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The Times – Camberley churches protest at mosque that will tower over Sandhurst

Churches have joined together to protest against plans for a mosque that would tower over the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, with one minister describing it as a “supremacist statement” for Islam. A collective comprising every church in [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

An infographic:

North Korea: The Craziest Country In the World

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

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

Categories: War and Peace

Mark Steyn – THE SEDUCTIONS OF DECLINE

I don’t even know where to begin quoting this (RC2, who is probably better at hiding her straight razors than I, quoted it fairly extensively – and thoughtfully! – here, and as testament to the resilience of her state of mind, she manages to wade through a similarly-themed VDH [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Slate – A Nation of Racist Dwarfs Kim Jong-il’s regime is even weirder and more despicable than you thought. By Christopher Hitchens

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The Corner – Mark Steyn: The Islamization of the World

Metronieuws has an interview with Afshin Ellian, a witness for the defense in the Geert Wilders trial in Amsterdam. If you don’t read Dutch, there’s an English translation here. (I’ve modified it slightly, because I think he missed a nuance here and there.) Here’s [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

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

Curtsy RC2’s Twitter:

Creative Minority – The Cult of Reverse Victimology

The cult of reverse victimology gets stranger every day. I wonder if in the last stages of the Roman Empire they wondered about the lonely life of the barbarian? As we all know by Maj. Nidal Hasan murdered 13 people and [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Telegraph – Bloodless President Barack Obama makes Americans wistful for George W Bush<br/> Barack Obama’s reaction to bad news is to play it so cool that Americans yearn for a bit more drama – and some even for his predecessor, writes Toby Harnden in Washington

When the television networks cut to the President, viewers listened [...]

Categories: Politics

Too many comments at Vanderleun’s so here’s what I was gonna say:

Political correctness was the cause of the Fort Hood Massacre, and we ought not forget that. The fact that someone could go through — at government expense — an undergraduate education with ROTC, then medical school at a [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Guess who it is again! China!

The Times – China tightens grip on Africa with $4.4bn lifeline for Guinea junta

While the rest of the world recoiled in horror at recent events in Guinea, where at least 150 pro-democracy supporters were killed and dozens of women publicly raped by government soldiers, China has sensed an [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Apparently:

The New York Times made a bad call this week. Yesterday it published a real thumb-sucking piece of nonsense: General David Petraeus, the man credited with orchestrating the turnround in fortunes in Iraq, is losing his edge. His voice is no longer what it was in administration circles, the piece says; he may [...]

Categories: Business & Media

Telegraph – After Gen Andrew Mackay’s departure, will the Army be ousted from Edinburgh Castle?

Last night, it emerged that the changes may even see the end of Scottish soldiers serving in Edinburgh Castle. The shock waves following Gen Mackay’s resignation last week are still reverberating around military circles in London and Edinburgh but [...]

Categories: War and Peace

This:

The Sunday Times – What’s the Canadian word for ‘lousy care’?

Is even funnier if you remember this:

The Sunday Times – Dodge Grand Caravan<br/> Paradise needs help … a giant engine, please, by Jeremy Clarkson

From the second:

When I’m faced with intransigence at a car-rental desk, what I like to do is summon up some little [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times – Hostages to face bill as France tries to recoup cost of rescues

The French commandos swoop into action, shooting dead the kidnappers and bundling the hostages into a helicopter. But the smiles of the former captives fade as their liberators deliver a nasty shock: the bill. That could [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs