Via Dan (who himself dealt with this topic yesterday) comes this piece from James Lewis touching on the topic of idealizing Otherness that I brushed against yesterday in my dealings with Mr Seiple and his quaint semantic concerns. Well worth your time. As a bit of a gloss, let me relate some of my own academic experiences. During one of my summers as a fellow at the School of Lit

Evidently Gene Healy hasn’t been reading his David Horowitz… — Well, except for the “Republicans do it too,” part, maybe.

Benjamin Kerstein, The New Ledger: It must be said […] that Oliphant’s cartoon is somewhat unique in adopting […] these themes into a single image, reflecting the cumulative influence of antisemitisms both past and present. Combined with its publication in a prestigious American newspaper, it indicates that a convergence of sorts is occurring. It seems that a process which has been underway since the second intifada began has now reached

Remember: it is okay to be “unhappy” with this. Even to express moderate “concern.” But please. Try not to embarrass the legitimate and skilled public critics who’ve selected themselves to do your complaining for you. After all, while you mouth your rather coarse and uncouth hysterics, they are busy doing the real work of making the GOP safe for consensus-driven progressivism and a moralist-flavored multiculturalism. We love your votes, people,

“N. Korea has 2 nuclear warheads for Rodong missiles, group says”. From Kyodo News, via Rantburg: The U.S. and South Korean intelligence organizations have obtained information North Korea has two nuclear warheads that could be mounted on mid-range Rodong missiles, a senior analyst at an international nongovernmental group said Tuesday. Daniel Pinkston, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group, told Kyodo News he got the information from a government

…for our little experiment in freedom, now so clearly moribund. I feel like digging up Saul Alinsky and dumping his corpse on the doorstep of Mr Berg’s finely appointed townhouse. So he can really see the rot for himself. Of course, what would make it perfect would be to leave moldering carcass on a day when Mr Berg just happened to be having Mr Lakoff over for cocktail weenies and

WSJ: GM’s CEO Rick Wagoner got the Presidential boot over the weekend, and GM was given two months to reorganize, or get forced into a “quick and surgical” bankruptcy. For once, we agree with Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, who called Mr. Wagoner “a sacrificial lamb.” The Administration needed someone to take the fall to sate the anticorporate furies it has helped to unleash. Mr. Wagoner wasn’t solely responsible for GM’s

Me? Like a freakin’ Clydesdale, baby… related.

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