Author Howard Bloom talks about his first groundbreaking book, “The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History.”

For awhile now I’ve been talking up author Howard Bloom. I’ve referenced his work in numerous posts, featured his books in NRB book club and then earlier this month I reviewed his newest book for FrontPage in an article titled “How Science Crushes the Left.”
Tuesday night I had the exciting experience of getting to interview [...]

Meg Ryan’s decision not to grace the Jerusalem Film Festival with her presence this month had a double effect: It registered her disapproval toward the Israelis for thwarting Hamas’ efforts to kill them, and secured her position in the ever-growing club of self-satisfied Western artists making asses of themselves. And I would wager nobody is [...]

Educated and faithful Catholics who are veterans at navigating the political world understand all too well that the Catholic Left thrives on continuous arguments against clericalism and orthodoxy in the Roman Catholic Church. Daily Kos diarist Sherman De Brosse provides plenty of fodder with his dire prediction of “eventual near-extinction” of America’s Catholic religious sisters.
Two questions immediately [...]

Al-Shabaab Suspected in Deadly Bombings in San Francisco!
Oh, wait…never mind, here’s the real headline:
Al-Shabaab Suspected in Deadly Bombings in Uganda
Whew!  The bombings didn’t take place here, so there’s no need to worry.  And they didn’t take place in Israel, so there’s no need for the Left to rejoice.  It’s just another ole “banal homicide bombing,” to [...]

The police chief in Kampala is blaming al-Qaeda and its Somali franchise, al-Shabaab, with good reason. The synchronized attacks certainly point to al-Qaeda; the targeting of an Ethiopian restaurant and venues showing the World Cup final resonate with two things the al-Shabaab jihadists detest, and al-Shabaab just threatened Uganda and…

Amanda Marcotte
About a month ago, Sarah Palin had the gall to describe herself as a feminist. Then, a crop of Republican women rose to prominence — most notably, Nikki Haley, Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, and Sharron Angle — by winning primaries across the country. Nikki Haley in particular, an Indian-American Christian conservative Republican [...]

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Two weeks ago, during the aftermath, or more aptly in the wake, of the Mavi Marmara, and the Hamas-and-Al-Qaeda-linked I.H.H.’s propaganda stunt, a number of commentators had their say on Turkey, that is, Turkey in its malevolent present incarnation under Erdogan and his AKP party. Quite a few people seemed…

Victor Davis Hanson will be speaking tomorrow at the Wednesday Morning Club.