this IS war

Victor Davis Hanson is guardedly optimistic about the current Clash of Civilizations: "A progressive can call the ACLU all day long, but after 9/11 if he stands in line at an airport gate listening to an imam chanting Allah Akbar as he and his friends board, our liberal friend will begin to worry." Tip from Read more

What has turned the victors of the Battle of Britain into such a bunch of wusses? We have men and women in battle dress–not dress blues or greens–battle dress in every store, classroom, and loncheria in town. I guess the average Londoner would faint dead away here in San Antonio. Tip from the Parkway Rest Read more

Since the two issues are so closely related, the Great American Smokeout at UTSA was accompanied by an anti-war rally. The usual gang of thumbsuckers was manning the mike, playing the same old tired anti-war music that bored me in the 60’s. But guess who was selling hot grilled hamburgers just across the Sombrilla? Yup, Read more

" International Atomic Energy experts have found unexplained plutonium and enriched uranium traces in a nuclear waste facility in Iran…"   Now how the heck did that happen? Tip from The Corner. Read more

Today was Veterans’ Day, celebrated mainly by the lack of mail delivery, my credit union closing, and my favorite jewelry repairman closing. Yesterday was better–the Army ROTC Roadrunner Batallion hosted a Veterans’ Day Ceremony, with UTSA staff and faculty veterans as the guests of honor. It was short, and to the point, reminding us of Read more

"To put it in its simplest terms, we can quit the battle field but the battle field will not quit us." writes Dan Gordon in the American Thinker. Tip from the Reverend Donald Sensing, who sums it all up "There are a lot of serious issues facing this country, but compared to the Islamist threat, Read more

Folks are in an uproar, pro and con, over John Kerry’s careless remark about the uneducated becoming cannon fodder: "You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, Read more

…is probably at your fingertips if you go to the MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base.  Nice graphics, too! Tip from Belmont Club. Read more

The Long War at home is heating up.  The can’t-leave-well-enough-alone secularists, as championed by Richard Dawkins, continue to snipe at the faithful.  But some of the faithful are having none of it; the Reverend Donald Sensing lays it out in no uncertain terms: Dawkins, Wilson et. al. are what I call evangelistic atheists, not content Read more

Am I a little wacky, or are the Authorities about 5 years behind the power curve in doing this? Just another data point indicating that the Bush Administration is fundamentally un-serious about the current Clash of Civilizations. Tip from the Drudge Report. Read more