Bob Richardson from IL emails: Re: Lynching Buckley; You write: “And this is (and has been) a crucial component of the war—one that many on the anti-war side are loathe to admit:  that their constant naysaying, though it is well within their right to voice, has objectively hurt the war effort…” As someone who always stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States, I disagree here. It is not the

From US News and World Report: Infighting is plaguing revision of the administration’s three-year-old National Strategy for Combating Terrorism. An implementation plan now under debate calls for heavy emphasis on waging an ideological war against radical Islam, promoting democracy, and stopping weapons of mass destruction. But the plan is bogged down, mired in interagency squabbling over turf and tasking, sources say. “There are just too many chefs,” says one observer.

1.  Develop some sort of super strength or other unusual attribute that would provide him with an advantage over ordinary humans.  Like, say, X-ray vision, or an elastic neck, or the ability to move shit around by concentrating really really hard.* 2.  Use that power for GOOD by KICKING ASS (be it through ethics legislation, or just a plain old series of SUPER rabbit punches to Tom Delay’s kidneys).  3. 

Harry Jaffa, a distinguished fellow at the Claremont Institute and professor emeritus of government at Claremont McKenna College and the Claremont Graduate School writing in the WSJ on the importance of promoting individual rights as a “universal”—a meme I’ve been hitting rather hard myself lately.  From “The Central Idea: In Iraq as in America, there’s more to democracy than majority rule”:

An interesting email that speaks to the Anti-Jihadi Manifesto.  I have withheld certain names at the emailer’s request: re: Rushdie and the left. Hold your breath. My uncle [name withheld] is a friend of his, a leftist artist, all that crap. [He] is a politcal creature, a class A sycophant in those circles. He would not sign that [Manifesto] or anything like that. If Salman was not a famous writer,

In response to yesterday’s post about the official Punjab shame practice for preventing the aborting female babies (an impact, certainly, on women’s “choice”), I received a number of interesting responses, including this, from Amba: Contrary to what [other commenters argured], dowry is most prevalent among upper-caste Indians; gender relations among the lower-castes tend to be more egalitarian. The people who practice dowry tend to be well-educated, so the idea that

Paul Belien of the Brussels Journal argues that the Manifesto released by 12 international authors, which appeared yesterday in an English version on the website of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, is rife with defects that he believes undercuts its impact.  As an example, he points to the anti-religious beliefs (and in Belian’s opinion, these are beliefs that would necessary destroy educational freedom) of one of its signataries, Ayaan Hirsi Ali,

After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism. We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.