Posted on September 11th, 2008 by Steve Skojec
Hilary remembers the day September 11th became etched in the minds of the warriors of jihad forever, and it wasn’t in 2001.
She tips her English hat to Kathy Shaidle, who reminds us of the details of that infamous day:
In 1683, over 138,000 Muslim Ottoman Turks surrounded Vienna, Austria. For two months they starved the 11,000 [...]
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Posted on August 19th, 2008 by Steve Skojec
You can find it over at Inside Catholic.
Students of history will always find the month of August a little ominous. In August 1920, the Red Army invading Poland (led by neoconservative hero Leon Trotsky) nearly captured Warsaw and spilled into central Europe, whence it might well have conquered a prostrate Germany, Austria, and Hungary — [...]
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Posted on August 15th, 2008 by Steve Skojec
Today, in addition to being my Mother’s birthday (and the eve of Kiana’s, as well) is, of course, the Feast of the Assumption.
For Mass today we went to Old St. John’s in Silver Spring (also known as Our Lady, Queen of Poland).
This parish has the distinction of having been the first parish of a certain [...]
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Posted on April 4th, 2008 by Steve Skojec
On my post yesterday about the burgeoning American police state, and interesting (and in the beginning, somewhat predictable) discussion about fascism and socialism and their totalitarian ends arose in the comments.
I will state at the outset what many of you have probably already surmised - while I write and speak with some baseline knowledge of the [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2007 by Steve Skojec
Paul Krugman of the New York Times has a piece on “fearmongering” and the war posturing regarding Iran.
I’m not a Krugman reader. Don’t really know who he is. I looked him up, and it appears that he’s an economist. Clearly his specialization doesn’t help him in this article, because he appears to have no natural defense [...]
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Posted on October 19th, 2007 by Steve Skojec
I’ve just finished reading Robert Spencer’s excellent book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades).
It’s my first real foray into the topic of Islam, which I previously only really understood through shadowy memories from history classes that touched on the topic. From those memories, I had always had the distinct impression that Islam [...]
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