April 24, 2008

Children are like sponges

We've all heard that truism and if you have children of your own or even if you've only been exposed to the little walking info-vacs for brief, one or two hour periods, you know just how easily they can assimilate and regurgitate informatio...

April 9, 2008

Irony Alert!

Some "civil rights activists" want Big Brother doing more watching. Audrey Hudson of the Washington Times reports:  Religious, minority and civil rights activists are asking Homeland Security officials to screen their own airport scree...

February 25, 2008

The power of propaganda over young minds

Greenagers is just the latest eco-neologism coined [read: contrived] in the global warming, excuse me, climate change non-debatable debate. According to an article in today's Sky News, 95% of British children between the ages of 4 and 15  p...

February 10, 2008

Words vs Sticks & Stones

I'm sure you're all familiar with the old nursery rhyme "Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me." This simple children's poesy came to mind as I was reading one of the 400-plus news reports of the David Schust...

February 6, 2008

Mystery Deepens Over WMD Documents

Joseph Goldstein of the New York Sun reports on information that could upset the "No WMD in Iraq" narrative:How the classified military documents from Iraq, which named the coordinates of where the Army suspected weapons of mass destruction...

October 23, 2007

Selective Outrage

The Lefties on Morning Joe are dogging NASA over their decision (NASA suppresses alarming survey on air safety) to withhold the information on airline safety. Funny, I can't for the life of me remember any Goreites dogging NASA for screwing...

September 13, 2007

Sex offenders as the new victim class

The Soros-funded group Human Rights Watch takes up sex offenders as latest victim class. But it does manage just a bit of boilerplate. From Google News:Rights group urges less strict US sex offender lawsAFP - 16 hours ago"Human Rights Watch...

September 7, 2007

A Baker's Dozen

The headline reads "11 N.J. Officials Arrested on Corruption" but the article ends; (More than 100 public officials in the state have been convicted on federal corruption charges in the last five years.) Two other Democratic state senators,...

August 25, 2007

How do you say 'chutzpah' in Arabic?

CAIR is so relieved that the U.S. Department of State's efforts were successful in extricating two Islamic American families (along with two busloads of infidels other American citizens) from the clutches of Hamas. But of course they manage...

August 23, 2007

Nicaragua embargoes American assets

A judge in Nicaragua has embargoed assets of Exxon in a tax dispute. Reuters reports: A Nicaraguan judge has embargoed assets of U.S. oil company Esso Standard Oil in a tax payment dispute between the government of leftist President Daniel Ortega and...

July 9, 2007

The Times, It Ain't A Changin'

Two pages, 1375 words, and not one bit of analysis from the NYT of the potential synergies of a successful News Corp buyout of Dow Jones & Co. Combining the WSJ with Murdoch's new 24/7 financial cable news channel will allow the me...

June 25, 2007

China sees the light, why can't we?

What do the Chinese see in Iraq that apparently the left and the antique media do not see, or choose to ignore?  Simple; the country-wide offensive operation, a.k.a., the "surge" is working to the extent that the Chinese think that the...

May 25, 2007

Great analogy

The simultaneous winner of both The Most Revealing and The Stupidest remark about the new Pew Research Center's poll of American Muslims is... "I think it is a little like the O.J. Simpson case," said Dawud Walid, executive director of...

May 9, 2007

What goes around comes around!

TEHRAN, May. 08 (ISNA)-An informed official in Iran's foreign ministry regarding the arrest of 12 Iranian divers by Emirates coast guards stated that this arrest was completely illegal. "These divers were 18 miles from Abu Musa Island and 24 mil...

May 8, 2007

Northern Ireland and Iraq

Today heralds a new dawn for Northern Ireland, with the inauguration of an historic power-sharing government. It is hoped the move will finally bring peace, prosperity and stability to this once troubled province.The 108-seat Northern Irela...

March 23, 2007

Coming soon to polling place near you (updated)

How long until this issue in Canada becomes a voting issue in the United States? My guess is 2008.Muslim women wearing the niqab or burka - veils that hide the face entirely - will be allowed to vote in the Quebec elections, without showing their fac...

March 20, 2007

Bong hits for Mao?

Is it just me or does anyone else find it laughably ironic that the self-appointed champion of free speech Joseph Bong Hits For Jesus Frederick is now teaching English in China where a similar stunt would've likely cost him considerabl...

March 15, 2007

A Moderate Male Chauvinist

It looks like the so-called moderate Muslim Tariq Ramadan has a problem with taking directions from women in positions of authority. This past Sunday when a young policewoman stopped him from entering a prohibited area of the Paris Roissy C...

March 1, 2007

Double Standards

The Bay area free weekly AsianWeek  really took a hit on Wednesday. It seems that when it published articles by Kenneth Eng about why he hates whites and why whites hate Asians, nobody protested. Big surprise right? So it went right ah...

February 21, 2007

Is the pope modifying his stance on Islam?

Pope Benedict XVI appears to be modifying his approach to the Muslim world, according to an analysis appearing the publication Our Sunday Visitor and featured on the website Catholic.org:Call it a change of substance, call it a change of to...

February 12, 2007

Deadly dilly-dally (a poem)

I cut  and I paste till I'm blue in the face,As Chamberlain mimes repeat his mistakes.While fiddlers fiddle and Iran makes haste,And most politicians make nothing but waste.Last time it was Adolf this time it's MahmoudTh...

January 20, 2007

A True Tall Tale

For Kim Bullock, size does matter - but not the way you're thinking! Kim Bullock is man and my double entendre exordium refers to his oenological bragging rights not the magnitude of his masculinity. For those of you frustrated with my predilect...

November 25, 2006

A moderate Muslim voice

If you give Dr. El-Affendi the benefit of the doubt (considering his audience, he can't sound too pro-western without the risk of being completely ignored or worse), about half of what he says sounds like something you'd read on AT! We heartily welco...

November 25, 2006

Stunning pictures

From Britain's Channel Four come compelling pictures of animals in utero. Hi technology 4D ultrasound enables us to appreciate the development of mammals in the womb. These are not to be missed.Joseph Crowley...