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Terrorizing ourselves

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“The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.”  Read Lynne Kiesling’s take on the legacy of 9/11:  “Be indomitable. Refuse to be terrorized.” Update (10 September).  Richard Fernandez thinks we should go on the offense: “We have no right to forgive. We have no right to forget.”  Michelle Malkin spells it out for the more obtuse. Mark Steyn isn’t amused, either: One reason why there’s so little room at Ground Zero is because it’s still a building site. As I write in my new book, 9/11 was something America’s enemies did to … Continue reading Terrorizing ourselves

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In France, nobody expects the Spanish Inquistion…

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…but apparently some French Catholics might welcome it, after destroying Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ.” Yes, it’s illegal, anti-intellectual, and dangerous to free speech.  But I’m amazed Christians have for so long turned the other cheek to a world of insults, oppressions, and outright massacres.  When Radical Islam gets results by videotaping decapitations, fundamentalist Christians take a lesson. Tip from the Instapundit, who wasn’t expecting the Spanish Inquisition, either. Continue reading In France, nobody expects the Spanish Inquistion…

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Crank up the Enola Gay!

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Great view of the cockpit of the famous Hiroshima Bomber.  Back in the 20th Century, I–and a half-dozen other young majors–had lunch with General Tibbets.  Oh, the stories he had. The first class of the Air Command and Staff College was all field-promoted colonels who’d been lieutenants when the war started.  General T. said they’d split up into two groups, and each group would take turns teaching the other group what they’d learned in 3 years of air war.  Nobody went by the book, ’cause they didn’t have time to start writing the damn thing until after the war. Tip … Continue reading Crank up the Enola Gay!

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The fix is in, and we’re tired of it

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Michael Barone begins to get at the motivation behind middle-class Tea Partiers: The recoil in 2010 against the Obama Democrats’ vast expansion of the size and scope of government seems to have a cultural or a moral dimension as well. It was a vote, as my Washington Examiner colleague Timothy P. Carney wrote last week, expressing “anger at those unfairly getting rich — at the taxpayer’s expense.” Those include well-connected Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs that got bailed out and giant corporations like General Electric that shape legislation so they can profit. They include the public employee unions who … Continue reading The fix is in, and we’re tired of it