!גמר חתימה טובה
To all our Jewish readers. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Confucius, Œc. Vol.
Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.
Tasteless but…
…if this kind of stuff hadn’t been created left and right by his fanboys during the campaign, and the president hadn’t been talking himself up as the Redeemer of the Nation, I’d consider it out of bounds. But, since as … Continue reading →
Iä, Ié!
John Miller is right, this is awfully funny. (Weird and creepy images may not be work or child-safe. 0/1d2 SAN loss.) Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Dr. D rips Britain
Characteristically ascerbic: Perhaps this would not be so serious a matter if the British economy were not a so-called service economy. It has been such ever since Margaret Thatcher solved our chronic industrial relations problem by the simple expedient of … Continue reading →
H.P. Lovecraft, Fascist
There’s an on-going discussion on H.P. Lovecraft at NRO’s Corner which paints a partially correct view of H.P. Lovecraft, but completely misses out on Lovecraft’s dismal and vicious politics. John Derbyshire quotes Sam Francis as calling HPL “one of America’s … Continue reading →
2009: Anno homini verticis
You were warned that it’s the Year of the Yeti. And we brought you a glimpse into the seamier side of cinéma yéti. Now, we take you uptown to reveal that, as the Hollywood Reporter writes: ’GON FAVE RAIMI TAPPED … Continue reading →
Sleep well, kiddies.
China has made no secret of their desire to knock us out of their rightful sphere of influence. Read this outstanding article by Dan Blumenthal — China’s staggering boost in military hardware and technology isn’t gear that’s limited to a … Continue reading →
Not that we know (or are closely related to) folks like this.
We love the Church, but by and large, churchmen don’t understand a lick about economics. This results in foolishness not limited to—and usually much more catastrophic than—the mushy Christian-Democratic statist gunk the Czar was recently surprised to find in the … Continue reading →
Mark Helprin (who hasn’t published a novel in way too long) on the Appearance of Weakness
He begins: During last year’s campaign, Sen. Joe Biden famously remarked that, if his ticket won, it wouldn’t be long before “the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy” on foreign affairs. Last week, President Obama, brilliantly wielding … Continue reading →
Rotasubteriation* for General McChrystal?
Rich Lowry reads the tea leaves. *For which see here. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Tom Jocelyn & the Fallacy of Foreign-Policy Egocentrism
Tom Jocelyn at the Standard writes a good post today on the fact that “Obama’s Popularity Abroad Does Not Equal Gains for America.” In short: his personal popularity has not changed any of the complexes of problems with which President … Continue reading →
Buffaloed Bills
‘Puter, tell the Bills’ players not to worry. People are much more polite in Toronto. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Let’s just hope he doesn’t loan them to Rahm Emanuel [Update]
If this quote in the Guardian is right, then either someone flunked junior-high Civics, or the Administration’s opinion of itself is, uh, expansive? Obama has rejected the Pentagon’s first draft of the “nuclear posture review” as being too timid, and … Continue reading →
Movie recommendation
Confucius* has not seen this movie, but it comes recommended by someone whose opinion he respects greatly. If anyone checks it out, let us know, and perhaps we’ll have a screening at Castle Gormogon. *For those who came in late: … Continue reading →
“Here comes everybody,” stupid and evil cohort
Two stories today on the Church, God save her from her churchmen. Stupid: CCHD has funnelled $7.3M to ACORN over the years. Apparently ended last year. Evil: Fêted Fairfield Prep grad sets up children’s charity in Haiti in order to … Continue reading →
“Lauxum amis, marish!” she cried.
Honestly, your Czaritude, I was just as happy to pass on Etruscan for Business Travellers. I always felt it was a little sleazy. Chapter 14 was “Tarxna After Dark.” Ein thuta lautnitha, fase ti turo.Not-chaste freedwoman, I give you a … Continue reading →
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1951) [Updated]
Love it. Update. Backstory courtesy of the Czar & Czesarevich. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Fascists 2, U.S. 0.
We’re selling out the Poles and Czechs to suck up to Bad Vlad. We are now on the clock for the next contemptuous gesture by Russia. And a Georgetown professor talks down to Burmese democrats. Thanks to Mike Goldfarb for … Continue reading →
But we don’t need more F-22s. Nah.
Russia and China are both developing “fifth generation” fighters that will be widely exported at prices that will undercut the F-35 price tag. Both nations will thus acquire “near F-22 performance… while attempting to proliferate the [aircraft] to perhaps near … Continue reading →
President Obama, still working for ACORN?
These two items are doubtless coincidental. Rathke, a pioneer of the so-called welfare rights movement that aims to get Americans on welfare, devotes an entire chapter of his book to what he calls “The ‘Maximum Eligible Participation’ Solution.” It is … Continue reading →
The Journalist’s Guide to Firearm Identification
By Robb Allen @ Sharp As A Marble. Be sure to check the cute baby picture on his About page and read his proposal story. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →What’s the Matter With Kids Today? Or, Rousseau was “deceitful, vain as Satan, ungrateful, cruel, hypocritical, and full of malice.” —Diderot
Over in the Corner, Jonah Goldberg got flamed by some guy who seems to want to exculpate Rousseau, “smart people,” and “intellectuals” from murderous frenzy of the French Revolution. The historical nuts and bolts come later. Feel free to skip … Continue reading →
Credit where it’s due.
The first Gormogon collaborator to point out that the Freemasons had slipped the Czar a ringer of a picture was noted hippiephobe Gullyborg over at Resistance Is Futile!. Visit his blog and drop him a note of thanks. Also, Lane … Continue reading →
“Istanbul’s Crime Conundrum”…
…by amica Gormogonorum Claire Berlinski is up at City Journal’s site. It’s a great read. I walk alone through almost every neighborhood of Istanbul, often at night. This is a megacity of at least 12 million people, many of whom … Continue reading →
Iran keepin’ the pimp hand strong.
Unfortunately on us. Prince Mikey G writes: Every time we try and capitulate, they slap us around some more. What fresh hell is this? Oh, well, Ahmadî-Nezhâd’s press advisor is claiming that we were offering to sell them some Boeing … Continue reading →
YEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
Your Volgi will merely reproduce Vince the Film Drunk’s headline: BRUCE CAMPBELL PLAYS ‘BIG PART’ IN SPIDEY 4 Oh hell to the yeah. Wait, what are you still doing here? That was the end of the post. Oh, you thought … Continue reading →
Van Jones, we hardly knew you, Part 2.
So Confucius’s brother Li Bai, after a few bottles of rice wine, noted that Van Jones left the stage too early, with significant amounts of comedy left unmined. Not least the fact that no one in the blogosphere seems to … Continue reading →
Ne-ver mind…
Turns out we screwed up. The picture the Czar found turns out to be of a Promise Keepers’ rally a decade ago. Click here for a version with the site of the missing National Museum of the American Indian circled. … Continue reading →
Can we all agree this was just rude?
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Continue reading →How many people were at the big 9/12 “Tea Party” protest? [UPDATED]
The big 9/12 protest certainly attracted a ton of people. How many seems to be an open question. The Washington Post reported “tens of thousands,” so a conservative might reasonably expect there to have been at least a hundred thousand. … Continue reading →
Ghettoputer’s identity revealed? Part II
His new name is Julius Andreas Gimli Arn MacGyver Chewbacka Highlander Elessar-Jankov. (Yes, and at least two of his nerdonyms appear to be misspelled.) Now you know. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Ok, apologies to Baltimore
Looks like D.C. ACORN is just as guilty. Confucius* says: it seemed curious that the woman who played the prostitute told Glenn Beck that she’d emptied her savings to finance the exposé. To walk into one office with a hidden … Continue reading →
It’s hard out there for a pimp
Fortunately, ACORN is here to help! Good God, ’Puter’s sitting at home playing “count the felonies.” Congrats to Andrew Breitbart for rolling out biggovernment.com with an incredibly splash story. (That the media will do their level best to ignore.) Would … Continue reading →
“Is Pat Buchanan A Crank?”
Is the Pope Bavarian? Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Our sucking up to Iran… [Updated]
…made them feel secure enough to crack heads after the election fraud was revealed, says David Ignatius. One Iranian political figure has told a Western intermediary that the Obama administration may have unwittingly encouraged the regime’s power grab by sending … Continue reading →
St. Ted of the Church of Left-Liberalism
What is most interesting about the [Ted Kennedy’s letter to the Pope], however, is its concise expression of the view that personal salvation can be achieved through liberal politics. —James Bowman. Read on. Illustration: Antipope, Max Ernst, 1941. Confucius, Œc. … Continue reading →
D.C. loves the Ocho
Probably even more after this: The hosts asked him at some point what he thought of New York.“Well, it’s not bad,” Ovechkin said. “It’s not best place in the world, but it’s ok.”And a thousand Washingtonians breathed sweet sighs of … Continue reading →
De mortuis
If you enjoy theatrically baroque and erudite prose, hie thee to Fr. Geo. Rutler’s “Speaking Well of the Dead.” Terrific read. No such favor was granted on July 29 [1997] in St. Matthew’s Cathedral [at the funeral of Justice Wm. … Continue reading →
Baltimore Blotter
Not to pick on fair Baltimore, but… The Orioles, in a aesthetically-challenged, if apparently sincere (with the Devil owning the team, one never knows), tribute to their greats, erected four-foot aluminum numerals corresponding to the team’s retired numbers at Camden … Continue reading →
Gormogons on the Road
Oprah celebrated her 24th season premiere on Michigan Avenue in Chicago today, along with the Black Eyed Peas. The Gormogons were there. Test for faithful readers with sharp eyes: Can you spot the hidden Gormogon? Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent … Continue reading →
Some Democrats sure do love them some fascists.
You’d think someone would write a book. Not that there’s a word of truth in Jonah Goldberg’s tragically best-selling compendium of scurrilous rumors and accounts of idiosyncratic, marginal cranks like Woodrow Wilson, George Creel, Mitchell Palmer, Herbert Croly, Fr. Coughlin, … Continue reading →
The Paper’s media critic does fine work
Beck took the time to decipher the clues of the Hollywood conspiracy to turn America into a socialist regime. Glenn analyzed photos of Oliver Stone with Chavez on his arm. The two arrived in an armored gondola that Beck noticed … Continue reading →
“Congress has already exempted itself from Public Option”
And in this video, Moffit points to an amendment offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-NV, during a House Ways and Means Committee meeting just before the recess began that would have required Members to be covered by the Public Option … Continue reading →
Paglia vs. élite schools, round 211
But affluent middle-class Democrats now seem to be complacently servile toward authority and automatically believe everything party leaders tell them. Why? Is it because the new professional class is a glossy product of generically institutionalized learning? Independent thought and logical … Continue reading →
Great point from GorT’s pretend dad
One plain fact should outweigh all the words of Barack Obama and all the impressive trappings of the setting in which he says them: He tried to rush Congress into passing a massive government takeover of the nation’s health care … Continue reading →
Hellooooooo, Kitty.
Man, she shows up everywhere. Photoshopping by Brendon Donnelly at What Would Tyler Durden Do? Safe(ish) for work at WWTDD, not so safe for the work, if you click down a further level. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like … Continue reading →
Rotasubteriation
Rich, Might we suggest: ro·ta·sub·ter·i·a·tion ˌrō-tə-səb-tēr-ē-ˈā-ʃən, n., oft. fig., 1. to throw someone under a bus; to discard an individual once they no longer serve one’s purposes. 2. The state or result of being thrown under a bus or discarded … Continue reading →
RE: ’Scuse me, 官 [Updated]
Ah sō des’ ne, as those sandal-wearing goldfish tenders say. Silly me, I was still calling it “September Eleventh.” I had no idea it had been Day-ified. Update: Ok, so I’ve been thinking about this for way too long. Shouldn’t … Continue reading →
’Scuse me, 官
What the heck is Patriot Day? Is this some Hallmark holiday to supplement July 4th? Or have I just missed this for the past several decades? Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Ah, fair Balmer
Many of us Gormogons hail from Washington, D.C., which maintains a healthy and reciprocal hatred with Baltimore, Sinkhole of the Universe. So we are happy to reprint the following: 4. CRIMINALS! Everyone knows Baltimore is the shit-stained asshole of the … Continue reading →
Check out nationalaffairs.com
Looks like a new must-read site. From a couple of their inaugural articles: …The old joke that GM was a health-insurance company that made cars on the side increasingly became the company’s grim reality. As its commitments grew while its … Continue reading →
’Puter’s operatives at work
Today, when I was finished eating at McDonalds, I went to Shoppers to pick up a new toothbrush. I got back to my car only to find the windows smashed in. The only thing that was missing from my car … Continue reading →
Behold the Bride of ’Puter
Gormogons friendly D.F. (who previously was bright enough to discern our occult rôle in the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos) writes in: O Great and Notorious Volgi, [not an official title, but the ŒV approves] Hello Kitty has found a way … Continue reading →
Van Jones, we hardly knew you.
And the answer to the Volgi’s question…apparently yes! Photo: Yakov Mikhaylovich is pleased at the downfall of a czar, yet saddened by the defeat of a fellow Bolshevik. That’s one conflicted death squadder. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like … Continue reading →
Just the facts, Barry.
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Continue reading →Urge…to kill…rising
You know, the Internet is chockablock with fuckwittery, but sometimes you read something that takes the cake. Now unlike the Mandarin, who when too close to a large magnet is overcome by the smell of burnt pork and a compulsion … Continue reading →
Taste the rainbow!
Today, I tasted the rainbow. By that, I mean a homeless man hit me in the face with a bag of Skittles for not giving him money. FML If you’re not familiar with fmylife.com, spend some time there this weekend. … Continue reading →
Intermission
And now a word from the guys at Auto-Tune the News. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Kaleb Eulis: Hero
Eulls and his three younger sisters were among 22 passengers on a school bus bound for Yazoo County High School in western Mississippi until a 14-year old female student boarded the bus armed with a .380 semi-automatic handgun threatening to … Continue reading →
Now I lay thee down to…
…well, not sleep… Hey, folks, I get the intention here—all activities in life can be holy—but, c’mon. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The fix is in?
You’ve doubtless read that the AP reported that New Mexico governor, noted baseball fabulist, and failed Commerce Secretary nominee Bill Richardson’s pending indictment on corruption charges was was “killed in Washington” by the DOJ. And that that’s, uh, unusual. Now … Continue reading →
Inflation is theft.
Those who inflict it are thieves, and they turn everyone else into paranoid victims. Glad Dr. D. mentioned this: It is no coincidence that the Western leader most worried about a new bout of inflation is German chancellor Angela Merkel. … Continue reading →
“Axis of Evil?”
Neocon warmongering nonsense! Right? Right? And to echo the Czar, shukrân yâ Imârât! (شكران يا إمارات) Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →If you want decent food in the UK…
…you’re better off shivving someone than going to the hospital?! Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →None dare recall it: treason
Kennedy proved eager to deal with Andropov–the leader of the Soviet Union, a former director of the KGB and a principal mover in both the crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the suppression of the 1968 Prague Spring–at least … Continue reading →
“Nazi!” for me, not for thee.
In the Guardian (shock), Michael Tomasky approvingly quotes Andrew Sullivan’s analogizing CIA interrogators to the Gestapo. He writes; This reminds me of my larger theory, which I may get around to presenting to you sometime, that I believe that Nazi … Continue reading →
Here’s your rationing curve by age
By Rahm Emanuel’s brother, Obama’s health-care advisor. Get ready to suffer and die. It’s your duty. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Julia Stiles: Gormogon?
We’ll never tell. For more: go to Styles by Stiles. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →“Oh, you want a ho?! YOU WANT A HO?!”
So there’s this “gentleman’s club” in Florida—of course it’s in Florida—which has taken into its employment two girls who are 15 and 17. Fifteen-year-old’s Mom calls 911, the cops go get the girls. Then Your NewsTeamChannel On Your Side local … Continue reading →
Re: Sen. Edward Kennedy [UPDATED]
’Puter, I’d instead ask for God’s mercy upon his soul, for if we ask only for justice, we may receive only justice, and even a saint would flinch at that. You might add a prayer for the repose of the … Continue reading →
Third Caucasian War?
Boris Nemtsov, who is of course an opponent of V.V. Putin, claims: One of the biggest myths perpetrated by Vladimir Putin’s propaganda machine is that during his 10-year rule over Russia, the former president and current prime minister succeeded in … Continue reading →
Charles Murray, bearer of bad news
This is a fascinating and deeply troubling graphic, if true: (Source with extensive discussion. Via Jonah on the Corner.) The Œc. Vol. has frequently thought—anecdotally—that something like this is the case. A whole range of explanations suggest themselves, but Confucius* … Continue reading →
Big Brother is Watching
Extremely ineffectively. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Co-ops: Trojan Horse
You remember a while back when Confucius* said that the concept of health-insurance co-ops is not inherently problematic, but could easily be made so. “The devil,” quoth the Volgi, “is in the details.” And so he is. The devil, d/b/a … Continue reading →
Nagyon szépen köszönöm, Magyarorság!
“What Hungarians did here was very brave,” she said at a commemoration event. “Two enslaved nations together broke down the walls of enslavement… and Hungarians gave wings to East Germans’ desire for freedom. “The opening of the borders became irreversible … Continue reading →
Mailbag: Hello Kitty says, “Sic semper tyrannis!”
Gormogon observer D.F. writes in: Okay, so full disclosure time, I’m a huge PJ O’Rourke fan. Got just about all his stuff on my shelf, and I live by the Republican Party Reptile credo of opposition to government spending, aerobics, … Continue reading →
Feet of clay
A perspicacious Gormogon operative writes in in re the Œc. Vol.’s endorsement of The Last Tanks in Paris: Don’t get too excited about your rebellious Russian rockers. That’s a Che shirt on the second guy from the left. Seems like … Continue reading →
So why wouldn’t they…
…do this? Say, here’s a thought. Someone keeps saying there are 47 million Americans without healthcare coverage. How about this: find out who they are. The census folks should be getting this data in another few months anyway when they … Continue reading →
Dropping the public option?
Well, this sounds good and like a victory for American medicine. But read on a bit and you’ll see this: Under a proposal by Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., consumer-owned nonprofit cooperatives would sell insurance in competition with private industry, not … Continue reading →
Vade retro me, Saul.
So Alinsky begins by telling readers what a radical is. He is not a reformer of the system but its would-be destroyer. This is something that in my experience conservatives have a very hard time understanding. Conservatives are altogether too … Continue reading →
Последние танкы в Париже
The Gormogons have a new favorite Russian band, Posledniye tanky v Parizhe, or the Last Tanks in Paris (a pun on The Last Tango in Paris). Turns out that, like the Gormogons, they hate Vladimir Putin and his sleazy, corrupt, … Continue reading →
Military Interpreters Treated Disgracefully
Maybe not all, but there seems to be enough anecdotal evidence to warrant some sort of investigation or regularization of their status relative to the Armed Forces. Doubtless there are some bad guys in there, but for those who aren’t? … Continue reading →
Steyn on the Inescapability of Rationing: or, Nursey, Bar the Door
Some years ago, when I was a slip of a lad, I found myself commiserating with a distinguished American songwriter about the death of one of his colleagues. My 23-year old girlfriend found all the condolence talk a bit of … Continue reading →
Hippies, hippies all around me!: Whole Foods Edition
Gormogon Operative 24601 [code-name SVETLANA MONSOON] writes in about the latest cause célèbre in bunched-panties liberaldom. Yes, not since Tom Monaghan ran Domino’s Pizza and had the effrontery to give money to right-to-life causes has there been an opportunity to … Continue reading →
Global Warming Propaganda: Latest Victim of the Gormogons [UPDATED]
The key to discrediting a non-rationally held belief system is with equally a-rational emotions. Like ridicule. Laughter. Given that Globalwarmingism is effectively a cult impervious to evidence (no warming? Call it “climate change” and proceed without blinking), the Gormogons have … Continue reading →
Mailbag! Some quality McPeak bashing and a respectful dissent on the F-22
Gormogon Operative Mark writes Confucius*, apropos Gen. McPeak’s op-ed (which Confucius mainly posted to bash the general’s apparent fecklessness as a high-level advisor, but with the general thrust of which he agrees): Ask anyone who served in the Air Force … Continue reading →
Gen. Merrill McPeak weighs in on the F-22
OPINION AUGUST 9, 2009, 7:43 P.M. ET Why We Need the F-22 It’s been more than half a century since American soldiers were killed by hostile aircraft. Let’s keep it that way. By MERRILL A. MCPEAK The United States relies … Continue reading →
Confucius is ashamed he didn’t think of this point.
Democrats in the House order eight G5 Gulfstream jets for $550 million that will be used by the Pentagon to ferry around VIPs in Congress — even though the Pentagon says it does not need or want the planes. The … Continue reading →
Hey, I’m back, what did I miss?
Your Volgi has returned from a distant land without decent internet service. Not that anyone missed him. I have no idea what the Czar was talking about here. Aren’t all corn-dogs fried? Besides, I have it on good authority that … Continue reading →
Communists finally ousted in Moldova [Updated]
Felicitări! But, of course, were one an alarmist, one might think that, suitably twisted into an allegation of election fraud or the like, this otherwise happy result could serve as a pretext for a nasty, imperialist neighbor to come to … Continue reading →
World War Two…in high definition?!
Because it’s not awesome and terrible (in the original senses) already? Dear God, though, if you can watch this without getting chills up your spine, your affairs had better be in order, because, you know, you’re dead. Via Warming Glow. … Continue reading →
Reuben Johnson on the Myths of the F-22
Check it out. Myth No. 1–Voting down funding for the Raptor was a blow against the “evil, military-industrial complex.” Myth No. 2–The F-22 is a hugely expensive aircraft because defense contractors purposely are trying to gouge the taxpayer by making … Continue reading →
Dr. D: Right to health care?
If there is a right to health care, someone has the duty to provide it. Inevitably, that “someone” is the government. Concrete benefits in pursuance of abstract rights, however, can be provided by the government only by constant coercion.…When the … Continue reading →
Defense jobs? We don’t like your kind.
Biz Mike-G stays on fire, ripping the Administration’s animus against the military. Instead, the Obama administration is slashing defense spending and cutting programs that employ tens of thousands of highly-skilled (and often union) workers. The administration drew a line in … Continue reading →
Chinese Imperialism Update: One from Column A, one from Column B
Our friends the Chinese have finally figured out a way to deal with the ethnic tensions between Han (Chinese) and Uyghur (Turkic) which caused riots in Ürümchi earlier in the month: demolish more of the old city of Kashgar (pictured) … Continue reading →
Obama vs. National Defense, con’t.
Mike Goldfarb: This is the same Barack Obama who asked the entire federal government to come up with $100 million in savings over the next year and couldn’t deliver on deadline. Yet the military, actively engaged in two hot wars … Continue reading →
Hillary’s message to Iran and vice-versa
“What we want to do is to send a message to whoever is making these decisions, that if you’re pursuing nuclear weapons for the purpose of intimidating, of projecting your power, we’re not going to let that happen,” Clinton said. … Continue reading →
Amir Taheri: Velâyet-e fâqih is discredited.
No one knows how the current Iranian insurrection, triggered by last month’s disputed presidential election, will end. However, one thing is already clear: The doctrine of walayat faqih (“government of the theologian”), the cornerstone of the Khomeinist system, is dead. … Continue reading →
Big news from Iraq?
Maliki Shi’ites and Anbar Sunnis working on a coalition? That’d be a big step towards stabilizing the republic. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
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