From Attack Machine: The Australian: There is a certain familiarity to the concomitant series of actions and reactions when disaster strikes in the world. The US stands ready, willing and able to offer assistance. It is often the first country to send in millions of dollars, navy strike groups loaded with food and medical supplies, and transport planes, helicopters and floating hospitals to help those devastated by natural disaster. Then,

The Art of Manliness suggests one hundred must-read books for men. For the most part, I approve, though I have to say that non-English authors are sadly underrepresented. What I mean to say is, almost all of these are well worth the reading, IMO. And don’t miss the review section, “Priapus.” UPDATE: How manly do I like my literature to be? I prefer masculine rhyme. Double-Dactyl Higgledy-Piggledy Dactyls in dimeter,

AMERICAblog’s John Avarosis blogs what his comrades in the establshment media wish they could broadcast regarding Hillary Clinton’s Quixotic campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination: Go away you horrible human being  IT’S NOT CLOSE.  YOU FREAKING LOST THE NOMINATION, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?  —  Good God.  What is wrong with her? Thomas B. Edsall rounds up some of the more polite media versions of this sentiment in

Baaaaaaaaa. For around a decade now — since around the time, coincidentally, that the warming stopped — the alarmists have had things pretty much their own way, dominating the debate with ever more dramatic predictions of impending doom as man-made CO2 emissions heat up the planet, and managing for the best part to keep a lid on dissent, thanks to an unlikely, and decidedly unholy, alliance of organizations and individuals

The conventional wisdom is that Barack Obama has the youth vote sewn up in a general election.  But in an interview with Williamette Week, Obama gives John McCain an opening: If you had a tattoo, what would it be and where would you put it? Uh, I cannot imagine any circumstances in which I would get a tattoo. If a gun was put to my head? Where has Obama been the

By George! He is the one they’ve been waiting for. Great Googly-Moogly! Stanley Kurtz treads in Karl’s footsteps. To seek out new life, new civilizations . . . (h/t Hot Air)

More on the New Left and fascism from Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism (aside to sashal: see here): […] it is worth noting that even some titans of the left still had the clarity of vision to understand what they were dealing with. Irving Louis Horowitz, a revered leftist intellectual (he was the literary executor of C. Wright Mills) specializing in revolutionary thought, saw in 1960s radicalism a “fanatic attempt to

It’s everywhere!  It’s everywhere!

This topic has emerged in some of our recent threads, so I invite you to  . . . well, I’ll just let David Thompson explain: A brief tribute to the Online Journal of Embodiment & Technology, which features such herculean artistic works as Thrash: Physical Responses to the Bush Administration, by Andrew Simonet and Headlong Dance Theatre, and the scholarly musings of “radical cyber-feminist” Professor Caroline Guertin: “We inhabit our

Live in or around DC?  Written by JD Johannes Wednesday, 14 May 2008 ‘Danger Close’, the documentary that grew from my filming of a fire-fight between U.S. Army Paratroopers and Al Qaida is having its film festival debut this Friday in Washington, D.C. The GI Film Festival, at the Carnegie Institute, will screen ‘Danger Close’ at 3:30pm Friday . David and I will be there to take part in a