So sayeth American Infidels. It’s all about deception, and it’s called taqiyya. While many Muslim spokesmen today maintain that taqiyya is solely a Shi’ite doctrine, shunned by Sunnis, the great Islamic scholar Ignaz Goldziher points out that while it was formulated by Shi’ites, “it is accepted as legitimate by other Muslims as well, on the authority… Read More “Islam is Alone in having a War Strategy”
Calvin and Hobbes is the greatest thing that has ever appeared in newsprint. Period. End of discussion. It’s better than every other comic strip, ever, by orders of magnitude. I could rhapsodize about it for hours. So watching this was a fearful experience: Why? Because I sat there thinking, much like Josh Kurp at Uprox,… Read More Calvin and Hobbes Animated!
This Awesome (picture for link): Go on, tell me again how sensible and obvious these rules and regulations are. Tell me how Leviathan has a special plan for my life! Oh, and don’t forget to let me know how different today is from the frontier days of the 19th century. You will be dead right… Read More How Awesome is Gun Control?
I thought I’d poke my head up and remind myself and a few others that I am not, in fact, dead (although signing off with a quotation from the Inferno last week did push the morbidity. It was on my mind). It’s just that time of year, and I’ve just got no time to even… Read More St. Patrick Knows Us Not.
…I found myself overladen with Things to Do. You know the story. Blogging will be light for the forseeable. Right now, enjoy some Dante: I found myself in dark woods, the right road lost. To tell about those woods is hard – so tangled and so rough And savage that thinking of it now, I… Read More Mid-Way on Our Life’s Journey…
It’s an interesting question, but the short answer is: No. Because Detroit doesn’t want to be rescued. Which is to say, Detroit’s political class doesn’t want anything to change. The people might hope for an economic dictator to cull the mess in city hall, but everyone else has a vested or an ideological interest in… Read More Should Mitt Romney Rescue Detroit?
From Ace: How odd. Deuced odd, if I may say so myself. How may such mysteries be explained. It’s above Brazile’s pay grade, that’s for sure…
The Wall Street Journal finds the essence of progressive thought very conveniently spelled out. The anonymous reporter, however, goes far beyond bias, and even beyond bad faith–that is, beyond abusing his credibility as an “objective” reporter to further his cause. To judge by his emails to the reader, he has achieved a perfect Orwellian inversion.… Read More “My Bias is Objective, Because I’m Right”
Or, you know, not… Salon has decided that there’s nothing more important going on than taking apart the yearly market display of that Factory of Fabulous on the West Coast. First, the Onion tweeted something about a nine-year-old girl that, even if you get the joke, is absolutely dreadful. Then, Willa Paskin had that epiphany… Read More Let’s All Get Mad About the Oscars!
Big Government has a series on the history of Third Parties and the possibilities of a Third Party run in 2016. They’re all worth the read, but there’s no page for all of them: I had to do an internal search to find them from the beginning (though of course all of them are linked… Read More Third Parties – A Breitbart Retrospective
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