The Iconoclast
Former DOD Official Warns Islamists are “weaponizing political correctness”
Former Defense Department official, Rich Higgins is interviewed at the
Saudi Arabia City of Qatif Rocked by Explosions Near Mosque
This seems to be another Sunni attack on Shi’a. It may be ISIS, although I’m sure it matters little to te victims. Another one in Medina.
Immigration is the Key
by Michael Curtis The Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin once said, “There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen.” He might have been talking of the […]
A Comprehensive Response to Anti-Israel Tourist Activism Talking Points, Part I
Geography, Fences and Security by Robert Harris (July 2016) Betty Purcell, a member of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, is best known for her former role as a […]
Irving Berlin’s "God Bless America" Performed by Kate Smith, 1938
Of Molehills and Mountains
The latest media whipped hysteria involves Donald Trump having tweeted a picture of Hillary Clinton superimposed on a pile do cash with the words, “History made” and “Most Corrupt Candidate […]
‘Foreign Men’ Blamed After Mass Sex Assault At Music Festival, Youngest Victim Just 12 Years Old
reports Svenska Dagbladet, with 24 received during the festival and another 11 coming afterward. Early reports in Sweden’s mainstream press, including the best-selling AftonBladetreveal the foreign origin of the attackers reports the youngest […]
‘God wants you to die’: Dhaka’s long night of terror
The college student who wouldn’t leave his two friends behind. Eight people hiding in a tiny, sweltering bathroom. A cook, strapped to a chair with explosives. They were among those […]
Today is not Al Quds Day – today is Jerusalem Day
That was Simon Johnson the CEO of the Jewish Leadership Council speaking this afternoon at the demonstration in support of Israel organised to counter the annual Al Quds march. Every […]
Did Someone Plant an IED in Central Park?
It blew a young man’s foot off. Witnesses say, he “stepped on something.”
Stephen C. Foster: My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night
Stephen C. Foster was undoubtedly the greatest American songwriter of the 19th Century. Here is his classic, “My Old Kenucky Home” with the original lyric published in 1853. (The Civil […]
Pass/Fail in Bangladesh
by Hugh Fitzgerald “The gunmen were doing a background check on religion by asking everyone to recite from the Quran. Those who could recite a verse or two were spared. […]
Why Maurice Duplessis Won Four Straight Terms
by Conrad Black I am probably the only person still standing who observes June 20 as a political anniversary: this year it was the 60th anniversary of the last of […]
Ramadan in Baghdad: 82 Killed in Bombings Overnight
Sunni ISIS is taking revenge on the Shi’a government which, in practice, means murdering Shi’s civilians.
Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate, Holocaust Survivor and ‘Night’ Author, Dies at 87
An End to Hitler
by Michael Curtis Some people get their kicks from champagne. Others get them from selling and buying relics of Nazi Germany, or from remembrance and celebration of things from that […]
