Category: The World At Large
Delta Gets You There. Well Not You; You’re A Jew! (UPDATED: Delta Says No Codeshare Agreement)
The nation of Saudi Arabia has a few interesting rules for who may enter the country and what they can bring if they’re allowed in. For instance, you can’t enter the country if your passport has an Israeli stamp on it. The Saudis have a pretty strict We Hate the Hell Out of Israel policy [...]
The Delivery Presents – I Don’t Often Sound the Horn of Outrage, But…
I covered quite a a bit of ground in Episode 99 (AKA: The Big Gretzky!) but by far, the most important part of the whole show is in the second half of the first segment. Listen to the whole show, of course, then send it to your friends and family and get them to subscribe [...]
Me at Hot Air: Not Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting.
I’m doing some guest-blogging at Hot Air for a few days while Ed Morrissey is out of the country for a few days and my first post this afternoon involves one of the silliest and most-frustrating stories I’ve seen all week. Apparently, the Brits have just a tiny problem with the concept of free speech, [...]
Again, Ban Ki-Moon Will Vote “Present” on Human Rights
I’m going to go way out on a limb and suggest that it’s not a good thing for the UN Secretary General to vote “present” on the matter of human rights. The brutal crackdown by Syrian President Bashar Assad may finally be getting the attention of world leaders — but apparently not enough to stop [...]
President Obama’s Foreign Policy: In the Rear with the Gear
Both Mollie Hemingway and Paula Gardner noticed something very curious about a description of President Obama’s leadership style in a recent New Yorker article. Obama’s reluctance to articulate a grand synthesis “has alienated both realists and idealists,” Lizza writes. However, he “may be moving toward something resembling a doctrine.” One of Obama’s advisers describes his [...]
What European Christians Have Learned from Islam
Over the past few years, we’ve seen several incidents where violent Muslim protests over relatively minor slights earned big government and corporate concessions. Death threats over a few cartoons of Mohammed caused media outlets all over the world to censor themselves in ways that they would never have done otherwise. Muslims have murdered people because [...]
After the President’s Libya Speech, I Still Have Questions
Last night, President Obama did his best impression of an embarrassed schoolboy handing in a two-week late term paper he hastily finished the night before and told us what he thinks we’re doing in Libya and why Operation Air Quotes is the right thing. You can read the speech here and determine for yourself if [...]
The Most Impressive Tsunami Video I’ve Ever Seen (Or, How the Sea Ate a Town in 6 Minutes)
This is, hands down, the most breathtaking video of the tsunami in Japan I’ve seen. When you watch it, pay attention to two things: 1) the geography of the area at the beginning of the video and how the implacable force of the sea changes it in less than 6 minutes, and 2) the utter [...]
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