Despite recent strong runners, Sir John Major is probably the worst Conservative prime minister Britain has had in modern times. But just as a stopped clock tells the right time occasionally, he made one resonant statement: I am an Englishman. Step on my foot once, I will apologize. Step on my foot a second time, I will apologize. Step on my foot a third time and I will knock you down. How many times has Islam stepped on the collective foot of the English? A recent violent incident at a historical site may not help what the police call “community relations.” London’s Hyde Park Corner ...
Every time Western society is treated to another charmingly impish killing spree or terror attack at the hands of a Muslim, we"re told (by those guardians of all that's good and ...
Outside the courthouse where the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is slowly getting under way, one woman stands a lonely vigil. Her name is Karin Friedemann, and she's ...
I have no love lost for the Arab world. Aside from the fact that they basically gave up on modernity from circa 1700 onward and only rediscovered it once oil’s fiduciary ...
Whaddayaknow? Margaret Atwood warned us that North America would turn into a theocracy—and she was right! Funny, though: She hasn’t said much about that lately, now that The ...
It seemed like only a few days ago that Egypt's humble peasant masses set hearts ablaze worldwide with their spirited defense of universal rights and basic human dignity. The ...
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The Rev. Terry Jones may just have exposed the ultimate futility of America’s war in Afghanistan. Consider the portrait of frustrated impotence America presented to the ...
From Pakistan to Turkey, from the Mediterranean to the Gulf, the insidious and colonising march of the burqa or niqab full face-and-body veil continues. Everywhere, anonymous and ...
“Where are the Republican leaders who will reject pandering and prejudice?” wailed The Washington Post in its most recent editorial in support of Cordoba House mosque ...
Geert Wilders is in the US at the moment and will be showing his film “Fitna” in Congress tomorrow, Thursday. US Republican Sen. Jon Kyl is hosting a film screening ...
Some columns offer to write themselves. It’s hard to imagine a juicier piece of news than a call by the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury for the British legal system to ...
Benazir Bhutto may have been ruthless, conniving, and a “puppet of Pakistan’s military and security services,” as Leon Hadar argues in the January 2008 issue of ...
Continuing our jaunt through Mr. LaTulippe’s article from yesterday, we come to these lines: “When analyzing the likely course of these civilizational struggles " ...
The Empire State Building was once the world’s tallest, until the World Trade Center came along. While other buildings elsewhere eventually topped it, the Empire State ...
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