September 11, 1683 - Never Forget!

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 [...]

That Ol’ Third Secret

Let’s get this out of the way: I am not a Fatima conspiracy theorist. I do not read Fatima Crusader, I don’t write letters to Cardinal Bertone asking for the full secret, and I don’t hunker down in my bunker awaiting the return of the Ruskies.
But neither am I entirely convinced that all there is [...]

Church and State: Americans and Catholics Don’t See Eye to Eye

As I was finishing up my current issue of The American Conservative on the ride home last night, I came across a piece in the “Arts & Letters” section that was an unexpected delight. Writer Stuart Reid tackled George Weigel’s book, Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action, and did so [...]

Slate Picks Up My Comments, Makes Me Sound Like Urban II

I was checking web stats today and saw I had visitors coming from Slate.com. They apparently did a blog roundup on the new Bin Laden tape, and they excerpted my agitated suggestion that we oblige OBL on his accusation that the pope wants a new crusade:
Steve Skojec says bring it on: “If you want a new crusade, [...]

Hey, Bin Laden - Zip It!

Sounds like Osama Bin Laden has decided to drag the Holy Father into his scheming nonsense, blaming him for a non-existent role in offending Muslims - which, by the way, is not very hard to do. This has to do with the political cartoons in Denmark that satirically depicted Mohammed, which, as we know, sent Osama [...]

“I Will Not Submit.”

I LOVE IT.
 

Buchanan On Pakistan

Pat Buchanan takes a crack at what’s going down in Pakistan right now:
What has been the reaction of the great evangelist of Wilsonian democracy in the White House to its suspension in Pakistan?
Military aid to the regime and army will continue.
Welcome to the real world, where state interests always trump ideology. The “world democratic revolution” [...]