Category Archives: The War

Return of the D.C. sniper?

Posted on December 12, 2010 | Comments Off on Return of the D.C. sniper?

Seems military recruitment and other buildings, such as the Pentagon, are taking rounds from a mysterious, apparently amateur, shooter whose ballistics match. In five incidents since Oct. 17,  s/he fortunately hasn’t hit anyone.

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Replacement theology

Posted on December 9, 2010 | Comments Off on Replacement theology

I doubt most American Christians have any idea what the World Council of Churches does from one year to the next. But many of those who do must be saddened, if not outraged, by the WCC’s recent return to the Middle Ages and its endorsement by the Presbyterian church.

“This understanding denies the connection between today’s Jews and Moses, Jeremiah and Isaiah. It marks a return to ‘replacement theology,’ the medieval view that the Church has replaced Israel in God’s plan and that all biblical references to Israel refer to the “new Israel”—that is, to Christians. For centuries, that view was the theological basis for denying rights to Jews in Church-dominated Europe.”

This time, of course, it’s intended to deny history, i.e., Israel’s claim to the land and its modern right to exist as a Jewish state. And it forms the basis for such things as financial divestment, and demands to end the checkpoints and tear down the barriers that keep out Palestinian suicide bombers.

Not that any of that will happen. It’s just a philosophical return to the bad old days, and blind to boot. Considering that the majority of the Palestinians all this allegedly is designed to help are Muslims, whose Imams have their own brand of “replacement theology.” Which applies to Christianity as well as Judaism.

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To the End of the Land

Posted on December 8, 2010 | Comments Off on To the End of the Land

This lengthy novel by Israeli writer David Grossman has a slow start and a frustratingly ambiguous ending but the rest of it readily captured my attention and imagination.

Perhaps it helps if you have a boy child of your own since much of the story is about the raising of two boys and their inevitable entry into a conscript army.

And the fear this creates in their parents, especially in a country as beset by enemies as Israel. That the author lost his own son in combat while writing the story makes it all the more poignant. After some thought, I even bought the ambiguity, given that it reflects the real situation and there are plenty of hints to help you guess what will happen—at least to the parents.

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The terrorist Assange

Posted on December 7, 2010 | Comments Off on The terrorist Assange

The pale blond anarchist doesn’t care who gets hurt in his private war:

“Mr. Assange doesn’t mail bombs, but his actions have life-threatening consequences. Consider the case of a 75-year-old dentist in Los Angeles, Hossein Vahedi. According to one of the confidential cables released by WikiLeaks, Dr. Vahedi, a U.S. citizen, returned to Iran in 2008 to visit his parents’ graves. Authorities confiscated his passport because his sons worked as concert promoters for Persian pop singers in the U.S. who had criticized the theocracy….”

Ah, but in the anarchist’s world, some “crockery” inevitably must be broken.

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Esther strikes again?

Posted on December 5, 2010 | Comments Off on Esther strikes again?
“Originally, all eyes turned toward Israel’s intelligence agencies. Engineers examining the worm found ‘clues’ that hinted at Israel’s involvement. In one case they found the word ‘Myrtus’ embedded in the code and argued that it was a reference to Esther, the biblical figure who saved the ancient Jewish state from the Persians. But computer experts say ‘Myrtus’ is more likely a common reference to ‘My RTUS,’ or remote terminal units.“

Works for me, either way.

UPDATE:  The party never ends. Heh. Take that Mahmoud!

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Girl With Gun: Rule 5

Posted on December 3, 2010 | Comments Off on Girl With Gun: Rule 5

Womens_with_guns_013Looks like a, uh, twelve gauge to me. The gun, I mean, of course, the gun.

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Honor Our Fallen

Posted on December 3, 2010 | Comments Off on Honor Our Fallen

Start with the latest:

Army Pvt. Devon J. Harris

Died November 27, 2010 serving during Operation Enduring Freedom

Age 24, of Mesquite, Tex.; assigned to Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 10th Mountain Division, at Ft. Polk, La.; died Nov. 27 in Wardak province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with a rocket-propelled grenade.

Read it all.

When W was president, the legacy media was clamoring to photograph the latest dead hero’s arrival home. Now that a Democrat is, there’s a blackout on that aspect of the war. Strange how that works, eh?

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