Sierra Faith

Thanks to reader Denis for this:
How would you react if a Stanford student organization announced the establishment of a new group called Students Confronting British Nazism, or Students Confronting Women’s Blame for Rape? Or how about Students Confronting African American Inferiority? Anyone with a moral bone in his body would clearly be flooded by feelings [...]

Thoughtful consideration regarding the power of the state to execute criminals.
As Hugh Hewitt notes, Saddam’s legal team did not try the Ninth Circuit.
Mario Loyola discusses dictator deterrence.

This could be tremendously good news.
British scientists are on the verge of producing a revolutionary flu vaccine that works against all major types of the disease.
Described as the ‘holy grail’ of flu vaccines, it would protect against all strains of influenza A – the virus behind both bird flu and the nastiest outbreaks of winter [...]

NRO Editor Kathryn Lopez talks to Stanley Weintraub about 11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944.
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: What was Christmas like for General Patton in 1944?
STANLEY WEINTRAUB: Ordered to turn his tanks and troops of the Third Army around and race north to rescue the besieged crossroads town of Bastogne in southern [...]

NRO Contributing Editor James Robbins, author of Last in Their Class: Custer, Picket and the Goats of West Point, offers this history feast:
Newspapers north and south on December 25 carried front-page coverage of the developing crisis known as the Trent Affair. On November 8, Captain Charles Wilkes of the U. S. S. San Jacinto had [...]

Another step that is likely to be both too little and too late.
UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Saturday imposing sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, culminating two months of negotiations aimed at pressuring Tehran to clarify its nuclear ambitions.
The resolution orders all countries to ban the [...]

US airstrike has killed key Taliban leader Mohammad Osmani:
KABUL, Afghanistan – A top Taliban military commander described as a close associate of Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar was killed in an airstrike this week close to the border with Pakistan, the U.S. military said Saturday. A Taliban spokesman denied the claim.
Mullah Akhtar [...]

Yes, we should be worried, and Michael Ledeen tells us why.
More importantly, we need to make our politicians worried.
There is still no sense that we are at war, after twenty-seven years of unilateral killing by the Iranians and Syrians. It is indeed a grotesque replay of “The Gathering Storm.” As David Zucker so elegantly puts [...]

She will be missed.
Michelle Malkin has more.
Here are words that she could have spoken recently, but come from 1984:
We cannot, therefore, be indifferent to the subversion of others’ independence or to the development of new weapons by our adversaries or of new vulnerabilities by our friends.
The last Democratic administration did not seem to notice much, [...]