One of the most spot-on assessments I’ve seen of the Israel / “Palestinian” conflict. From Thomas Sowell, “Destroying Israel on the Installment Plan”: The fact that American intervention has always hovered in the background of the relations between Israel and the enemies by which it is surrounded has itself made aggression against Israel safer than it would have been otherwise. In the absence of the prospect of outside intervention, anyone

For those of you who haven’t come across it already, The American Prospect has a blog of its own, TAPPED, which is actually kind of fun to read. I’ve even given it a permalink. Anyway, I decided the other day to drop them a blogwarming note: Dear Tapped-ers, Glad to see TAP’s entered the blog fray. One small thing: any chance you’ll add the names of the writers to their

For those of you who haven’t come across it already, The American Prospect has a blog of its own, TAPPED, which is actually kind of fun to read. I’ve even given it a permalink. Anyway, I decided the other day to drop them a blogwarming note: Dear Tapped-ers, Glad to see TAP’s entered the blog fray. One small thing: any chance you’ll add the names of the writers to their

Charles Krauthammer’s “

Thought this might interest you all — y’know, give you a sense of the kinds of things college students are carrying around in their beer-besotted, weed-befogged, and the WB-addled brains these days. This quarter (the university where I work runs on the quarter rather then the semester system) I’m teaching persuasive writing, a ten-week argument and research course in which students are encouraged to select their own topics for investigation

As Charles Johnson notes, “In spite of the huge caches of illegal weapons found in Arafat

As Charles Johnson notes, “In spite of the huge caches of illegal weapons found in Arafat

Writing in The Washington Times, Arnold Beichman, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, catalogues the actions that demonstrate how Israel has been “singled out by a majority of the U.N. membership for extinction.” Writes Beichman: I will document this statement with a catalogue of actions taken by the U.N. in the half-century of the its existence that will demonstrate:

A nice essay (from the editors at the left-centrist The New Republic) on the increasingly sychophantic

Dr. Steven Davis, a professor of animal science at Oregon State University, reports that a vegetarian diet may be responsible for killing more animals than a diet centered around meat. Here’s the gist, from the ABC News story, “Invisible Victims”: One of the reasons most commonly cited by vegetarians for giving up meat is the conviction that other animals have a right to life as well as humans. But when