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June 1, 2002

Taking Gun Control To Its Most Ridiculous Politicized Extreme

“Pennsylvania National Guard troops have been patrolling the state’ s five nuclear power plants with unloaded weapons, according to a state lawmaker. “House Minority Whip Mike Veon’ s comment in Friday’ s York Daily Record followed statements from guardsmen last week that they had been banned from carrying loaded weapons while on patrol at Pennsylvania airports following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. “The Pennsylvania National Guard would not confirm either

Take No Prisoners

Wow. Steven Plaut, a University of Haifa economics and business administration teacher, is bullish on the Israeli military. But don’t just take my word for it. Read it for yourself. It is time to return from the Oslo parallel universe — in which being nice to the PLO could produce a peaceful settlement of the Middle East conflict — to Planet Earth. In fact, there is no effective way for

Scheer Brilliance…?

Nice ‘n’ snarky Dov Fischer NRO column (instigated by a Robert Scheer rant) on the “I.Q. question”: Scheer’s writing reflects the polemic arrogance monopolized by a Left that is convinced its ranks are just too smart for conservatives to fathom and that conservatives are just too troglodytic to be liberal. Thus, as Paul Bacon has written, Gerald R. Ford was consistently mocked during his presidency as a bumbling and stumbling

Scheer Brilliance…?

Nice ‘n’ snarky Dov Fischer NRO column (instigated by a Robert Scheer rant) on the “I.Q. question”: Scheer’s writing reflects the polemic arrogance monopolized by a Left that is convinced its ranks are just too smart for conservatives to fathom and that conservatives are just too troglodytic to be liberal. Thus, as Paul Bacon has written, Gerald R. Ford was consistently mocked during his presidency as a bumbling and stumbling

Knee-deep in the Arab Street…

Krikey, first it was the neo-Nazi loons dropping by, now I’m getting referrals from this Arab “discussion” forum. * Sniff sniff * Ummmmmmm. Breathe in the multicultural love, y’all. Bring on that Other-y goodness…! Incidentally, here’s an example of the kind of thoughtful, geo-cultural rapprochement analysis you can expect should you choose to visit the Arab forum: I just dont think that we or any other arab person fears Jewish

Knee-deep in the Arab Street…

Krikey, first it was the neo-Nazi loons dropping by, now I’m getting referrals from this Arab “discussion” forum. * Sniff sniff * Ummmmmmm. Breathe in the multicultural love, y’all. Bring on that Other-y goodness…! Incidentally, here’s an example of the kind of thoughtful, geo-cultural rapprochement analysis you can expect should you choose to visit the Arab forum: I just dont think that we or any other arab person fears Jewish

Start gathering your material early

NBC has announced that current MSNBC and CNBC nightly news anchor Brian Williams will take over the “NBC Nightly News” anchor seat after the 2004 election. And what do we know about Mr. Williams? Well, if you can believe the Media Research Centers’ Brent Baker, ‘Williams […] is a case study in Bernard Goldberg’s observation that it is the “inability to see liberal views as liberal that is at the