I'll probably be writing about the place of religion in public life for the rest of mine. While I'm generally opposed to the efforts of the radical left to scrub the public square of all religious speech -- and even more opposed efforts that seek to single out Christianity for special cleansing -- there is […]
Columnist/author Mark Steyn has a post up on his legal troubles with Canada's thought-crimes court, more commonly known as the Human Rights Commission. The notion that a Norwegian imam can make a statement in Norway but if a Canadian magazine quotes that statement in Canada it's a "hate crime" should be deeply shaming to all […]
Author/reporter Mark Bowden of "Black Hawk Down" fame had a piece in Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer "In defense of waterboarding," that is well worth a read. No one should be prosecuted for waterboarding Abu Zubaydah. Several investigations are under way to find out who ordered the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, apparently an effort to cover […]
You've just got to shake your head at this sort of "reporting" by the Associated Press' Beth Fouhy on the Iowa caucuses. Hattie Irving, an 81-year old Iowan, has never participated in her state's presidential caucuses, but she plans to this time - to support Hillary Rodham Clinton. "I was very impressed with her as […]