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The Media Elite

Written by Taki on November 20, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

A reader writes in last week’s mail that, according to yours truly, "patriotism means defending America when a Republican is in office." He reminds me that I was frothing at the mouth a couple of years ago during the bombing of Serbia. Well, yes, I sure frothed, but then I don’t exactly remember when the
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Friends of Osama

Written by Taki on November 13, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

If Bill Clinton did tell the girlfriend of one of the Beatles that he could do a much better job against the Taliban were he president rather than George W. Bush, it only confirms what some of us have known all along: there is no bald-faced phony, no lunchbucket pilferer more petty than America’s 42nd
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Heroes & Villains

Written by Taki on November 6, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

This is for any firefighter, police officer, rescue worker or relative of a victim–in fact anyone who knows the difference between right and wrong: The next time you see an Oliver Stone movie advertised, do not give a penny of your hard-earned money. Boycott the theater, and boycott any film company that finances this pig’s
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The Multi Cult

Written by Taki on October 30, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

The three best essays I’ve read since the outrage have been Scott McConnell’s in the Oct. 10 issue, and Carol Iannone’s the following week, both in "Top Drawer." John O’Sullivan’s in the Oct.15 issue of National Review completes the troika. McConnell wrote about the "immigrationist" theology, and how it is now bipartisan and rooted in
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Mr. Fat and Saudi Speed Demons

Written by Taki on October 23, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

The world’s collective speed record was set the year Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. That country’s ruling family (all 1000 of them) got to Saudi Arabia at twice the speed of sound. It is a record that will stand forever, unless Saddam tries it again. The only other family that might possibly stand a chance of
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Sharon, God & Ugly England

Written by Taki on October 16, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Ariel Sharon has to be the most myopic and pig-headed Israeli prime minister ever. I am sad to say it, but his arrogance borders on insanity, and it will cost America, as well as Israel, dearly. Let’s face it. Without America Israel would not exist. It would never have survived 50 years of Arab aggression,
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Anti-American Europe

Written by Taki on October 2, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

The next time any of you read about some glossy American monthly throwing a bash that will feature the presence of, say, Martin Amis, please try to remember the following: writing in London’s Guardian, the British lefty intelligentsia’s house organ, the dwarfish and unreadable Amis described the WTC outrage as “Terror [being] political communication by
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Blessed Suicide

Written by Taki on September 25, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

The cult of suicide terrorism has always been around, but has grown notably during the latest Palestinian intifada. Suicide terror began with the Ishmaeli suicide squads who murdered Crusader leaders and from whose Arabic name we derive the word “assassin.” The modern suicide terrorists draw inspiration from passages in the Koran that promise immortality with
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Race Rats, or A Brief History of Slavery

Written by Taki on September 18, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Last month I was 75, and it seems I am still growing up. This may be wishful thinking, but it is motivated by the current exhibition of Vermeer and his contemporaries. As a young man I found the subject matter of Dutch burghers and their equally Dutch cows unexciting when compared with the glories of
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On Tina & Harry

Written by Taki on September 11, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Having been away in Europe for the last two months, I haven’t the foggiest whether Tina and Harry Come to America has been published in the United States, or if it has been reviewed by every newspaper and magazine in the country. Being of an older generation and computer illiterate, I’m not exactly an Internet
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