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Monday, November 22, 2004

The Hell of War

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Dexter Filkins has a fine piece of reporting in the New York Times on the horrific conditions faced by our Marines in the initial assault ...

Ersatz Islam

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USA Today recently featured an editorial by Ralph Peters who wishes to persuade us that Islam is really not at war with the West. The peop...

American Heroes

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Chester directs us to this site for an e-mail from a Marine who just finished fighting in Fallujah to his dad at home. He concludes it thi...
Sunday, November 21, 2004

Teach Your Children Well

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The local newspaper runs a piece wherein a young mother, concerned about blurring the line between church and state, is quoted: "I do h...

Open Theism

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Joe Carter at Evangelical Outpost has a profile of pastor and theologian Greg Boyd who has made a bit of a name for himself with his advoca...
Saturday, November 20, 2004

The NBA's Darkest Hour

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It's hard not to sympathize with the Pacers' players on this one. Anyone who does what these fans did deserves to be slugged. The sh...

An Arab John the Baptist

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MEMRI , The Middle East Media Research Institute, posts this remarkable essay by the progressive Egyptian intellectual Dr. Amr Isma'il w...

Mixing it Up in Chile

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This may be the first time that a president has rescued a secret service agent. We can't help think of the contrast between Bush coming...

Karl Popper and Intelligent Design

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Viewpoint subscribes to a daily quotation service from Philosophers' Magazine Online and one recent quote we received is from Karl Pop...

Natan Sharansky on Bush, Reagan

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There's an interesting piece by Joel Rosenberg on Natan Sharansky, the famous Russian dissident who had been imprisoned in the Soviet gu...
Friday, November 19, 2004

<i>Carpe Diem</i>

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Despite the impression one might glean from the distressingly large number of reports like this one that seem to fill our newspapers, most ...

Tough Decision Time For Syria

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Everybody who matters probably already knew this but now the rest of us have public confirmation - Syria is harboring the terrorists who are...

Building Momentum

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Bill Roggio at The Fourth Rail keeps us updated on goings-on in Fallujah and other exotic resorts throughout the Sunni Triangle. His latest...

The Coming Confrontation With Iran

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Chester has some good analysis of the coming conflict with Iran. This link takes you to part I, and this one takes you to part II. From...
Thursday, November 18, 2004

A Growing Majority

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There's talk at National Review Online's Kerry Spot that the Republicans may soon increase their majority in the Senate to 56/44. ...

Demagogues and Democracy

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Bill passes along a link to an article by Hans-Herman Hoppe the author of Democracy: The God That Failed . Hoppe makes the oft-noted point ...

Fooling Some of the People

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Hugh Hewitt points us to an article in The New York Times wherein the paper of record discusses the Democrats' religion problem. Unfor...

RU-486

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Apparently those who voiced concerns about the harmful effects of RU-486 before it was approved for use in the U.S. are being tragically vin...
Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Reckless Disregard

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We had intended to write a piece on NBC's gross irresponsibility in airing the video of the Marine in Fallujah shooting the terrorist, b...

Liberal Wit

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If a Conservative cartoonist had penned something as grotesque as this, as utterly void of wit as this, as despicably racist as this they...