The Iconoclast
The Best Christmas Movies of All Time
By Bruce Bawer Critic, schmitic. How can you pretend to be engaged in objective aesthetic appraisal when you’re talking about movies that you first watched decades ago in your childhood […]
Germany’s Christmas market attacker identity sparks debate – Ex-Muslims deny he was one of them: A pattern of deception and impact on genuine ex-Muslims
From Op India On 20th December, a 50-year-old Saudi-born doctor identified as Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen rammed a BMW car into the crown at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. The incident claimed lives […]
Fixing the Biden Border
By Victor Davis Hanson Joe Biden, to the degree he was cognizant, has always reflected the Obama-era utopia dream of a borderless world, and thus millions of poor have illegally […]
Never Give Up. Never Surrender.
By Glenn Harlan Reynolds Never give up! Never surrender! Fine words from a fine movie, but also a lesson of recent weeks, months, and years, and something I’ve been thinking about for quite […]
Webs Will Attract Spiders
By Carl Nelson: A book review The Insider Threat by Adam Lovinger This book is a riveting tale of a modern day real-life victim of a Deep State cabal. Far […]
Fair and balanced?
By Phyllis Chesler Here’s what “fair and balanced” coverage means today. The cover of the Dec. 22, 2024 New York Times magazine features the Pieta-like figure of a Gaza mother holding her […]
London Christmas – then and now
By Esmerelda Weatherwax Our Managing Editor, Kendra Mallock, chose this very detailed painting, London Christmas by English School, to illustrate one of the short stories for our December magazine. It brought […]
Development of Modern Civilization
According to the Urantia Book, the most dangerous time for civilization is the transition from one level to the next and we have entered such an age. The Urantia Book […]
One man’s history of Soviet dissident is another man’s proof that no country has the rule of law
By Lev Tsitrin It was something of a sense of guilt that made me purchase and read a massive tome titled “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many […]
Paris court issues heavy sentences in teacher Samuel Paty’s beheading trial
From France 24 A French court on Friday handed heavy sentences to several men convicted of having played a role in the jihadist beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty in 2020 — a […]
Time’s up for Trudeau’s thin policy gruel
By Conrad Black Once again, a Canadian federal government has floundered to the end of its acceptable term. If Justin Trudeau manages to hang onto the leadership of the Liberal […]
Car driven into crowd at Magdeburg Christmas market
From DW, Bild and Welt. There are many injured, at least one fatality, some newspapers report considerably more deaths. A car drove into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in the central German city […]
Why Not Arrest President Biden Before He Can Pardon Himself?
By Phyllis Chesler WHY NOT ARREST PRESIDENT BIDEN! According to a breaking story in the New York Post, the “mentally fatigued” President has been asleep at the wheel for the […]
Fly Away
By Theodore Dalrymple Flies are like sheep: They seem to follow their leader, without it being clear which of them is their leader. This was my conclusion from watching flies […]
The Erosion of American Capitalism
By Bruce Gilley In November, Spirit Airlines filed for bankruptcy. Was this because it was a particularly ill-managed company? No, Spirit Airlines went bankrupt because the United States is no […]
New Toronto Tory MP puts Olivia Chow on notice for letting antisemitism fester
From Geoffrey Clarfield. This is about my home city, Toronto. From True North A few days ago, my new member of Parliament, Conservative Don Stewart, sent a letter to Mayor […]