The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, although left-leaning, is one of the pillars of the Israeli media. In fact, it’s the most widely-read paper in the country, and I am one of its readers. On June 6, while scanning the paper’s Ynet website, I suddenly came across an article that left me totally flabbergasted. It started [...]
Dear Media Matters: Catholics call them ’sins of omission’
March 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Media Matters‘ latest “gotcha” goes like this:
National Catholic Reporter Endorses Health Care Bill
With some pro-lifers trying to make the health care debate an argument over abortion, it was interesting to see the National Catholic Reporter, which knows a thing or two about anti-abortion views, come out in favor of the Obama health care plan.
And then [...]
All the News Unfit to Print
March 11, 2010 By 15 Comments
Why won’t the New York Times report on the anti-Israel funders behind the Goldstone Report?
From the Writings of David Horowitz: March 5, 2010
March 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
How bad is the indoctrination process in American colleges?
I had occasion to see for myself an answer to this question when I recently visited the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This is a state school with 20,000 students, and while I was there I audited an hour-and-a-half lecture about the Warren Court’s landmark decisions on civil [...]
Exile and the New Russia
March 1, 2010 By 1 Comment
The life and death of a now-defunct, Moscow-based English language newspaper that upset a lot of people.
Exile and the New Russia
February 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The latest Vanity Fair carries an amusing and appropriately graphic account of the life and death of Exile, a now-defunct, Moscow-based English language newspaper run by American expatriates that managed to piss off a lot of people – usually, but not always, for bad reasons – in its short and mostly obscure decade-long existence. As [...]
The Heretics: McIntyre and McKitrick
February 19, 2010 By 29 Comments
A retired engineer and an economics professor are a thorn in the side of the global warming establishment.
Andrew C. McCarthy: Kill or Capture? – National Review Online
February 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A few years ago, I got into an argument with an expert on military operations. I had written a white paper proposing the creation of a national-security court for terrorism cases. In the paper I criticized the trend to “judicialize” warfare, arguing that, in our system, judgments about the detention and treatment of alien enemy [...]
Climategate U-turn: Astonishment as scientist at centre of global warming email row admits data not well organised – Mail Online
February 16, 2010 By 4 Comments
The academic at the center of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers. Professor [...]
How Feminists Judge: “He Looks Rape-y”
The aftermath of my column
For the past two days, I have been embroiled in an enormous campus controversy concerning a column I wrote criticizing the concept of “date rape” and decrying the victim-based ideology of the sexual left. Printed in the university’s paper, the American University Eagle, the column went up on its website on [...]