The Iconoclast
John Gray: Steven Pinker is Wrong About Violence and War
John Gray disputes Steven Pinker’s notion that the world is becoming less violent. For an influential group of advanced thinkers, violence is a type of backwardness. In the most modern […]
Kerry And Obama Find The Framers Of The Constitution "Unhelpful"
Apparently John Kerry is annoyed that the Cotton Letter, to name it after its not Onlie But Chief Begetter, a one-page three-paragraph letter simply laying the constitutional facts of life […]
Iranians Ask Kerry What The Republican Senators’ Letter Means
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21 Iranian Political Prisoners Risk Their Lives To Warn Obama Against Deal With Iran
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Shmuel Trigano: France, Islam, Antisemitism
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Peter Kinder, Lt. Gov. Of Missouri, On A Department Of Justice "Obsessed With Race"
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Islamic State defaces St George in assault on Christian churches in Iraq
From the says Canon Andrew White
U.S. Air Force Veteran Charged with Trying to Join Islamic State
From the reported Tuesday. Mr. Pugh was charged via a secret criminal complaint on Jan. 16. He is charged with attempting to join the Sunni radical terror organization between May […]
University of Kent bans extremist Islamic preacher Haitham al-Haddad from giving talk on sharia law
From Canterbury Times An Islamic preacher accused of promoting homophobic and antisemitic views has been banned from speaking at the University of Kent. Haitham al-Haddad, who presides over a sharia […]
When Have The Arabs Ever Treated The Kurds Fairly?
They persecuted them, and under Saddam Hussein, killed nearly 200,000. No Arabs anywhere, inside or outside Iraq, uttered a syllable of protest at this. They never allowed Kurdistan to receive […]
Soeren Kern: The Mass Rapes Of Non-Muslim Girls By Muslims In The United Kingdom
A summing-up, of what has been so far determined, here.
A Musical Interlude: Find Me A Primitive Man (Libby Holman)
Listen here.
At Al-Aqsa Abu Abdallah Has Something To Say
Where are the Pakistani nuclear weapons, and why have they not been used? And why do the cursed Iranians think that they will ever be accepted by Muslims? And America […]
Avoid At All Costs
Agency, as in “give agency to” Empower, empowering, empowerment Energy, as in “I feel there is so much energy in this room” Stakeholders, as in “the various stakeholders in the […]
General Haftar: Benghazi Will Be Taken Within A Month
Confident prediction here. How many weeks did it take, in November of 1979, to recapture the Mosque in Mecca? There were several weeks of “mopping up,” until finally French troops […]
Burak Bekdil On Abdulhamid II And His Reincarnation
That current incarnation — de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme (Cervantes has just been in the news, after all)– probably will not recognize himself in Abdulhamid II. But Burak Bekdil […]