"Virulent anti-Semite" jihadist hate preacher who should have been blocked from traveling to Britain now in line for £5,000 "human rights" payout

If he had timed it better, he could have gone shopping with Abu Qatada. A dismal update on this story. "Hate preacher wins human rights payout… even though he shouldn’t be here at all," by Chris Greenwood and James Slack for the Daily Mail, October 1 (thanks to Twostellas): A…

Solargate Spreads

The brewing scandal involving the solar panel industry may run much deeper than the failed Solyndra company.

How Not to Defend Yourself as a Jew at Yale

Even sugarcoating your enemy’s venom is an insufficient gesture of submission.

Professor receives slew of backlash after f-word e-mail – The Daily Iowan

Professor receives slew of backlash after f-word e-mail BY NINA EARNEST | APRIL 22, 2011 A University of Iowa professor who sent a vulgar e-mail to members of the UI College Republicans has seen an outpouring of negative e-mails from students, graduates, and community members. UI anthropology/women’s studies Professor Ellen Lewin has received more than [...]

Helen Thomas Gets Back under Her Bridge

The Potomac Troll Heads Back to the Bridge

The White House Press Corps front row seat is finally vacated.  89-year-old Potomac River Troll Helen Thomas has retired to her bridge from whence she came after decades of hissing at White House press secretaries and one last hurrah, snarling anti-Semitic remarks toward Israel, insisting Jews do [...]

The Media’s Coverage of the Flotilla Raid Makes Me Want to Wreck My Face with a Hammer

Last night, Jon Stewart, who I view as honorable, joined the chorus of people criticizing the justified-as-much-as-something-can-be-justified raid by the Israelis on the flotilla carrying “aid” to Gaza, the home of Hamas. First, he referred to the people involved in the shipment as “activists” and then showed video of some of the ship’s contents—the non-violent [...]

“Israeli Patriot” Right to Feel Shame – But Not for the Reasons She Thinks

Left-wing zealots and Ron Paul cultists frequently raise the prospect of dark Jewish conspiracies to bend the free world to Israel’s sinister will, but such conspiracy-mongering is awfully hard to square with the pervasiveness of Jewish support for the anti-Israel Left.  Today’s example is Fania Oz-Salzberger, an Israeli academic who, on The Daily Beast, incredibly [...]

Ahhh, Refreshing—-A Respectful Intellectual Debate

Say what you will about Jon Stewart—his interviews, especially the extended ones hosted on the Daily Show website, are a gift to the country. For the most part, he allows his guests time to explain their thoughts, and the discussion goes far beyond the typical, predictable partisan blood sport that Stewart once famously criticized Crossfire [...]

9/11 Mosque imam lying to the American people

And they’re eagerly buying, of course. “Ground Zero Imam: ‘I Don’t Believe in Religious Dialogue,’ by Walid Shoebat for Pajamas Media, May 27 (thanks to all who sent this in): Is Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, founder of the hugely controversial Ground Zero mosque, lying to the American public and his…

Two Community Board members against 9/11 Mosque, but won’t come out publicly

Why won’t they come out publicly? Could it be that they know what Islamic spokesmen and the politically correct media establishment would do to them if they did? “Lower Manhattan board mixed on planned mosque and Islamic center at Ground Zero WTC site,” by Samuel Goldsmith for the New York…