Archive for June, 2010

America The Beautiful

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

Michelle Malkin is on the road. Great pics and a fun read.

Bring Back the Horse and Buggy!

Monday, June 7th, 2010

And shutter Toyota, Honda, Ford and GM! How can the Obami keep dead-tree newspapers alive? Tax the internet — yeah, that’s really “progressive.”

The Fall of the EU?

Monday, June 7th, 2010

More, Faster Please! Europe’s leaders are like a gambler who responds to every loss by doubling his stake, hoping that somehow it will all come good in the end. For them, the answer to Europe’s failures is always more integration. And so far, it’s not come crashing down. But one of the pitfalls of integration [...]

Bye Bye Helen

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Speaking of small minds. . . . Mark Steyn attempts the impossible: Shaming the Shameless Antique Media: A guy with a flip camera just took out one of the most storied names in American journalism. Presumably US newspaper managements have been assured by Obama, Pelosi, Frank et al that that bailout’s a-comin’ any day now. [...]

Dissecting the Tiny Mind of Sir Paul McCartney

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Jay Nordlinger with the scalpel: The White House is an American house — the American house — belonging to all of us. Did you hear George W. Bush when the Clinton portrait was unveiled? (A reader wrote to say he wondered how Obama would perform, if presiding over the unveiling of a GWB portrait.)

John Wooden RIP

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Bumped with additional videos below. . . . Loved his wife and Savior. UPDATE: The Poem: With his “family”: Coach Wooden mentions his Cross around 2:30: On teaching:

I Know Which Side I’m On

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

Me too. Jay Nordlinger: Over the years, however, I have watched anti-Semitism become less stigmatized and less stigmatized, less taboo and less taboo. Before we know it, it may even be cool. That is very bad news. . . . If the world lets Israel go under, a mere two or three generations after the [...]

A soldier’s pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner’s chains

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953.

Turkey Stoking the Flames

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

The Jerusalem Post reports Turkish newspaper Hurriet has posted photos of beaten Israeli soldiers. I cannot find the photos yet — Update (Sunday, June 6, 2010, 2 AM Pacific Time): Photos found. Note also that, interestingly, the photos are not on the English langauge site (linked above), but only the Turkish site. Pictures of Shayetet [...]

Shut Up and Sing

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

Then again, will Israel really be missing anything?