Never Yet Melted

Month: September 2010

  • Governed by a Ghost

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    Barack Obamas, Sr. & Jr. Dinesh D’Souza, in Forbes, makes a very plausible attempt at unravelling the enigma of the character and etiology of Barack Obama’s true personal ideology. [T]he anticolonial ideology of Barack Obama Sr. goes a long way to explain the actions and policies of his son in the Oval Office. And we…

  • Hooray, The USA Now Has a Carp Czar

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    “You’ll never stop me, G man!” You probably didn’t even know that the humble carp, an oily fish belonging to the Eurasian family Cyprinidae (which includes goldfish), constituted a problem. The Chinese and Japanese think carp are beautiful and keep them in ponds for ornamental purposes. Carp is an important staple in Continental European cuisine,…

  • Which is More Incendiary? Koran-Burning or Islam Itself

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    Andrew McCarthy makes some excellent points. ‘He’s going to burn a Koran? Quick, let’s go join a terrorist organization that mass-murders people.’ According to Obama, Jones’s “stunt” (a fair description) is already “a recruitment bonanza for al-Qaeda.” That’s absurd. No sensible person joins a terrorist organization dedicated to mass murder simply because somebody torches a…

  • Double Standards on Endangering US Troops

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    The American left is in the hypocritical position of applauding and giving journalism awards for publishing Intelligence leaks and out-of-context military reports inciting Islamic hostility toward the United States, while at the same time wringing its hands and piously denouncing burning a Koran or voicing opposition to locating Islamic victory-monuments-cum-recruiting-centers within the footprint of the…

  • Did Bugs & Donald Endanger US Troops?

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  • Roland Was Right and Palin is Wrong

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    Alphonse de Neuville, Count Roland Behaving Insensitively at Roncesvalles, 1894 Or guart chascuns que granz colps, Que malvaise cançun de nus chantet ne seit! Paien unt tort e chrestiens unt dreit. Now must we each lay on most hardily, So songs of shame shall ne’er be sung of us. Pagans are wrong and Christians are…

  • Interesting Hypothetical

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    Eric Erickson wonders what the elites would do if radical Muslims started demanding prayer in US schools.

  • Misattributed Rug Quotation As Metaphor For Obama’s Presidency

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    One of the quotations is barely visible on the left edge Thomas Lifson, at American Thinker, reflects on the surprising significance of the new Oval Office Rug. Woven into the new presidential seal rug adorning the Oval Office is a misattributed quotation, offering us a perfect metaphor for the Obama presidency. … Apparently, Obama himself…

  • “This Is Where We Begin to Say No”

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    Andrew McCarthy expresses the view, which I share, that the American people have gotten tired of hearing about how much deference we need to pay to the sensibilities of Muslims. A tectonic shift is in motion: How fitting that its focal point is Ground Zero, the inevitable fault line between Islam and the West. Only…

  • “The Forgotten Man”

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    Several Progressive presidents are applauding Barack Obama. Poor James Madison is trying to retrieve the Constitution from under Obama’s foot. Lincoln and Washington look decidedly upset. Kitsch, of course. But a vivid and amusing expression of the American popular experience of the Age of Obama. Hat tip to Cindi Ryan.

  • “I Want Your Money” (2010)

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    Coming this Fall. New York Times: According to Mr. Griggs, some prospective crew members on his new documentary, “I Want Your Money,” which takes aim at President Obama’s economic policies, said they would accept jobs on the condition that their names be left off the credits. Mr. Griggs suspects that a politically motivated makeup artist…

  • Same Sex Marriage

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    The Editors of National Review Online make some lucid and unanswerable arguments in the Same Sex Marriage debate. Marriage exists, in other words, to solve a problem that arises from sex between men and women but not from sex between partners of the same gender: what to do about its generativity. It has always been…