Category: World

Another great essay by Den Beste rebutting the old canard that America shouldn’t try to force democracy on the rest of the world. The fuzzy-wuzzies just aren’t ready for it, dontcha know.

CBC Radio Two news this morning mentioned a demonstration in Basra for early elections. Why was there no mention last month of the demonstrations against the insurgency?

An important warning from John Derbyshire at the National Review:

I only hope I can get the word out before they track me down.

Listen: Britney Spears is an instrument of Satan. The poor girl has sold her soul, or had it stolen from her. That travesty of a marriage was not for nothing — it was a union in evil! Its issue will be the Antichrist, and the world will be his dominion. These are the Last Times. You have been warned.

Victor Davis Hanson’s weekly essay discusses how some of the currently popular anti-American myths:

The United States is alienating the world, losing the friendship of the Europeans, needlessly offending the Arabs, and generally embarking on a radically new foreign policy of preemption and hegemony.

are no more true now than they were in, say, 1973.