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SADDAM HUSSEIN PLAYS POLITICS WITH THE THEATER ATTACK [Kathryn Jean Lopez] The Iraqi tyrant warned the (many now dead) Chechan terrorists, before Russian special forces stormed the place: "The tyrant of the age, namely Zionism and America, and not Russia, or China or India are our enemies," Saddam said in a statement read on Iraqi state television. "Don't make them hate us and Muslims." Posted at 08:34 PM SNIPER THE YOUNGER TRIES TO ESCAPE? [Kathryn Jean Lopez] So a U.K. paper is reporting. Posted at 08:27 PM BIN LADEN SIGHTING [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Well, not quite, actually. But passports for some of bin Laden’s wives were found on that Yemeni believed to be the pointman between some of the 9/11 hijackers (the ones in the apartment in Germany) and al Qaeda arrested in Pakistan last month. Posted at 08:20 PM ONE HOUSE, ANYWAY [Kathryn Jean Lopez] No surprises: GOP is keeping the House, but the Senate is too close to call, according to an AP survey. Posted at 08:16 PM MYSTERIOUS WAYS [Kathryn Jean Lopez] If you have noticed the theme in my posting titles this afternoon, it’s all over now, I am happy to report. It’s getting a little annoying, even to me. (If you have no idea what I am talking about, "Walk On," and do not worry.) Why, a few readers have asked, did I start this in the first place? Good question. Nothing much, just a car radio passing by with "Where the Streets Have No Name" playing. It seemed like a kinda cool, (albeit kinda dorky) kinda fun thing to do. And, sometimes The Corner gets a little lonely and can use some surprises to keep it different from day to "Another Day." That’s all. And, no, I am not taking requests. Posted at 08:13 PM RED LIGHT [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Some interesting facts from that Boston Globe piece I just linked to: [C]oed bathrooms can be found in the dorms of some local universities, and in some cases students have been allowed to redesignate bathrooms on their floor. At Hampshire College in Amherst, bathrooms in student ''mods'' (apartment-style suites) have been coed since the school opened in 1970. Amherst College allows students on a dormitory floor to designate their bathrooms coed, said Paul Statt, director of media relations. And at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, undergraduates can voluntarily create coed facilities, said Scott Chesney, director of residential life. Posted at 07:59 PM DESIRE [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Transgendered students at the University of Massachusetts are miffed that the school isn’t giving them co-ed bathrooms. A spokesman for a group with about 30 members that calls themselves Restroom Revolution says that "Transgendered students have nowhere to go to the bathroom on campus.'' The school is considering the possibility. Posted at 07:56 PM I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR [Kathryn Jean Lopez] The women's-studies professors [why? ok, that's another post for another time] at The College of the Holy Cross in Mass., were forced to disinvite pro-abortion Catholic Church critic Frances Kissling, whose Catholics for a Free Choice she disingenuously tries to pass off as a legitimate voice of Catholics, to speak at the Catholic school for $500. Kudos to them for disinviting, but when will a school be secure enough in its religious identity to not invite people like that to campus? It's not like there's not enough room everywhere else in the world for Frances Kissling (pro-abortion groups who finance her make sure there is)--how about four years without her while you teach the young ones what the whole religion thing, as about as part of their higher-education experience? Sectarian schools have something to offer others schools don't--so offer it already! Posted at 07:54 PM PRIDE [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Microsoft has apologized to the Big Apple for a Butterfly epidemic in New York City that cost the company $50. Posted at 06:41 PM "THEY DO NOT HAVE A FUTURE. WE DO" [Rod Dreher] This is what Vladimir Putin told his nation today. I thought the remarks were very moving. The only thing I would say is the enemy is not "international" terrorism; it is Islamic terrorism: "Dear compatriots! These days we have, together, gone through a terrible test. All our thoughts were with the hostages, in the hands of armed vermin. We hoped for the best outcome, but each of us understood, that it is necessary to be ready for the worst. Today the rescue operation of this morning is done. It was possible to do almost the impossible - to rescue the lives of hundreds, hundreds of people. We have proved that Russia cannot be put on her knees. But now I first of all want to address the families and relatives of those who were lost. We could not rescue them all. Forgive us. Let the memory of the victims unite us. I thank all the citizens of Russia for their endurance and unity. Special gratitude to everyone who participated in the rescue operation. Special thanks to the employees of the special divisions who, without hesitation, risking their own lives, struggled for the rescue of the hostages. We are grateful also to our friends all over the world, for their moral and practical support in our struggle against the same enemy. This enemy is strong and dangerous, brutal and severe. It is international terrorism. While it is not defeated, anywhere in the world, people can not feel safe. But it should be defeated. And it will be defeated. Today in the hospital I talked to one of victims. He said to me, 'It was not that terrible - there was a confidence among us, that the future of the terrorists is not enduring.' And this is the truth. They do not have a future. We do." Posted at 06:14 PM ACHTUNG BABY [Kathryn Jean Lopez] It’s a conservative’s favorite time of the year! Time to turn your clocks back. (A reader told me to say that. Your wish is my command. Just so long as you bribe on occasion.) Posted at 06:05 PM BEAUTIFUL DAY… [Kathryn Jean Lopez] …for soccer in the U.S. Since there are no Yankee World Series games to watch, soccer is enjoying record attendance. Posted at 05:53 PM STUCK IN A MOMENT YOU CAN'T GET OUT OF [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Saturday was an official day of mourning in Libya. Not for Muslim brothers dead-set on killing Westerners, but as part of an attempt to get Italy to apologize for occupying Libya from 1911-1952. According to this BBC report, anyone from outside Libya who called in today got this recording:"As part of the mourning over the victims of the savage crimes committed by the Italian fascists against the Libyan people, all international telecommunications are to be halted today." News broadcasts were aired in black and white. The airports were closed except for a brief opening to accept a plane with an Arab League representative (as noted earlier in The Corner). The studly Italian PM Berlusconi is scheduled to travel to Libya on Monday. Posted at 03:51 PM WITH OR WITHOUT YOU [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Ari says we don't need the U.N. Posted at 03:18 PM FREEING MALVO THE LAW? [Kathryn Jean Lopez] The INS is defending its release of Malvo last year (which Michelle Malkin has written about). Rep. Tom Tancredo isn't buying it. Posted at 03:15 PM MONDALE [Kathryn Jean Lopez] I wouldn't be at all surprised if former VP Walter Mondale were picked as to run as the Democratic candidate for Senator Wellstone's seat--he's a safe choice for the Democrats, name recognition, etc. But I wouldn't be at all surprised if we saw both Mondale and Lautenberg resigning by spring or summer. Posted at 03:04 PM HE CAN DO ANYTHING HE WANTS... [Kathryn Jean Lopez] ...just, please, Mr. Redford, don't become a real Candidate. Posted at 03:01 PM ORWELL [[Andrew Stuttaford]] Andrew Sullivan has, he tells us, been re-reading Animal Farm. In his blog on Thursday he noted how, "one key shift toward totalitarianism in the novel comes when the old hymn "Beasts of England" gets replaced by Napoleon (the chief pig and Stalin figure) to a more generic song praising "Animal Farm." Orwell's point [thinks Sullivan] is that patriotism is, for all its faults, far more humane and progressive than its opposite." That's very true, whether one is contemplating the rise of the international bureaucratic class in organizations such as the EU or the UN or, more dramatically, the appeal of communism or radical Islam, two ideologies with no room for the nation state. Posted at 02:51 PM DOCTOR WHO [[Andrew Stuttaford]] The World Health Organization's conference on tobacco consumption closed on Friday without agreement on a pact that would regulate tobacco at the international level. The proposed treaty (due to be voted on next year) includes draconian restrictions on cigarette advertising. With their message that consumers are too stupid to decide such matters for themselves, advertising bans are insulting nonsense, even more so in the case of 'legislation' imposed by a coterie of unelected international bureaucrats. The US has, along with Japan and Germany, been in the forefront of efforts to oppose these moves. That's quite right. Matters such as this should be decided domestically, democratically and constitutionally. It is, of course, unreasonable to expect any UN body to understand this. Posted at 02:46 PM BIN LADEN'S WILL [[Andrew Stuttaford]] Jim, Reuters too has something on the news that Bin Laden's will (allegedly written in the middle of the Afghan campaign) has been discovered. Whether it is genuine or not is anyone's guess, but at least one part of the text quoted by Reuters (it looks like a slightly different version of what you were citing) fits what we know about the monstrously vain terrorist leader: "We saw the cowardly Crusaders [Christians] and the lowly Jews hold fast while fighting us, while soldiers of our nation raised the white flag and surrendered to their enemies...Even the students of religion [Taliban], only a handful of them were steadfast while the rest fled before they met the enemy." This is, of course, very reminiscent of the complaints of another famously self-involved - and murderous - hysteric: Adolf Hitler. Towards the end of his life, the Fuhrer took to complaining that the Germans were just not up to the tasks he had set them. Those who had the effrontery to surrender to the advancing allies, even if against overwhelming odds, had betrayed the cause. They did not deserve to be led (in Adolf's view) by such a great leader. Bin Laden, I am sure, would agree with Hitler on this, as on so much else. Let us hope that he has shared the former Fuhrer's fate. Posted at 02:37 PM FOR YOUR RAMADAN VIEWING PLEASURE [Rod Dreher] I hate to upset the delicate sensibilities of the Jewish student leaders at Georgetown, seeing as how they go to pieces when someone presents them with something unpleasant about Islam. But here goes. It seems that a satellite broadcaster in Egypt, America's Peace-Loving Muslim client state, is going to celebrate Ramadan by televising a miniseries based in part on The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, the infamous 19th-century anti-Semitic forgery. Egypt's state television is going to carry this program, which purports to explain how a Jewish conspiracy dominates the Middle East. The estimated viewership throughout the Arab world will be in the tens of millions. Posted at 02:32 PM REMEMBERING PAUL WELLSTONE [Rod Dreher] One of the loveliest and most graceful things that will be written about Sen. Wellstone has this afternoon come from the pen of a conservative. Don't miss this moving remembrance. It's Peggy Noonan at her best. Posted at 02:27 PM RON LANTZ [Andrew Stuttaford] Nice story from the London Times today on Ron Lantz, the trucker who spotted that a parked blue Chevrolet matched the description of the suspected snipers' car. He called 911 and was told to stay where he was. Well, Ron Lantz didn't just do that. Despite knowing that the car quite possibly contained armed men, he went and parked his truck in a way that blocked its exit. The car, and the alleged snipers, were still there when the police arrived. "I'm no hero. I just want people to think what I did is what I should have done," he explained later. No hero? That's just where you are wrong, Mr. Lantz. Posted at 02:21 PM LESSONS IN WASTE [Kathryn Jean Lopez] A school district mails out checks for one cent. Posted at 07:13 AM HUMAN RIGHTS LEADER THREATENING TO LEAVE ARAB LEAGUE [Kathryn Jean Lopez] The Arab League is c Posted at 06:59 AM THE MIND OF "THE SNIPER" [Kathryn Jean Lopez] The letter left in Ashland, Virginia. Posted at 06:44 AM SOMEHOW I DON'T SEE THIS GOING OVER WELL [Kathryn Jean Lopez] The IDF is in Jenin. Posted at 06:34 AM WHERE DID MUHAMMED GET HIS MONEY? [Kathryn JEan Lopez] A look into Muhammed and Malvo's nomadic existence. Posted at 06:10 AM WONDERFUL NEWS FROM MOSCOW [Kathryn Jean Lopez] The Russians successfully stormed the theater--though unfortunately after the terrorists started executing people. Posted at 05:53 AM Friday, October 25, 2002 BARAYEV [Andrew Stuttaford] This time from the Moscow Times. It's interesting to see that, if this report is correct, Barayev is a follower of the characteristically Saudi Wahhabi version of Islam. This would be relatively unusual in Chechnya - most Chechens are Sufi. Barayev's Wahhabism would be further evidence of the presence - and influence - of the Saudi and other militants who have been coming into the Caucasus over the last ten years. Posted at 05:47 PM GOOD POINT [Kathryn Jean Lopez] A reader writes: Note that the CNN article you link to refers only to the remarks in the movie about Rosa Parks and MLK. The article doesn't even mention the real reason Jackson complained, which is that Cedric the Entertainer says f___ Jesse Jackson. Just a subtle way that CNN cowtows to Jackson by hiding the pettiness involved in Jackson's posturing. Posted at 03:31 PM THANKS [Kathryn Jean Lopez] We were having technical difficulties earlier (war is H-E-double hockey sticks!). Bear with us and a slight change in format. You can read back posts at the end of this page (from earlier friday, etc.) and don't forget to read the millions of other things on NRO, too: John J. Miller on the hero you haven’t heard about. Michelle Malkin on the illegal sniper. Victor Davis Hanson on North Korea moral equivalence. Ramesh Ponnuru on Al Hunt’s latest. Senator Kyl, Reps. Cox & Lantos on freeing the Chinese. Jack Dunphy on the next step in the sniper investigation/prosecution and the Jonah Man on this election I hear is approaching (If there’s an election and everyone forgets, what happens?). And much, much more. Don’t forget to do your back-reading for the week, too: You’ll find a handy archive here. You can give me money here. (Ok, so maybe it doesn't exactly go to my bank account, but I'll take one for the team!) And you can do your Christmas National Review on Dead Tree shopping here. Posted at 03:21 PM BARAYEV: [Andrew Stuttaford] Jim, that transcript you quoted earlier today looks grim, but this BBC profile of the presumed terrorist leader seems to suggest that this is someone who operates in the zone where guerilla warfare and banditry intersect, a confusion of roles very typical in the Chechen conflict. This may imply that he is not quite so suicidal as it first seems, although this may not, alas, be true of others in his group. Posted at 03:12 PM [ ] GET 4 FREE ISSUES OF NATIONAL REVIEW! That's right: We'll send you 4 FREE issues of National Review at absolutely no risk to you. If you're impressed by National Review's superior writing style, analysis, and wit, we'll send you the next 12 issues — for a total of 16 in all! — for only $19.95. Click here for details. Posted at 03:01 PM ABOUT TIME... [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Someone asks Jesse Jackson for an apology. Posted at 02:56 PM BELLESILES RESIGNS: [Melissa Seckora] From Emory's website. Posted at 02:44 PM VERY FAMILIAR: [Jim Robbins] The unwillingness of people to discuss John Mohammad's ties to radical Islam is remeniscent of those who downplayed or ignored Lee Harvey Oswald's pro-Soviet, pro-Cuban, generally pro-Communist beliefs. It will be interesting to see how much more evidence emerges, and how much is explained away. Posted at 02:43 PM I WONDERED: [Kathryn Jean Lopez] The Wellstone crash seems tragically familiar. The AP has compiled a list of politicians who have died in plane crashes in recent years. Posted at 02:33 PM THE NEXT ATTACK WILL BE WORSE: [Kathryn Jean Lopez] A new report headed up by Gary Hart and Warren Rudman. Posted at 02:28 PM SELF-HATRED AT GEORGETOWN: [Rod Dreher] And not only self-hatred, but contempt for free speech. The Jewish student leaders who brought Bat Ye'or and her husband David Littman to speak on campus Tuesday night are now denouncing the address and abasing themselves before the university community. Because Bat Ye'or says (and proves) that dhimmitude -- the formal discrimination against Jews and Christians living under Islamic rule -- is not a distortion of Islam, but inherent in its teachings, these naive Jews think she and her husband are bigots. They expected Bat Ye'or and Littman to argue that Islam is being distorted to justify oppression of Jews and Christians; instead, as anyone who has read her work knows, she shows that Islam has always oppressed Jews and Christians, because the Koran mandates it. Another Georgetown student who was at the presentation offers a very different view of what happened that night. In his letter to the campus paper, Scott W. Borer-Miller says "students openly laughed and made comments during Ye'or's explanation on the plight of religious minorities in the Arab world. This situation is nothing new. It merely illustrates the fact that Georgetown is an anti-Zionist environment where supporting Israel is 'uncool' and where voicing the opinion that Islam is not the epitome of human rights perfection results not in debate but rude comments." All the more reason we need to have an institute devoted to the study of dhimmitude. People have to know what Jews and Christians in Islamic lands suffer today, and have historically suffered under Islam. They're not going to find out on American university campuses today. Posted at 02:25 PM TERRIBLE LOSS: [Kathryn Jean Lopez] This CNN story says the Wellstone have three children. How terrible to loose so many loved ones at once--as if one were not bad enough. Our hearts and prayers go out to the survivors. Posted at 02:10 PM THE CRASH: [Kathryn Jean Lopez] More details. Posted at 01:54 PM WELLSTONES, R.I.P.: [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Sen. Paul Wellstone has died in a plane crash, with his wife and daughter, staffers, and pilots . Our prayers go out to the families of all involved. Posted at 01:52 PM OLD CORNER POSTS: [NRO Staff] Find them here. Posted at 01:40 PM |
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