All That Is Necessary

Month: June 2009

  • Iran Revolt Vindicates Neoconservative Ideals — and the Iraq War

    (Welcome, GayPatriot readers) Since he turned against the Iraq War that he once championed, Andrew Sullivan has taken to using the term “neocon” as a curse word.  “The neocon hope that Ahmadinejad keeps himself in power – barely disguised any more – seems to me premature,” Sullivan said a few days ago — while linking […]

  • “When Your Policemen Wear Ski Masks, It’s Time for a New Regime”

    Via Powerline — violent content warning.

  • Should Obama Take Sides in Iran?

    Photo: IranElection.Posterous.com The question in the headline virtually answers itself. One side is a repressive, terror-sponsoring regime that has waged war against America, both directly and by proxy, since 1979.  The other side consists of hundreds of thousands of citizens whose democratic aspirations have been thwarted in a transparently stolen election, and whose peaceful assemblies […]

  • Iran Looms Large in Bush’s Third Term

    Risking police violence in Tehran (Photo: mousavi1388) I’ve said that regarding foreign affairs, Obama has been serving Bush’s third term.  It’s a bit tongue-in-cheek perhaps, but there’s plenty of substance behind the label.  So I find myself wondering how the Obama Administration’s response to the turmoil in Iran will compare with what Bush might have […]

  • Here’s Hoping Iran is the Next Domino for Democracy

    Pity the mullahs who cling to power in Iran.  With budding (albeit flawed) democracies to the east and west, with tens of thousands of angry people protesting the tainted election of a figurehead, with web-savvy dissidents informing the world via Twitter, YouTube and Flickr — what’s a frightened theocrat to do? Here’s my favorite image […]

  • Rush Limbaugh Has a Voice, But Doesn’t Speak for Me

    Former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, a thoughtful and elegant writer, today takes on the notion — voiced mainly by wishful, self-deluding Democrats — that Rush Limbaugh is the voice of the Republican party. The Democrats have a leader. He’s the president. When a party has a president, he’s the leader. Parties out of power, almost […]

  • AOL to Acquire Maplewood. Sort Of.

    (Welcome, New York Times readers.) Comes today the news that AOL is acquiring Patch.com, the owner of Maplewood Patch, a stalwart member of the Maplewood BlogolopolisTM. (I’ll have you know I taught myself how to hand-code that superscript in HTML.)  Maplewood Patch, by way of disclosure, has seen fit to publish some articles I have […]

  • A Religion of Peace? Only With Careful Editing

    I’m a fan of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies — an organization I was predisposed to love as soon as I heard their name. Their weekly FDD Update newsletter provides an extremely comprehensive review of  each week’s developments in the defining struggle of our age — the war against Islamic fascism. There’s a large […]

  • Wanna Buy GM Stock? Better Hurry, the Price is Rising!

    As you may have heard, General Motors, once the world’s largest company by market capitalization,  is bankrupt. You and I, along with 300 million of our closest friends, are going to end up owning about 70% of a much-smaller General Motors.  Congratulations. In this morning’s Washington Post, George Will has a good column worrying about […]

  • No, “Work-at-Home” Pimps, I Won’t Write Blog Posts for $5

    This post is dedicated to my friend (and competitor, I suppose, but whatever) Lori Widmer at Words on the Page, who is the force of nature behind Writers Worth Day.  The video features science fiction novelist and screenwriter Harlan Ellison ranting about being asked to contribute his work for free. (Warning: includes undeleted expletives.) For […]