From the April 17 Weekly Standard “Scrapbook”: Concerned that Americans might be engaged in anti-Muslim stereotyping, “Dateline NBC” producers had an unusual brainstorm: Let’s stereotype Americans! More specifically, the class of Americans that enjoys stock car racing. As we learned last week from Michelle Malkin’s blog, NBC sent an undercover camera crew to NASCAR’s April 2 DIRECTV 500 at the Martinsville Speedway in southern Virginia. NBC confirmed to an AP

I write quite frequently here about how the tenets of classical western liberalism, particularly freedom of speech and assembly, have been bastardized in the humanities and social sciences of many modern “progressive” universities—and about how the subversion and re-signification of these concepts into their near opposites (free speech is now “free” only when confined to a designated space in the commons, and groups that gather willingly to express certain political

Pass me the melon salad, please.  And—Ooh! good Christ! Is that lime Jell-o!?

From the Brussels Journal: He who controls the way people talk controls the way they think. Hence, it is no surprise that the EUSSR is actively trying to manipulate our language. Last February, The Daily Telegraph reported that Franco Frattini, the EU Commissioner for Justice, Freedom, and Security, declared he was in favour of some kind of self-regulatory media code in reporting about Islam. Now the EU officials are “discreetly

From The Washington Times: Several retired generals who worked with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, including a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, yesterday decried calls for the secretary’s resignation from other retired officers. President Bush repeated his support for his point man in the war against terrorists. “I think what we see happening with retired general officers is bad for the military, bad for civil-military relations and

Via Terry Hastings, we learn that the WaPo’s David Ignatius has gotten into the polling business. From “Replace Rumsfeld”: When I recently asked an Army officer with extensive Iraq combat experience how many of his colleagues wanted Rumsfeld out, he guessed 75 percent. Based on my own conversations with senior officers over the past three years, I suspect that figure may be low. As Terry asks in his email, “Is

From CBS Sportsline, “The Ugly Side Of The ‘Beautiful Game’”: Warming up on the touchline, a black player jogs toward fans at the Parc des Princes soccer stadium. As he gets closer, a barrage of monkey chants explodes, “OOOH! OOOH! OOOH!” and racist insults fill the air. Such scenes are increasingly common at the home stadium of Paris Saint-Germain, or PSG, one of France’s top soccer teams, and are finding

—Sorry to cut you off, but I know what you want, and I’m afraid it ain’t gonna happen today.  Seems the little fella found a couple of grey hairs around his temple earlier this week, and ever since then he’s been out day and night, drinking, taking handfuls of pills, and trying to compensate in ways that most Christians would deem profoundly unwholesome. For instance, not only did he lease

From the AP: The president of Iran again lashed out at Israel on Friday and said it was “heading toward annihilation,” just days after Tehran raised fears about its nuclear activities by saying it successfully enriched uranium for the first time. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a “permanent threat” to the Middle East that will “soon” be liberated. He also appeared to again question whether the Holocaust really happened. “Like