When does a civilization become incompetent? I’ve been mulling the question in a number of contexts over the last year, including our inability to put a stop to Somali piracy, detain a terrorist who can neither be charged nor released, think rationally about climate change, or rebuild Ground Zero in an acceptable time frame. But [...]
Bret Stephens: Airport Security and Our Incompetent Civilization – WSJ.com
January 5, 2010 By 1 Comment
Abdulmutallab’s Lack of Friends – by Jamie Glazov
January 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The mainstream media has, with its typical slick expertise, succeeded in avoiding yet another crucial phenomenon that explains what caused the terror attempt on Flight 253.
It keeps mentioning, in passing, how Abdulmutallab was “lonely,” but it never honestly explores why he was lonely.
In his 300 postings under the name “farouk1986″ in an online forum, the [...]
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Ron Paul Wants Me To Have a Day Off From Thinking Hard
January 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
On Monday, the gift-that-keeps-on-giving known as Congressman Ron Paul had a fierce debate with the Ben “Captain Monotone” Stein over what causes terrorism. Predictably, Ron Paul stuck to the line that they are only terrorists because we are “occupiers.” See the video below:
To Mr. Paul, the terrorists are not pan-Islamic theocrats but violent nationalists fighting [...]
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Shame On You, Fox Nation
December 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
News Hounds, a self anointed media ‘watchdog’ web site, whose sole purpose is to catch Fox News in a blooper, is due an apology. Those erstwhile media critics brought up a valid point in their recent story which criticized Fox Nation for reporting a news item from David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog: Sen. Baucus In [...]
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From the Pen of David Horowitz: December 26, 2009
December 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
People who identify with the Left often ask the following question: How is it possible for decent human beings not to be progressive like us? How can they not share our concern for social justice or the better world we are attempting to create? The answers progressives give themselves are the following: Ignorance clouds the [...]
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Fort Hood Denial – by Jamie Glazov
December 24, 2009 By 21 Comments
Why the Left can’t accept the Islamic roots of Nidal Hasan’s shooting spree.
From the Pen of David Horowitz: December 23, 2009
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Another of my books, “The Politics of Bad Faith,” was recently published in paperback. It consists of my intellectual framework for rejecting the left, and therefore examines the main political issues confronting my generation — the Cold War, the question of socialism and whether the ideals of the left are implicated in the crimes that [...]
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Common Sense in Egypt and Saudi Arabia – by Daniel Pipes
December 23, 2009 By 11 Comments
Some Egyptians and Saudis support the idea of an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.
From the Pen of David Horowitz: December 18, 2009
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How many poor people have progressives starved since 1917? It’s a good question and somebody should do the research and publish it.Russia was the breadbasket of Europe until progressives seized power in that year and started instituting policies to “share the wealth.” For the next 70 years until socialism collapsed, Russia was a [...]
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Comment of the Day: One Question Summarizes the Battle with the Ron Paul Locust
Today NewsReal played host to a swarm of Ron Paul True Believers. Directed by Head Paulastinian Lew Rockwell, when alerted of Ryan Mauro’s anti-Paul broadside the Paul-defenders dove into NewsReal’s comments to strike back.
Swemson cut to the chase with this comment in particular:
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January 2, 2010
To all of our guests who agree with Ron [...]
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