In an era of overpaid sports brats, the old Golden Bear is a breath of fresh air.
But it meant everything to the fans who jammed every nook and cranny of the historic 18th hole, straining to get a look at the greatest championship player in the sport’s history. Even some of his fellow players came out on the porch of the Royal & Ancient Club, clapping for Nicklaus every step of the way.
Him and Wayner have a lot in common – classy, soft spoken, and the best at their game.
An interesting expose into the hearts of 10 year olds, and their reaction to being victims of divorce.
What does a child really feel when his parents divorce? The BBC gave 10-year-old Ben a video camera and asked him to confide in it. For his family, Olga Craig learns, the results add up to an uncomfortable evening’s viewing
via Family Scholars
LGF has an entry linking to a Pipes piece on how France is far more proactive in routing out terror suspects.
If there was a more stark and clear example of the enemy in the war on terror, this is it.
The man on trial in the slaying of filmmaker Theo van Gogh admitted his guilt in court today, declaring he acted out of religious conviction and would do it again if given the chance.
Mohammed Bouyeri also turned to van Gogh’s mother, Anneke, in court and told her: “I don’t feel your pain.
These are a whole new breed of killers, one that a liberal justice system has no clue how to deal with.
Steyn explains what needs to be done if we are to ever stop the “martyrs” from blowing us up.
But the coaxing is what counts – wooing moderate Muslims into reclaiming their religion. We can take steps to prevent Islamic terrorists killing us, most of the time. But Islamic terrorists will only stop trying to kill us when their culture reviles them rather than celebrates them.
On the passing described below, we have a quote from Ross Perot, who once described Stockdale as “a man of steel.’’
“He has been hammered on the forge of brutality,’’ Perot said.
James Stockdale, Perot Running Mate, Dies
Can you imagine how tough he would have been as a leader? He wasn’t polished, but wow was he ever through hell and back.
During the Vietnam War, Stockdale was a Navy fighter pilot based on the USS Oriskany and flew 201 missions before he was shot down on Sept. 9, 1965. He became the highest-ranking naval officer captured during the war, the Navy said.
Stockdale was taken to Hoa Lo Prison, known as the “Hanoi Hilton.” His shoulders were wrenched from their sockets, his leg had been shattered by angry villagers and a torturer, and his back was broken. But he refused to capitulate.
Rather than allow himself to be used in a propaganda film, Stockdale smashed his face into a pulp with a mahogany stool.
“My only hope was to disfigure myself,” Stockdale wrote in his 1984 autobiography “In Love and War.” The ploy worked, but he spent the next two years in leg irons.
After Ho Chi Minh’s death, he broke a glass pane in an interrogation room and slashed his wrists until he passed out in his own blood. After that, captors relented in their harsh treatment of him and his fellow prisoners.
Stockdale spent four years in solitary confinement before his release in 1973.
I honestly don’t believe they make men like him anymore.
Things just won’t get any better for our sagging military.
Here’s something that never happens here.
A 79-year-old man armed with a .357 magnum revolver shot two men after they broke into his home overnight, News 5’s Bina Roy reported.
Imagine, defending your own home. How un-Canadian.
Maybe this is an idea whose time has come.
How many more terrorist attacks on unsuspecting civilians will it take to jar the United States and other sane nations into embarking on an all-out, Manhattan-project type of effort to rid us of dependence on foreign oil?
Quick off the press, Mark writes that it’s the free radicals, home-grown, that will threaten the West. The scary thing is they hide under the guise of multi-culturalism. That’s a cloak no modern western liberal would ever dare raise. Therein lies the crux of the problem.
Thanks to “Islamophobia” and other pseudo-crises, the political class will be under pressure to take refuge in pointless gestures (ie, ID cards) that inconvenience the citizenry and serve only as bureaucratic distractions from the real war effort.
I hope the left wing nuts that run this city take note of the London underground blasts. Why? Putting all your transportation eggs in one basket can be very dangerous and completely paralyse the movement of people and goods, as witnessed in London.
It can (and probably will) happen here. Don’t doubt it.
Why is Canada (and North America) consumed with homosexuality?
Some people are attracted to women; some are attracted to men. And some, if Sigmund Freud, Dr. Alfred Kinsey and millions of self-described bisexuals are to be believed, are drawn to both sexes.
Gay marriage, parades – how does their lobby keep them at the top of the agenda?
Didn’t know Ms. Wente was in Readers, but here she is with a zinger.
Every culture has its unacknowledged taboos—the things you are forbidden to say or do in polite company, the accepted truths you are not allowed to doubt. You might think that a liberal, open-minded country like Canada would be free of such taboos, but you’d be wrong. In spite of our belief in our own enlightened tolerance, some things are simply not open to debate. If you try, you’re bound to shock the neighbours.
I’ve always said we should burn our garbage – recycled crap is no exception.
I knew there was something annoying about Live8 and all the other rock against the G8 events. I knew Mark Steyn would be able to speak for me, too. Once again, a brilliant column.
To sneer at such events,” cautioned The Sunday Telegraph apropos Live8, “demeans the generosity which they embody”.
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