The Iconoclast
Democrats Turn the Old Donald Trump Into an Underdog Fighting Gallantly and Successfully Against Shameful Abuses
By Conrad Black In the last week, the gigantic fraud of the Biden presidency has collapsed with dramatic suddenness. Since a debate format is not one that enables a participant […]
Leeds terrorist hospital worker ready to ‘kill as many nurses as possible’ with bomb found guilty
From Leeds Live Mohammad Farooq, 28, has been standing trial at Sheffield Crown Court, where he was unanimously found guilty of the single charge on Tuesday. He had previously admitted […]
The Lies We Have Lived Through
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of […]
Before 23-939 Trump v. US, only judges were above the law. Now, presidents are, too — to Justice Sotomayor’s hypocritical chagrin
By Lev Tsitrin As the Supreme Court ruled, by a 6-to-3 majority, that presidents have absolute immunity for their official acts, Justice Sotomayor gasped for just enough air to write a dissent […]
Conservative candidate Rabbi ‘abused and intimidated’ at local mosque
This has been picked up by a national newspaper more quickly than I expected, which is a pleasant surprise. From the Telegraph A rabbi standing as a Conservative candidate was “abused and […]
On July 1, Let’s Recognize Canada’s Past Achievements and Potential for Greatness
By Conrad Black July 1 has come again and naturally raises thoughts, however cursorily, of what Canada has been in the 157 years since Confederation was launched on July 1 […]
Is This How God Works?
By Roger L Simon Some who have been reading my newsletter know that lately I have taken to spelling the supreme being as G-d with a hyphen as part of […]
Female suicide bombers kill at least 18 in coordinated attack in Nigeria,
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Female suicide bombers targeted a wedding, a funeral and a hospital in coordinated attacks in northern Nigeria that killed at least 18 people, local authorities said […]
Glastonbury – shame on you.
As festivals go I have never had the desire (or not since the early 70s when it was Glastonbury Fair and the acts included david Bowie and Fairport Convention) to […]
Erdogan the Magnificent: neo-Ottomanism begins to take shape
By Nikos Akritas Is President Erdogan of Turkey laying the groundwork for an invasion of Syria? Putin has recently heralded Erdogan as a key player in peace efforts regarding the […]
OUCH! Nighty, nighty, sleep tighty
by Reg Green “In a country of three hundred million are these two the best we can find?” I complained agitatedly after the debate. “Calm down. I’m sleeping like a […]
Universal Unity
This is the final paper of Part II and can be a little heavy-going in places. Be sure to read section 10 if nothing else. Next week we will begin […]
Trump Is Endorsed for President by Three Leading Columnists Who Say the Campaign Has Reached ‘the Moment for Choosing’
Conrad Black, Victor Davis Hanson, and William Bennett, in a detailed statement, declare Trump the better candidate in ‘every important policy area.’ From the New York Sun. An endorsement of […]
Britain’s Conservatives Deserve to Lose
by Conrad Black The election in the United Kingdom next week will mark another stumbled step in the descent of Britain into unprecedented political absurdity. It will bring in the […]
Pleas for Democracy from the Mouths of Hypocrisy
by Lev Tsitrin I don’t know if this ever happened before, a New York Times editorial being treated by news organizations as the chief sensation of the day. Yet here […]
Four Brief Reviews of Japanese Fiction
by Armando Simón Katsuno’s Revenge and Other Tales of the Samurai by by Asataro Miyamori This is a collection of fascinating Japanese stories compiled around 1920. They were originally told […]
