As the world celebrates Earth Day, that term has become a bit ominous. Alas, healthy environmentalism is devolving into an increasingly anti-human movement that could end up costing the human race dearly. I have a piece on the matter in today’s NRO called ” Homo Sapiens, Get Lost . . . . Continue Reading »
Since my Esteemed Colleague mentions that we are an equal-opportunity religious-goods . . . uh, discussion forum? . . . this seems like a good time to unveil something I ran across recently: kosher makeup, from ShainDee.I can’t actually remember how I ran across this. Makeup is not the kind of . . . . Continue Reading »
Between the gay thought police and California and the Iranian mullahs, what’s a girl to do? Freelance journalist Roxana Saberi , Miss North Dakota for 1997, was convicted of espionage and sentenced to eight years in prison just before the public savaging of today’s Miss California, . . . . Continue Reading »
For the time being, this blog will function in parallel to the Spengler Forum at Asia Times Online. At some point in the near future, a readers’ forum will be up and running on this . . . . Continue Reading »
Chesa Boudin, “radical royalty,” was raised by Bill Ayers after his own parents had been incarcerated for violent activities with the Weather Underground. He has gone on to attend Yale, to win a Rhodes scholarship, and to travel throughout South America on a journey of self-styled, . . . . Continue Reading »
(1) NATO’s worryingly inadequate and incredible shrinking performance in Afghanistan (2) NATO’s determination to go ahead with wargames in Georgia Best possible absurd justification: the Georgia exercises are training for Afghan missions! Is anyone else filled with concern by this turn . . . . Continue Reading »
What piques me most about the Twitter phenomenon (not this blog’s new subject, I swear) is precisely what I think is considered most harmless and cool about it: it’s got all the advantages of regular communication, plus all the fun of communicating using only 140 characters! Or, as MoDo . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Schmitz, writing for the delightfully quirky new blog called Plumb Lines , bemoans the proletarian invasion of what used to be the “exclusive club” of reactionaries: Conservatives have long decried the decline of standards, and rightly so. Nowhere is this decline more evident . . . . Continue Reading »
As usual, I find myself the skunk at the party. As the world celebrates Earth Day, that term has become a bit ominous. Environmentalism is devolving into an increasingly anti-human movement that could end up costing the human race dearly. I have a piece on the matter in today’s NRO called . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week, Wikipedia deleted its article entry on “Culture of Death.” Jill Stanek is on the beat trying to figure out why. “Culture of Death” can still be found as a subheading under “Culture of Life,” so that might have something to do with it—but the . . . . Continue Reading »
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