Last night I saw, as I see every year, what I have long believed to be the last, best hope of the West: home schooling parents and children in action. Every year our local home schooling association has its Talent Night on the Friday nearest to St. Patrick’s Day, which of course this year was [...]
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The Siege of Famagusta, 1571.
December 30th, 2010 
admin Crowds of journalists have of late flocked to Cyprus, that storied island nation, and as it happens Cyprus was in the news on this very date — exactly 435 years ago, at the Siege of Famagusta. Cyprus can lay claim to being the first country on earth governed by a Christian sovereign, the Roman proconsul [...]
In Defense of a Christian Nation
December 30th, 2010 admin (This is a follow-up to a previous post, found here.) I know, it sounds like the title of a book, the writing of which I will leave to another of suitable leisure, ambition and learning. (Paul Cella sounds about right.) And so I left Charles Krauthammer’s piece wondering which tyranny I ought to prefer, that [...]
Sex and the innovators.
December 30th, 2010 admin David Brooks, that sociologist of postmodernity, contributed a stimulating essay to the April 2003 number of Atlantic Monthly entitled, provocatively, “The Return of the Pig.” That is, the male chauvinist pig. He surveys influential constituents of popular culture — Maxim magazine, Comedy Central’s The Man Show, rap musicians — and concludes perceptively that feminists have [...]
The Silent Watchman
December 29th, 2010 admin “Son of Man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My mouth, and give them warning from Me: When I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save [...]
Why the Heck Not?
December 29th, 2010 admin Via Reuters, we have another helpful reminder that we’re not on a slippery slope, we’re in a sinkhole: SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has no people with physical disabilities because they are killed almost as soon as they are born, a physician who defected from the communist state said on Wednesday. Ri Kwang-chol, who fled [...]
Auto da fe.
December 29th, 2010 admin The phenomenon of Hispanic converts to Islam is a growing one. The most famous thus far is Jose Padilla, but he is hardly alone: estimates are almost impossible to verify, and the sources are predictably biased. But if we take CAIR’s figures as being more or less reasonable, we can figure on tens of thousands [...]
Reasoning Oneself Into Dhimmitude
December 29th, 2010 admin The spectacle – at once bizarre and bewildering to Western eyes, yet oddly calculable, as though its occurrence were a matter of adding two quantities – of the cartoon jihad has disclosed to the perceptive observer the profound spiritual abjection of much of the West before Islam, a sort of mock kenosis in which many [...]
The new cross burners.
December 29th, 2010 admin Make no mistake: Islam has no monopoly on blasphemous sensitivities. And it was inevitable that some of the aggrieved Muslims in the Danish cartoon case would seek vengeance in kind — by assaulting the revered symbols of other faiths. Lo, thus here and here, we see the emergent phenomenon of Muslims wielding crosses with, shall [...]
Making Islam an Ally, the Left Invites Its Own Destruction
December 29th, 2010 admin The reason is that the Left sees Islam as a de facto ally—as Marxists would say, an “objective ally”—in the destruction of the vestiges of the traditional society based upon Christianity and its moral code, and traditional cultural patterns. So what they are doing is using Islam as the battering ram and as a would-be [...]
