If poverty really does cause terrorism — a common assumption that has been thoroughly debunked in study after study — then this should send terrorism in Indonesia. “Indonesia pays former terrorists to give up violent jihad,” by Mark Dunn in The Daily Telegraph, June 28: KEY terrorists involved in the…
When I wrote movie reviews for about 15 years for a midsized (then) daily newspaper, I often heard the wisecrack, “I read reviews, then do the opposite of what they recommend.” The polite people would add, “Except for you, of course.”
Perhaps the best illustration of the gulf between popular and elite opinion was the 2008 [...]
Where might he get that idea? Qur’an 5:41 calls them “listeners for the sake of falsehood,” or “men who will listen to any lie.” 5:64 says they are “accursed” for allegedly saying Allah’s hand is fettered. 5:82 says “Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the…
Trouble is brewing in the land of Ben and Jerry’s decadent ice cream. Unlike calls for secession from this rather odd state, the problem now looms with the city of Barre, VT and its impending law to enforce the use of cat leashes. Just when you thought our pets can be safe and unaffected by the radical changes heralded [...]
By now, the majority of Americans get it — Obama appoints his flunkies, the worst of the worst, to do his dirty work.
Harold Hurtt, former police chief of Phoenix and Houston, now director of U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE)- Office of State and Local Coordination, will open the borders to anybody.
Come on over and [...]
Dying is tough. Trust me, I know. I die at least seven times per every game of Call of Duty. In other words, it’s something I’m pretty familiar with. And so I know that when you die, you want to blow stuff up. Stuff like, say, South Korean warships. And that’s what’s been happening [...]
Now that the USA’s chances of winning the World Cup have ended, we can all turn the channel back to ESPN’s coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championship. In case you were too busy watching soccer, you may not have heard that John Isner ended up winning the longest tennis match in [...]
This week, I asked the busy author of Losing Our Religion, S.E. Cupp, two questions and she was gracious enough to respond.
One: What do atheists do on Sunday mornings? (Sorry, I had to ask.)
I have no idea what other atheists do on Sunday morning. I reject all attempts at categorizing this group as homogeneous. Atheists [...]
HBO and Showtime justify their subscription rates this month with two
superb documentaries. HBO is giving prime time to For Neda, a biography of Neda Agah Soltan who was gunned down in a Tehran street durig a democracy demonstration. Meanwhile Showtime is featuring one of the all time great war documentaries, Brothers at War, in which a [...]
General Stanley McChrystal should have told Barack Obama what General James Scott (“Gentleman Jim”) had told President Jordan Lyman fifty years ago:
Listen, Mr. President, you have lost the respect of the country. Your policies have brought us to the edge of disaster. Business does not trust you. Military morale has sunk to the lowest point in [...]
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