St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City provided a touching tribute to U.S. military personnel during church services on Memorial Day weekend. Let us follow St. Patrick’s lead by honoring our fellow Americans who have gone into harm’s way to protect and defend us, and who continue to answer the call to duty. They are truly our nation’s best; and we do not understand or appreciate them enough.
Everybody understands that if the Palestinians were disarmed today, there would be peace in the Middle East. Everybody understands that if the Jews in Israel disarm, they will be massacred. These are simple facts that every rational person can see provided their vision isn’t impaired by religious hatred.
It was even worse than these bare [...]
“… the major had mobile phone contact with Shahzad on the day of the attempted bombing, including one conversation at the same time the bomber was allegedly parking his car loaded with propane tanks and explosives.” With apologies to Dr. Seuss: Oh, the places you’ll find the Tiny Minority of…
Of course. Christians won’t behead anyone over “Bible Thumper.” Dhimmitude at Apple: “Report: Apple Removes iSlam Muhammad App From Store,” by Brian Heater for PCMag.com, May 21 (thanks to Karl): Thursday was “International Draw Muhammad Day,” a day of protest fueled by a Facebook page that encouraged followers to post…
It’s worth noting that the name of the day is “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day.” Not “Everybody Who Can Draw, Draw Muhammad Day.” The important thing is thumbing one’s nose at those who would violate our right of free expression for the sake of a double standard that places Islam above…
The intelligence community is clueless and compromised, to be sure. But it is no worse than any other U.S. government agency. Until there is a wholesale reevaluation of counterterror strategy, and a realistic appraisal of the jihad doctrine and Islamic supremacism in all its forms, there will be many more…
The last meeting-place of the League of Nations, whose successor is just as useless David G. Littman in the Assembly Hall where Haile Selassie appealed to the free world for help against fascism in 1936 After speaking at the Vienna Forum in Austria on May 8, I traveled to…
U.N Commission on the Status of Women looks to Iran for advice on women’s rights.
In the business of mothers dying, fate dealt me a better hand than it did Saul Bellow. My mother lived to a ripe age and was vigorous to the end. When she had her first stroke my children were already adults, and had given me two grandchildren besides. I was well into the cycle of [...]
The group was based in Aceh, which continues to prove itself shockingly — shockingly — “immoderate.” “Indonesia militants planned sharia coup, assassinations,” by Olivia Rondonuwu and Sunanda Creagh for Reuters, May 14 (thanks to Twostellas): JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian militants captured in recent police raids were planning a series of…
