The Iconoclast
Turkey at Thanksgiving is Enough
by Michael Curtis President M. Nixon is not generally admired as a fountain of profundity. But attention should be paid by sore political losers to his pithy remark that “You’ve got […]
Castro is dead. Give Praise to a hero of the Bay of Pigs Brigade
Originally published in Dr. Rich Swier eMagazine Nov. 26, 2016 My memories of Fidel Castro, the late Cuban Communist Revolutionary and Dictator, was as a young U.S. Army Intelligence […]
Tommy Robinson’s Unfortunate Predicament
There will be those who think that such harassment of Robinson is correct — that in order to keep the peace it is necessary to keep an eye on anybody […]
Self-Anointed v. Resentful
by Theodore Dalrymple Most people vote in elections for the candidate they dislike the least, and perhaps this is as it should be: positive enthusiasm for candidates and politicians in […]
Preacher for ‘Battlefield Jihad’ Addresses ‘Safe Space’ London University
In the past certain venues have naively taken bookings from Islamic groups for events with speakers such as Haitham al Hadaad and Abdur Raheem Green but when their unsavoury credentials have […]
British benefits payments used to fund Paris and Brussels attack suspects’ campaign of terror, court hears
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Paris: Jihadists ‘aimed to hit Disneyland on December 1st’
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WATCH: Geert Wilders’ Final Statement contesting Hate Speech charges before the Hague District Court
Geert Wilders of the Freedom Party in the Dutch Senate, November 2016 Source: Bart Maat/ Agence France Press Geert Wilders’ biased political show trial culminated today with his final statement […]
Nicholas Kristof’s 12-Step Program (Revised Edition)
by Hugh Fitzgerald Just a brief note from Nicholas Kristof, or a reasonable facsimile thereof: As I am “the moral conscience of our generation of journalists,” the winner of two […]
A Society Worthy of Our Televisions
by Theodore Dalrymple The best way to avoid disappointment is to have low expectations—they can almost always be met. In that sense, the Clinton-Trump debates did not disappoint. No one […]
The Obama "Legacy"
We need to take on liberal-media myth-making by Conrad Black As there is an incessant crescendo, still gaining in volume each week, about President Obama’s “legacy,” I thought it appropriate […]
French Arrest 7 Muslims Suspected of Planning Jihad Mass-Murder Attack
As reported by Reuters news agency and Australia’s ABC just yesterday. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-22/france-arrests-seven-people-suspected-of-planning-attack/8044532 “France Arrests Seven People Suspected of Planning Attack”. Not ‘seven people‘. Seven Muslim men. Seven Muslim men of […]
Controversial Neo-Nationalist Meeting in Washington raise protests
Bret Stephens continued his criticism of Steve Bannon, President –elect Trump’s strategic counselor and adviser, in his column in today’s Wall Street Journal (WSJ), “Trump’s neo-Nationalists.” This followed […]
Germany: Row erupts after Woolworths staff state the store is now Muslim – and they will not be selling Christmas decorations
This is the Dortmund branch in Germany. Woolworths no longer trade in the UK but the name continues in Europe and Australia. From the Dortmund 24 A huge row erupted after […]
The end of nation-building
Fulfilling Trump’s promise means halting the endless overseas cash flow. by Kenneth R. Timmerman Secretary of State George Shultz famously asked future ambassadors a question before sending them out into […]
Some Questions
by James Como 1. How are the mayors and governors who support sanctuary cities, and who threaten to defend them as sancturies for undocumented immigrants against federal authority, not incipiently separatist […]
