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Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call … Well, No, Actually We Probably Won’t.

Ben — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:00:46 +0000

“I love seeing friends face-to-face. (Not in gangs, but one or two at a time.) I love Facebook. I love e-mail. I love letters, although it has admittedly been a while since I’ve written one. But I hate the phone. Hate it. Hate. It. ….”

Atlas Shrugged: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years — Stephen Moore, WSJ.com

Ben — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:58:05 +0000

Why Martin Luther King Was Republican — Frances Rice, Human Events

Ben — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:04:50 +0000

Of course this only makes sense given the history of the Civil War, but for some reason reading this took me aback. Some residual public school/media conditioning still held some slight sway, I guess. With this, there’s less now than there was yesterday.

Want Real Change? Quit Nominating Lawyers! — Victor Davis Hanson, Townhall.com

Ben — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:22:57 +0000

Man Finds God, And It’s Not ‘Doctor Who’ — Michael Hinman, SyFy Portal

Ben — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:06:45 +0000

The last testament of Flashman’s creator: How Britain has destroyed itself — George Macdonald Fraser, the Daily Mail

Ben — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:52:31 +0000

I originally happened upon Mr. Fraser’s work while searching for another author’s work entirely. Rest in peace, sir.

George MacDonald Fraser, R.I.P. — Scott Johnson, Powerline
George MacDonald Fraser, R.I.P. — Sam Munson, The Horizon on Commentary Magazine
To Fraser (And Flashman)! — Max Boot, The Horizon on Commentary Magazine.

Behind Enemy Lines With a Suburban Counterterrorist — Jack Hitt, Wired Magazine

Ben — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:47:47 +0000

Thompson Goes Electric — Jay Cost, HorseRaceBlog on RealClearPolitics

Ben — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:37:35 +0000

How Dumping TV Allowed Me to Quit My Job, Create an Online Business and Fund My Retirement Account — SavingAdvice.com Blog

Ben — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:12:56 +0000

Eloi for Breakfast — Bruce Moon, PajamasMedia

Ben — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:13:07 +0000

“Bruce Moon time-travels from breakfast with spine-chilling creatures of the future to the battlefields of the Revolutionary War and back again to remind us that keeping the peace isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be…”

Read On.

Baggage handler is Glasgow’s unassuming hero — CTV.ca

Ben — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:21:51 +0000

‘Political correctness is killing our freedoms’ [says José Manuel Barroso] — Bruno Waterfield, UK Telegraph

Ben — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:36:16 +0000

‘That’s Not Nice’: Our political discourse needs less censorship and more self-disciplinePeggy Noonan, OpinionJournal

Ben — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:45:44 +0000

Rontrell’s Choice: Why a South Carolina teen has to work his way through high schoolBrendan Miniter, OpinionJournal

Ben — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:55:33 +0000

The Choice on Iraq — Sen. Joe Lieberman, OpinionJournal

Ben — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:39:53 +0000

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: Joel Johnson Returns…to Spank Us All for Supporting Crap — Joel Johnson, Gizmodo

Ben — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:22:53 +0000

What we need in New Year is some resolutionMark Steyn, Chicago Sun-Times

Ben — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:51:46 +0000

Dave Barry’s Year-End Review — Dave Barry

Ben — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:36:43 +0000

I am thankful to Dave Barry for writing the one Year-in-Review column for 2006 that I ~~can tolerate~~ am the least bit eager to read. Enjoy, and may you find 2007 to be even better than 2006.

ISG must stand for, uh, Inane Strategy GuessworkMark Steyn, Chicago Sun-Times

Ben — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:25:52 +0000

The Only Issue This Election DayOrson Scott Card, RealClearPolitics

Ben — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:24:18 +0000

Seeing the Unseen, Part 1Bill Whittle, Eject! Eject! Eject!

Ben — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:07:07 +0000

Five Years and Running — Victor Davis Hanson, Pajamas Media

Ben — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:04:11 +0000

This is brilliant:

“Saddest was the input of a “worried” history profession, whose big-guns expressed concern. Again, this comes from a discipline that nearly wrecked itself over postmodernism and the banality that all truth is relative and constructed, and predicated on questions of race, class, and gender. Objecting to docu-dramatic, fictionalized account on grounds that dialogue either didn’t happen as it appeared on screen or was enlarged and expanded is like complaining that Gates of Fire is not Herodotus or that Mary Renault deviated from Arrian.”

In other words, why did the elitist academics of the Hip-ocracy who believe that all truth is relative all of a sudden demand that it was an “absolute truth” that the Path to 9/11 was factually incorrect? Because they are a part of the Hip-ocracy, that’s why.

He has more to say. Read it all.

Please stop with the August 22nd crap — Allahpundit, Hot Air

Ben — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:32:36 +0000

Okay, okay, okay…

“Bend Up Every Spirit To Its Full Height” – Penraker

Ben — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:27:12 +0000

Penraker’s post is a must-read. He quotes from Shakespeare’s Henry V and from a column by Jules Crittenden:

I wish I had a sweet, comforting post-Sept. 11 lullaby to sing the ones I love to sleep when they experience fear of these evil men. But I don’t. Lullabies combat false monsters. Real monsters require something different.
Psalms, like lullabies, give comfort. But they don’t mask or deny the threat. They embrace it, and show the way to strength and ultimately comfort from within. What might a psalm say to anyone whose 9/11 fears have been reawakened?

I fear that the time of hoping for the best is just about over, and now the time has come to brace for the worst. God be with the righteous…

Israel warns of “greater tragedy” if Lebanon does not changeAFP in Khaleej Times Online

Ben — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:48:30 +0000

Israel’s UN ambassador Dan Gillerman:

“The tragedy we have seen in our region over the past weeks … is but a preview of a coming attraction, produced by Iran, directed by Syria, acted by terrorist groups, soon to be seen in a theater near you.”