The Iconoclast

by Hugh Fitzgerald

From the

by Theodore Dalrymple It’s curious how people’s beliefs about matters of fact often follow their political opinions, rather than the other way around. Those who believe in an active regulatory […]

by Hugh Fitzgerald Jihad Watch.

by John Constantine The United States Constitution including the Bill of Rights is based firmly on the bedrock premise that all people are equal under the law. And thus should […]

exasperated rant in Swedish on Facebook the officer, Peter Springare, conceded it was not politically correct to say so, but nearly all the serious crime cases he had dealt with […]

by Gary Fouse The dust has barely settled on the UC Berkeley campus after Wednesday night’s riot. The cause? The College Republicans had invited Milo Yiannopoulos, a conservative, gay, British […]

Paul Sperry reviews General Flynn’s book in the

What would happen if I were to walk down the streets of Mogadishu, Baghdad, Tripoli, Khartoum, Sana’a, even Damascus or Tehran in my normal Western attire wearing my customary cross […]

Lee Smith writes in warned that “invoking the Holocaust for contemporary political debates is an inherently tricky business.” Nonetheless, it’s become the consensus take in the media, as seen with Politico, […]

As reported by Adam Harvey, Indonesia correspondent for Australia’s reliably-Islamophile ABC. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-04/indonesia-weighs-in-on-donald-trump-executive-orders-immigration/8241054 “Donald Trump’s Immigration Order Sparks Fear in Muslim-Majority Indonesia’. Yeah, they’re afraid that the carelessly open door through […]

From “The Fifth Element”, a memorable demonstration of an effective method of negotiating with terrorists.    

The ‘Shores of Tripoli’ being a reference to the war of self-defence against the Muslim Barbary Pirates in the late 18th and very early 19th century.    

A fine fighting tune from Scotland.     and another ‘take’ on the same: And now for the poetry of Sir Walter Scott, to go with that skirling call to […]