Over at National Review’s Corner, Jonah Goldberg is making some sense when it comes to U.S. foreign policy and the promotion of democracy: I’m in the camp….which holds that liberalism is more important than democracy. Obviously, I mean liberalism in the classical or philosophical sense: rule of law, individual liberty, free markets, free expression, etc [...]
Archive for November, 2011
This is the van the Chinese government has built to conduct mobile executions. Naturally, they are trying to portray this as an advance in human rights: Makers of the death vans say the vehicles and injections are a civilized alternative to the firing squad, ending the life of the condemned more quickly, clinically and safely. [...]
I donât think Iâll be writing that sentence again anytime soon, but they deserve praise for this. In this video a Fox anchorwoman takes on Shirley Phelps-Roper, who I presume to be the daughter of Fred Phelps, who runs the Westboro Baptist Church, famous for protesting at the funerals of Matthew Shepard andâmore recentlyâsoldiers who [...]
Here is a thread with a large collection of recent pictures from one of the last holdouts from the global market revolution, North Korea (and the only one to really do communism). I’m always amused at how communist societies seem to be obsessed with huge ziggurat type structures. I guess being such purely materialistic cultures [...]
Remember how FEMA decided to help out the people displaced by Katrina and Rita by giving them a bunch of pre-paid credit cards. Well, surprise, surprise, just like any wlefare program, a lot of the money was pissed away on bullshit. For example: A $200 bottle of champagne from Hooters and $300 worth of “Girls [...]
And I think I need to start shopping at Home Depot more often: Large quantities of drugs were found inside merchandise from at least two Home Depot stores in Massachusetts, and authorities are investigating, police said Wednesday. A contractor late last week discovered two 50-pound “bricks” of marijuana wrapped in plastic bags inside a bathroom [...]
Trey Parker and Matt Stone made these two flash animations about a little dog named Princess. They are both hilarious, but just an initial warning about them: They are definitely not safe for work or anywhere else that may contain respectable people. The voice they use to sing the theme song is definitely the best [...]
A barrage of Israeli artillery intended for members of Hamas killed twelve Palestinian beachgoers yesterday. Over at The Corner Cliff May, the National Review writer I currently hate most, had this to say about the incident: Is there no one – in Gaza, in Europe, at the UN – who will say that it is [...]
It’s being reported today that Zarqawi survived past the initial blast of a 500 pound bunker-buster until shortly after American troops arrived. That got me wonderin’ why the military didn’t attempt to take him into custody as they did with Saddam and his two sons. Perhaps they feared a firefight, but there was firefight with [...]
The U.S. military has killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. His horrors will no longer haunt Iraq or any other country in the world for that matter. Now, can U.S. troops please come home? I long believed that the only legitimate security concern for the United States in Iraq was al-Zarqawi and his inner circle. I never [...]
