The events that occurred on September 11th, 2001, were horrible, tragic, disgusting — just the worst. Very bad events. I was a 14-year-old freshman in high school at that time (how old do YOU feel right now) and I was in math class when they announced what had happened over the loudspeaker. The rest of the day pretty much went along as it normally would have because the teachers weren’t allowed to turn on the TVs, which was a great call. Good job, everyone involved in that decision. I’m glad my learning about Latin conjugations was not interrupted by my learning about THE BIGGEST EVENT IN MY LIFETIME AS IT WAS HAPPENING, YOU JERKS. [Read more →]

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What are we to make of the media’s latest blithering crapfest, the ongoing Punch and Judy show that is the ‘debate’ over the Ground Zero Mosque-that-is-not-actually-a-mosque AKA Cordoba House AKA Park 51 or whatever the hell the thing is called this week?

With so many heated claims and counter claims, including the now traditional yelps of “bigotry” from what Robert Gibbs describes as the “Professional Left”, and conversely,  paranoid accusations of “taqiyya” and all round Islamic evilness from the self-declared Right… well sometimes a man just wants to tell them all to shut up — or indeed, fuck off. [Read more →]

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Back in the days of shields and spears whoever won the contested ground would erect a trophy. This would not be an impressive sight to us, it would be a collection of arms and armor and banners piled upon and hung from a tree or a stake in the ground. What made it significant was, of course, that the glittering bits had been taken from brave and well armed men at the cost of their lives demonstrating, say, the Athenians superiority over the Corinthians. But more importantly this quick and dirty memorial would always be raised on a field of victory and was largely a challenge to the defeated to come tear it down. Any offense to the trophy was an act of war, all sides would understand this. Often the first overt act of a war would be a public destruction of the trophy that ended the last war or battle. But many a trophy stood, rusting and rotting, for decades on the road to a once great city, now reduced to a village. The project to build a mosque within a call-to-prayer from New York’s open mass grave is best understood as a trophy. [Read more →]

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Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, our top military officer, spoke of the common sacrifices of the U.S. military from D-Day to today.

You can read Admiral Mullen’s remarks at my site.

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Helen Thomas, Jews back to Auschwitz!

Thank you, Helen Thomas! This semi-retired muppet made from old painters’ rags is not a hag, but a haggis. However we see the consoling virtues that compensate the aesthetically, chronologically and temperamentally challenged in her forthright statement of principles that speak for the Left generally on Zion. What is the problem in the Middle East? The Jews. What is the solution? As Ms Thomas, White House press corpse, states so succinctly, “get the hell out of Palestine!” And go where? asks the unseen and unnamed interviewer… well, back where they came from, Poland, Germany…. you know, Jewland. Or as the radio operator of the Hate Boat put it more bluntly, back to Auschwitz. You see here the power of not caring. The seasoned Ms Thomas is above petty concerns like decency or even the appearance of decency and does a real public service. She demonstrates that “peace activists” are no such thing. Rather than being anti-war on principle these 60s style radicals like Bill Ayers, one of the organizers of this New Nazi Navy, are a-okay with war but are on the other side. [Read more →]

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Former CIA director R. James Woolsey has written an interesting piece for National Review Online in which he draws parallels between present-day Iran and Nazi Germany.

Will Obama and other world leaders respond to the Iranian threat like Winston Churchill or Neville Chamberlain? 

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The Vietnam War remains in the news and the public debate thanks in part to the Connecticut attorney general, who was caught lying about serving in the war.

Historynet.com has reprinted an interesting piece from an 1989 issue of Vietnam Magazine by the then-editor, Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr.

The late Colonel Summers wrote that deliberate distortions still obscure understanding of this very complex war.

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Mark Steyn wrote an interesting piece at National Review Online about Attorney General Eric Holder’s inability to blame, acknowledge or even say radical Islam, when discussing the would-be Times Square car bomber and other recent terrorist attempts by men who are clearly radical Islamic fanatics.

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Today is Armed Forces Day

This is a good time to think about and honor our young men and women in the U.S. military.

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If it is true that the greatness of men and nations is measured in the greatness of their enemies, what are we to say of the numberless but talentless hoard sent against us? Yes, truly we can say “sent” now. This week’s Jihadi Jihaderson as much as the Christmas Day Underwear Bomber and the now quaintly convicted Shoe Bomber has demonstrated fandom if not straight employment beneath the ragged parasol of International Jihad. And it is easy and quite hilarious to wonder, is this all they’ve got? The not so hilarious but plain answer is, yes. Yes it is.

For now.

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Rowen Scarborough at the Washington Times reports that the terrorist suspect at the center of the trials of  three Navy SEALs was one of the most dangerous men in Iraq.

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I watched an interesting piece on Fox News where Ann Coulter, an amusing verbal bomb-thrower, spoke to Bill O’Reilly about the liberal media’s sympathy for Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square car bomber.

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The late great Groucho Marx said that military justice was to justice what military music was to music.

But thankfully we saw some justice when Navy SEAL Special Operations 2nd Class Matthew McCabe was acquitted of charges that he punched a captured notorious Iraqi terrorist.

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Rolando Negrin assaulted a fellow TSA worker because he had been making fun of the size of Negrin’s penis. How did he know the size of Negrin’s penis? As part of a recent training session, Negrin had to walk through the new high-tech security scanners at Miami International Airport and his colleague could see the size of his penis.

Of course, the public was assured that these scanners, intended to protect us from terrorists smuggling bombs onto planes, would not be used to invade anyone’s privacy. [Read more →]

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White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once famously said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” And politicians from both parties are taking that advice to heart by trying to get Congress — in the wake of the Times Square bomb scare — to ban gun sales to those on the terrorist watch list.

That is, they want to strip the constitutional rights of citizens without due process. [Read more →]

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So someone left a car bomb in Times Square. The immediate questions that come to mind are who, why, what was its capability, how can such things be prevented from happening again?

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Retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North offers us a Vietnam War lesson today on the 35th anniversary of the fall of South Vietnam.

The highly decorated Vietnam veteran explains some facts about the war that I fear our children are not being taught in school and he compares Vietnam to our current war in Afghanistan.

You can read his column here.

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Humberto Fontova, a Cuban-American writer and speaker, has written two interesting pieces on the 49th anniversary of the anti-Castro, anti-Communist Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

Fontova writes about the heroism of the anti-Castro Brigade after they were left on the Cuban beach without the American military support promised by the Kennedy administration, and how Ernesto Che Guevara responded to the anti-Castro assault. The so-called great guerrilla fighter shot himself.

My latest post at my blog, http://pauldavisoncrime.blogspot.com, has links to both of Fontova’s pieces and my interview with Fontova about his book, Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize him.     

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As Bill Roggio writes in the Weekly Standard, the video released today by Wikileaks along with a claim that the video shows that the U.S. Military “murdered” a Reuters cameraman and other Iraqi “civilians” in Baghdad on July 12, 2007, was anything but collateral murder.

Read Mr. Roggio’s comments and then watch the video carefully.     

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Houston Chronicle - The choice facing Drug Enforcement Administration agent Joe Dubois and FBI agent Daniel Fuentes was simple: Hold their ground to be riddled with machine-gun fire, or be captured by drug-cartel henchmen who would diabolically interrogate them using pliers, blowtorches or worse.

DEA agent Joe Dubois, in an exclusive interview with the Houston Chronicle, finally shares his story of a hostile showdown with Mexican drug kingpin Osiel Cardenas in 1999. While gathering intelligence just across the border, Dubois and FBI agent Daniel Fuentes refused to surrender after their car was surrounded by three vehicles and a dozen or so gunman with assault rifles. Cardenas himself pounded on the glass of the car and demanded surrender. He even smiled at the FBI badges, and raised an AK-47 to the window. But Dubois stood firm, teaching us a few lessons that transcend the War on Drugs. [Read more →]

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I enjoyed the first episode of HBO’s The Pacific, but my enjoyment was somewhat marred by hearing Tom Hanks, one of the miniseries’ producers, state that the war with Japan was based on racism, which he then compared to the current war on terrorism.

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To those who believe that the ongoing war on terrorism against Islamic fanatics is a war without end or a war that can’t be won,  I suggest they read up on the anarchists’ 19th Century international terror campaign.

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The next big war may not involve missiles, bombs or gunfire. 

The next war may simply involve a cyber attack that shuts down our national power grids, leaving us with no electricity. no Internet, no clean water, no food supply and no central government.

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In a fortnight I move to an undistinguished town in the middle of Germany, to bring enlightenment and English to the uncouth. I’ve been looking at accommodation websites, sifting through the weirdness for acceptable digs. The real difficulty isn’t the flat, it’s the people. Terrible flatmates are an affliction and a curse. I particularly detest slobs. [Read more →]

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If you would like to learn more about the strange little man who, according to the FBI, frightened a nation with deadly mailings of anthrax, thesmokinggun.com has published the FBI’s first batch of released documents .

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Fascinating news from Hawaii.

A nice couple that I’m friends with (let’s call them “Tammy” and “Chuck”) recently vacationed on the island of Kauai with their kids “Roy” (age 5) and “Natalie” (age 2). Tammy and Chuck were shocked to discover that a universally beloved member of George W. Bush’s administration was wintering there.

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Bodies are hitting the floor with an alarming tempo but are they smote and dead or are they on the deck playing possum? It’s a mixed bag. [Read more →]

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Like many contributors to this site, I find that I align closest with the general co-occurrence of values known to the world as “libertarianism.” But surely many libertarians would disagree with some of the arguments I make, so I’ll just say that I agree with libertarians on many — possibly most — political issues. What follows is my best attempt at establishing a philosophical basis for my political views. This post was partially inspired by Mike McGowan’s great series of posts entitled “one guy’s thoughts on libertarianism.” [Read more →]

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I keep forgetting that it is winter for most of you… as it is amazing here. However, I am not gloating because I know it will be God-awful come summer. God-awful.

Let’s see, what else has been happening on this fun extravaganza known as Africa? Oh, ummm, have any of you ever heard of some movie called Avatar? I hear it’s pretty big right now. We don’t get any commercials here and I don’t watch any news so I have no clue what is happening back home. In fact, I hear there is some big event happening next Sunday… some kind of bowl game or something? Anyway, they showed the movie here yesterday and are showing it again tonight. I wasn’t able to see it yesterday as I had two final papers to write… I know… war is hell.

Oh and Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, some older actor guy, and some older producer guy all came here. [Read more →]

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Today the US Senate passed a bill which will impose economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran. The plan is to “target companies that export gasoline to Iran or help expand the country’s oil-refining capacity by, in part, denying them loans and other assistance from U.S. financial institutions.”

I argued in a post I wrote last year for my blog that this is collective punishment, and is therefore immoral and shouldn’t be done. Despite our leaders’ hearts constantly weeping for the Iranian populace – ”‘The situation in Iran is terrible and it’s worsening. People are dying in Iran as we speak,’ said Senator John McCain just before the Senate [sanctions] vote” — sanctions lower the standard of living for all Iranian civilians. [Read more →]

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