Assorted Quotes

"It's as if Jimmy Swaggert had come into hundreds of billions of dollars and taken over the church..."

unnamed Arab official explaining to Michael Hirsch how the Arab elite view the Saudis, their money and their Wahabbism, found here.



"They honesty think that if we're nice to everybody they'll be nice to us. But I've studied history."

Camille Paglia to Rod Dreher on the de-Christianized West, an empowered Islam and her fellow Democrats' complacent response to same, found here.



“No Mullah Left Behind.”

Thomas L. Friedman on President Bush’s refusal to do anything meaningful after 9/11 to reduce our gasoline usage and dependence on Persian Gulf oil, found here.