Editor & Publisher is running an article on the controversial cartoons below and it contains this little gem from Associated Press executive editor Jill Carroll: Kathleen Carroll, AP executive editor, said the news cooperative has long withheld images it deemed offensive, such as photos and video of beheadings. "We have a very longstanding policy of […]
I published 3 of the forbidden Jyllands-Posten cartoons earlier today. Since then I have read a couple of dissenting views of people I respect who argue that the publishing (and re-publishing) the cartoons is merely an effort to goad Muslims into acting on their base instincts. Hugh Hewitt likens the cartoons below to a Tom […]
One of the cornerstones of Western civilization is freedom of speech and of the press. A free press won't stay that way for long if it cannot criticize the world's second-largest religion. So, as a sign of solidarity with Denmark's Jyllands-Posten newspaper. Here are a few of the blasphemous Mohammed cartoons. Michelle Malkin notes that […]
Just over one year ago, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers gave a speech which sparked outrage among women's groups. In the speech, Summers suggested that one possibility why there are few women science and engineering professors at the nation's elite schools may be due to innate differences between men and women. Maybe, Summers suggested, that […]