The Jerusalem Post has revealed that Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, quoting Israeli intelligence, has stated that Iran could go nuclear within a year, bringing much of the world’s concerns over confrontation with Tehran into a very real possibility. Critics will argue that Iran is only after peaceful nuclear technology, but I find it hard to [...] Read more »
Posts from ‘April, 2008’
Catastrophe For Obama? Rev. Wright’s NAACP Speech
I have read the early reaction to Rev. Wright’s speech at the NAACP gala earlier tonight. Most people seem to be saying that this speech was a catastrophe for Obama, that it was the height of foolishness not to muzzle Wright and that he is going to pay dearly. I think that Barack Obama’s campaign [...] Read more »
Obama and The Persuadable Voter
~by Lisaed
I find myself wondering lately what it must be like to be one of those all powerful “persuadable” voters. I’m charming. I’m conservative. I’m not persuadable. While I may not be an ardent supporter of John McCain I am an ardent supporter of all those wanting to keep Barack Obama out of the White [...] Read more »
Chinese Weapons Could Inflate US Casualties
The Wired Blog has an interesting article about new Chinese weapons that could seriously aid insurgents against traditional security forces–something that both the United States and Israel should be worried about, since China has very low standards about who they supply with munitions and technology.
Wired writes:
Portable rocket launchers like the RPG-7 are some of the [...] Read more »
Obama’s bitter; Craig’s broke; and the Three Stooges
The Borowitz Report has revealed a startling new tactic the Obama campaign is taking, reinvigorating itself by shifting the “bitterness” from the voters to the candidate:
“You want to talk bitter?” Obama said to his audience. “How about losing the Pennsylvania primary after you were supposed to have this nomination locked up – that’ll make you [...] Read more »
The Fallacy of Peace Talks
Hamas has proposed a ten-year truce with Israel. Continued peace–peace that could extend beyond one decade–is apparently too much of a commitment for the Palestinian terrorist group. Ten years. I imagine Khaled Mashaal thought that this was a rather nice number. A rounded number. A short time for peace to [...] Read more »
Battle of Morality: Good vs Evil
I’ve long thought of Agnosticism as the lazy thinker’s way out of cerebral toil. Whilst not personally sharing the militant atheism of Richard Dawkins, I had concluded before I read his fascinating book, The God Delusion, that people who declared there might or might not be a divine being, were as bad as those who [...] Read more »
A Democratic Islam?
There’s an impression that Muslims suffer disproportionately from the rule of dictators, tyrants, unelected presidents, kings, emirs, and various other strongmen - and it’s accurate. A careful analysis by Frederic L. Pryor of Swarthmore College in the Middle East Quarterly (”Are Muslim Countries Less Democratic?”) concludes that “In all but the poorest countries, Islam is [...] Read more »
Remember the Alamo?
Hilarious and nauseating at once is mankind’s chronic inability to retain wisdom acquired at the cost of much blood, toil, tears, and sweat. This tragicomedy was played out for us in no uncertain terms upon our recent Stateside pilgrimage to one of the more forgotten shrines to the cause of Liberty: the Alamo.
Internationally acclaimed as [...] Read more »
Religion and the Presidency
Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani is a Catholic, although—as this column by Richard Cohen points out—his marital history isn’t precisely what the Catholic church would consider ideal.
Cohen compares Giuliani’s recent answer to a question about his Catholicism with that of a man widely known as “the first Catholic President,” JFK. Giuliani told reporters his religion was [...] Read more »
