February 3rd, 2005
Is probably by the NewDonkey, who has a very thoughtful and interesting evaluation of the speech as a piece of speechwriting. Worth your valuable time.
0 commentsHow much for just one rib?
February 2nd, 2005
It was bad enough that Redskins fans were turned back from FedEx Field because they came on foot rather than pay for a shuttle bus. It was bad enough that some of the fans were given “upgrades” and discovered their new view was mostly obstructed by a wall. It’s bad enough fans cannot pay for individual tickets but have to purchase an entire season’s worth. But adding even more insult to injury was the recently announced policy that in the near future, Redskins fans can only purchase their tickets using the official Redskins Extra Points MasterCard (and not no other MasterCard, let alone Visa or American Express). All for a team that went 6-10 last season.
But today the Redskins announced they have reversed their decision and fans can now purchase their tickets using any MasterCard. (But what about those of us, including myself, who don’t even own a MasterCard to begin with?) For owner Daniel Snyder (who Tony Kornheiser once described as the love child of Jerry Jones and George Steinbrenner), this is a battle lost, not the war. Perhaps next season he should offer tickets in return for first-born sons.
0 commentsFebruary 2nd, 2005
Thomas Joscelyn is blogging about The Connection.
0 commentsRoss Douthat, Geek
February 2nd, 2005
I say this not as an accusation, but as an expression of kinship. The evidence is here.
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February 2nd, 2005
Scott Johnson points to an outstanding article in the new Commentary about what happens when Muslims convert:
. . . thousands of Muslims in the West embrace Christianity each year, and the courage they must muster to do so is of an entirely different order from the bravado of someone protesting against supposedly pervasive social prejudice. These converts stand accused, rather, of apostasy. . . . In the Islamic world, there is a broad consensus, both popular and scholarly, that apostates deserve to be killed.
The author, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, details much evidence to support this claim, and then comes to another important point:
Advocates of jihad, to say nothing of actual terrorists, can be found in every corner of the West. More disturbing, because of what it says about our own ideological self-defenses, is the respectability that has been granted to spokesmen for Islamic fundamentalism who have learned to promote their agenda in our own idiom, even as they argue that mere conversion out of Islam should be considered a crime.
This rote adherence to the principle of pluralism–even in the face of ideological and practical totalitarianism–is a given here in America.
But Europe may be having second thoughts about no-questions-asked multicultural acceptance. With what we’ve seen recently in the Netherlands, France, and elsewhere, it seems possible that the Europeans may be willing to culturally confront Islamism, even if they though they have been less willing to do so militarily.
And in truth, I’m not certain which field of battle is more important.
0 commentsFebruary 2nd, 2005
OxBlog points us to this report in the Sunday Times about the future of North Korea’s regime.
0 commentsNext: Kuwait
February 2nd, 2005
Captain Ed has an interesting post on Kuwait’s killing and capturing of eight al Qaeda members.
0 commentsTaking Kos Seriously
February 2nd, 2005
SoxBlog has written an excellent piece about Daily Kos.
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