If You’ve Noticed a Decrease in Blogging Here

You aren’t imagining things. I’ve been very busy over at Balance of Power, defending my post on Abortion. Great stuff going on over there, but it interferes with my blogging time. Things should settle down soon, once the regular conservative is back up in a few weeks.

If You’ve Noticed a Decrease in Blogging Here

You aren’t imagining things. I’ve been very busy over at Balance of Power, defending my post on Abortion. Great stuff going on over there, but it interferes with my blogging time. Things should settle down soon, once the regular conservative is back up in a few weeks.

Gitmo Would Still Be Necessary

Great column by Jonah Goldberg:

There’s a lot I don’t understand about the current hysteria over our prison facility at Guantanamo Bay. At the top of the list is why no one has mentioned Louis Pepe or Mamdouh Mahmud Salim.

Salim, a reputed top lieutenant of Osama Bin Laden, was being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a high security federal jail in lower Manhattan. Pepe was a guard there. On November 1, 2000, Salim plunged a sharpened comb into Pepe’s left eye and three inches into his brain. Salim and a compatriot also beat Pepe savagely, in their effort to get the guard’s keys and orchestrate an escape for himself and two fellow terrorists awaiting trial. Believing Pepe was dead, the attackers used his own blood to paint a Christian cross on his torso. Pepe was an experienced correctional officer, a member of the elite MCC Enforcers Disturbance Control, and he weighed in at 300 pounds. He survived the attack with brain damage, crippling disabilities and an unending stream of surgeries.

The reason Pepe and Salim are relevant should be obvious. There are good guys and bad guys in this story, and as much as it pains some to hear it, we are the good guys. We are not talking about confused teenagers caught up in events larger than themselves. We aren’t talking about mistaken identities. We’re talking about the cream of our enemy’s crop in the war on terror.

Critics of the Bush Administration are fond of the argument that the war in Iraq is a distraction from the real war on terror. John Kerry, Howard Dean and countless others have argued that Iraq diluted our efforts in Afghanistan, the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, and the worldwide consensus on the need to destroy al-Qaida. That’s an argument worth having – and we have had it many times over. But if it were all true and we had never invaded Iraq, we would still have Guantanamo and the problem of what to do with hardened, dedicated terrorists like Salim.

Read the rest.

Gitmo Would Still Be Necessary

Great column by Jonah Goldberg:

There’s a lot I don’t understand about the current hysteria over our prison facility at Guantanamo Bay. At the top of the list is why no one has mentioned Louis Pepe or Mamdouh Mahmud Salim.

Salim, a reputed top lieutenant of Osama Bin Laden, was being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a high security federal jail in lower Manhattan. Pepe was a guard there. On November 1, 2000, Salim plunged a sharpened comb into Pepe’s left eye and three inches into his brain. Salim and a compatriot also beat Pepe savagely, in their effort to get the guard’s keys and orchestrate an escape for himself and two fellow terrorists awaiting trial. Believing Pepe was dead, the attackers used his own blood to paint a Christian cross on his torso. Pepe was an experienced correctional officer, a member of the elite MCC Enforcers Disturbance Control, and he weighed in at 300 pounds. He survived the attack with brain damage, crippling disabilities and an unending stream of surgeries.

The reason Pepe and Salim are relevant should be obvious. There are good guys and bad guys in this story, and as much as it pains some to hear it, we are the good guys. We are not talking about confused teenagers caught up in events larger than themselves. We aren’t talking about mistaken identities. We’re talking about the cream of our enemy’s crop in the war on terror.

Critics of the Bush Administration are fond of the argument that the war in Iraq is a distraction from the real war on terror. John Kerry, Howard Dean and countless others have argued that Iraq diluted our efforts in Afghanistan, the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, and the worldwide consensus on the need to destroy al-Qaida. That’s an argument worth having – and we have had it many times over. But if it were all true and we had never invaded Iraq, we would still have Guantanamo and the problem of what to do with hardened, dedicated terrorists like Salim.

Read the rest.

Self Serving Justice

In realm of criminals and criminal behavior, there are a few classes of criminal. In my opinion there are the Stupid Criminals, The Despicable
Criminals, and the ones who serve Justice to Themselves.

The stupid criminals, we all know about, you know the guys who hold up banks with their fingers, or get stuck in chimneys because they thought they could break in using the Santa Clause method. These guys are fun, and entertaining just because of their stupidity. It is always fun to see that there are people out there stupider than you.

The Despicable Criminals are the ones, like this guy, who commit the crime, normally murder and/or rape, and then show absolutely no remorse. These guys try to use the system to further their criminal intentions, and victimize the family or the original victim over and over. These Prizes of Nature turn my stomach. They bring out the rage I feel, and well up inside us all our visceral need for revenge.

And Then… We have these guys. The ones who serve Justice to themselves, or in this case, at least try to. This is a higher caliber of criminal. While I still find their crime to be despicable, at least they are sparing all of us the sordid details and expense of a trial. In a strange way I respect these guys, at least they know they are wrong, and they deliver their punishment right away to themselves.
Oh only if all Rapists, Murderers and Child Molesters would be so kind.

Not That There is Any Bias From Reuters with This Photo.

A Jewish Joke

Told by one of the keynote speakers at the opening of the Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield.

Do you know why everyone thought Abraham Lincoln was Jewish?
Because his first name was Abraham, and he was shot in the temple!

Isn’t that a side splitter?

The same “distinguished” speaker today compared American soldiers to Stalin and Pol Pot. Reactions?

Glad To See Conditions Have Improved Since Roe v Wade

This isn’t exactly what I had in mind when writing my abortion post over at Balance of Power. But when the pro-abortion crowd starts talking about the sanitary conditions in abortion clinics, I’m thinking this is not what they are referring to.

Not That There is Any Bias From Reuters with This Photo.

A Jewish Joke

Told by one of the keynote speakers at the opening of the Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield.

Do you know why everyone thought Abraham Lincoln was Jewish?
Because his first name was Abraham, and he was shot in the temple!

Isn’t that a side splitter?

The same “distinguished” speaker today compared American soldiers to Stalin and Pol Pot. Reactions?