The Iconoclast

by Jerry Gordon, Lisa Benson and Richard Cutting (January 2016) The Islamic State (IS) terrorism’s long arm reaches out from its self-declared Caliphate in Raqqa, Syria. It broke like a thunderclap in […]

by G. Murphy Donovan (January 2016)   If you cannot appreciate the “wisdom of crowds,” you will never understand American democracy or the Trump phenomenon. Trial by fire builds character […]

by Fergus Downie (January 2016) The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were […]

by Samuel Hux (January 2016) Passing through Barcelona years ago, during the waning time of the Franco regime, and knowing I would have twelve hours in my favorite of all […]

by Theodore Dalrymple (January 2016) Recently I have been told by two people whom I had not seen for a long time but who knew me when I was much […]

From the Get Reading – the traitors lived in reading. Would-be suicide bomber Mohammed Rehman, 25, was sentenced today at the Old Bailey to life with a minimum of 27 […]

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Last week, outside the Public Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a personable, presentable, sweet-faced young Muslimah, one Mona Haydar, stood for several hours with her husband Sebastian (a convert to Islam), […]

More proof that “radicalisation” is not caused by poverty, ignorance or lack of  opportunity. But we all knew that. From the Roshonara Choudary, who was convicted of attempting to murder Stephen […]

The Islamic Center of Kansas City has received $2,739,891 –

Turner Classic Movies puts one of these out annually to honor those who have passed away during the year.

From the French edition of Le Figaro newspaper.    Witnesses said that one of the terrorists took time out from the killing spree to play a few notes on a […]

David Thompson

I’ve taken some liberties cutting and pasting from the