Political dissident Amir Fakhravar discusses his brother’s arrest by the Iranian regime and the democratic uprising that threatens its rule.
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Jacob Laksin | January 4, 2010 | Posted in
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The rising star of the Right has kept Obama in check and spearheaded the conservative revival.
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David Forsmark | January 4, 2010 | Posted in
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If this anonymous piece is accurate, maybe he was just practicing damage control when he notified the authorities about his son’s “extremism” — as Creeping Sharia puts it, daddy “threw his son under the bus to protect himself and his own Islamist interests.” But it looks as if Umar Farouk…
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Robert | January 2, 2010 | Posted in
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Today John Hawkins at Right Wing News was kind enough to publish my review of David Horowitz’s A Cracking of the Heart. Here’s an excerpt:
Meet the late Sarah Horowitz, child of political activist David Horowitz, who managed to fuse the painful lessons of her father’s life with a mystical Judaism to complete the task he [...]
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- A Video Review of "A Cracking of the Heart"
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David Swindle | December 31, 2009 | Posted in
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The blogger as slavish Obama apologist.
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Peter Collier | December 28, 2009 | Posted in
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Andrew Sullivan seems increasingly unhinged these days. The creepy, Torquemada-like obsession with Sarah Palin continues as he rummages through her book in a deranged act of explication de texte, functions as a one man birther movement laying out loony speculations about the owners of the canals out of which Trig and Tripp emerged, and continues [...]
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In reaction to my ongoing dialogue with Mary Grabar regarding drug legalization, conservatism and the counterculture, my NewsReal colleague Calvin Freiburger responded fairly to a poorly-worded statement of mine. Calvin highlighted these closing remarks for criticism:
A conservatism that can win is one which understands itself and defines itself as a political movement, not a cultural [...]
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David Swindle | December 26, 2009 | Posted in
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Read Mary Grabar’s original Pajamas Media article here.
Read David Swindle’s NewsReal rebuttal here.
Read Mary Grabar’s NewsReal response here.
Mary Grabar’s response in our debate about drug criminalization has clarified her opposition to marijuana legalization in an important way. She concluded her essay with these words:
As I see it, this debate really is about more than [...]
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David Swindle | December 23, 2009 | Posted in
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However, the Taliban didn’t invent it. Prominent elements of this “dress code” far predate their movement. “Somali militants enforce Taliban-style dress code,” from the Associated Press, December 23: MOGADISHU, Somalia — Residents of a southern Somali town say Islamists are enforcing a Taliban-style dress code. And the sign says, long-haired…
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Marisol | December 23, 2009 | Posted in
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