So we’re all Rushdies now, like it or not? Perhaps. If one cannot draw Muhammad without editors fearing the mob in the lobby, then it’s only a matter of time before the idea seeps into the heads of cartoonists everywhere. It’s simply not worth it; who needs the aggravation? Who needs the meetings with the community groups, the mandatory sensitivity training, the sinking feeling of finding your picture on a placard in a London protest, next to the sign that... Read more
The Common Room has some reflections on the Hughes Sisters of Long Island! Read more
I missed this the other day but seeing it now, I had to share it with you – Michael Geer writing in The American Thinker. By the mid 1980s I was fairly sure that the news was canned, delivered by press release to city desks, managing editors and producers. I labeled this pervasive technique News By Press Release. I proved my thesis one afternoon by popping into PR Newswire’s downtown Denver office. I slid four hundred words across the counter... Read more
I have to be honest, I am disappointed that Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver was not made a cardinal…he is a marvelous teacher and pastor. But Benedict has named his first 15, and there are lots of interesting posts on it. Gerald has a really extensive and excellent CARDINALS IN DETAIL post that you’ll not want to miss. Hugh Hewitt has info on the only non-bishop to be named and links to Michael Barber (a blog I’ve never happened upon,... Read more
It all seems a little too neat, doesn’t it? Quiet Denmark is accused (5 months late) of mocking Islam because of a handful of cartoons. Then riots all over the place…then a Mosque is blown up in Iraq…and who is being blamed? The DANES. It allllll feels like a long-planned set-up, does it not? But by whom, exactly? The purpose is obviously to destroy the momentum being created by the advent of democracy in the Middle East – grab everyone... Read more
“He earns the American flag from his government,” says Vietnam veteran John Around Him. “He earns the eagle feather from his people.” A pal, Shiloh, sent this to me via email. The very affecting and beautiful slide show of the wake and funeral of Marine Cpl. Brett Lundstrom, who was killed in Iraq on January 7, 2006, . RIP Gateway has video of another soldier funeral, this time in Tennessee, Corp. Rusty Washam. And, terribly, a third, at Michelle’s Sgt.... Read more
Siggy shrinks Catholic Blog Award Winner Julie (Best Blog By A Woman) It’s better than it sounds. Go read! Oh, and I almost forgot to mention, The Anchoress won in the category for Best Political Blog! I thank you all for going over there and voting for me! My l’il bro Thom points out that I won with a plurality, like Clinton and not a majority, like Bush. Boooo, booo, Thom! I remain grateful, folks! :-) I’m a little mad... Read more
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Not too badly, either. Bareknuckled Politics has the link to an NRO interview with James Carafano, of the Heritage Foundation. You should listen to it – Carafano does a very good job in addressing the issue sensibly and thankfully without emotion. Sister Toljah is starting to support the deal and explains why. She has lots of good links. Jim Geraghty says, my fellow bloggers, we’ve been snookered. Read more
Riding Sun links to a piece in Newsweek. Much more troubling to my way of thinking is Jack Lewis’s post about The Netherlands considering forced sterilization of blacks. But…but I thought that Europe held all the human rights/feminist/gay/race cards, and were the “model” to which America was supposed to aspire? Hmph. If this story is true – and it appears to be – it is wrong, deplorable, sinful and awful. But hey, Holland would probably dig it. Read more
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