Deep Keel

Cutting through the turbulent waters of blog commentary and analysis.

There is the longstanding and ongoing debate between those who primarily favor "stability" in the world, and those who favor change.  It used to be that it was Conservatives that made the case for Realpolitik and continued "stability" while the Leftward side of the political spectrum argued constantly for "progressive change" if not outright sweeping […]

So the CIA catches and fires a single leaker of secret information.  All well and good, or not.  Take your pick, have fun reading the lively debate shaping up out there in the blogoshpere.  Its just one case though and however important what was leaked or not or why or wherefore will quickly fade in […]

One wouldn’t know it if like me you are living on one of the Coasts but over the last fifteen years or so a new movement has been sweeping across the nation:  laws requiring state officials to issue concealed weapons permits to any legal adult who meets certain very basic criteria.  Its gospel among the […]

Abdul Rahman might give birth to the new contemporary Crusades.  The Crusades began you will note because of Muslim abuses of the Holy Lands and other arocities against Christianity.  We are very close to the rebirth of ancient Holy War.
The Mohammed Cartoon Controversy that refuses to die is clarifying the truths hiding behind diplomatic […]

If there is anyone who deserves to be protested its evil communist dictator Fidel Castro.  A man was brave enough to do so at the recent World Baseball Classic in Puerto Rico, here’s a little detail and a photo:

Food for thought.  Check the Cox & Forkum site for more editorial cartoons.

Hat tip to LGF for the link. 

The following is a Manifesto of opposition to Islamic Totalitarianism, copied from the Jyllands-Posten website.  Please read it and post it yourself if possible, join the effort if you can.  The Free World has three options facing it:  1) establish forcefully with peaceful means like public expression that we will not surrender our freedom, 2) […]

The ministers of parliament and beaurocrats of the EU continue their relentless march towards absolute and unchecked power over all of Europe.  Without a single national government willing to stand up and forcefully reject the seizure of powers there is every reason for them to do so, and they are.   Take the recent action of […]

Interest in seeing the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten back in late September 2005 continues because of the continuing protests around the Muslim world.  My original posting of the cartoons has now scrolled off the bottom of the front page of this blog so I thought I should post […]

German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel decided to make and publish its own cartoon satirizing the Mohammed Cartoon Controversy, and is now under attack from abroad:
With the embers from the Danish cartoon dispute still burning, one Berlin newspaper appears to be on a suicide mission. On Friday, the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel ran a cartoon by Klaus […]

Information is emerging that the organized riots staged around the manufactured Mohammed Cartoon Controversy spread so effectively because it fit neatly into a longer term plan of the Muslim Brotherhood.  ‘The Project’ describes their decades long strategy to take over the West, and apparently a copy of this document was captured in a raid and […]

The hypocrisy of Islamists murdering and destroying while claiming to represent the Religion of Peace has been palpable in the last few days.  Especially since the original cartoons posted by Jyllands-Posten in Denmark are so tame.  The activity of violent fanatics in recent days justifies and indeed invites much more biting critique than those mild […]

The publishing of the Mohammed Cartoons is controversial, and many wonder why it was necessary to publish them.  To answer that question one needs to understand the dynamics of the European-Muslim relationship.  There is a history here that is completely relevant to what is now going on, and why the cartoons were published.  One individual […]

The answer is simple:  to defend the West from radical Islamists who are murdering innocent men, women, and children in an attempt to intimidate us into submission.  I have no hidden agenda, and I perhaps poorly expressed my reasons in the original post.  Jyllands-Posten published these cartoons precisely because they became aware that any criticism […]

A representative of the US State Department issued a statement essentially siding with Muslims protesting the publishing of the cartoons today:
"These cartoons are indeed offensive to the belief of Muslims," State Department spokesman Kurtis Cooper said in answer to a question.
"We all fully recognize and respect freedom of the press and expression but it must […]

The publishing of 12 cartoons by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten began a firestorm of controversy that is just growing with time.  A great clash of culture and religion between the West and Islam is now under way.  There are many in the West only too happy to surrender rights and freedom in the interest of […]

Is the right to live, and the freedoms required to ensure it.  No government can guarantee protection in all times and all places from criminals, and certainly not from the government turning hostile itself.  History shows that in time all governments die, and often kill quite a few of their own citizens in the process.  […]

One of the goals of so called ‘Gun Control’ advocates has always been gun registration, claiming always that it is in no way a move to gain information to make confiscation of the guns possible.  Our northern friends the Canadians have now shown the light of truth on the debate by moving to enact confiscation […]

Thanks to Instapundit, go read the post in full here.  Congratulations to the Brazilian people for showing good judgement.  Glenn raises the question as to when gun rights groups will get on the offense and begin promoting gun rights as a ‘universal human right’.  Its an excellent question, does anyone know if such efforts have […]

Gun Control Myths

Thanks to Glenn Reynolds over at Instapundit for the link leading to an article by John Stossel at RealClearPolitics discussing the myths of gun control. Here’s the opening paragraph, but go read it all:

Guns are dangerous. But myths are dangerous, too. Myths about guns are very dangerous, because they lead to bad laws. And bad […]