Newt should be smarter than to say nice things about Huckabee

I really admire Newt Gingrich, but I can't see how he can be saying such nice things about Gov. Huckabee (who I personally think of as Huck-a-dope). I'm watching Newt on the ABC "This Week" program now. Huck-a-dope says he doesn't believe in evolution. He would be a disaster for the Republican party.

Star Trek weekend at "the Corner"

It is Star Trek weekend at the National Review Online "the Corner"... lots of good posts on how much of a liberal weenie Jean Luc Picard was and how much of a realpolitik bad ass Capt. Sisco was on ST:DS9.

did this guy have dinner with Ahmadinejad or Jesus?

It would probably be better to read this piece by Time's Richard Stengel while poised over the toilet, ready to hurl. OH MY GOD! Did this guy have dinner with a thug who presides over a state that has women stoned to death for looking a bit too suggestively at a guy and that has gays killed or with Jesus Christ? Could he describe the thug in more glowing terms? How can these people be so in love with brutal dictators?

Imbeciles at Columbia

It is really revolting to listen to the sound bites of Ahmadinejad's speech at Columbia. The most revolting part is to listen to the applause that the guy got. Even when he was booed for saying that Iran doesn't have homosexuals, that booing was short lived. The guy should have been booed off the stage. How could those people let that guy get away with all those bald-faced lies? You'd think that the women in the audience would not have let him get away by talking about how "respected" women are in Iran when there are numerous recent examples of women being stoned to death for adultery. It is very, very disheartening. All the more so when you think about how much this appearance will encourage the hardliners in Iran.

The importance of having a frontier to American survival

For a long time, I have believed that one of the things that has made America great was the presence of the American Frontier. The western frontier was always a place that tested people and either made them better or killed them. It contributed to our "can do" attitude and led in large part to the American ingenuity that produced the great technology-based economy that we have today. I think that this contention gained support in the interview that Hugh Hewitt had with Robert Kaplan on Kaplan's new book Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military In The Air, At Sea, And On The Ground. Kaplan said that a lot of the best military personnel that he spoke with came from modern types of frontier environments (0ut in Alaska, from ranches and farms). If we lose those places then we lose the kind of tough-as-nails men that Kaplan is writing about. This is why I think it is so important that we have to get large numbers of people living and working in the new frontier of outer space ASAP. It is going to take time and it is going to be a very different type of frontier, but space is an unforgiving, zero mistakes allowed environment that will test people and, once again, either make them better or kill them. I've got expand on these ideas sometime soon!

lunch at the 4 Seasons for Ahmedinijad?????

I can't believe what I just heard on Fox & Friends. They had Newt Gingrich as a guest and he said that the New York Times was taking Iranian president Ahmedinijad to lunch at the 4 Seasons in NYC???? Would they have taken Adolf Hitler to lunch there? That's disgusting. The speech by Ahmedinijad at Columbia is also an abomination. Will students rush the stage there like they did when the Minutemen spoke there? Somehow I doubt it. By the way, Hugh Hewitt has a good column on the Columbia travesty here.

finally Google does something worthwhile

This sounds like an amazing contest... the kind of thing that could really contribute to making humanity a space faring species.

great interview with Norman Podhoretz on Bill Bennett's show

Bill Bennett had a great interview with Norman Podhoretz on his radio show today. Podhoretz has a new book out, "World War Four" about the struggle against the Islamofascists. It seems especially timely today with today being Sept. 11... and the first Tuesday since that Tuesday. I'll never forget coming back from a walk with my dog and turning on the Today show to see the first World Trade Center tower on fire and then watching live as the second airplane hit. It still sends chills down my spine just thinking about it. I just don't understand how so many people have forgotten what went on that day and what that day meant and who caused it. We have to defeat the islamofascists or else our own existence as a civilization will be in jeopardy.