Sometimes a drawing is just a drawing. Actually, I take that back. Nearly every single freaking time a drawing is just a drawing — particulary when it’s done by a thirteen year old with no evident psychological problems. And on the rare times when a drawing isn’t just a drawing, it is still just a drawing — though one that perhaps takes on import in retrospect, should certain interpretive methods

From USA Today/AP: A Mexican Senate committee passed a measure Wednesday urging President Felipe Calderon to send a diplomatic note to the United States protesting the deportation of an illegal migrant who took refuge in a Chicago church for a year. The committee also approved a scholarship to help her 8-year-old U.S.-born son, Saul, who is an American citizen and stayed in the United States. Elvira Arellano, 32, became an

Andrew Anthony, the erstwhile liberal whose book criticizing modern liberalism has forever condemned him to apostate status among the finer classes, nevertheless continues his broadside, undeterred. From the Guardian’s Comment is Free: […] a large section of liberalism [has] become contorted by a reluctance to entertain reality. And also that this reluctance very often [stems] from guilt or, closely related, a fear of raising doubts about certain orthodoxies. You only

Is Christianity — and by extension, a type of ethical “universalism” (be it secular liberalism or Christian charity) — responsible for the “successes” of Islamism as it works to spread itself? Could be, I suppose — though I think Nietzsche once offered a similarly employed critique of Christianity, and the interpretive bungling on the back end of that didn’t work out too well for the Germans in the long run.*

For those of you who haven’t yet seen it (it’s an old post, but Allah featured it on Hot Air recently), go read Bill Ardolino’s post detailing the heroism of one Fallujah policeman whose family was targeted by insurgents. Obviously, this man is exceptional — and there are likely a number of Iraqis who would just as soon surrender freedom for a bit of stability at this point — but

Or, “If the Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial board helps the FBI and the citizens of the Pacific Northwest identify possible terror plotters, the terrorists will have already won.” Up is down. Black is white. Nobody much cares for Raymond.