Los Angeles homeless activist Ted Hayes, in Monday’s WSJ, American blacks who are affiliated with the Republican Party are vigorously vilified by Democrats, especially black Democrats. Uncle Tom, sell-out, Oreo–the list of slurs is long. But it is not only insults. I am the founder and director of a unique, progressive homeless facility in downtown Los Angeles, known as the Dome Village. Yet the 35 men, women and children and
January 2006
January 3, 2006
“Iran closes women’s publication”
From Reuters, by way of Dhimmi Watch and Tom Pechinski: The Iranian Government has ordered the closure of a daily newspaper and banned a new women’s bi-weekly from publication in the first media crackdown since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office in August. “The Supervisory Board on the Press agreed to the temporary closure of Asia newspaper and Nour-e Banovan and ordered their cases sent to court,” said the Culture Ministry
January 2, 2006
Western Winds
Mark Steyn on Islam and the West. From “It’s the demography, stupid,” The New Criterion [reprinted in OJ]: […] The challenge for those who reckon western civilization is on balance better than the alternatives is to figure out a way to save at least some parts of the west. One obstacle to doing that is the fact that, in the typical election campaign in your advanced industrial democracy, the political
January 2, 2006
A relatively short list – in no particular order – of underappreciated (or largely forgotten) movies you might try for 2006
Your mileage may vary.
January 2, 2006
Plans (UPDATED)
I’m going to take it easy today—play with the kid, watch a few Bowl games—but in the meantime, allow me to point you to Glenn Greenwald (and co.’s) latest, which charges me with being a mindless Bushbot (“the wingnut’s wingnut” who “hates the first amendment,” according to his commenters) because I simply will not see the light and just admit, as Chuck Hagel, William Safire, et al, have already admitted—that
January 2, 2006
red pills found behind the sofa cushions, prolepsis 11
Using state of the art nanotechnology, it takes a team of six agency surgeons —none of whom officially even exist, I’ve since learned—roughly fourteen hours to resuscitate and repair a certain sea monkey “asset,” whose drunken new year’s eve skinny dipping adventure ended when an escort named Laci, freshening up a batch of Cuervo 1800 frozen margaritas, unwittingly hit the ‘puree’ switch. I’ll miss Laci, for what it’s worth—not least
January 2, 2006
“Iran: Europe wanted to complete Holocaust”
From the AP / YNet: Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said Nazis’ attempt to eradicate Jews in Holocaust was a ‘myth,’ now charges that European countries sought to complete genocide by establishing Israel, a Jewish state in the midst of Muslim countries Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said the Nazi attempt to eradicate Jews in the Holocaust was a “Myth,†has now charged that European countries sought to
January 1, 2006
Meet the New Year; Same as the Old Year
Amazingly, civil rights attorney Glenn Greenwald rings in the new year by continuing his dogged begging of the NSA “domestic spying” question, yet again imputing to “Bush supporters” the kind of bad faith he seems determined to practice in his own lengthy posts—irrespective of the number of times those of us who support the program attempt to set the record straight. For instance, here’s how he characterizes my latest post
January 1, 2006
Deconstructing Parry
Patterico’s Los Angeles Times Year in Review for 2005 represents one rather comprehensive instance of a conservative battling a prominent left-liberal media organ over control of key political narratives. Well worth a look—and a testament to the kind of rigorous analysis and careful fact-checking that shows the blogosphere at its finest.
January 1, 2006
“The first post of 2006 post”
So I wake up this morning with a vicious headache, my tongue fuzzed over like Lolita’s love patch, and all I can think about is having myself a nice heaping bowl of Frosted Mini Wheats. Only we’ve run out of Frosted Mini Wheats. Which means it’s either Cheerios or oatmeal. And not instant oatmeal, either—I’d have to slow cook the stuff and wait for it to thicken up. Man, does