I’m thinking I’ve been spending far too much time dwelling on the beams in conservatives’ eyes, and that it’s time I devote attention to the Left, so I can seem pissed off more equally. Any suggestions?
Politics
Fight Them All Together II: On Allahpundit’s questions
Citing the New York Post in a post at HotAir, Allahpundit discusses apparent links between Cordoba Initiative founder Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and the “Gaza flotilla.” As AP is creditably careful to note, the linkage at this point remains tenuous: …
Posted in Politics, Religion Tagged with: Cordoba House, Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, Islamism, Jihadism, Park Place Cultural Center
A time for not choosing
If only Barack Obama still functioned, we’d have someone in authority to tell us that George Will’s latest column on the need to choose, now – preferably by the time you’re done reading this post at the latest – between…
Posted in Politics, US History Tagged with: Claremont Institute, George Will, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, William Voegeli, Woodrow Wilson, Zoltan Newbery
…and take all our separate planets with us
If you’re going to declare someone else to be insane, your diagnosis will be easier to credit if it’s not couched in absurdities. Here’s the conclusion of Gabriel Schoenfeld’s post today at The Weekly Standard blog: The outpouring of condemnation from…
Posted in Future History, International Relations, Politics, War Tagged with: Gabriel Schoenfeld, Israel, Munich, War
Some perspective, please…
“Memory Foundations” – from Studio Daniel Liebeskind’s master site plan for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center Site
Posted in Art, Politics, Religion Tagged with: Cordoba House, Freedom Tower, Ground Zero Mosque, Terror, World Trade Center
Imam McCarthy’s newest fatwa
At NRO/The Corner, reliable anti-Islamist Andy McCarthy calls for opposition to Cordoba House today, recalling the protests that he believes helped stop plans to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan. That dissent was enough to forestall the trial, but it…
A sounding…
Even a perfectly just man who wants to give advice to a tyrant has to present himself to his pupil as an utterly unscrupulous man. Leo Strauss, On Tyranny Thus, the voice of the Machiavellian – and the Sully-ite, too. …
Endless Unstoppable Flows of Bad Ugly Stuff That No One Seems To Be Able To Do Anything About
This post isn’t really about the BP oil disastrophe – not that anyone yet seems quite sure how much of a disastrophe it is, even politically. This post is just here to ask whether the cloudy ominous unstoppable confusion of…
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell in Manhattan
I don’t see a good reason to be against the building of a mosque/cultural center two blocks from Ground Zero. In fact, the arguments in favor sound quite reasonable to me. But, then again, I don’t hate and fear Islam. …