Good Reading to Start the Week

"We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country's Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions. "-- George Washington (General Orders, 2 July 1776)
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W. Thomas Smith has an interesting piece on the young men america is raising, he is right.
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I’m often asked whether or not America is still producing future
generations of the right sort of men. Not just good men—a man is either good or
bad—but tough, clear-headed, un-emasculated, young male leaders capable of standing up to future threats against this nation. After all, as Dr. Walid Phares
concludes in his book, Future Jihad, what most Americans “may not want to accept
is that the pre-9/11 peace is not coming back soon, and may not come back at
all.”

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Yes, I could be labeled a crunchy-con, I wear sandles, love organic gardening, very into invironmental conservation, socially and fiscally conservative and deeply Christian. Suzanne Fields, one of my favorites, has a review of Rod Dreher's new book "Crunchy Con's". Michael Medved had him on the radio show the other day talking about it, very interesting.
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That crunching noise George W. Bush and the Republicans hear is not ice in
the White House bird feeder, where those of us taking in the sun here at the
southernmost tip of America imagine ice must be. It may be the faint sound of
the conservative coalition cracking at the edges. A few tiny cracks don't
constitute a trend, of course, and strange and unexpected noises in the night
aren't necessarily trends.
Nevertheless, Rod Dreher may be an outrider of
the new counterculture. He's a columnist for the Dallas Morning News with
impeccable credentials in Hillary Clinton's celebrated "vast right-wing
conspiracy" -- he worked in the nation's capital at The Washington Times and
then at National Review -- and his new book, "Crunchy
Cons," rebuking the perceived sins and shortcomings of what he regards as
runaway mindless capitalism.

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How does this compute? Yale wants to keep ROTC and military recruiters off campus, turned down by the SCOTUS 8-0, but they admit a Taliban spokesman as a student at a discount. John Fund is all over this story.
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Are there no limits to how arrogant and out-of-touch America's Ivy League schools can get? Last week it emerged that Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former deputy foreign secretary of the Taliban, is now a student at Yale while at the same time the school continues to block ROTC training from its campus and argues for the right of its law school to exclude military recruiters. King George's troops played the music to "The World Turned Upside Down" as they surrendered at Yorktown. Perhaps the Ivy League should adopt that tune as they surrender all vestiges of common sense.

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LGF as usual has some disturbing links to the jihadist world, here, here and here. Of course on one's reading adventure a stop by The Fourth Rail and Threats Watch is in order followed by the Officers Club for a cold one and some cool photos and perhaps a side trip to Blackfive and The Mudville Gazette and beyond to Lt Smash and the Counter Terrorism Blog. Who knows, you may be lead to such sites as these here, here and here. If you want great analysis of current events I recommend, Captain's Quarters, The Belmont Club, Powerline and of course Hugh Hewitt, the blog godfather and Michele Malkin for a dose of everything.