Ed Driscoll offers an inadvertent, libertarian counterpoint to yesterday’s assertion of new media impotence (at least, on the right) offered by Steve Graham. Compare and contrast.

      “Fine, okay. I’ll give you a dollar. And half of my chicken soft taco. Just — put that filthy thing away, for Chrissakes…” **** Epilogue       “By the way. The little tiny raincoat? Nice touch.” ~finis~

That dream being the free exchange of ideas, once again under siege from inside the academy — the very place where the free exchange of ideas should, by the standards of liberalism, be most in evidence. Alas, we’ve surrendered liberalism for the kind of creeping totalitarianism whose resemblance to liberalism is limited to a familiar smile and wink. From the NYT: The appointment of Donald H. Rumsfeld, the former defense

Jochen Bittner, WSJ Opinion Journal: […] In contrast to most post-modern nation states, Islamic fundamentalism offers the kind of warm hearth for which many shaken Western souls might yearn: community instead of individualism. Moral certainty instead of moral arbitrariness. And hasn’t the fulfilling sense of fighting a “cold evil” always held great attraction for young idealists? Take the revolutionary companeros around Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. The anti-globalization movement, which

Via MEMRI, a clip from a Hamas music video featuring the line, “In black bags, chunks of flesh of Jews.” Which, I suppose, is not far off from the kind of grisly anti-establishment wish-fulfillment anthem Ice-T once made famous with his “Cop Killer,” or the kind of post-apocalyptic ironic angst Nena cashed in on in two languages with “99 Luftballoons” — with the exception that, well, Hamas wouldn’t consider themselves