Ben Stein on the Cartoons of Blasphemy
At The American Spectator, Ben Stein says We’re Losing...we are losing our freedom here at home, and in a particularly nasty way... link: 199 comments "I know reporters for major newspapers and they are truly shocked at the failure of the editorial boards to publish these cartoons. What they also find deeply disturbing is the universality of the sentiment. They had assumed that each paper was independent, but now it appears there is some type of collective thinking going on. The reporters find this a bit scary."
VDH: Standoff in Iraq
Victor Davis Hanson, on the Standoff in Iraq. link: 15 comments
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/
Arabian Dissent is watching the situation in Iraq and finds signs that a major meltdown over the attack on the Golden Mosque may be avoided. Let's hope.
Keep your eye on the Iraqi bloggers on the sidebar, too. They're invariably more accurate in their analysis than the mainstream media.
Working link:
I especially like the maps in this category:
W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam Maps
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~rs143/map.html