The Iconoclast
Is It A Treaty, Or Is It An Executive Agreement? It’s Either One Or The Other
The reaction of Barack Obama and others who support him, to the letter sent to Rouhani and signed by 47 Senators, is instructive. This former lecturer in Constitutional Law did […]
Sen. Tom Cotton’s Open Challenge to Ayatollah Khamenei and President Obama on Nuclear Deal with Iran.
Arkansas Republican US Senator Tom Cotton Tall Lincolnesque Arkansas Junior Senator Tom Cotton did his constituents and all Americans proud. His open letter to Iran’s Supreme Ruler Ayatollah Khamenei signed […]
Why Does The BBC Want To Imply — Again — An "Anti-Muslim Hate Crime’?
Here. What the BBC leaves out from its “Muslims are worried” (are they really? where is the evidence for this?) account of a shooting in Dallas of a practically just-arrived […]
Ivan Rioufol: Valls, With His Proposal To Enforce "Mixité," Has Everything Backwards
And he, Valls, fails to realize that the Front National’s success is the consequence, not the cause, of the failures of both the Socialist Party (PS) and the UMP. Here.
The Water Wars Or, How Now, Old Nile?
Egypt could not continue to claim to have control over the headwaters of the Nile, and this face-saving agreement to try to agree with Ethiopia may, if the Egyptians remain […]
Abdullah Al-Thani, Former (And Maybe Sort Of Still) Libyan Prime Minister, Blames A Vast Conspiracy For Arab Woes
Abdullah Al-Thani has an explanation for Arab woes that he’d like to share with you — there’s a conspiracy of “Christians and Jews” who for some reason show quite undeserved […]
Where is Ex-FBI Agent Robert Levinson, President Rouhani?
Former FBI-Agent Robert Levinson Imprisoned in Iran Source: Levinson Family FBI director James Comey announced today that they agency raised the reward for information to $5 million on the whereabouts […]
Infiltration Of Western Security Services By Muslims
Here. In Paris, four more people were arrested in connection with the attacks on the Jewish market. Note that a policewoman, who worked in police intelligence, and was a convert […]
Nearly Half Of The Senators Now Standing In Tall Cotton, Or Standing Tall With Cotton, Or Something
Here. “They sat down and wrote themselves a letter. And sent it off, the way they do. The words they wrote were not so sweet. They’ll knock the ayatollah off […]
A Musical Interlude: Waiting At The End Of The Road (Bob Haring Orch., voc. Scrappy Lambert)
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Brookings Study of ISIS Twitter Accounts Reveals US among Top Locations
A Brookings Institution examination of a complete data set of 20,000 ISIS Twitter accounts ranked Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria and US as the top four locations of twitter users, The […]
Abdulazziz Al-Qattani Does The Best He Can To Tell The Truth, But Tells It Slant
Here. He can’t leave Islam. He can’t admit, to himself or to others, that Islam itself is the problem. But he can say, and he does, that ISIS does not […]
Misfortunes Of Misr: Conspiracy-Addled Egyptians Give Their Lowdown On Qataris, And On Who Al-Baghdadi Really Is
Al-Sisi is trying to make things sliightly less crazy. But Egypt is still full of crazy people, and three of them, and their inside-dope on Sex and the Qataris running […]
Good Book
George Sturt’s The Wheelwright’s Shop. Cheap copies, by the tens of thousands, might be dropped by plane all over Silicon Valley, in the same spirit with which Lauro de Bosis […]
Whistling In The Dark: Some Play About The Mughal Empire At The National Theatre
The praise lavished on these papier-mache characters by Peter Tatchell, a homosexual-rights campaigner who has felt aggrieved in the past by the Muslim hostility to homosexuality (in other words, he […]
In Mix-n’-Match Yemen, Al Qaeda, The Army, The Houthis, The Southern Separatists (Your Group Here) Go At It
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