Entre Nous / Musings of a former Belgian

The New Class

Old but good: Glenn Reynolds on "new class" sensibilities setting the tone for the BBC.

Democratic Realism

Make sure to read Charles Krauthammer's latest, Democratic Realism, in its entirely. (Foreword by VPOTUS Dick Cheney.) (Hat tip: LGF.)

Ranting Profs

New kid on the blog: Ranting Profs

Cold War 2.0

(Via Samizdaya.) Ilka Schroeder MEP takes no prisoners when basically arguing that her own European Union is deliberately turning a blind eye to Palestinian misuse of EU funds for terrorism, and,... basically using the Israeli-Pali conflict to fight a proxy war with the US. Whew! This is not some embittered Israeli columnist or jaundiced US pundit, but a leftist member of the European Parliament speaking.

Quote of the Week

Why do I love Ole Rummy? Silent Running quotes a transcript of a press conference. At the end, some Palestinian "general" asks Rumsfeld why he is not conerned about Israel [allegedly] having nuclear hardware. Rumsfeld answers:

You know the answer before I give it, I'm sure. The world knows the answer. We take the world like you find it; and Israel is a small state with a small population. It's a democracy and it exists in a neighborhood [in which] many [...have] opined from time to time that they'd prefer it not be there and they'd like it to be put in the sea. And Israel has opined that it would prefer not to get put in the sea, and as a result, over a period of decades, it has arranged itself so it hasn't been put in the sea.

Who's stupid now?

Who's stupid now? (see also this).

Fifth Column Watch

The delightfully named "Four Right-Wing Wackos" blog has a really disgusting story about a Washington National Guardsman who, following his conversion to Islam, tried to spy for Al-Qaeda and was arrested.

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin dug into the "tool"'s net history.

Trying to actually learn something in college

Check out My Life with the Academic Left by Frances Kagan.

UPDATE: another fine example of the admirable intellectual humility of the philosophy academic humanities (NOT!).

Bush's squadron buddy

Today's Washington Times has a long and very detailed testimony about Bush's service in the 111th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron of the Texas Air National Guard by a fellow pilot from the squadron. Very interesting reading.

Democratic presidental candidate: Bush?!?

Weasley [sic] Clark's dropped out; Howling Howie seems merely limping along by now; Kerry packed in two more states; so it looks like Kerry (perhaps with Edwards as running mate) will get the Democratic nomination. Israeli Channel 2 news actually claimed the White House was in disarray, because they had prepared all the dirt on Dean and now were having to start over. [I really doubt that is the reason: just that they had hoped Dean would self-destruct after he got the nomination rather than before? Perhaps some wily GOP strategist is already planting the idea of an independent "Deaniac" run with Dean, so he will nibble some of the far-left vote away from Kerry, who cannot get into the White House on mainstream Democratic votes alone.]

But on the Democratic side, even stranger candidates are now seen: check out the Democrats for Bush website. Not a joke, apparently, no more than the "Reagan Democrats" of old.