This YouTube video has gotten quite a bit of attention in the blogosphere today. Update: The video has been taken down by the producers (for obvious reasons) but you can still find an archived version here. Aside from the disturbing, North-Korean-style-“Dear-Leader”-worship meets Children-of-the-Corn vibe of the thing . . . the other striking thing about […]
 . . . in our century. Behold our partners in trade, the Chinese. And here are some thoughts I had about modern slavery in a previous post titled, “Our New Age of Slavery.”
This video won’t win any Golden Globes for its production values, but it does a pretty good job of explaining 20 years of bad liberal policy making in 10 minutes. http://www.youtube.com/themouthpeace Also: Here is an article in the conservative “City Journal” from way back in 2000 in which Howard Husock accurately predicts this utterly unnecessary […]
A few months ago I explained in this space that I was selling my house and getting completely out of debt because I believed things were about to get weird. Well, I think it’s safe to say that things have officially entered “weird” territory. So how did we get here? You can ignore most of […]
[Boy, I’m just “Mr. Cheer” today. Move over Norman Vincent Peale!] If you love books as I do (actually the word “fetish” comes to mind), or have an interest in the book publishing business, as I do, you my want to take a look at this long esssay from “New York”magazine online: The End: The […]
Friend-of-Balther, Ted, points me to this equally depressing article: “Are We Losing Europe to Islam?“
Via The Times of London… Revealed: UK’s First Official Sharia Courts
After a long mute season, Chris Matthews’ Leg is transmitting once more.
In the previous post I went to some lengths to point out just how absurd it is for liberals to wail and gnash their teeth about Fox News (which actually attempts to live up to its “fair and balanced” positioning statement) all the while MSNBC has hyper-partisan, Obama-cheerleader hacks like Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews […]
Some loosely-connected observations . . . * Sarah Palin . . .The surprise pick exposed a putrid sea of ugliness that usually stays hidden beneath a thin fog of smiling condescension on the Left.The fact is, there is a wide streak of self-righteous viciousness running through much of the left-liberal culture in this country–one that […]
