Yale alum and proprietor of the Nail Yale blog, Clint Taylor, emails to say that Yale looks to be manuevering to save face and rid itself, by way of a change in its special students program standards, of former Taliban mouthpiece, Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi. Of paramount importance to Yale, one suspects, is not looking like they caved to pressure from knuckledragging xenophobes like Taylor and other judgmental western hegemons on

Those politicos and anti-war types who’ve staked their reputations on the “Bush Lied” meme have got to be getting nervous as more and more of the Saddam archives get translated and made public. Here, for instance, via Powerline (h/t Dave Price), is the translated text of a Top Secret memo, which begins with this introduction by the translator, jveritas: Document ISGP-2003-0001498 contains a 9 page TOP SECRET memo (pages 87-96

”Knock knock” “Who’s there?” ”David Neiwert.”* “Shit!  Quick, somebody hide the rope and the gasoline-soaked crosses.  And for Chrissakes, take off that hood, would you, Buford? I think he may be on to us…”

When I read about guys like this—only to find out that they blog (and read other blogs with which many of us are familiar)—it makes me wonder how many killers and would-be cannabilizing child eaters are reading my site. I mean, is it really possible that I—like Dave Barry—can drive some of my readers to murder a girl and ready her for a barbecue supper spread?  Because that’s power, man…

From the Jerusalem Post: ‘We are at war,” declares Maj.-Gen. Yitzhak “Haki” Harel, head of the IDF’s Planning Directorate and a senior member of the IDF General Staff, who is retiring in a few months after 31 years of military service. The Palestinian Authority, he says in an exclusive interview with The Jerusalem Post, has been taken over by a group of Hamas terrorists and murderers, and the IDF’s current

From the April 17 Weekly Standard “Scrapbook”: Concerned that Americans might be engaged in anti-Muslim stereotyping, “Dateline NBC” producers had an unusual brainstorm: Let’s stereotype Americans! More specifically, the class of Americans that enjoys stock car racing. As we learned last week from Michelle Malkin’s blog, NBC sent an undercover camera crew to NASCAR’s April 2 DIRECTV 500 at the Martinsville Speedway in southern Virginia. NBC confirmed to an AP

I write quite frequently here about how the tenets of classical western liberalism, particularly freedom of speech and assembly, have been bastardized in the humanities and social sciences of many modern “progressive” universities—and about how the subversion and re-signification of these concepts into their near opposites (free speech is now “free” only when confined to a designated space in the commons, and groups that gather willingly to express certain political

Pass me the melon salad, please.  And—Ooh! good Christ! Is that lime Jell-o!?

From the Brussels Journal: He who controls the way people talk controls the way they think. Hence, it is no surprise that the EUSSR is actively trying to manipulate our language. Last February, The Daily Telegraph reported that Franco Frattini, the EU Commissioner for Justice, Freedom, and Security, declared he was in favour of some kind of self-regulatory media code in reporting about Islam. Now the EU officials are “discreetly