Dead Cant Rant

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Heroism, the eternal Promise of the Republic, and the character of great leaders:
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The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advances to his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal [...]

The Father of Modern Terrorism is dead, and not a moment too soon.
CAMERA has a list of Key Events in Yasir Arafat’s Terrorist Career — more than eighty terrorist attacks and massacres.
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a list, too:
In Memory of the Victims of Palestinian Violence and Terrorism in Israel. As of today, [...]

When fighting a desperate war, the cause is best served when one employs tactics that have been proven effective. Recent developments have shown that at least one side in the current conflict understands this maxim. In recent days, the terrorists in Afghanistan have shown that they acknowledge the need to step up the level of [...]

Reading over excerpts from the new bin Laden videotape, we find there are some very interesting parallels between what bin Laden says, and what our esteemed leftist icons have said. See if you notice the similarities as well…
Please note that we’re tired, so what you see is all we could find before going to sleep. [...]

While reading LGF today, I came across one comment that particularly set me off:

The bombing of Dresden accomplished nothing towards either beating the Nazis or curbing their savagery.
With the exception of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there is no example of bombing civilian populations which has ever been militarily effective.
live from queen’s comment on [...]

The following arrived as an e-mail today. Like all other such letters, it has taken on a life of it’s own, circulating around the odd corners of the Internet, appearing in Usenet posts and inboxes as it struggles to make its voice heard. And as with all such letters, the original author has long since [...]

Senator Kerry today claimed that President Bush doesn’t “really know what’s happening” in Iraq:

While Bush has been campaigning as the best candidate to deter terrorists and protect the nation, his presidential rival portrayed him as out of touch with a serious and dangerous situation in Iraq.
“With all due respect to the president, has he turned [...]

The Kerry campaign has admitted that Kerry may indeed have received his first Purple Heart for shooting himself during a non-combat action:

GARRETT: “And questions keep coming. For example, Kerry received a Purple Heart for wounds suffered on December 2, 1968. But in Kerry’s own journal written nine days later, he writes he and his crew, [...]

Hackworth’s latest column is a carefully disguised hit piece against Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth. “Carefully disguised” because he couches it in the language of the war-weary veteran who only cares about the welfare of “his” soldiers. He even praises President Bush for flying F-102 fighter jets — though he does call him a [...]

Muqtada Al-Sadr, the Troll of Najaf that openly mocks the Coalition and the Iraqi government, should be dead by now, gristled into martyrdom in a hail of TOW missiles. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.
Al-Sadr is a tool of the Iranian mullahs, a fact that is blatantly obvious to everyone — everyone, that is, except the [...]