Overheard in Passing

To me, the anti-globalists, the “no blood for oil” people, the Socialist Workers’ Collective, the tree-huggers, and the “Meat is murder” crowd are all more or less the same.
Gates of Vienna
I’ve been thinking that for some time now.

Idolatry and appeasement in the Academy

The best possible outcome from a policy of appeasement is to be eaten last. More likely is to be eaten slowly.
When Harvard regurgitated Larry Summers, its embattled president, last month, it was front-page news, and rightly so. Harvard’s action let us all know that the penalty for challenging the PC establishment was the oubliette. I’ve [...]

What Will It Be?

What do the Islamofascists fear most? Women. This whole damned war is ultimately about keeping Muslim women enslaved and docile. The problem is that the West keeps filling their minds with dreams of freedom and independence. In response, slave owning psychopaths have decided that the West must fall.
A Muslim pop singer has been [...]

watching big brother

HOUSTON — Houston’s police chief on Wednesday proposed placing surveillance cameras in apartment complexes, downtown streets, shopping malls and even private homes to fight crime during a shortage of police officers.
“I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why [...]

doublethink

I guess I’m not the only one who noticed:
The Boston Globe, speaking for many other outlets, editorialized: “[N]ewspapers ought to refrain from publishing offensive caricatures of Mohammed in the name of the ultimate Enlightenment value: tolerance.”
But as for caricatures depicting Jews in the most medievally horrific stereotypes, or Christians as fanatics on any given issue, [...]

Crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside

From the Washington Post:
BEIJING — The top editors of the China Youth Daily were meeting in a conference room last August when their cell phones started buzzing quietly with text messages. One after another, they discreetly read the notes. Then they traded nervous glances.
Colleagues were informing them that a senior editor in the room, Li [...]