Category Archives: Essays

These remarkably prescient words from General Curtis Lemay—one of the men most responsible for our victories against both Germany and Japan during WWII—were written in 1965. Tragically, we seem to have almost completed the moral descent Lemay warned about in his memoirs … Continue reading →

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xafJW_VtA8w “Contemplation,” second track from McCoy Tyner’s “The Real McCoy” album. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on April 21, 1967. Originally released on Blue Note (4264).   McCoy Tyner (piano); Joe Henderson (tenor saxophone); Ron Carter … Continue reading →

 “Heat and Light” by Diana West (Posted in full from her blog)  This is a back story, not a story, that I tell to bring my own perspective to an unfortunate episode involving Andrew Bostom and Robert Spencer, two major, if … Continue reading →

This fine morning, what did I see? A Little King Plagiarist, running behind, desperately…to plagiarize me. From here (mostly), here, here, etc., etc. , etc. Update: The Little King Doth Protest My Original Posting According to Webster, there is no … Continue reading →

The Obama Manchild President continues apace his relentless attack upon our fundamental institutions—social, economic, military, and political. If not reversed soon, the most profound and lasting impact of this devastating assault will be experienced by our children. Francisco Goya’s “Saturno … Continue reading →

One man’s (Boot’s) delusional/careerist passion, is another’s (Khouri’s) triumphal, strategic passion. My colleague Diana West has fully deconstructed the mendacious attacks upon her by Commentary Magazine blogger Max Boot, whose hero-worshipping, delusional  (and perhaps careerist?)  “mindset” renders it impossible for Boot  … Continue reading →

Philip Jenkins versus Tina Magaard: She’s alot more intelligent and honest, too… Tina Magaard, from her “Fjendebilleder og voldsforestillinger i islamiske grundtekster,” Acta Jutlandica : aarsskrift for universitetsundervisningen i Jylland. 82, no. 1, (2007): p. 221, (kindly translated by Fjordman)  “The … Continue reading →

Tarek Fatah—“Hardened Secular, Moderate Muslim” Antisemite Heir of Al-Maghribi My essay on Mr. Fatah’s diatribe against the Canadian Jewish community, and Jews at large, appears in Pajamas Media today. Fatah, hailed as “a paragon of secularism and moderation,” makes plain … Continue reading →

Krauthammer’s “Take” on Islam and Wilders is the Wrong Take Last May, I blogged about Charles Krauthammer’s fundamental ignorance of mainstream, classical Islamic Law—evident in a naïve column he wrote discussing Hamas’ “truce offer,” which was oblivious to over a … Continue reading →