At the last minute, Landmarks Commission switches site of today’s hearing about Ground Zero Islamic supremacist mega-mosque site

“They have moved the meeting place again. This is deliberate. The fewer people who witness this vile exhibition of cronyism, dhimmitude, and corruption, the better.” So says Pamela Geller, and I expect that that is indeed the plan here. Pamela has information and background here. LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COMMISSION NOTICE OF…

July 13th, 2010
Topic: JW

Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero faces its only NYC hurdle tomorrow

The Landmarks Commission meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, July 13, at 2:00 p.m. It will be held at 904 Lexington Avenue (at the corner of East 68th Street), in Lecture Hall 714 of Hunter College on the 7th floor. Anyone who wants to speak gets two minutes — sign up…

July 12th, 2010
Topic: JW

Losing a Legacy?

Have the Israelis forgotten their heroic rescue of 103 hostages from Palestinian terrorists?

July 6th, 2010
Topic: FPM

What Now After CLS?

What Now After CLS? by KC Johnson The Supreme Court’s Christian Legal Society v. Martinez ruling has received a good deal of high-quality commentary: FIRE and David French criticized the ruling; Eugene Volokh argued that the Court got the decision right. Anne Neal has correctly noted that trustees should respond to the ruling by going [...]

July 5th, 2010
Topic: News and Press Coverage

India: Muslims cut off professor’s hand over months-old test question about punctuation

The question? Supply the punctuation for a narrative that included a character named Mohammad being asked: “Why are you calling God, God, God….” Clearly, the standards for an excuse to attack a non-believer were not particularly high, if that trumped-up act of “blasphemy” demanded a severed hand in return –…

July 5th, 2010
Topic: JW

Barack Obama: Best President Ever!

Well, not quite, but if historians rank him at 15th-best after less than two years on the job, who knows what heights The One will reach after a full term or two?  Hot Air has the scoop on a Sienna College Research Institute Poll of 238 presidential historians [PDF link]:
In office for barely two years, [...]

July 2nd, 2010
Topic: NRB

Putin’s Spy Ring

Communism’s “collapse” only pressed the pause button on the KBG’s espionage machine.

June 30th, 2010
Topic: FPM

Talking About Rush Limbaugh’s Personal Life With Zev Chafets

Zev Chafets is the author of Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One. Chafets wrote the book with Limbaugh’s cooperation and it gave him a fascinating window into Limbaugh’s world. So, as someone who has been a Rush fan since college, I was really looking forward to talking to Chafets.
What follows is a slightly edited version [...]

June 29th, 2010
Topic: NRB

The Arizona “Repugnant”: Spineless Water-Carrier for the Left in the Immigration Wars

There’s a reason J.D. Hayworth calls it the Arizona Repugnant, and he’s not alone. Many residents of the Grand Canyon State find the Arizona Republic to be little more than the unofficial house organ of the State’s Democratic Party, and have taken to ignoring it in ever-increasing numbers.
Which hasn’t affected the paper’s mission to change [...]

June 28th, 2010
Topic: NRB

From the Writings of David Horowitz: June 25, 2010

At Bates, the topic of my lecture was “The intellectual tradition of the left is bankrupt and its hegemony at Bates is an abuse of academic freedom.” In a rare departure from the norm, I had been invited to Bates by the dean of the college, even though, as he informed me shortly after we [...]

June 25th, 2010
Topic: NRB