In his latest NRO column, Victor Davis Hanson examines the idea of an Israeli wall: Walls, for better or worse […] bring to disputes both political and moral clarity — especially in the manner that they reveal exactly who wants to broach them and in what direction. The Berlin Wall and the DMZ in Korea made it clear that purportedly content communists wanted out of their countries more than supposedly

In his most recent column, Dennis Prager asks, “why isn’t the left out there leading pro-Israel demonstrations?” After all, Israel is fully democratic, has a highly developed feminist movement, holds annual gay pride parades, has an independent and liberal judiciary, an active and influential leftist press, and leftist (even Socialist) parties — in short, it embodies the very institutions and attitudes the left claims to celebrate. Whereas the Muslim Arab

Overheard at the watercooler late next week: “Enron? What’s an Enron…?”

Overheard at the watercooler late next week: “Enron? What’s an Enron…?”

Great catch, Dailypundit! Y’know, I like the name of that last signatory quite a bit: “Ivona Xiezopolski.” Kinda trips off the tongue, don’t it? Perhaps Saddam can use it as the pen name for his next novel. Provided a Daisycutter hasn’t turned him into desert spam before he’s finish writing it, of course.

Great catch, Dailypundit! Y’know, I like the name of that last signatory quite a bit: “Ivona Xiezopolski.” Kinda trips off the tongue, don’t it? Perhaps Saddam can use it as the pen name for his next novel. Provided a Daisycutter hasn’t turned him into desert spam before he’s finish writing it, of course.

Best get your own. And fast, too. (I hear gun shows are good places to find what you need. Plus you can circumvent all that bureaucratic red tape. Blessed, blessed loopholes.). [via Rand Simberg]

Best get your own. And fast, too. (I hear gun shows are good places to find what you need. Plus you can circumvent all that bureaucratic red tape. Blessed, blessed loopholes.). [via Rand Simberg]

Writing in The Times Online, Michael Grove explains (yet again — only he’s British, so he does it with that cool accent those dudes have) why “hopelessness” and desperation neither excuse nor ennoble terrorism: The terrorist responsible for the bus bombing which killed 20 Israelis last Wednesday, Mohammed al-Ghoul, was explicit in his motivation. ‘How beautiful it is to make my bomb shrapnel kill the enemy,’ he wrote immediately before

Ah, the speed (and the greed, and the need, indeed) of capitalism! [thanks to Gary Mittin]