Yesterday, the Anti-Defamation League announced their opposition to the Muslim community center to be built in lower Manhattan. The structure which opponents have labeled the “ground-zero mosque” in reality is not at ground-zero of the 9/11 horrors, nor is it exclusively a mosque, but it has become a rallying cry for bigots and opportunists who [...]
Not long ago, I wrote how the Catholic church said it was unwilling to take action against clergy who had molested children. It now seems, however, the Church is more than prepared to take action against a greater heresy: Saving the life of a pregnant woman. Recently Sister Margaret McBride of Phoenix, AZ was excommunicated [...]
I actually find it hard to believe that the Miss America pageant continues to this day. It seems so antiquated and patriarchal that I had actually thought they’d discontinued it. Yet, I find that a new Miss. America was crowned last night. Rima Fakih, Miss. Michigan, is the first Muslim woman to win the prestigious [...]
Remember, remember the fifth of November,
The gunpowder, treason and plot,
I know of no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Four hundred and two years ago today, Guy Fawkes was seized outside of the House of Lords. When captured, with matches and fuse, he gleefully admitted his intention to blow up the King and his lords. [...]
Usually, I pay little to no attention to the ravings of Ann Coulter. She’s crass, vapid, and incendiary: she is the Andrew Dice Clay of punditry. However, this week she instigated one of her patented kerfuffles when she was interviewed on CNBC and I couldn’t resist commenting. Ann declared that Jews are good people that [...]
Someone alerted me this evening to the story of Steve Bitterman, who was dismissed from teaching at Southwestern Community College in Iowa for telling his students that not to take the story of the Garden of Eden literally. Students viewing a simulcast of the class at a neighboring college complained that Bitterman had denigrated their [...]
Ok, not quite that bad, but close. The David Horowitz Center for Freedom is sponsoring Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week on college campuses throughout the country in October. According to their guide this will be the “biggest conservative campus protest ever.” — meaning more then 100 people will participate.
The organizing guide for the event makes the agenda [...]
