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Category Archives: Current Affairs & History
Why and how to NeverTrump
I have a vague vision of how this ends. In about 30 years at the nicest KardashianCare facility that yuans can buy, I’ll make a note on my ever present napkin, crumple it, toss it on a fellow ‘resident’ and … Continue reading
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Tagged Jonah Goldberg, Michael Gerson, Ramesh Ponnuru
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When Trump invokes William F Buckley Jr
When Donald Trump invokes the memory of my hero, William F. Buckley Jr. — the image to the right is on my mouse pad — my first reaction is a vague recall of the gag, ideally voiced with a Southern … Continue reading
If it’s not the Crusades, it’s the cartoons
“If it’s not the Crusades, it’s the cartoons,” was the reaction of President Bush back in 2006 as to possible motivations of Islamist jihadists. Cartoons which depicted Muhammad were published by a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, in September of 2005 with … Continue reading
Why our Civilization could fall to Islamists
Historian Niall Ferguson does not look away from the weakness being exploited by *Islamists: I am not going to repeat what you have already read or heard. I am not going to say that what happened in Paris on Friday … Continue reading
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Tagged Douglas Murray, Islamists, Maajid Nawaz, Niall Ferguson, Terrorism
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Christians on the rack, Brooks on the couch
David Brooks on ISIS: The ISIS atrocities have descended like distant nightmares upon the numbed conscious of the world. The first beheadings of Americans had the power to shock, but since then there has been a steady barrage of inhumanity: … Continue reading
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Tagged Clay Davis, David Brooks, ISIS, Islamists, The Wire, Tyler Cowen
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The Schilling effect
Curt Schilling got in trouble with his employer [ESPN] for tweeting a comparison of the number of Muslim extremists that might exist today vs the number of Nazis in 1940. [May I suggest Stalin or Pol Pot for future attempts … Continue reading
Jorge Ramos: Small man with even smaller ideas
Originally posted on 2 Think Good:
Univision network’s diminutive anchorman, Jorge Ramos, has pointed his cannon at John Paul II and the Catholic Church. Fortunately for us Catholics, his is a short cannon with limp arguments as I will detail. First…
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People of faith deserve to be remembered by people of faith
Update on June 27th: It was not hard to see a secular spin coming in this tragedy, but the push back from the black Christian community has been inspiring. Michael Wear in Christianity Today is tired of people attempting to … Continue reading
About that transgender conversation
As with most topics in the culture wars, the trojan horse of starting the conversation¹ has been trotted out to mask the desire to change belief systems [if there were a scrabble point system in blogging, this sentence would be … Continue reading
Pop culture vs. Reality, aka #GWC
There was a time when the images of those on the bus below dominated pop culture. [Their image, as usual, was best captured by Tom Wolfe]. Who knew that the engineers who founded Fairchild Semiconductor were the ones who would … Continue reading
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