Oh, how we do so love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning…

Ed Driscoll offers an inadvertent, libertarian counterpoint to yesterday’s assertion of new media impotence (at least, on the right) offered by Steve Graham. Compare and contrast.

      “Fine, okay. I’ll give you a dollar. And half of my chicken soft taco. Just — put that filthy thing away, for Chrissakes…” **** Epilogue       “By the way. The little tiny raincoat? Nice touch.” ~finis~

That dream being the free exchange of ideas, once again under siege from inside the academy — the very place where the free exchange of ideas should, by the standards of liberalism, be most in evidence. Alas, we’ve surrendered liberalism for the kind of creeping totalitarianism whose resemblance to liberalism is limited to a familiar smile and wink. From the NYT: The appointment of Donald H. Rumsfeld, the former defense

Jochen Bittner, WSJ Opinion Journal: […] In contrast to most post-modern nation states, Islamic fundamentalism offers the kind of warm hearth for which many shaken Western souls might yearn: community instead of individualism. Moral certainty instead of moral arbitrariness. And hasn’t the fulfilling sense of fighting a “cold evil” always held great attraction for young idealists? Take the revolutionary companeros around Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. The anti-globalization movement, which

Via MEMRI, a clip from a Hamas music video featuring the line, “In black bags, chunks of flesh of Jews.” Which, I suppose, is not far off from the kind of grisly anti-establishment wish-fulfillment anthem Ice-T once made famous with his “Cop Killer,” or the kind of post-apocalyptic ironic angst Nena cashed in on in two languages with “99 Luftballoons” — with the exception that, well, Hamas wouldn’t consider themselves

At the risk of interrupting the glorious tension of competing partisan ideologies, I must pause to take to task ESPN baseball analyst Tim Kurkjian, who last night on “Baseball Tonight” joined the growing chorus of east coast writers (see also Jayson Stark) who gives the edge for NL MVP to the New York Met’s David Wright — with the Rockies Matt Holliday “in the top 4 or 5” (Kurkjian and

Questions for the anti-war crowd: is it possible to “love the troops” who actually believe in what it is they’re fighting for in Iraq unconditionally? Or is such “love” predicated on the (generally unspoken) assumption that the brave young men and women who hold such beliefs have been duped by neocon fictions, or else are prisoners to their own pride, in denial about the economic pressures that forced them into

Victor Davis Hanson, writing at the Corner: It is likely (a) that Ahmadinejad was one of the terrorists who took American hostages in 1979, and so helped to start the quarter-century rise of radical Islamic jihadism that blew up on September 11; and (b) that he wants to visit September 11 precisely for the purpose of boasting when back home “I am going there, because I can,” the subtext, if

Steve at Hog on Ice asks and answers. Question is, is he right? Because if so, I’ve, like, totally overspent on my credit cards…