There will be no American-bashing, bolshie-loving International Freedom Center at Ground Zero. Common sense and patriotism somehow prevailed.
Big thanks to all the people, in particular friends and relatives of those murdered in the 9/11 Muslism terrorist attacks, who worked against and eventually, it seems, defeated this grotesque proposed faux-morial.

Good analysis of the 9/11 conspiracy trial in Spain over at Captain’s Quarters. The verdict was a strange mix of good news, bad news, and odd news that, sum total, underscores the inappropriateness of treating al-Qaeda’s terrorism as just another form of crime.
It’s simply nutty to send to send a convicted al-Qaeda agent to prison [...]

American universities today are pretty much what you’d expect them to have been if the Soviets had won the Cold War (except more expensive). Yet, the Soviets lost the war and the Soviet Union lost not only its vassal states but, in fact, itself, as it has been replaced by the geographically downsized Russia.
So what [...]

Jodie Foster’s turn as FBI-agent Clarice Starling in “The Silence of the Lambs” was a terrific, terrific performance. Since then, however, her career has been a series of movies that have been entirely unimpressive (though she does deserve a lot of credit for nixing the “Hannibal” gore fest). Judging from what Debbie Schlussel writes, Foster’s [...]

Conservative columnist Ben Shapiro thinks the FBI should spend resources investigating producers of adult pornography suspected of obscenity (obscenity being a crime). That is probably, but not definitely, the minority view in America, but not particularly outrageous. This, however, is a brain goof of epic proportions:
This has become the dominant view in our society: [...]

Jason Smith has a post that shows the difference between good and bad leadership.
(I wonder what Senator Mary “One more word and I’ll punch you” Landrieu will say about that? “Yes, you see, those buses weren’t flooded, but the ones in New Orleans were. You see?”)

Fresh off the FEMA fiasco in Louisiana and Mississippi, President George W. Bush is trying to appoint some feather-weight crony to head the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), thereby demonstrating that the White House a) doesn’t care about the charges of crony-appointments and b) doesn’t care one wit about border control and immigration-law enforcement.
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“Crescent of Embrace”, the absolutely godawful Pennsylvania 9/11 memorial for the heroes of Flight 93 - a group of American civilians who did what their government could not: defend the capital - deserves every bit of the criticism it has received. It is a horrible, terrible, mindboggingly distasteful load of crap whose designer Paul Murdoch…well, [...]

Iraqi and American forces completed the brilliant, slow-motion assault on Tal Affar recently, having captured or killed hundreds of insurgents and terrorists. The Washington Post’s Jonathan Finer has a nice little piece on what the Americans did for fun after the victory:
After months of preparing for a battle with insurgents that never fully materialized [...]

The federal response has been slow to reach those who need it the most, but it increasingly seems clear that the reason is largely the almost instant and virtually complete collapse of city and state authority after the levee broke. Certainly President George W. Bush didn’t ignore the hurricane threat as it was building off [...]