Saturday a.m., Satchel takes part in the Metro League District tournament in the 56 lb division. With my Mom’s death and other distractions, Satch has wrestled less this year than last, but if the last few practices indicate anything, it’s that he’s in good form and, if he keeps his feet back, should have a strong chance of moving on to Regionals. We’ll be up and on our way by

His timing, given the closing down of Jewish shops and attacks on Jews, is impeccable — just what one expects out of the editor of an august magazine purportedly nuanced in its understanding of foreign diplomacy, but in reality just another venue for massaging specific progressive narratives in an effort to will them, through repetition, into “truths.” MRC: Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday, David Rothkopf, CEO and editor

The execrable Kristof Terror incidents lead many Westerners to perceive Islam as inherently extremist, but I think that is too glib and simple-minded. […] One of the things I’ve learned in journalism is to beware of perceiving the world through simple narratives, because then new information is mindlessly plugged into those story lines. In my travels from Mauritania to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan to Indonesia, extremist Muslims have shared with me

“Pope’s climate decree to declare God a green socialist”. Peter Foster, Financial Post: A long time ago, the British satirical magazine Private Eye would occasionally append a humorous phonograph record. One such had a track that started “And now, The Pope speaks out on The Pill.” There followed the voice of one of Dr. Who’s Daleks declaring “I-am-the-Pope. You-will-obey.” A lot has happened to the Catholic Church since then, although

“Man jailed for a year after anti-Islam speech spurs emergency-alarm on Toronto subway train” on the day many western journalists censored the “offensive” cartoons that precipitated what some of them will allow was a “counterproductive” slaughter of a French satire periodical’s editorial staff. Ironically — or is it sadly / pathetically / tragically / surreally? — a “news” organization that did publish the cartoons? Al Jazeera. I’ve written at length

…I am not a conservative (in a sense he’s right: I’m a classical liberal, technically, or maybe even a minarchist libertarian; but the fluidity of political labels being what they are, modern day classical liberals are often called conservatives, whereas modern day, illiberal leftists have usurped the term “liberal”), but am instead, rather, a “socialist”: @proteinwisdom I can show you are a Socialist, not a Conservative. But you have to

Happy 11th Birthday, Satchel! You are a constant reminder that at some point in my life I did something right, and that you are my reward. And though, were you to believe my critics, I may not do the right thing very often, when I do — judging by the quality of my blessings — I must go all in huge! You are our champion. Now and always. You make

Something one of the Boehner-boosters said on Twitter today really resonated with me: the Constitutionalists are the real RINOs today, if you think about it. Now, sure, this particular pom-pom waver was going for some online wag cred, and throwing up a middle finger at those of us who dared stand up to a party leadership that has refused to use regular order, passed legislation its constituency opposed, and when