The kid must not read the news. Mohamed Osman Mohamud’s foiled plot and subsequent arrest were in many ways an exact replica of those of Hossam Smadi, the failed Dallas jihadi, and Talib Islam, who tried to bomb an Illinois federal building just before Smadi’s arrest. And tellingly, his rhetoric…
The Freedom Center’s annual Restoration Weekend at the Breakers in Palm Beach is always an intimidating event. Combine a world class resort with world class intellectuals and activists and it’s easy to be overwhelmed. But as the weekend gets going that anxiety gradually melts away as the realization sets in that you’re among friends and [...]
This post was originally published on Nov. 23, 2010 you can read it here. A new Time/Pew Research poll has prompted Americans to revisit the purpose of marriage. The cover story of Time this week boldly asks, “Who Needs Marriage?” and lists all the ways in which marriage is no longer deemed necessary by the [...]
Here we are at the beginning of the Holiday “season.” All parents know that these breaks bring with them pleas from children for some extra time in front of what my priest refers to as “the magic lantern” and my husband calls “the devil box.” There is truth in each of these labels, but most Moms [...]
Originally published on November 22, 2010 Faux feminists are terrified. They’re so frightened of the Year of the Conservative Woman they’re trotting out Gloria Steinem, yesteryear’s poster-child for the womyn’s movement, to make the rounds in all the usual leftist places to “reclaim” the term “Mama Grizzlies.” (Did they ever own that term?) Steinem recently [...]
"Since I was 15 I thought about all this…It’s gonna be a fireworks show … a spectacular show," said Mohamed Osman Mohamud as he plotted "violent jihad." More on this story. "Feds: Somali-born teen plotted car-bombing in Ore.," by William McCall for Associated Press, November 27 (thanks to JCB):…
I’ve maintained for years that the term "Islamophobia" was a politically manipulative coinage designed to silence critics of Islamic supremacism. Now Claire Berlinski explains how Islamic supremacists devised it for precisely that purpose. "Moderate Muslim Watch: How the Term ‘Islamophobia’ Got Shoved Down Your Throat," by Claire Berlinski at Ricochet.com,…
In the run-up to the election of the U.N. secretary-general in 2007, a group of high-level former Clinton administration officials conspired to attempt to replace the frontrunner and well-respected South Korean Ban Ki-moon with the trustee of a Saudi-funded Wahhabist Muslim organization linked to al-Qaeda. That man was Anwar Ibrahim of Malaysia, the current opposition [...]
He knew what he was doing: "American Grocers shipped so much stale merchandise that the company bought paint solvent by the barrel and set up assembly lines to wipe out the old labels to make room for the phony dates." So what was his intent? Just to make a profit?…
The balance of power has changed in this age of Obama, and Saad Hariri knows it. And so he is in Tehran currying favor with the new masters. "Lebanese PM seeks support in Iran visit," by Ali Akbar Dareini for Associated Press, November 27 (thanks to JCB): TEHRAN, Iran -…
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