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Monthly Archives: August 2006
Who is Keith Ellison? (20)
Keith Ellison is the endorsed Democratic candidate for Congress in Minnesota’s solidly Democratic Fifth District (Minneapolis). Ellison’s local leadership of the Nation of Islam, his defense of the “truth” of an attack on Minneapolis Jews as “the most racist white people,” his affiliation with convicted murderer and Vice Lords gang leader Sharif Willis, his support of the Vice Lords gangbangers charged (and subsequently convicted) with the murder of Minneapolis police »
Maynard Ferguson, RIP
We yield to the floor to our friend Seth Leibsohn. Seth writes: Maynard Ferguson (1928-2006) died yesterday. His name is familiar to every trumpet player and everyone who used to play trumpet–like me. Probably 90 percent of those who, as kids, grew up playing trumpet in band class, and tried to emulate a great trumpet player, tried to emulate Maynard. There was nobody like him in the business–his sound was »
A footnote on Judge Taylor
So Judge Anna Diggs Taylor sereved as the trustee of an organization that funded the ACLU Michigan — one of the plaintiffs in the NSA case. The New York Times reported the story on Tuesday; yesterday the Times published an equivocal editorial on the subject. In the NSA case, however, the scandal is not one of appearances; it is one of substance. The scandal is Judge Diggs’s unprofessional opinion. The »
Slacker
That’s me; I haven’t been posting much the last few days, mostly because the law business has been keeping me awfully busy. One thing I almost never do is read left-wing web sites. Life is too short; I might only live to be 100 or 110, so there is no time to waste. But my pal Bob Cunningham has a strong enough stomach for the Huffington Post, and he pointed »
Fresh air heads back to Israel
Scott has frequently commented on the obtuse nature of Israeli politics and (in recent years) Israeli politicians, as compared to the brilliance of so much of the rest of Israeli life. Scott’s point is well-taken and its validity has been underscored by the war in Lebanon. P. David Hornik for FrontPageMagazine profiles a prospective Israeli leader who could reverse the slide — former IDF chief of staff Moshe Yaalon. Consider »
Who stole the Rollin’ Stone: An excerpt
Edward Azlant is a film academic, screenwriter, rock photographer (“Immortal Otis Redding”), and record producer (Lenny Bruce). He’s written for publications from Rolling Stone (second issue) to FrontPage. He has now written a long column — we’re teasing it with the excerpt below — on the “Ideology of Rock.” Mr. Azlant is looking for a home for it. If you edit a publication or site and are interested in the »
Chasing Hezbollah’s ambulance
Zombie has posted an invaluable, exhaustive expose on the shoddy work of the mainstream media at work in the Lebanon war: “The Red Cross ambulance incident: How the media legitimized an anti-Israel hoax and changed the course of a war.” Zombie writes: On the night of July 23, 2006, an Israeli aircraft intentionally fired missiles at and struck two Lebanese Red Cross ambulances performing rescue operations, causing huge explosions that »
Happy birthday; thanks for the laughs
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. wishes former President Clinton a happy 60th birthday. Clinton apparently is celebrating his birthday like he does everything else — in excess. Tyrrell reports that, having celebrated “the blessed day of his birth” with family and friends at Martha’s Vineyard, he observed the event the following day at a friend’s vacation home where Carly Simon (not quite Marilyn Monroe, but a better singer) crooned “Happy Birthday.” »
A great hip-hop forward
Michael Steele has picked up what appears to be a significant endorsement in his campaign for the Senate — that of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons. I’m sufficiently out-of-it that I have never heard of Simmons. But according to the Washington Times, this endorsement is likely to help Steele — who is an African-American Republican — make further in-roads with black voters in Maryland. Indeed, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile says that »
Kazan at the bloody crossroads
In the fall 2005 issue of City Journal Harry Stein reviewed the career of the distinguished director Elia Kazan: “Justice to Elia Kazan.” Kazan was of course the original director of “Death of a Salesman” as well as the director of such great films as “On The Waterfront,” “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “East of Eden.” Kazan’s directorial work inspired his actors to wring every ounce of emotion and then »
Two for the price of one
Lucianne has scouted out Mark Steyn’s review of Ann Coulter’s new book, under a heading that sounds like Steyn’s own: “America’s fiery blond commenatrix.” »
Mahmoud’s baby
MEMRI has posted recent Iranian news items suggesting Iran’s “nuclear birth.” MEMRI reports: The Iranian news service Al-Borz, which is known to have access to sources in the Iranian government, predicted that on the first anniversary of Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s government, in late August 2006, Ahmadinejad is expected to announce what the news service called Iran’s “nuclear birth.” In addition, an August 23, 2006 article about Iran’s reply to the »
Mumbai calling
The Pan Am International Flight Academy in Eagan, Minnesota called the local Minneapolis FBI office regarding its new student — Zacarias Moussaoui — in August 2001. Until the spring of 2005, the employees involved in making the call remained silent. In the spring of 2005 local Twin Cities media identified the employees as Tim Nelson and Hugh Sims as well as flight trainer Clancy Prevost. The suspicions of Nelson, Sims »
Where faith and reason converge
The estimable Heather Mac Donald has been engaged in an extended argument with other estimable conservatives about the relationship between conservatism and (Judeo-Christian) religion. This is the piece that, as I understand it, touched off the debate. And here is Mac Donald’s latest piece. One need not agree with Mac Donald’s arguments for religious skepticism, nor share her discomfort when conservatives invoke God, to endorse what I take to be »
Happy birthday; thanks for the laughs
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. wishes former President Clinton a happy 60th birthday. Clinton apparently is celebrating his birthday like he does everything else — in excess. Tyrrell reports that, having celebrated “the blessed day of his birth” with family and friends at Martha’s Vineyard, he observed the event the following day at a friend’s vacation home where Carly Simon (not quite Marilyn Monroe, but a better singer) sang “Happy Birthday” »
Good news from Baghdad
ABC News finds that the U.S. re-deployment of troops to Baghdad, and their placement in large numbers in the most dangerous neighborhoods, appears to be working. Preliminary reports show a significance decrease in violence. Iraqi authorities say the number of violent attacks has gone down by 30 percent. The U.S., using different calculations, says such attacks have decreased by 22 percent. On the same note, the Washington Times quotes Army »
Who’s afraid of Anna Diggs Taylor, take 2
Ann Althouse elaborates on the fundamental flaws of the opinion by Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in the NSA case: “A law unto herself.” John, Paul and I all took our shots last week; Professor Althouse focuses on the shoddy ipse dixit quality of Judge Taylor’s opinion. Professor Althouse finds that Judge Taylor “did not follow the discipline of the judicial process.” The column appears in today’s New York Times, which »
