Boy are they going to be surprised: A story in today's New York Times on early Islam shows (surprise!) that the Koran has been mistranslated for centuries. A case in point is the famous passage about martyrs (why they consider people who commit suicide by blowing up innocent people martyrs I'll never figure out) receiving […]
Just in case you thought Chinese President Jiang Zemin was telling the truth when he said that people in China were free to worship as they please, there's word that the Chinese government feels threatened by an old folks home. China cut off power and water on Friday to a group of elderly Christians, detained […]
On election day 2000, voters showed up in very Democratic St. Louis, Mo. to vote. Some showed up a little late, and thanks to a judge, they were given more time to vote. In violation of state law, a judge ordered the polls to stay open until 10 p.m., three hours after state law allows. […]
Mark Steyn of Canada's National Post has a great piece in today's paper about the murder or Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and the moderate Muslim world's complicity with radical Islamists. Let's assume that all the chips fell the jihadis' way, that they recruited enough volunteers to be able to kidnap and decapitate every […]
South Carolina Sen. Fritz Hollings appears to be more senile than Strom Thurmond -- and that's saying something. Today, during a press conference, Hollings mixed up Attorney General John Ashcroft and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham. That takes some doing, because Abraham is Arab and Ashcroft's a honky from Missouri. Then Hollings took a page from […]
Foxnews' "Special Report with Brit Hume" today reported alarming news. A study out of the University of Washington (U-Dub to the locals), found that parents are leaving their kids with unlicensed, uneducated and unsupervised child-care providers. Oh my gosh! What do they call these people? Well, grandparents, aunts and uncles, just to name a few. […]
From today's "Best of the Web Today" at OpinionJournal.com: Great Moments in Airport Security Reader Dal Jeanis writes: Regarding the three-year-old who was wanded: I had a similar experience flying with my two-year-old son to meet my wife in San Antonio. As well as wanding him, they made him take his shoes off! Well, in […]
Well, I missed it earlier in the week, but in Monday's Washington Post there was an article on some of the Muslim charter schools operating in the United States. The article is disturbing. The kind of brainwashing and indoctrination that was once thought limited to madrassas in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia has come to America. […]
The New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman, has been pilloried for months by The Wall Street Journal, among others, because of his two-faced columns on Enron and his questionable economic theories. On Friday, Krugman took on the "Bush Tax Cut" with the following analysis: Finally, there's line 47. You haven't heard about that, but you […]
Edward Rapp of Inverness, Fla., scares me. His letter published in the New York Times will hopefully never come to pass, though it is just what many liberals want. The country is moving in the right direction on cleaning up campaign financing. We should go further and start serious debate on public financing of campaigns. […]