An American-Egyptian couple who had been held in Egyptian prison were released recently: Last weekend, Egyptian-American aid worker Aya Hijazi, who had become an international symbol of Sisi’s harsh crackdown on aid groups, was cleared of child-abuse and human-trafficking charges … Continue reading →
Yesterday there was a referendum in Turkey that used a democratic process to give Erdogan dictatorial powers. The pro-Erdogan forces didn’t call the powers the referendum would confer “dictatorial,” of course. But that’s what they were. Erdogan has declared victory: … Continue reading →
[See UPDATE below.] What could possibly go wrong? When I read this HuffPo piece that Garland wrote, I kept looking for the angle. No, it wasn’t published on April Fool’s Day. No, it doesn’t seem to be satirical or a … Continue reading →
The question of how a religion is defined has come up many times on this blog in relation to Islam and terrorism. One question sometimes asked is why can’t any group simply declare itself to be a religion and have … Continue reading →
Yesterday “The Other Chuck” had several questions, and this was one of them: There are several things about the unmasking by Rice other than the political angle that bother me. If it was motivated purely by politics, surely she would … Continue reading →
Andrew C. McCarthy has an important point to make about Susan Rice and the ummasking: The national-security adviser is not an investigator. She is a White House staffer. The president’s staff is a consumer of intelligence, not a generator or … Continue reading →
Germany has many Muslim residents, the majority of whom are of Turkish origin and citizenship. This article is a must-read if you want to understand what’s happening in Turkey right now and how it affects Germany: The evening’s events exposed … Continue reading →
…you might not want to read this. Food for much thought.
Continue reading →You may have noticed that the brave Resistance has begun to dominate town hall meetings held by Republicans, in order to create “news” for the MSM to then report. Marco Rubio has certainly noticed: “They are not town halls anymore,” … Continue reading →
Riots in Berkeley, California resulted in the university’s decision to cancel a scheduled speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, and the incident has been characterized as a blow against freedom of speech and/or First Amendment rights. In a very technical sense it … Continue reading →
Recently I got a cryptic bill from the IRS for a small amount of money. The reason for the charges was ostensibly explained on the bill, but in a way that only dogs can hear and IRS agents or tax … Continue reading →
I’m not so very interested in an incident that seems to be absorbing people so heavily this days, in which an actor in the Broadway show “Hamilton” made a condescending speech from the stage around curtain call time suggesting that … Continue reading →