this IS war

…and that’s just a comment in the Fjordman’s excellent posting Recomendations for the West. Here’s Fjordman, just warming up: I would suggest that one thing we should fight for is national sovereignty and the right to preserve our own culture and pass it on to future generations. We are fighting for the right to define Read more

The dexterbloggers are all abuzz about this opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times (!), inspired by United 93: …many of us have lost sight of the simple truth that the system that shapes us is, in fact, a great one, that it has moved us inexorably to do better and that it’s well worth Read more

Time to stand up for our friends in Denmark and Norway. A few months ago, a Danish newspaper published this: and now that the West is putting the squeeze on the Iranians for their nukes, the cartoons are being used as a pretext for this: as well as violence against Danish and Norwegian citizens, and Read more

Van der Leun looks at L.A. Times’ Joel Stein, and clobbers the whole Whatever Generation. that this new voice that we hear throughout the land from so many of the young betokens a weaker and less certain brand of citizen than we have been used to in our history. Neither male nor female, neither gay Read more

I never cease to admire the British for their ability to be reserved, polite, and understated. There’s not much I can add to what Norm Geras, Robert Mandel, or Wretchard have to say. After 9/11 we were all Americans, after 7/7 we are all Englishmen. Update: Dave Mercer’s wife has designed a t-shirt. Read more