Although the meeting centered on Arab media, this bodes ill for honest discourse about Islamic jihad in Murdoch-owned media outlets. After all, we have already seen the effects of Prince Alwaleed’s money upon Murdoch. “Prince Alwaleed bin Talal’s media meetings,” from Monsters and Critics, January 18: Saudi’s Prince Alwaleed bin…
“Let’s do things the way the Israelis do.” That’s the latest buzzword in airline security. It’s nice to hear the Israelis being praised for something, but if we don’t understand what the Israelis do, we’re just going to be adding another layer of bureaucracy to an already overloaded system CNN spent an hour interviewing Isaac [...]
For the past several days, I have found myself unable to look at the photographs from Haiti. I have also found that when I start reading an article datelined Port-au-Prince, I have to force myself to read to the end of it. I have donated money to Doctors Without Borders, on the grounds that it [...]
An Islamist radical whose teaching role at a leading university was exposed yesterday by The Times led a secretive “Brothers’ Circle” at which he espoused his hardline views. Reza Pankhurst, a senior figure in the hardline group Hizb ut-Tahrir, gathered a group of male members of the London School of…
I received this interesting email from an Australian military officer, referring to this post: Dear Robert, I was interested to read about British troops helping build a mosque in Afghanistan. When I was in Aceh with the Australian Army following the Tsunami, despite this being the main stronghold for political…
Lori Ziganto at iOwnTheWorld.com
Oh, Hollywood! Never have so many been paid so much for so little worth. Their lack of rational thought astounds even me sometimes, and I have very low expectations. In fact, I propose a new term to replace the ickier bathroom version: Stone for Brains. Oliver Stone, that is, the man who never [...]
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In the summer of 2009 Columbia, the magazine put out by the university for its alumni, carried an article about one alumnus, Michael Leiter, Columbia ’91. He had graduated magna cum laude. He had gone on to Harvard Law School. He had clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. In…
