I’m a great admirer of Rusty Shackleford, so it’s with distress that I read that he’s decided that our invasion of Iraq was a mistake, because it hasn’t improved our security. I say so in part because Iraq has discredited al-Qaeda and its ideas in the view of many in the Islamic world. Here is the testimony of Dr. Fadl, one of the architects of the Jihadist philosophy that animated

Byron York heard it on CNN. I just heard it confirmed on FNC. Apparently, crazyass, race-baiting, crypto Marxist politics dressed up as religion just got to be too much… when it came out of the mouth of a white priest.  Much harder to play the race card as trump. Update: At a Saturday night news conference, Obama discussed his decision: “I’m not denouncing the church and I’m not interested in people who

at Larry the Legend’s No Quarter: WARNING This does NOT apply to 99% of you, however, a couple of lost souls have posted threats against Barack Obama on this blog. Be forewarned, I will turn all threats over to the Secret Service (they are investigating two at this moment). While I don’t believe Barack is qualified to be President, nothing justifies or warrants a death threat. Please play nice. The

From the leader of the Reality-Based Community: Democrat Barack Obama paid an unscheduled late-night visit to Mount Rushmore Friday, visiting the national memorial at closing time and joking that his ears were too big to ever be included in such a display. *** He did express curiosity about the filming of a chase scene in “North by Northwest,” Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 classic starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint that

At The Chicago Tribune’s The Swamp, racist Jim Tankersley refers to “br*ar p*tch”. When DoS attacks go corporate.

Reviewed by Thomas Joscelyn: Not only does Washington have a hard time properly naming our jihadist enemies, it still fails to understand that terrorist-sponsoring regimes have long backed them. Here, McCarthy has been at the forefront of explaining how jihadist terrorism is frequently, but not exclusively, a tool of hostile regimes: Writing in these pages in 1998 (“The Sudan Connection”), he explored the many ties between the 1993 plotters and

arrested after secretly living for a year in man’s apartment, while he also was living there. (h/t Reynolds) This happened to me, as well, but in my case I reprimanded her for getting caught and determined never to speak of it again.

Picking up on Dan’s quotation of Rev. Susan Thistlethwaite on the new era of hopeyness and changitude to be brought into being by Barack Obama: This political campaign season often seems to me to be a kind of cultural theater, where we are seeing the end of one kind of politics, the politics of polarization (and even the religion of polarization) coming to an end and a new politics and religion