Thoughts on why Islamists hate us. Unfortunately, Bush was right — they hate out freedom. And it’s appalling that the administration won’t put them on the terrorist list. Even the UK has done so.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
The Trayvon Travesty
The preferred media narrative has completely collapsed:
It is impossible to reasonably argue that the state presented a case that should result in a murder 2 or manslaughter conviction. However, and of course, a conviction is still possible.
So they’ll continue to unreasonably argue it.
[Update a couple minutes later]
The Zimmerman trial as media pornography.
It’s certainly a distraction from real issues.
Gmail
What it knows about you.
This is one of the reasons that I rarely use Gmail. I only use my account as a backup, if my own server is down.
Putting The IRS Scandals To Rest
Its supporters are 0 for 3.
But remember, it’s “fizzling out.”
[Update a couple minutes later]
The IRS “accidentally” revealed thousands of social security numbers. But remember, you can totally trust them with your health information.
Gang Raping
Egypt in particular, and the Middle East in general, has a very sick culture.
The Backwards Trial Continues
I hadn’t been following the case that closely, but it sounds like if Zimmerman is convicted, he’ll have plenty of bases for an appeal. The judge sounds like a real piece of work.
Snubbed
I’m sure that the only reason that I didn’t make this list is because I’m a libertarian.
And really? Shepherd Smith?
A Strategy For NASA?
No, NASA has no strategy. And neither does the administration or Congress, when it comes to space policy. We don’t even have a clearly articulated goal.
“To The Right Of The Muslim Brotherhood”?
WTF does David Ignatius mean by that phrase?
It’s very interesting that one of the groups that supported the coup was the more conservative Salafist group known as the Nour Party to the right of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Does that make any sense at all? What is he saying? That they support lower taxes? Traditional marriage? Smaller government? What?
While “Left” and “Right” aren’t particularly enlightening words in discussion of domestic politics, it’s really stupid to talk about Middle East politics in those terms.
Nemesis
Is Victor Davis Hanson’s long-time prediction finally approaching?
The young, inexperienced, but haughty Obama is a stereotypical figure right out of Greek mythology. Sometimes he is poor arrogant Icarus — flying too high on his frail and melting waxen wings. Or is he arrogant young Phaethon? The latter demanded the reins of his father’s sun chariot — only to end up in flames as his out-of-control divine car scorched the earth (unfortunately we are the earth). Often Obama seems a know-it-all Oedipus who believed that he was so smart that the far older world of chance and fate had to yield to his superior reason. Or is he vain Narcissus, so taken with his image in the reflecting pool that Nemesis allowed him to stare forever transfixed at himself?
…Then Nemesis struck. Not Republicans in the House, not right-wing judges, but Obama himself tabled much of the most important parts in the implementation of the bill. For now he has almost killed off his own offspring, not in the promised most transparent fashion in the history of the presidency, but cheaply and perhaps cowardly on a little read website at the start of a long holiday. It is as if the president can pick and choose which laws he administers and which he simply ignores, but is terribly ashamed to admit such.
I think that little stunt destroyed whatever little chance Obama had of getting an immigration bill to his liking. Anyway, read the whole thing.
[Early afternoon update]
As I said, you should really read the whole thing. It’s about a lot more than health care.