The Iconoclast
Passchendael Mud
My husband and I went to see this in Trafalgar Square this morning. It’s a statue of a WWI soldier, resting, sleeping on his kit, made to commemorate the centenary […]
Is Trump’s Mideast policy a paradigm shift?
The president has worked on repairing America’s relationship with Israel and articulating the radical Islamist threat. These gains may be rendered moot, however, if he endorses the ill-informed State Department […]
Letter to US House Africa Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) on Including Sudan Sanctions Review in Omnibus Bill
July 25, 2017 Mr. Jeff Beck c/o Rep. Chris Smith (R) – 4th CD-NJ House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health & Global Human Rights Rayburn House Office Building, Room […]
Miss World’s Very Own Islam
by Hugh Fitzgerald If you google “Islam” and “news” this week, you will pull up from the Internet
Justice for the Holocaust Victims
by Michael Curtis The quality of justice is sometimes strained and sometimes delayed. On July 21, 2017 some form of justice occured when the heirs of a prominent German Jewish […]
Upset by Metal Detectors, "Palestinian" Breaks into Israeli Home and Stabs Three People to Death
I’m upset by the Mueller investigation, but my first thought is not to murder some random family having dinner, yet listen to how the killer’s father calmly justifies this heinous […]
Muslim mother takes legal action against school over face veil ban
A Muslim mother has launched legal action against her daughter’s school, after being told she could not wear a face veil on its premises. ‘socialist Eton’ and the ‘Eton of […]
Not even Europe’s tumult can distract from what’s happening in Trump’s America
It is one of the profound ironies of modern times that the country chiefly responsible for the triumph of democracy is not now a well-functioning democracy. by Conrad Black Returning […]
Blogger ‘Israellycool" Satirises the Mohammedan Habit of "Days of Rage"
See link, for details. http://www.israellycool.com/2017/07/20/the-wheel-of-rage/
John Quincy Adams On Islam: “Old Man Eloquent” (Part II)
by Hugh Fitzgerald Today, a side of Adams that was not made much of in his lifetime has for many of us become the most important, and much-needed, part of […]
Honor and Dishonor: British Royalty
by Michael Curtis All visitors to London, young and old, want to see Buckinham Palace and the Changing of the Guard, symbols of the existence of the British Royal Familiy. […]
Witness for the Prosecution
by Tolstoy (the parrot) “Bud” faithfully remembered and recreated the fateful scene when his beloved human father was killed. From the
Trump Will Outlast Farce of GOP, Democratic Opposition
by Conrad Black Senators Adam Shiff and Tim Kaine Catching up on American affairs after nearly three weeks overseas has been a challenging cultural experience. In Europe, including the United […]
Sudan’s diplomatic faux pas denying retention of a DC lobby
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan h/t Scott Morgan. Even before President Trump deferred lifting 20 year sanctions against the regime of ICC indicted President Bashir in Khartoum, the […]
Skewering Me-Pods
by Friedrich Hansen Miscarriage of Superman: Franz Kafka’s metamorphosis of Gregor Samsa Arthropods of the sort of spiderman are the virtual constituency of Hollywood just as the Me-Pods are the […]
History and Symbols
by Michael Curtis Let’s talk of court news, who loses and who wins, who’s in and who’s out. Sometimes this is hazardous. In the Soviet Union when ruled by Josef […]
