this IS war
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9-11 Memorials
I’m ducking most of them. Ten years on, that dreadful day is still burned in my memory, the greatest shock since the assassination of President Kennedy. We owe a lifetime of thanks for the lost heroes of that day, a lifetime of tears for the victims, and a lifetime of burning hatred for the perverted Read more
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Terrorizing ourselves
“The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.” Read Lynne Kiesling’s take on the legacy of 9/11: “Be indomitable. Refuse to be terrorized.” Update (10 September). Richard Fernandez thinks we should go on the offense: “We have no right to forgive. We have no right to forget.” Read more
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Need some serious Red State red meat ranting?
Check out Ann Barnhardt, who is Ann Coulter on speed, steroids, and a serious tear. Tip from American Digest. Read more
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A Texan goes to church
Jay Nordlinger shares a letter prompted by his observations on a cruise in France. The folks in Quanah, Texas broke the mold when they reared up Welborn B. Griffith, Jr. Read more
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Matamoros, indeed
After a long time coming, US Special Forces have punched Osama Bin Laden’s ticket. So, can I stop taking my shoes off in the airport? Or do we need to rub out another couple thousand of those Al Qaida rat bastards? I suggest we accelerate our troop withdrawals, and focus our efforts on those whack Read more
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In France, nobody expects the Spanish Inquistion…
…but apparently some French Catholics might welcome it, after destroying Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ.” Yes, it’s illegal, anti-intellectual, and dangerous to free speech. But I’m amazed Christians have for so long turned the other cheek to a world of insults, oppressions, and outright massacres. When Radical Islam gets results by videotaping decapitations, fundamentalist Christians take Read more
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Try the new Totalitarian Diet
Hugo Chavez has a new anti-obesity campaign, “We are eating better, that’s been proven. We’re leaving malnutrition behind. It no longer exists in the country, but be careful with obesity.” Think it might have anything to do with this? Read more
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Crank up the Enola Gay!
Great view of the cockpit of the famous Hiroshima Bomber. Back in the 20th Century, I–and a half-dozen other young majors–had lunch with General Tibbets. Oh, the stories he had. The first class of the Air Command and Staff College was all field-promoted colonels who’d been lieutenants when the war started. General T. said they’d Read more
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The fix is in, and we’re tired of it
Michael Barone begins to get at the motivation behind middle-class Tea Partiers: The recoil in 2010 against the Obama Democrats’ vast expansion of the size and scope of government seems to have a cultural or a moral dimension as well. It was a vote, as my Washington Examiner colleague Timothy P. Carney wrote last week, Read more
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