RSN Pick of the Day
Democracy of Cannibals
Written by Daniel Greenfield
The chaos in Egypt has brought forth pious praises of democracy. "So what if the Muslim Brotherhood seizes power," the pundits ask, "as long as there are democratic elections." But what is the virtue of democracy anyway?
The one fundamental virtue of democracy is that it is the widest possible ...
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State of the Union Address 2012
Written by Daniel Greenfield
STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
Jan 13th, 2012, Capitol Hill
Mister Speaker, Vice President Biden, Supreme Leader Hu Jintao, distinguished lenders and fellow indebted Americans
I would like to begin this address by congratulating the brave women and men of the 113th congress who managed to make it here ...
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Obama Loses the Middle East
Written by Daniel Greenfield
It's no coincidence that major revolutions against Western backed governments have occurred under weak American presidents. The Iranian revolution against the Shah happened on Jimmy Carter's watch. The current violence in Tunisia and Egypt is taking place under Obama. And the timing is quite ...
Reads: 2020
The Fall of the Strongmen
Written by Daniel Greenfield
The attempt to establish a post-colonial order of kings and strongmen to replace the British and French colonial rule over the Arab Muslim world was doomed from the start. Some of the kings were overthrown by native officers who had been trained by the British and the French to fight their wars. ...
Reads: 846
Friday Afternoon Roundup - The Challenge of Challenger
Written by Daniel Knish
The Demise of the US Space Program
Today is the 25th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. It is an almost unremarked disaster.
In his State of the Union address, Obama mentioned Sputnik, but not Challenger. He only briefly mentioned NASA, the agency that he effectively dismantled ... Read more: Friday Afternoon Roundup - The Challenge of Challenger
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Obama's State of the Soviet Union
Written by Daniel Greenfield
When the applause had died down and the softly glowing screen of the teleprompter faded to black, the echoes of the Leninist cadences of Obama's State of the Union address, "We must out-educate, out-compete, and out-innovate the rest of the world", "We have broken the back of the recession" and "We ...
Reads: 1991
In the Crosshairs of the Speech Police
Written by Daniel Greenfield
In the weeks since the Arizona massacre, the media has revealed a preoccupation with language almost as intense as the one that motivated her shooter. Loughner's obsession with Congresswoman Giffords seems to have begun in 2007 when she mockingly replied to his question, "How do you know words mean ...
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Anglophobia or Islamophobia - What's the Real Problem?
Written by Daniel Greenfield
Suicide Bomber Hits Moscow Airport, 31 dead, Islamist insurgency cited...
In the UK, Baroness Warsi, better known as PM Cameron's pet Muslim, delivered a speech lambasting Britons as racists for in any way associating terrorism with Islam. If you have been guilty of trying to distinguish between ... Read more: Anglophobia or Islamophobia - What's the Real Problem?
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Responding to the Left on Sohail Mohammed
Written by Daniel Greenfield
Since my story on the nomination of Sohail Mohammed to a Superior Court Judgeship ran last week, it was picked up by a variety of left wing outlets, beginning with the Soros funded Think Progress. And in a startling display of GroupThink, sites and personalities from the left picked up the Think ...
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