The Iconoclast
A Tempered Heart: Valentine’s Days in a Chinese Odyssey
by Lizhi He (March 2016) Part I: A Valentine’s Day in the US: No Enemy Being a native Chinese, I had no knowledge of the Valentine’s Day until in February 1992 […]
Culturism and Modernism: An Academic Odyssey
by John K. Press (March 2016) Let’s take a journey together, towards my explosion, shall we? I recently spoke at the annual English Language Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK) conference in Busan, […]
Progressivism is Hostile to Humanism
by Patrick Frank (March 2016) Abstract: Ethical Humanism honors the individual and is the basis of classical liberalism, modern libertarianism. Progressives advertise their program as humanely compassionate, asserting compatibility with […]
Muslims and Atheism
by Ibn Warraq (March 2016) The occupation of God in our minds is one of the most oppressive types of occupation. — Abdullah al-Qasemi, 1907-1996 One could call the present […]
Where Have You Gone, Vinegar Joe?
Thoughts on the Profession of Arms by Samuel Hux (March 2016) Only a very few years ago, from the time just after 9/11—I am confident of this generalization—there was no […]
Islam: What Is To Be Done?
by G. Murphy Donovan (March 2016) Yes, Islam! The politics and theology of Muslims is now the dominant source of global instability; although any separation of the two is moot […]
Signs of Hope for Fresh Thinking in the U.S. and the U.K.
by Conrad Black (March 2016) The greatest single political problem in the Western world is sclerosis of the imagination. In Congress, on the hustings, and in the media, the United […]
Slaves of the Combustion Engine
by Theodore Dalrymple (March 2016) The motor car used to be a symbol of personal liberation. You could go anywhere you wanted, any time you wanted, without being tied […]
Sunday: 2-28-16- Listen to the Lisa Benson Show at 1 PM EST, 10PM in Israel with Ex-CIA Director, Amb. R. Woolsey on Missile “Defenseless” US Homeland and Dr. Jill Bellamy on Zika Virus public health and ISIS CBW threats
Muslim girls forced into marriage via Skype
From the DNA India Muslim girls in the UK as young as 11 are being forced to marry men living abroad via the internet notwithstanding a ban on forced marriage […]
Hate preacher’s TV channel gets cash from gift aid
From TTimes of Israel An Islamic television channel reprimanded this week for broadcasting antisemitic programmes is part-funded through tax breaks from the Treasury. According to The Times of London the Islamic […]
ISIS in the Ozarks
If ISIS is in the Ozarks they are everywhere.
Saudi Arabia sentences a man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing his atheism on Twitter
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing his atheism in hundreds of social media posts. He refused to […]
Saudi Arabia’s Sauve Qui Peut
Saudi spokesmen made three significant – even stunning –announcements last week. The first one came from the Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi, speaking to oil company executives at a […]
What’s the Best Treatment for Arterial Blockages?
One of the greatest advances in modern medicine was the realization that doctors’ personal experience is not sufficient evidence for the preference of one treatment to another. The double-blind trial […]
Soho mosque bans women worshipers because it is ‘too full’
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