The New Penance Doesn’t Offset Much

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services What do leftist, mostly secular elites share with medieval sinners? They feel bad that the way they live sometimes doesn’t quite match their professed dogma. Share This

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Seeking Sympathy from the Infidel

Zawahiri invokes the language of social justice. by Raymond Ibrahim National Review Online In an unprecedented effort to rally popular support, al Qaeda is apparently trying to refashion its image from an ultra-conservative, radical Islamist group with clear and precise goals — the ultimate being to implement sharia law around the globe — to what the liberal

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There’s a War Still Going On…

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online They didn’t ask necessarily for this war; but nevertheless our soldiers and officer corps brilliantly defeated Saddam Hussein in three weeks under the strict parameters set by political leaders. Share This

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Islamic Apologetics

Ignore history and focus on platitudes of peace and love? by Raymond Ibrahim National Review Online Islamic apologist extraordinaire Karen Armstrong is at it again.  In an article entitled “Balancing the Prophet” published by the Financial Times, the self-proclaimed “freelance monotheist” engages in what can only be considered second-rate sophistry. Share This

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Your War, Not Mine

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services “This war is lost,” Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid recently proclaimed. Share This

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Al Qaedism, Again

Another straw on the back on the proverbial American camel. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Why would Albanian-speaking Muslim refugees from the Balkans try to murder American soldiers? After all, the United States — not bin Laden’s rag-tag jihadists — saved Bosnia and Kosovo? And we did that by bombing the capital of

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200 Million Minority

Islam’s apologists completely miss the point. by Raymond Ibrahim National Review Online For three consecutive days, April 10-12, Tariq Ramadan, the controversial Muslim activist who was denied a U.S. visa for questionable activities (such as making “charitable” donations to the terrorist organization Hamas, which regularly commissions suicide-attacks), was invited by Georgetown University to give a

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Hooked On Trivia

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Americans for weeks woke up and went to bed to news updates about Anna Nicole Smith’s death and the fate of her daughter. Share This

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Hydra of War

Radical Islam will ensure the constant replacement of whatever terrorists we kill. by Raymond Ibrahim National Review Online Is the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Hamza al-Masri, dead? Iraqi authorities just proclaimed that he was recently killed due to infighting. But al Qaeda-related websites beg to differ: “[H]e is still fighting the enemies

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Suffering Mascots

Why the West fails to understand humanity in Africa by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers American Idol has been a remarkable success. Share This

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