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
April 15, 2006
“Generals defend Rumsfeld”
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
Scapegoats and Symbols
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
Continental Embrace (from the protein wisdom “tolerance” series)
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
