Though I’m tempted to chide the Church of England’s leadership for entertaining the idea of “rejecting England’s patron saint St George on the grounds that his image is too warlike and may offend Muslims,” I’ve resisted the urge to brand them timid, tab-collared, PC appeaseniks —largely because of their brave fight to keep a certain brand of bulldozer out of the hands of Jews. Who they know aren’t likely to

You be the judge.  Here’s Glenn Reynolds: IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT THERE, CAN YOU MAKE IT ANYWHERE? Er, besides Massachussetts, maybe. The New York Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court, has declined to find a right to gay marriage. The opinion is here. […] The Georgia Supreme Court (which, it should be noted, overturned Georgia’s sodomy law on state constitutional grounds before Lawrence v. Texas was decided) has

From Bloomberg: North Korea vowed to continue missile tests after yesterday’s firing of seven rockets, saying it doesn’t have to notify the U.S., Japan and other countries about launches that are part of its regular military training. “As a sovereign country our legal rights do not violate any international law’’ or any accords with countries including Japan, the official Korea Central News Agency said. “Our military will continue such missile

I’m loath to offer my prediction, but the photo in the extended entry certainly does give me pause. Keep an eye here for the breaking news.

From the conservative maverick St Andrew of the Trendy Hairshirt: Here’s one detail about Don Rumsfeld’s summer home that a historian found poignant: it was once a renowmed [sic] center for torturing slaves. Frederick Douglass was assaulted there—and escaped. Of course, those slaves weren’t actually tortured, as Alberto Gonzales would argue. They were merely subject to “coercive disciplinary techniques”. You know, I’d love to point out just how humiliated Sullivan

From the American Spectator, “SWIFT Deposits”: According to Treasury and Justice Department officials familiar with the briefings their senior leadership undertook with editors and reporters from the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, the media outlets were told that their reports on the SWIFT financial tracking system presented risks for three ongoing terrorism financing investigations. Despite this information, both papers chose to move forward with their stories. “We didn’t

From the August/September Reason, Charles Oliver, “Brickbats”: The government of Saudi Arabia has banned men from selling women’s lingerie.  The law also requires stores that sell such lingerie to conceal the section from the rest of their customers. Which, of course, provides women additional job opportunities, so from a feminist’s standpoint, treating women’s underwear as an embarrassment and appending to its display and sale certain cultural taboos can be considered