Radical Cheerleaders: Get a Life
CBS News | Radical Cheerleaders Raise Ruckus | November 14, 2003 20:56:46: "Groups like the Radical Cheerleaders contribute to the sense of festivity at a political rally, says Todd Gitlin, a social activism expert and professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

'Often people who organize demonstrations want to do more than apply their presence to political ends,' Gitlin said. 'They want to project a presence that seems like an embodiment of their values. Cheerfulness says, 'we are having a better time than they are. It promises recruits, 'stick around, you'll have more fun.''

That promise is just what drew Toby Willner of Brooklyn. 'I was so excited to find people doing activism who were having a good time,' Willner said. "

Activism is now attracting those who want to have a good time. What about suffering for your cause? Maybe treating grave isues with gravity?
The children of Clinton.

Peter Hitchens: Will Britain Convert to Islam?

I start worrying about these things, but seem to end up more worried about things I can't foresee but feel in my bones are coming, things which will make 9/11 seem like a splinter in the national psyche. Whether it's the explosion of a super volcano, the unleashing of nuclear horror by crazies (fill in the blank from the usual suspects), a wildfire spread of some as-yet-unheard-of disease or something else I lack the capacity to imagine, things are on the road ahead, and it's often the things we can't see that leap out to bite us in the butt. Int he meantime, like Boetheus, I turn to the philosophers to find my consolation. Philosopher poet Blake, for instance, who wrote of "...the New Jerusalem, in Englan'ds green and pleasant land." I don;t think he was predicting Jolly Arab-land in Endgland's green and pleasant lands.

Mark Steyn Gets it Right: The Olde Europe is HEading Towards the Sunsethref="http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-11-08&id=3699">

European scholars spent a great deal of time analyzing why Rome fell. No great surprise, probably least of all to those living in the empire as it died. They might do well to spend sometime in the moment, taking in the feelings and sounds and smells of Europe, the spawn of Rome, the once mighty child of a dying empire and the virile tribes who co-opted her place on the world's stage, as Europe, as we knew her, follows the Roman Empire to the graveyard of civilizations. We may not see her like again.

Religion of Peace Tells Followers to Flee US Cities

FOXNews.com - Top Stories - American Muslims Told to Leave Major U.S. Cities
What else is new? I'm outta Eastside manhattan when the local news paper vendors close up. I'll keep you posted.

Clnton Advice on career: If at first

MSN reports that Bill thinks we should send North Korea more aid and food and help them become a self-sustaining economy. Sort of what he tried when he had time in the White House. They took the aid and built nuclear facilities in violation of the agreement the first time around, why think it would be any different now? For that matter, why think NK wants to be a sekf-sustaing economy? If they are determined to follow a totalitarian, socialist failed command economy, they can't develop the proper sort of economic institutions. What does Bill not understand?
Clinton calls for aid to end N.Korea arms crisis

In pursuit of an American Churchill - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics

Zell Miller has it just about right: "You don't fight a war by blowing water through corn stalks (qt Lincoln)"
Read this terrific piece about why Bush's actions in the war on terror are prompting Democrat Senator Miller to vote Bush in 03.
Hear, hear!