“Battle therefore … is essentially a moral conflict. It requires … a mutual and sustained act of will by two contending parties and, if it is to result in a decision, the moral collapse of one of them” ~ John Keegan
Or perhaps, he just likes the movies?
“You wanna get Capone? Here’s how you get him. He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! ~ Jim Malone (The Untouchables)
Whatever the case, there will clearly be no Guantanamos in Russia.
NPR President resigns!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/09/npr-president-schiller-resigns/
She got the proof about how unbalanced they really are, didn’t she?
What did you learn in school today, Billy?
Some students and parents were undoubtedly offended when how-to-masturbate posters stating “Your body is a wonderland” and urging readers to “spend your day thinking about situations that get you turned on” were put up in the campus library at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs New York, but that postering was nothing compared to what happened in a Human Sexuality class at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
John Leo at Minding The Campus:
A course on sex taught by psychology Professor John Michael Bailey recently featured a naked woman being worked on by a man wielding a sex toy. The man was described as ‘a Chicago sex tour guide.’ The 600-student course, which for some reason is one of the largest at Northwestern, features all kinds of sexual expression and guests that include swingers and convicted sex offenders. The optional, after-class sex-toy demonstration, Bailey said, “helps us understand sexual diversity”—possibly the first time a state-of-the-art vibrator demonstration was stuffed in under the campus diversity umbrella.
After a controversy erupted over the classroom activity, the University’s President issued a statement saying that the school “supports the efforts of faculty to further the advancement of knowledge…”
h/t David Thompson
Copyright Law
Is for the little people.
Reader Tips
Tonight’s Tips music features three sisters from Fort Worth, Texas who not only fiddle up a storm, but sing real good too: Here are the Quebe Sisters Band playing a little Texas Swing number called Every Which-A-Way. Take it away, girls…
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The True Face of NPR Executives
Remember what NPR CEO & President, Vivian Schiller, said a few days ago about her organization being very middle of the road politically?
Now, courtesy of a hidden camera, the real truth is being revealed:
The full two hour video can be seen here. Pamela Geller has much more.
Defund NPR. Defund PBS. And Defund CBC!!!
A Yankee looks north
Some sharp views:
…
David Jones is a retired career diplomat. He served as minister-counselor for political affairs at the U.S. embassy at Ottawa during the mid-1990s and has kept a close interest in Canadian politics. He coauthored Uneasy Neighbo(u)rs–a study of U.S.-Canada relations.
…The decade-long Canadian combat commitment to Afghanistan is ending in July. It was never popular; Afghanistan is far away, and there was no 9/11 imperative to galvanize popular support. The commitment was a good neighbor substitute for not having been one of the “willing” during the Iraq/Saddam Hussein war. Nevertheless, Canadians are leaving with honor; their mission is morphing into a training contingent with much reduced troop levels. This gives Canadians more of what they prefer: “peacekeeping” rather than “peacemaking,” with much lower casualty counts…
Conservative Principles. While hardly a “conservative” in U.S. terms, Harper…
…because he doesn’t throw horse manure in the U.S. direction every time he picks up a pitchfork, he is unforgiven by those that remain convinced the North American Free Trade Agreement is a USG plot to beggar our neighbor while sucking their natural resources (oil/water) into our insatiable maw…
…there is a further sense that the Canadian public remains suspicious of anything with a conservative label and is willing to bolt away from the party given the least excuse…
With our foreign policy cup overflowing, it has been pleasant to have a northern neighbor that is looking after its interests but not convinced that it must tell us how Ottawa could better run U.S. foreign affairs…
A Liberal government would be… different…Liberals express a traditional attitude against the United States. While Tories want the best relationship with the United States that will not cost them the next election, Liberals have always sought the worst bilateral relationship that would not prompt U.S. retaliation [very nice apposition, that]…
Over 30 years ago, the Iranian revolutionaries seized U.S. diplomats and our Tehran embassy. Then Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor sheltered six U.S. diplomats in his residence, arranged for their escape using Canadian passports, and acted as de facto CIA station chief by providing Washington with detailed intelligence for months. The action was fully supported by a short-lived Tory government; then Liberal opposition leader, Pierre Trudeau, was unhelpful (even when the situation was explained to him). One can wonder whether a “prime minister” Trudeau would have directed Taylor to say “no room at the inn” and wonder equally just what a Liberal government would do in a comparable situation today [nice bit of knife putting-in].
Great Esquire article on hunting terrorists.
http://www.esquire.com/features/iraq-terrorist-hunter-0311
I wish more Iraqis had this man’s courage.
Muhammad Yunus: “Credit should be a human right”
Looks like Paul Krugman has competition in the area of hairbrain “progressive” ideas. Bangladeshi economist, Muhammad Yunus, is insisting that guaranteed credit for everyone should be a “human right”. Hmmm, what could possibly go wrong with this idea, if implemented?!
Turns out we don’t need to look very far into history to find out. This article and this one too are well worth a read. Here’s an excerpt from the former:
The story of Boiana and of Palivelupa is that of a good idea gone drastically wrong, devastating the lives of millions of desperately poor people, threatening a banking crisis and revealing the dark side of India’s economic growth. Pioneered in Bangladesh in the late 1970s, microfinance involves granting small loans that no conventional bank would give to the very poor, allowing them to launch small-scale economic ventures. Around 30 million households in India have received £4bn in such loans over the past 15 years.
In recent months, however, the industry has been thrown into crisis as it has become clear that a significant number of borrowers – between a tenth and a third, depending on the estimate – cannot afford to repay their loans.
No Pressure
Go ahead … believe what you want. After all, this is an institution of higher learning:
Meanwhile, faculty member Todd Palmer notified four-year Ph.D. student Bethany Robinson (OSU grade point average 3.89) that he was terminating her thesis work and taking all of her work in progress for himself.
The Downfall of a Celebrity
Posing Time
The Alberta Ardvark:
Brant Liberal candidate Lloyd St. Amand joined the long list of failed Liberal Party photo ops the other day when he and Liberal trade critic Willowdale MP Martha Hall-Findlay stopped off outside a supposedly closed factory in an effort to highlight ‘job losses’ allegedly caused by the Conservative business tax reductions.
Only in the collective Liberal imagination does cutting business taxes result in job losses. As for the photo-op in front of a “closed factory”,
One small problem: The factory wasn’t closed at all, and the company’s Vice President was not happy to have been used as a prop in this Liberal deception:
“(The Liberals’) attempt at disparaging the Conservatives…was a disaster… Ironically, we had looked into locating our finishing and distribution facility in Michigan. The corporate tax cuts and programs provided by the Conservative government were the deciding factor to expand in Canada.”
So much for that photo op.
Reader Tips
Look, we all get a little impatient at times, and yes, lineups are boring, but at the end of the day what did this guy really accomplish by trying to gain a couple of extra seconds?
Sheesh. Wait your turn, buddy.
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“Anti-American Muslim dictators from North Africa were thought to be pretty freakin’ cool when Bush was president.”
Via the Virginian;
But now that President Obama has decided that it’s time to officially condemn Qaddafi, the message has been sent like the Bat Signal to everyday fashionable Gen X, Gen Y and Millennial liberals — hipsters, SWPL, single city girls, college students, Bikhram yoga instructors, NYT readers, AOLHuffington Post readers, DJ’s, bartenders, news reporters, advertising executives, entertainment professionals, etc. — that Quaddafi is a BAD GUY. If President Obama says you’re bad, then you’re bad. And now that the President has decided it’s time to call Qaddafi bad, everybody knows that Qaddafi is indeed bad. You know, like Mubarak and the Governor of Wisconsin.
So it’s a little harsh to rake Nelly Furtado over the coals for being a hypocrite. She’s probably very sincerely trying to do the right thing. She just lives in a world in which Left Wing and low-information liberal narratives are the rule. And in that world, al-Qaddafi (like Hosni Mubarak) only recently became a villain.
I Miss W
“What we need now is for every liberal in America to explain why it is impossible for a tyrannical Middle Eastern regime that is bitterly hostile to the United States and the West to get yellowcake from Africa.”
Monday’s Joke of the Day: NPR’s Vivian Schiller
Perhaps the CBC can hire her as a consultant!
How much bigger can it grow?
The American government just recorded their largest monthly budget deficit ever, at $223 Billion in February. Neither party seems serious about cutting it.
Is this what it feels like when a car is racing towards the end of a cliff and both the driver and the passenger have their feet on the gas pedal?
How the manipulation of the tax code broke healthcare in the US.
Today I Am A Muslim, Too
Come celebrate by joining in the 24 Hour Clitoridectomy.
