Taki's Daily Blog
Americans should really read this article from the Sunday Observer of London, discussing the latest terrorist outrages in Iraq. On the one hand, every thinking and informed person, who has not been fooled, is perplexed, repulsed and horrified at the carnage inflicted upon the people of Iraq by those suicide terrorists setting off car and truck bombs among civilians. On the … [Read More]
If Imus Had Called Mother Teresa a “Ho” He’d Still Have a Job
In case you were planning a career as a nasty, mean-spirited shock-jock, who makes his living using his media pulpit to slam people who mostly can’t (or won’t) fight back, here’s a handy tip: Stick to attacking our culture’s designated pinatas. Working-class whites, Southerners, all white Protestants (but especially Evangelicals), stay-at-home moms, and Mormons are all safe targets. In most circles, … [Read More]
One of the least gratifying pictures I have had the bad luck to view on television this week for the portly figure of Richard Perle expounding his vile views in The Case for War. Even worse, it was on public television, which as everyone knows is paid for by our tax dollars. The heavy-lidded Perle is hardly photogenic, although unlike most … [Read More]
"The unexpected gift of the invasion of Iraq has really been more than bin Laden ever dreamed was possible." --Michael Scheuer, former head of the bin Laden tracking unit at the CIA. Professor Paul Wolfowitz is back in the news, big time. He has finally emerged from his bolthole at the World Bank. It took a sex and corruption scandal … [Read More]
One, two, three, four, Wolfowitz has got to go! Five, six, seven, eight, one more day will be too late. As the wise man said, once a crook and a liar, always a crook and a liar. Wolfowitz conspired with Douglas Feith to fabricate proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction aimed at us. After the greatest disaster in … [Read More]
Life is full of coincidences so fortuitous that it is hard to believe that they are simply random. Yesterday, as Taki’s Top Drawer published the final installment of my “Thoughts on the Antichrist” (click here for Part I and Part II), one of the chief “conservative” American Catholics that I had in mind while writing the articles (but whom I did … [Read More]
So, Don Imus is carpeted for inappropriate behavior. I object. He should have been suspended for going down on his knees and apologizing to Al Sharpton, the greatest race hustler of them all. Who the hell are these people trying to kid ? Not so long ago, another hustler who also calls himself a reverend, Jesse Jackson, was screeching “Hey, hey, … [Read More]
At a New York City midtown gentlemen’s club a few years ago, I was asked to repeat a joke told to me by a friend who happens to be Israeli. The joke is as follows: An Israeli lands in Tel Aviv carrying two large suitcases. The customs inspector asks him to open one. Inside are fifty thousand dollars in one dollar … [Read More]
Is it me, or were the 15 British sailors and marines held by the Iranians just a little too gabby? Now that they’re home, the former hostages are repudiating their statements saying that they had intruded into Iranian waters, and they’re telling us that their profuse apologies – eagerly televised by the Iranians – were “coerced.” Yet they hardly seemed all … [Read More]
I’m glad they’re safely at home. But the seizure of the British Royal Marines and sailors by Iran was always a no brainer. To Iran, Tony Blair is a lame duck, and the British people believe in their government as much as the Americans believed that Bill Clinton did not have sex with that woman. Few Brits accepted their Government’s story … [Read More]