Blogstream   -   Create a Blog!   -   Login Chat   -   Options   -   Clean   -   Flag   -   Family Filter: Off   -   Recent   -   Rndm >>    

Blogstream  >  Politics  >  Blog  >  Page #18
 
Weberlog


 From Derbyshire today..I think the bolded parts are quite clever
 

"...Suddenly, with uncharacteristic anger, my drinking buddy said something like this: “The federal government’s main functions are to maintain a stable currency, keep us out of unnecessary foreign entanglements and wars, and patrol the coasts and borders. That’s three strikes on George Bush, [blasphemous expletive]! The man’s been a total [sexual expletive] disaster. What the [blasphemous expletive] [sexual expletive] hell was I thinking of, voting for this [cognitive-function expletive]?”"

Derbyshire on NRO

Posted by Weber at 4:38 PM - No Comments   Add a Comment  
 
 Interesting column on Islamophobiaphobia
 

....."It’s odd that I don’t like Islamophobia because I would answer a prompt yes to all the following questions.

As religions go, and taking historical and geographical variations into account, has Islam been, on average, the most intolerant and obscurantist of the big world faiths?

Whatever may have been the case in the past, and however things may develop in the future, is it true that Islam today is bringing forth an exceptionally large crop of homicidal fanatics willing to perform deeds of staggering cruelty, inhumanity, and stupidity in the name of their religion?

Would it be wise of Western countries, in the present state of affairs, to “fence off” Islam — that is, to deny entry to foreign Muslims, to expel — regretfully, politely, and humanely, but firmly — resident foreign Muslims, and to restrict the activities of Muslim citizens (preventing them, for example, from proselytizing in our jails, or working in defense establishments)?

Has Islamic civilization, wherever it has settled, been, by comparison with Western civilization, culturally very arid? (Thanks to Bill Buckley, in a private conversation on this topic, for the mot juste there.)

So what’s my beef with the Islamophobes? Reading through that list, don’t I myself deserve an honorary life membership in Islamophobes International? Why, when I read books like Robert Spencer’s, do I feel my irritation — my Islamophobophobia — rising?....

Read the whole thing....Derbyshire on NRO

Posted by Weber at 4:32 PM - No Comments   Add a Comment  
 
 Mary Steyn in NRO....great stuff....
 

On Lee Bollinger and Ahmadinejad...

"And afterwards Mr. Bollinger got raves even from the right for “speaking truth to power”. But so what? It’s like Noel Coward delivering a series of devastating put-downs to Hitler. The Fuhrer’s mad as hell but at the end of the afternoon he goes back to killing and dear Noel goes back to singing “The Stately Homes Of England”. Ahmadinejad goes back to doing — to persecuting, to murdering, to terrorizing, to nuclearizing – and Bollinger cuts out his press clippings and puts them on the fridge."

..."The difference between Winston Churchill and Ward Churchill, another famous beneficiary of “academic freedom” who called the 9/11 dead “little Eichmanns,” is that for Sir Winston talking was a call to action while for poseurs like Professor Churchill it’s a substitute for it. The pen is not mightier than the sword if your enemy is confident you will never use anything other than your pen. Sometimes it’s not about “freedom of speech,” but about freedom. Ask an Iranian homosexual. If you can find one."

Steyn in NRO

Posted by Weber at 4:13 PM - No Comments   Add a Comment  
 
 NRO and Sean Hannity
 

Help Us Stop Hillary!

By Kathryn Jean Lopez

Here we go again.

For as long as we’ve had these online fundraisers here at National Review Online, they have been accompanied by a little reticence.

Our readers come here seeking food for thought, not looking for beggars. Well, this week, you’ll find both.

This week is our annual fundraiser, and we need your help. I like to think of National Review Online — the free web magazine that you’re visiting right now — as a multi-layered partnership. We partner with writers who have something to report, a story to tell, a point to make. We partner with politicians who share our vision. We partner with folks who are recapturing the culture. And you partner with us to keep it all going.

This year, you’ll notice, we have Hillary Clinton’s picture on the homepage. The message is: “Help us stop her.” No one here is pining for the Clinton drama’s return to the White House. And neither, I suspect, are you.
Posted by Weber at 4:02 PM - No Comments   Add a Comment  
 
 Edwards may be toast.....
 

I think you can attirbute Obama's lead in Iowa to one thing...John Edwards decision to accept federal matching funds....D's who want to win must have written Edwards off as soon as it appered he was not going to be competative finacailly...

"This is crunch time for Obama. With a new Iowa showing him ahead in the Hawkeye State, tomorrow he will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the anti-war speech he gave shortly before the Senate -- including Clinton and Edwards -- voted to authorize force to oust Saddam Hussein. "

The Note

Posted by Weber at 3:46 PM - No Comments   Add a Comment  
 
Pages:   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49
   
  About Me
Author: Weber
From Atlanta, GA, USA
 
This blog is about...
It's pretty simple...I read the best news and political websites and bring them to you in one place... more
 
My: Profile  Gallery  Guestbook  100 Things 
 
Bookmark   History

  Blogstream Sponsors

Find anything & everything at Amazon.com
 
15% OFF all Board Games & Baby Items at
Board Games Plus and Everything Mommy
for Blogstream members. Enter coupon code:
BSTREAM08 at checkout.
 
Send Free
Just Saying Hi
Greeting Cards
at

Greeting Cards.com


Good Morning


  Recent Posts

  Blogs I Like

  Archives

1356 Visitors