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Symbolic Victories

Mark Goldblatt — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:23:35 +0000

If you still haven't figured out that there's a world war going on, that across the globe Islamic values of pious submission and spiritual purity are locked in a death struggle with Enlightenment values of rational inquiry and religious tolerance, then the last decade of American foreign policy makes no sense to you except in [...]

The Wise Man’s Burden

Mark Goldblatt — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:03:59 +0000

There is a growing consensus that political rhetoric in the United States has become too overheated, that passions are bubbling over, and that reasonableness is on the wane. If more people understood the function of the burden of proof in rational discourse, we could begin to address that problem.

The reason many liberals see conservative [...]

Danner’s Fury

Mark Goldblatt — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:08:44 +0000

Mark Danner has declared with categorical certainty that the Bush Administration authorized the use of torture on at least a dozen high-level terrorists at secret overseas prisons, so-called "black sites."

For the last couple of weeks, I've been trying to figure out how many times I've been tortured. So far, I've come up with three clear [...]

Democracy and Disproportionality

Mark Goldblatt — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:00:56 +0000

From a global perspective, the doctrine of proportionality is the single greatest weapon in the cause of totalitarian Islam.

My message to the loathed Jews is that there is no god but Allah. We will chase you everywhere! We are a nation that drinks blood, and we know that there is no blood [...]

The Threat

Mark Goldblatt — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:54:41 +0000

Before 9/11, America’s national security relied implicitly but substantially on the belief that a major attack on the United States would be answered with retaliation on a biblical scale. That belief proved false.

I mean think about it. Iran, Cuba, Venezuela — these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't [...]

I, Conservative

Mark Goldblatt — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:00:59 +0000

Liberals, in general, see conservatives as brutish God-drunk bigots determined to crush whomever stands in their way in order to preserve the inequities of the status quo; by contrast, liberals see themselves as worldly, open-minded, kind-hearted paragons of social virtue whose guiding principle is their determination to look out for those less fortunate than themselves.

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When Enough Rope Isn’t

Mark Goldblatt — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:00:56 +0000

The Book of Mormon is an insane document produced by a madman who was a criminal and a rapist, Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda, and Chris Matthews has a strange fascination with Erin Burnett. If you don't watch MSNBC, you really should check it out.

Among the more intriguing questions to emerge from the media [...]

The War on Islamic Terror: Four Key Concepts

Mark Goldblatt — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:05:00 +0000

The war on terror represents the culmination of events set in motion centuries ago, back when the social evolution of humanity hit a fork in the road. Down one path lay the Enlightenment, the path taken by predominantly Judeo-Christian peoples. Down the other path lay a return to the Middle Ages, the path taken by [...]

The Latest, Greatest Body Count

Mark Goldblatt — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:00:43 +0000

It is easy to base one's opposition to the war on conspiracy theories, hyper-inflated statistics and a kit bag of clichés from the 1960s about giving peace a chance.

Amid reports of declining civilian casualties in Iraq, a British polling and market research company called Opinion Research Business has come forward with the claim that [...]

The Truth about Howard Zinn

Mark Goldblatt — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:18:37 +0000

By intentionally emphasizing facts which support his own deep convictions and suppressing facts which don’t, the historian can, without exactly lying, steer his reader towards an utterly false impression.

Last month, Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, darling of the political Left and arguably America’s most influential living historian, [...]