Category Archives: History

A Blast From The Past

Someone asked me to sanitize some ancient comments on the blog today, and in the process of doing so, I perused some other posts from that era, and ran across this.

It wasn’t obvious at the time, but it was an historic post in this blog, because it led to all of my essays at The New Atlantis. I don’t know (or at least don’t remember) how Adam found out about it, but he contacted me to argue about/discuss the topic, and he ended up asking me for an essay, which resulted in this (not sure why it’s 404ing and I had to go the Wayback Machine, but I’ll tell the current editor about it).

Biden’s Latest Foreign-Policy Debacle

Thoughts from VDH.

Also, “White House issues condemnation of attack that Biden funded.”

[Monday-morning update]

Mark Steyn: Proportionate on gang rape.

Israel declared war on Hamas, but they know that the real war is with Iran. And I suspect that behind the scenes, despite whatever public statements the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia says, they’re coordinating.

[Update a while later]

We are up against an Axis of Devils.

[Afternoon update]

What’s behind Obama’s silence on Israel?

The usual.

“Hamas consigns Pax Americana to history books.”

[Update a while later]

Thoughts on Israel’s existential war.

Ethnic cleansing works. Not a great solution, but it’s a solution. It’s unclear that there is any other. And it’s a long tradition in that region.

And if an ethnicity is to be cleansed, crazy me, I think it should be the one that brutally murders and rapes innocent civilians, films the atrocities with the victims’  own phones, and uploads them to their social media, and produces nothing but misery for its own people, rather than the one that made a desert bloom, created a modern industrial western democracy, and takes great care to avoid civilian casualties.

But maybe that’s just me. Judging by what you hear on campus, and from some Democrat representatives, it probably is.

[Update late afternoon]

Mark Steyn again: Partying on.

[Tuesday-morning update]

When people tell you who they are, believe them.

[Bumped]