Yoo Ruling Upholds Definition of ‘Enemy Combatant’

How the 9th Circuit Court reversed misguided Obama administration policies on the war on terror.

“Free Speech Zone” Follies

Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones is convicted of inciting violence before the fact.

Spirit of Camp David: Egypt to strip citizenship from Egyptian men married to Israelis — and their children

Egypt’s trampling of the Camp David Accords has proceeded apace for decades. And why not? No one seems to mind in Washington. “Egypt to strip men married to Israelis of citizenship,” by Jailan Zayan for AFP, June 5 (thanks to all who sent this in): CAIRO (AFP) – A Cairo…

U.K.: Jihadist who called for assassination of prime ministers and “huge attacks on centres and places of benefit to the crusaders” pleads guilty

An update on Ishaq Kanmi, whose “loyalty to his form of Islam exceeds his loyalty to this country.” “‘Al-Qaeda in Britain’ leader who threatened Gordon Brown and Tony Blair pleads guilty,” by Duncan Gardham for the Telegraph, May 10: Ishaq Kanmi, 23, from Blackburn, Lancashire, posted messages on a well-known…

Court ruling reveals ties between Ohio jihadist, al-Qaeda

Abdulmalek Kenyatta (aka Christopher Paul) Update: Confirmation of exactly how well connected Paul was within al-Qaeda. “Ohio terrorist ties to al-Qaida operative revealed,” by Andrew Welsh-Huggins for the Associated Press, April 12: COLUMBUS, Ohio — A court ruling has revealed that a convicted Ohio terrorist had ties to an al-Qaida…

Bangladesh: Supreme Court rules against forcing women to wear veil

The court said “‘forcing a woman to wear the veil against her will’ is considered a ‘flagrant violation’ of basic human rights ‘enshrined in the Constitution’.” If a Western official had brought forth this opinion, he or she would be branded an Islamophobe for implying that anyone is ever forced…

From the Writings of David Horowitz: March 17, 2010

The arrest of Chile’s counter-revolutionary general, Augusto Pinochet, and the approach of the 40th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution bring into focus two celebrated battles of the Cold War, in which members of my generation took passionate sides. As one who went into these battles on one side and came [...]

Class Warfare in the Classroom

Radical professors are teaching students to wage the “class struggle.”

Class Warfare Entrenched: Indoctrination in Higher Education

From Accuracy in Academia:
In Boston, an English professor is trying to sell his class on society’s collective guilt when said students are already believers in personal responsibility. “We must encourage students to access the antagonist class positions of texts in order to demonstrate how the oppositional voices contained in them identify evidence of class struggle,” [...]

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Marxist Professor Howard Zinn, 1922-2010

Howard Zinn died Wednesday at the age of 87. He is best known for writing A People’s History of the United States (1980), a Marxist tract that describes America as a predatory and repressive capitalist state — sexist, racist, imperialist — that is run by a corporate ruling class for the benefit of the rich. A People’s History has [...]