Monthly Archives: February 2006

Speaking of Offensive…

This story in Ad Age is an interesting counterpoint to the Muslim riots over the Mohammed drawings: Britney Spears is out of the kitchen. NBC will not include a scene featuring a cooking segment titled »

What a difference a year makes

Last year’s assault on the nomination of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. looks even more frivolous now than it did at the time. Earlier this week, Senator George Voinovich, the poster boy for non-leftists who considered Bolton the poster boy for everything a diplomat shoudn’t be, praised Bolton’s work at the U.N. Now, Bolton has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his major role in »

CNN Passes on Showing Cartoons

Michelle Malkin notes that CNN has decided not to show the Mohammed cartoons that have been printed in several European and American newspapers “because the network believes its role is to cover the events surrounding the publication of the cartoons while not unnecessarily adding fuel to the controversy itself.” Well, sure. That would explain why CNN didn’t show the Abu Ghraib photos. Cox and Forkum suspect that CNN’s motives might »

Akkari Speaks

Danish Muslim scholar Ahmed Akkari, who spread the Mohammed cartoons throughout the Middle East and thereby ignited the current controversy, was interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Company this morning. It’s a good interview; you can read the CBC’s news story on the interview here, and also listen to the interview. To his credit, the CBC interviewer pressed Akkari on his distribution of three illustrations that were not published in newspapers, »

Akkari Speaks

Danish Muslim scholar Ahmed Akkari, who spread the Mohammed cartoons throughout the Middle East and thereby ignited the current controversy, was interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Company this morning. It’s a good interview; you can read the CBC’s news story on the interview here, and also listen to the interview. To his credit, the CBC interviewer pressed Akkari on his distribution of three illustrations that were not published in newspapers, »

A cartoonish reaction

Omar at IraqTheModel makes a point that naive westerners, including those in the Bush administration, should remember: [E]ven if the entire EU apologizes it won’t change a thing; fanatics in our countries here had always considered the west their infidel arrogant crusader enemy and no apology no matter how big or sincere can change that. Omar also notes that [W]e here in the Middle East have tons of jokes about »

A cartoonish reaction

Omar at IraqTheModel makes a point that naive westerners, including those in the Bush administration, should remember: [E]ven if the entire EU apologizes it won’t change a thing; fanatics in our countries here had always considered the west their infidel arrogant crusader enemy and no apology no matter how big or sincere can change that. Omar also notes that [W]e here in the Middle East have tons of jokes about »

Inside the Finsbury Park mosque

Now it can be told: “Terrorist weapons were seized in raid.” The Independent reports: Police risked offending delicate religious sensitivities by raiding the Finsbury Park mosque, but their actions were justified by the mini-arsenal of weapons, terrorist paraphernalia and forged passports they found inside. Operation Mermant, which began in the early hours of January 20 2003, involved scores of officers in body armour using battering rams to enter the building. »

On the Hayes trail, cont’d

I had vowed to impose on myself a moratorium on articles regarding Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, but Eli Lake follows up his New York Sun article of yesterday with a more intriguing one today: “Ex-officer spurned on WMD claim.” »

The cartoon intifada, cont’d

The Washington Times editorial makes a key point: The spontaneous appearance over the past few days of dozens of Danish flags ready for the burning raises further questions about where the flags came from. A lot of this “spontaneity” was clearly staged. The cartoons gained a wider audience when radical Danish clerics toured the Middle East last month, showing the offending cartoons to the heads of several of the major »

The cartoon intifada, cont’d

The Washington Times editorial makes a key point: The spontaneous appearance over the past few days of dozens of Danish flags ready for the burning raises further questions about where the flags came from. A lot of this “spontaneity” was clearly staged. The cartoons gained a wider audience when radical Danish clerics toured the Middle East last month, showing the offending cartoons to the heads of several of the major »

Directly from my Pod to you

Peter Schramm is the proprietor of the Ashbrook Center’s No Left Turns blog featuring Peter, Steve Hayward, Joseph Knippenberg and several other thoughtful commentators. The site is also a portal to other worthy Ashbrook Web sites. Most recently, Peter has initiated weekly Asbrook Podcasts of his conversations with guests including Bill Kristol, Steve Hayward, Robert Alt and, as of this week, me. »

Directly from my Pod to you

Peter Schramm is the proprietor of the Ashbrook Center’s No Left Turns blog featuring Peter, Steve Hayward, Joseph Knippenberg and several other thoughtful commentators. The site is also a portal to other worthy Ashbrook Web sites. Most recently, Peter has initiated weekly Asbrook Podcasts of his conversations with guests including Bill Kristol, Steve Hayward, Robert Alt and, as of this week, me. »

A Liberal Speaks

We get a great many emails, a considerable number of which are from liberals. A few of these are thoughtful and informative. The vast majority are not. Today we got an email from a Democrat named Matt Mullen. It’s above average for an email from a lefty–more coherent and less profane than most. He was responding to this post, where I related a story that Debra Burlingame told yesterday: One »

A Liberal Speaks

We get a great many emails, a considerable number of which are from liberals. A few of these are thoughtful and informative. The vast majority are not. Today we got an email from a Democrat named Matt Mullen. It’s above average for an email from a lefty–more coherent and less profane than most. He was responding to this post, where I related a story that Debra Burlingame told yesterday: One »

This Is Cool

A team of scientists exploring a remote region of New Guinea has discovered dozens of new species: An expedition to one of Asia »

This Is Cool

A team of scientists exploring a remote region of New Guinea has discovered dozens of new species: An expedition to one of Asia »