The Iconoclast
Democrat Senators provide final votes supporting President Obama on the Iran Nuclear Pact
President Obama at American University, Washington, DC August 5, 2015 Source: Reuters Maryland Democrat Senator Barbara Mikulski clinched President Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal today by announcing her support making it […]
Tallinn – protest critical of President Putin of Russia
In Tallinn, capital city of Estonia this afternoon. I don’t speak either Estonian or Russian to understand the speeches or to find out who the group were. But they were […]
A Solution to the Migration Crisis
The stories and photographs of migrants attempting to enter Europe is a human tragedy, heartbreaking as people die trying to cross the Mediterranean. On August 27, 2015, over 50 migrants were […]
Rich Man, Poor Man: No Insults Allowed
A well-known religious figure is reported to have said: “For ye have the poor with you always.” This is even more the case if economic inequality persists (as the history […]
Where’s Hugh?
Many of you have written asking about Hugh Fitzgerald. Hugh is battling depression and has been hospitalized. I spoke to him yesterday and he is very concerned about the side […]
We Have a Winner!
Keith Simmonds has won the crossword competition for August (again). He will receive a copy of Theodore Dalrymple’s
Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei In Mid-August 2015
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France Is Aware of Real Fascist Evil
On May 8, 2015, French president François Hollande spoke at the Elysée Palace at a ceremony at which prizes were awarded to middle and high school students for the best […]
Fragments of world’s oldest Koran may predate Muhammad, scholars say
Keep the Sanctions — Stop the Deal!
The Fiamengo File: Votes For Women
After 1832, about one in five men had the right to vote. Almost half of adult males, though, were still not eligible to vote when they accepted the call to […]
Syria mother of four ‘has family links to Anjem Choudary
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The Voices of the Ghetto Still Address Us by András Mezei
translated from the Hungarian & edited by Thomas Ország-Land (September 2015) Seven decades after the Hungarian Holocaust, a child survivor confronts the modern reader with the living voices of that […]
The Looking Ground
by David P. Gontar (September 2015) I drew beside eternity It held as plain as cake Thus neighborly and nigh My heart did quake more>>>
The Dawn After
by P. David Hornik (September 2015) The dawn after the night you die is peaceful as the dawn before that night. Birds chatter the same way. more>>>
Moving On
by Dilip Mohapatra (September 2015) You perhaps have grown tired of me and do not respond to my anxious calls nor to my frantic messages. You look the other way […]
