This article was originally published by Salon on March 17, 1997. Almost everyone knows about the latest sex “harassment” scandal brewing in the Army, involving seven officers at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. The officers are accused of sexual abuses against females under their command, which include charges of rape, sodomy and assault. But until the [...]
The only relevant question in politics is "compared to what?" The regime in Egypt today is corrupt, authoritarian, and culpably negligent in protecting religious minorities such as the Copts–as this site has documented over and over again. Just this past Christmas season, slack security permitted a massacre of Christians in…
A town in Connecticut has backpedaled away from an attempt at censorship. The incident involved a public exhibition of the Michael Moore film SiCKO. Town leaders say they only want to present “balancing, opposing ideas.” Where have we heard that before?
“What does not wanting to hit an iceberg have to do with hating our captain because he’s black?”
Which saves more lives: accusations of “Islamophobia” or telling the truth about honor killings?
The Muslim Brotherhood, for all its muted presence in these demonstrations, is poised and ready to take advantage of the opportunity. "Mubarak calls for government’s resignation," by Shaimaa Fayed and Yasmine Saleh for Reuters, January 28 (thanks to Pamela Geller): CAIRO — President Hosni Mubarak said on Saturday that Egypt…
In March 2007, the State Department funded an exchange program with the Virginia-based International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). The following month, the State Department sponsored an IIIT delegation of Islamic scholars from Southeast Asia. Three months after that, it came to light that government agencies had known the whole time what should have made the IIIT toxic to any government cooperation: They were an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood.
There are few experiences more gratifying to a writer than to see his sentences embolden and cheer virtuous men engaged in fighting for the good, especially men who are constantly under fire by traitors, dupes, and cowards. Perhaps the only thing better is when one’s words enrage and befuddle the…
Chris Matthews shows his ignorance while shouting that Michele Bachman is ignorant. But his real fear is of Constitutional principles.
