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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Norwegian Justice
We’ve often noted the befuddlement of European institutions in the face of Muslim immigration. That continent’s ill-preparedness for the perils of modern life doesn’t end with immigration, however. Don Surber notes a remarkable feature of criminal justice in Norway: prisons are optional. That is to say, the courts sentence criminals to prison, but whether they actually turn themselves in is up to the criminal: »
A tortured review
The New York Times has published some bizarre stories, columns, and editorials related to the war on terror, but I don’t think it has ever published anything as weird as Wellesley Professor Dan Chiasson’s review of Poems From Guant »
Cantor on CAIR
On Wednesday evening I met with House chief deputy minority whip Eric Cantor before he spoke at a fundraiser in Minneapolis. I’ve seen Rep. Cantor speak in Minneapolis on a couple of previous occasions and always found him to be candid and pointed. I referred to the evidence introduced in the Holy Land Foundation trial underway in Dallas and asked him about the perception of CAIR in Congress. He said »
Talking with Tehran
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal published Michael Ledeen’s retrospective and critique of American negotiations with Iran (subscribers only). In the photo above that accompanies Ledeen’s column online, “U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, first left, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, top center, and Iranian Ambassador Hassan Kazemi Qomi, first right, during security talks between U.S. and Iranian officials in Baghdad Monday, May 28, 2007.” Ledeen begins with the observation that every »
“MS-13 forever”
Law enforcement authorities made two more arrests in the case of the execution-style murder of three Newark college students. The two newly arrested suspects include the apparent ringleader in the killings. They were apprehended in Washington, D.C., so the Washington Post covers the arrests as a big local story. The Post describes the suspects as “a 24-year old Nicaraguan man” — Rodolfo Godinez — and his teen-age half-brother. One has »
A Scam for the Ages
World literature is replete with “artists” who bamboozle would-be sophisticates into doing foolish things, usually to the benefit, financial or otherwise, of the “artist.” A master practitioner of this age-old craft is Spencer Tunick, an American photographer who travels around the globe, directing thousands of people to take off their clothes so he can photograph them. Really. Tunick’s shtick is massing hundreds of naked human bodies in a locale that »
Heavy Metal
“We Hide and Seek” is the beautiful bluegrassy instrumental composition by dobro virtuoso Jerry Douglas. Alison Krauss recruited Douglas into her Union Station lineup and inserted the song into her live performances, where I first heard it. In the video below, Douglas leads an all-star band including the late Roy Husky on bass, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, master fiddler Mark O’Connor on guitar, Sam Bush on mandolin, and Alison Brown »
Immigration In ’08
One of the oddities of the current political moment is that Republicans have suffered most of the political fallout from the ill-fated bipartisan effort at immigration reform, even though most Republicans’ positions on immigration are much closer to the nation’s mainstream than most Democrats’. This has, I think, warped the perceptions of the pundit class. The conventional wisdom is that the American public has shifted to the Left. While I »
CAIRLESS lies
Charles Johnson has posted the amicus curiae brief filed by CAIR in the Holy Land Foundation trial. Submitted by Washington attorney William Moffitt, the 56-page brief supports CAIR’s motion to strike the government’s identification of CAIR and others as unindicted co-conspirators of the Holy Land Foundation. The brief is poorly written and poorly argued, though here I want to focus only on one theme of the brief that is of »
Watch this space
I’m taking a week’s vacation and won’t be posting during that time. In fact, unless I’m overcome by the need to check the Everton result, I won’t probably won’t go online at all. Often when I take my annual week off, my Power Line partners break something big. So although I won’t be reading us, you should. JOHN adds: Oh oh. I’ll be on vacation for the next week too; »
The system works, or so we’ll pretend
The liberal line on Jose Padilla’s conviction has emerged, and it comes as no surprise. In the words of Stanford Law School professor Jenny Martinez, who has represented Padilla in related matters, “the trial showed that our federal courts are perfectly capable of dealing with terrorism cases.” (See also today’s lead editorial in the Washington Post.) This statement is both wrong and (coming from Martinez) probably disingenuous. It’s wrong because »
They’ve Finally Gone Too Far!
Hamas is a terrorist group whose only purpose is to murder as many innocent people as possible. For some reason, that hasn’t bothered many on the Left. Now, though, Hamas has finally gone too far for PETA: they’ve mistreated animals! An animal rights group on Wednesday criticized a program on a Hamas-run television station in which a man swings cats by their tails and throws stones at lions in a »
Damned If You Do…
Is Bill Moyers the most contemptible man in American public life? He gets my vote. He has an obsessive hatred of Christian conservatives, as we pointed out here and elsewhere. (Religious liberals, of course, are another matter altogether, because they agree with Moyers.) Now, Moyers has unleashed one of the most over-the-top tirades I’ve ever seen, against Karl Rove. It really has to be seen to be believed; check it »
If the Shoe Fits…
Earlier this week, an administration official said that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard would be listed as a terrorist organization, which could have financial implications for the business interests it controls. Today, Iran’s top cleric, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, said that he considers the classification a compliment: The U.S. move to blacklist Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group will be a matter of pride for the organization said a senior Iranian cleric »
The Washington Post fabricates a “contradiction”
Dan Eggen of the Washington Post churns out another misleading hit-piece on Alberto Gonzales. This time, he claims that the notes of FBI Director Robert Mueller contradict Gonzales’ account of his famous visit to Attorney General Ashcroft at the hospital in March 2004. Eggen begins: Then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft was “feeble,” “barely articulate” and “stressed” moments after a hospital room confrontation in March 2004 with Alberto R. Gonzales, who »
The Jose Padilla Fan Club
Jules Crittenden did the dirty work, so you don’t have to: he toured the fever swamp of liberal web sites to record their reactions to yesterday’s conviction of Jose Padilla. As you would expect, those that haven’t fallen silent are regretful. Jules also notes this paragraph from an A.P. report: U.S. officials said Padilla, while incarcerated in a military brig in South Carolina, admitted exploring the dirty bomb plot. But »
They Can’t Multiply, Either
Lately, the New York Times’s Public Editor has been on a tear about the fact that the paper’s reporters and editors can’t spell, a fact which we noted here. They can’t multiply, either. In today’s Corrections section, the paper corrects a prior mathematical error: An article on Tuesday about the governing party of Turkey »
