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Wrestling With Mohammed
Is Islam a religion of peace or an imminent fascist threat? This may very well be one of the most crucial questions of our era.
Is there actually a definitive, clear-cut answer to this monumental question?
Yes, there is, but unfortunately it is buried in a miasma of misinformation and religious apologetics. Also, unfortunately for some, there […]
That Other War
Western civilization is in the midst of a war for its very existence and we are losing this war.
No, I’m not talking about the ongoing wars in Afghanistan or Iraq. Nor am I referring to those recent ominous clashes between the Turks and the PKK in Northern Iraq, nor even that increasingly dangerous, but seemingly […]
La Ultima Paja
Question: At what point does a theoretical political debate cross the line and become a direct personal assault? For me, this line was crossed yesterday, at about one o’clock in the afternoon, when I was personally accosted by my friendly neighborhood bank.
I live in a small, typically scenic New England coastal town. Population 18,000. I’ve […]
The Enemy in the Mirror
In a recent article in Pajamas Media, Danish PM contributer and Jyllands-Posten editor Flemming Rose revealed the disturbing news that he had been targeted in 2006 for a possible terrorist bomb attack. Mr. Rose, it will be remembered, is the courageous editor who first published those highly-volatile Mohammed cartoons in September 2005. This is just […]
New Rules of Engagement
Earlier this week, in a truly frightening post on Susan Duclos’ Wake up America blog, a new and appalling terror threat was revealed. Referred to as “Jihad Boom”, this latest outrage against humanity involves nine postcards mailed out to nine public schools in the Florida area, containing graphic bomb threats, specifically targeting these schools and […]
The Dragon Box
I grew up in the 1940s and 50s. My mother worked as a full-time mom, my brother was in the service, and my stern, officious, lapsed-Quaker father was a Philadelphia stockbroker who took the same train into town every weekday at exactly the same time, and said exactly the same thing to the same old […]
My Haunted TV
My television set is haunted. The ghosts — there are two of them — can materialize on my screen suddenly and without warning. Generally, they make their intrusion right in the middle of an interesting program or movie; and, even though they were assigned no major role in the production, their unexpected appearance is so […]
Revisiting Kasserine Pass
Of all the reasons put forth in the recent Congressional debates supporting the case for immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq, the least defensible is that Iraq has become a “mess”.
Since when do wars not create a “mess”?
It is perhaps too easily forgotten that conducting a war has always been a contentious business, not […]
