THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Our winter is all but officially over, about a month early, oddly enough. So we have to take snow where we can get it. No place better than the Judean Hills.

Since their Hamas rulers played Grinch and cancelled Christmas. “There hasn’t been a Christmas tree in Gaza City’s main square since Hamas pushed the Palestinian Authority out of Gaza in 2007 and Christmas is no longer a public holiday…Of the 1.5 million Palestinians now living in the Gaza Strip, fewer than 1,400 are Christian and [...]

        Got to be the world’s largest Chanukkah menorah–atop the Azrieli Center in Tel Aviv.

“I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem,” (Isaiah 62:6)

Or so says Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, because, despite the war drums getting louder and louder…. “What can Iran do with a nuclear weapon?” he asked rhetorically. “For example, will they hit Israel? How many Palestinians will die? And you think if Iran hits [...]

We’re about to find out just how far the vacationer-in-chief will take his Leftist, pro-Muslim politics, now that urban, supposedly-sophisticated Egyptians have voted in the radical Islamists. As Spengler puts it, Egypt is becoming a banana republic without the bananas. One that, indeed, cannot even feed itself. And it would be, as he adds here, [...]

Just a taste of the fauna at the rancho these days: our little buddy the Tufted Titmouse. I think my pal Snoopy-the-Goon took this one on his recent visit.

The Hollywood director was already famous for his movie Lifeboat when, in 1945, he joined a group of documentary filmmakers accompanying the American and British soldiers who liberated the more than 200 camps the Nazis devoted to murdering 11 million people—6 million of them Jews. The “carnage and desolation” has “to be seen to be [...]

Nice to see there’s yet another computer virus/worm/trojan attacking Iran’s nuclear bomb-making computers. Duqu, which was acknowledged just a day after a blast at an Iranian missile site killed 17 and wounded many more, apparently is an offspring of Stuxnet, which earlier delayed things: “Duqu appeared to be designed to gather data to make it [...]

The imagined population bomb of the past quarter-century explodes, peopling the planet with far more mouths than it can feed and increasing carbon footprints until they plaster every available surface, the resulting global warming raising sea levels, burning up crops, etc. That’s the Green fantasy, which pols like because it allows them to tax and [...]