy about illegal immigrants who instantly sign up for all the welfare benefits they can get. Of course, they’d be stupid not to, because only a fool says no to free money. Also, I don’t think any of us doubt that the immigrants who
Continue readingAs I noted in my post title, this is interesting, if true: it is a post that claims that a European policy institute, working closely with the UN, is determining large facets of American immigration policy, with special emphasis on settling Muslims in the Midwest. If this is indeed true,
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