The Iconoclast
Time to end ‘pandemical nervosity’ in Europe over Trump
By Conrad Black This has been an eventful political week for Europe. The German Social Democratic Party (SPD), as expected, the party of Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, and Gerhard Schroeder, […]
BBC ‘whitewashed’ anti-Semitism in Gaza documentary
From The Telegraph The BBC has been accused of “whitewashing” the views of participants in its controversial Gaza documentary after repeatedly mistranslating references to “the Jews” and omitting praise of “jihad”. […]
Trump’s New Direction for World Peace Worth Trying
By Roger L Simon Remember “The End of History”? That was a 1992 book by Francis Fukuyama. If you don’t recall it, don’t feel embarrassed. It’s beyond laughable now. History, […]
MAGA Foreign Policy and the Iranian Regime
By Victor Davis Hanson One topic that’s come up throughout January and this week again is what to do about the Iranian nuclear proliferation problem or crisis. And we all know that […]
A Look at Our History Shows Canadians Have Earned the Right to Be Patriotic
By Conrad Black The concept of Canadian patriotism has evolved steadily but gradually over more than 400 years. When Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec in 1608, and in his 30 years […]
Philip Haney, An American Patriot: In Memoriam
By David John Baldovin With sanity and patriotism now on display in the Oval Office as well as within the United States national security apparatus, it is an appropriate time to […]
Trump’s Ukrainian Tightrope
By Victor Davis Hanson To find an impossible peace between Ukraine and Russia we must understand the recent history of the war and the European and American roles in it. […]
Election Lands Germany at a Crossroads at Which We All Have Arrived
By Conrad Black The German elections confirmed that Germany, traditionally the most powerful country in Europe at least potentially, since Bismarck founded the German Empire in 1871, has arrived at […]
Ouch! Say It Ain’t So
By Reg Green A host of Pentagon contracts have a taint of corruption, President Trump says. Even so, they have many defenders. Remember the contractor who said the only taint about them […]
Erin Moran, Courageous Aussie Journalist, and the Hamas Nightmare…
by Gerald A. Honigman I found the following Erin Moran video on IsraPundit related to the barbarism Israeli Jews are repeatedly subjected to by their assorted Arab neighbors… Wasn’t […]
Ex-policeman describes ongoing grooming gang criminality as “massive” and blames community
By Robert Harris A GB News report published today (“EXCLUSIVE: Ex-South Yorkshire Policeman gives shock verdict on grooming gangs STILL active: ‘It’s massive’/” by Adam Chapman), features a retired South […]
Shamanism—Medicine Men and Priests
This paper details the development of ritual and the appearance of specialists in dealing with the spiritual world – “the shamans, who presume to stand between man and God as […]
Hamas forced Evyatar David, Guy Gilboa-Dalal to watch as fellow hostages get released
From the Jerusalem Post Hamas forced Evyatar David and Guy Gilboa-Dalal to watch as six other hostages were released from captivity on Saturday. Tal Shoham, Omer Shem Tov, Omer Wenkert, Eliya Cohen, Avera Mengistu, […]
Let’s Go Privateering!
By Glenn Harlan Reynolds Time to go a’privateering? We’ve heard a bit about letters of marque and reprisal recently. Sen. Mike Lee has proposed bringing back letters of marque in a thread […]
One dead and more injured in France knife attack by ‘terror suspect who yelled Allahu Akbar’
From the Daily Mail and Le Figaro. The English language French press haven’t got this yet. A police officer has died and four more have been injured in a suspected […]
Man arrested for Berlin stabbing is Syrian refugee who wanted ‘to kill Jews’
Suspected motive confirmed by prosecutors, presumably after giving this information at his court appearance this morning. From the Telegraph A Syrian man who was arrested after stabbing a tourist at Berlin’s Holocaust […]
