ninme

Power Line – Why Don’t Christians Care?

In a number of places around the world, it is open season on Christians. We read of Christians burned out of their homes and slaughtered in Pakistan. Most recently, at least 500 Christians were murdered in Nigeria. The attackers in all cases are Muslims, inspired by [...]

Categories: War and Peace

I missed this. A report of Toby Harnden’s from 2004, relinked to by Instapundit, talking about yet another idiotic antiwar movie that’s bombing (I’d never even heard of it till last night) (I’d link to the original Spectator article but it just punts to the home page):

The other day, while taking a break [...]

Categories: War and Peace

National Post – Last known Canadian First World War veteran dies, aged 109

Categories: War and Peace

I love this. Mark Steyn is proven right:

[T]he imams have spoken: Saying that body scanners violate Islamic law, Muslim-American groups are supporting a “fatwa” – a religious ruling – that forbids Muslims from going through the scanners at airports. [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Via RC2’s Google Feed: Exposed: Naked Body Scanner Images Of Film Star Printed, Circulated By Airport Staff

UK Transport Secretary Lord Adonis said last week that the images produced by the scanners were deleted “immediately” and airport staff carrying out the procedure are fully trained and supervised.

Of course, you can just imagine all the [...]

Categories: War and Peace

After a BBC video report on the misery – and upcoming elections! – in Darfur:

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has told African leaders he is outraged by the use of rape as a weapon of war.

After another year of it, maybe he’ll say he’s “shocked”. After another year, “gravely disappointed”. A third [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Man. One of Kerry’s 2004 Election Lawyers says:

It should be obvious now, even to Obama’s most passionate supporters that shielding the free world requires more than mere words like “hope” and “change.” Bush’s detractors should be embarrassed having arrogantly thought they could do it better, and those Republicans who abandoned Bush when he [...]

Categories: War and Peace

I finally had a half hour to watch the full Jon Stewart/John Yoo interview:

Part 1: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10c Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisis

Part 2: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10c Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisis

Part 3: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Our Phib is joining a radio show:

CDR Salamander – Midrats: Navy Milblog Radio – Episode 1

Well, it is time for another chapter in the Navy MilBlog world – a radio show. OK, it is a blogtalkradio show – but a new format it is. Tomorrow will be Episode 1 of [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Here’s the president’s speech yesterday, taken apart piece by piece, analyzed, criticized, and put back together again:

Wheat & Weeds – Will The Norwegians Think Twice?

There, that was easy.

Categories: War and Peace

The Spectator Blog – The Iraq inquiry we should be having, by Fraser Nelson

Do we still have the will to win in Afghanistan? If so, the question the Iraq inquiry should be asking is not “how did we get into this war” – we have had a number of separate inquiries into that [...]

Categories: War and Peace

WSJ – Holder’s al Qaeda Incentive Plan by William McGurn

[T]he perverse message that decision [to dispatch Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other al Qaeda leaders to federal criminal court for trial] will send to terrorists all over this dangerous world is this: If you kill civilians on American soil you will have greater protections [...]

Categories: War and Peace

An email to Jonah Goldberg:

Dear Jonah I am 34 years old, born in the U.S., raised as a (nominal) Muslim in Iran, and returned back to the U.S. in 1990 (thank Goodness). I converted to Catholicism in 2002, and became a reservist in the Navy (through the Direct Commission Officer [...]

Categories: War and Peace

NRO – Tragedy or Scandal?<br/> We weaseled and equivocated and appeased. By Mark Steyn

Well, like they say, it’s easy to be wise after the event. I’m not so sure. These days, it’s easier to be even more stupid after the event. “Apparently he tried to contact al-Qaeda,” mused MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. “That’s not a [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Today we Americans celebrate Veteran’s Day by thanking the living (because of a quirk having to do with us getting to our Civil War before the Europeans got to WWI) while the rest of the world remembers the dead. We’ve done a lot of remembering the dead even in this country lately, so I thought [...]

Categories: War and Peace