The Iconoclast

The president’s State of the Union message last Tuesday was in many respects, and as has been much remarked upon, an appalling document. It was verbose, stylistically grating, and largely […]

  Waleed Sharaby Secretary  General of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council Flashes Rabia MB resistance sign  US State Department 1-27-15, Source: screenshot Tuesday evening in Washington, DC, we had more evidence of the Administration’s […]

David Pryce-Jones reviews the first two volumes of JB Kelly’s collected works (published by NER Press) in

There may be flies on you and me. But there are no flies on Jesus.

At the website — www.faithfreedom.org — run by Ali Sina, a defector from the Army of Islam, and by other contributors who, through no fault of their own, were born […]

Here. There is no Battle of the Trench for Fatah, when it comes to Hamas, save for a little quarrel over who gets to keep and divert aid money from […]

  Here is a previous post about “our staunch ally” Saudi Arabia, which mentions another famous above-the-law case, that of the Saudi prince who used his private plane, and his […]

Here. Thirty representatives of four different American administrations came to pay their “respects” to dead King Abdullah, live King Salman, and the country their family owns and named after itself, […]

Greece’s new rulers are foursquare behind the Jihad against Israel. Dismally predictable, but that doesn’t mean this news has no power to dismay and upset. Here.  

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Jack London doesn’t seem to be much read these days, at least not in London. I like his short story “To Build a Fire”, which is

From theSpectator and Spectator :- I am not sure it is a very uplifting example, this censorship of the past, but they are certainly not alone in doing this.  Indeed […]

So farewell, then, Demise Demis Roussos. We thought you’d go On forever. And ever. And ever And … And Deirdre from Coronation Street. “I don’t want to go,” she Told […]

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Applicants sought for the Andrew Harris Fellowship at the University of Vermont, in a state which — to its everlasting shame– doesn’t have enough underrepresented and marginalized populations within its […]