by Raymond Ibrahim
Hudson New York
For centuries, the Copts — Egypt’s Christian, indigenous inhabitants — have been subject to persecution, discrimination, humiliation, and over all subjugation in their homeland (etymologically, “Copt” simply means “Egyptian”). Continue reading “Egypt Cuts a Deal: Christians Fed to Muslim ‘Lions’”
by Bruce S. Thornton
RightNetwork.com
In 1984 George Orwell described how the abandonment of belief in objective truth makes possible a politicized history that legitimizes tyrannical power: Continue reading “Whitewashing Islam: “Who Controls the Past Controls the Future””
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
It is a busy time in America. The Major League Baseball playoffs are competing with the upcoming midterm elections for the public’s attention. Continue reading “Three Wars, Little News”
by Terry Scambray
New Oxford Review
A review of Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design by Stephen C. Meyer. Harper One, 2009. Continue reading “Evidence Against the Evidence”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Historians will look back at the 2008 campaign in the light of the 2010 midterm elections. Almost everything the president has done in the last two years is simply a continuance of that now strangely distant summer. Continue reading “That Strange Summer of 2008”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Juan Williams Firing — Or a Primer on Elite Liberal Thinking
There were lots of slants on NPR’s firing of news analyst Juan Williams that reflect how surreal cultural liberalism has become. Let us walk through ten of them. Continue reading “Fire Juan Williams Right Now!: Our Sneering Liberal Culture in a Nutshell”
by Bruce S. Thornton
RightNetwork.com
Al Qaeda headman Osama bin Laden recently released yet another of his promotional communiqués, and like the last decade’s worth of his propaganda, this one too is designed not so much to appeal to his fellow Muslims, but to exploit the received wisdom and political fashions of the American left and its reflexive hatred of its own culture. Continue reading “‘I Love Your Hate’: Osama bin Laden Seduces the Left”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Puritanism 2.0
Puritanism can grate even more once its practitioners have lost their god. If 19th-century liberals were courageously at the forefront of abolition, religiously inspired college education, and the notion of American budgetary parsimony Continue reading “Parson Obama”
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
One of the most widely circulated newspapers in the world, Egypt’s Al Ahram, recently ran a fake picture depicting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak walking in front of US President Barack Obama and a pack of other Mideast leaders. In fact, based on the original photo, Mubarak, the octogenarian, appeared trailing last. Continue reading “The Ultimate Lesson of Egypt’s Fake Photo”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
I was fascinated watching the recent Obama campaign stops, particularly the contrast with 2008. Gone are the faux columns and classical backdrops. Continue reading “Anatomy of Petulance”