All That Is Necessary…
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You Go Girls! Saudi Women Risk Jail to Drive
But the 21st century’s most dangerous strain of barbarism has its center of gravity in a culture that produced 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers. A culture whose organizing figure consummated his "marriage" to Aisha when the girl was 9 or 10. A culture where even today, women risk jail if they drive. Given all of this, should Obama have taken up arms against Muammar Gaddafi? I dunno. But I know who I’m rooting for.
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Lemme Get This Straight — BILL Clinton Thinks Weiner Should Resign?
Bill Clinton — he of the cigars and the perjury and the finger-wagging and the 14-month impeachment ordeal and the professed ignorance of the meaning of "is" — should leave it to his wife to deliver any resignation advice. Bill Clinton is the poster child for why Weiner should try to ride out the storm.
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There Are a Billion Muslims — We Better Make Friends With Some of Them
America is at war with a global enemy motivated by Islam — but if Islam itself is the enemy, we’re all in trouble. Father Butler should be commended, not attacked, for working to build bridges between Muslims and Christians.
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A Random Tweet That Caught My Eye
@iowahawkblog David Burge Did you know @RepWeiner uses the same brain when he’s in Congress? I don’t spend much time on Twitter — none, actually, although I flirted with it for a while — but this flashed by on the NRO Web Briefing.
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Strange Bedfellows: House GOP Leadership Has Obama’s Back in Libya Showdown With Kucinich
When Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama launched an air war against the Libyan regime without Congressional approval in March, he said he expected the action to last “days, not weeks.” In a post about “the bizarreness of it all,” I tried to keep an open mind about the intervention and said I was hoping […]
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Sex Assault Charges Against IMF Head Reveal Hypocrisy on the Left
Even if the charges against DSK are never proved, the fact that the head of an intergovernmental agency that makes development loans to poor countries thinks it’s OK to stay in a $3,000 hotel suite is a scandal in its own right.
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Playing Chicken With the Debt Ceiling
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says the government’s $14.3 trillion debt limit will be reached on August 2, which reminds me of a sure-fire gag line. Next time a pregnant woman tells you her baby is due August 2, or any specific date, ask her "what time?"
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Processing bin Laden’s Death in a Spiritual Context
The Rev. Bernard Poppe, my priest and friend, is more liberal than I am. (Ditto for 98% of his flock in the deep blue town of Maplewood, NJ.) So when Bernie started his sermon on Sunday by indicating he had mixed feelings about the death of Osama bin Laden, I was prepared to sit politely in silent disagreement.
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Props to the Prez for Getting bin Laden
Despite the risks, despite not being certain that bin Laden was even in the compound, Obama signed off on the mission. It could have ended badly, but it did not, and Obama deserves enormous credit for a landmark victory in the war against Islamic fascism. Congratulations, Mr. President, and thank you.
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Teacher’s Beard Was A Reminder of Bin Laden in More Ways Than One
Looking like that, he would have been ill-advised to visit Pakistan.
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