The Danish paper at the center of the Mohammed Cartoons controversy, the Jyllands-Posten, has printed a manifesto signed by twelve Westernized Muslims and experts on Islam. The prose of the letter is moving and an excellent summation of the issues…
Dr. Sanity has a very interesting piece taking critics of the Bush Administration’s foreign policy to task for short-term thinking. To wit: The kind of major shift in US foreign policy that Bush has initiated may actually take decades to…
Hanson has to be one of my favorite historians of relatively recent vintage – his books and columns are interesting, insightful and almost always concerned with the long view of current events. He’s just returned from a trip to Iraq,…
Those of you that know me know that I prefer to avoid cursing in any capacity, but there are times when only a certain term applies. Today is one of those times. Let’s get this out up front: Spike Lee…
Some days I’m more than a little sad to have ever been a part of a PC-USA church; today, unfortunately, is one of those days. Please don’t read this as an indictment of Presbyterians in general. The vast majority of…
Photo from last week’s anti-cartoon protests in Pakistan, presented without commentary: Note: This is not a Photoshop job. See here for the original.
Those Fark Photoshop goons are so asking for a mullarchic religious beatdown: Sitcom situations for Mohammed. Heh.
This whole “scandal” is the result of an endlessly self-obsessed Washington press corps that feels slighted for having a local paper (can you imagine that? Those Corpus Christi inbreds probably think they’re better than us! Can’t have a bunch of…
Finally, a mainstream artist or two seems to be truly realizing what is at stake in the Global War on Terror. Frank Miller, of Sin City and The Dark Knight Returns fame has revealed his plans for his next work,…
Austin Bay dropped the folowing comment in an entry pertaining to the Danish Cartoon Controversy: The Danish “Cartoon War†is an information warfare operation by conducted Islamist terror groups and at least two Middle Eastern dictatorships (Syria and Iran). Read…
