Prelude. “Israeli, Lebanese soldiers exchange fire on border,” from Reuters, August 3 (thanks to all who sent this in): EDAYSEH, Lebanon (Reuters) – Israeli artillery shelled a Lebanese village on Tuesday, wounding two people, after Lebanese Army troops fired warning shots at Israeli soldiers along the usually quiet but tense…

“Is Campus Censorship the New Normal?” in Free Inquiry Magazine By Greg Lukianoff Check out the latest issue of Free Inquiry magazine which features an article by my colleague Will Creeley and me that explores how censorship of campus speech ends up hurting all of us in the long run. The article, entitled “Is Campus [...]

WikiLeaks reveals how the Mullahs kill Americans in Afghanistan — and what Obama isn’t doing about it.

Shock horror! The FBI spends more time on surveillance of Muslims than on surveillance of Amish! It’s racism! It’s “Islamophobia”! Tim McVeigh! Profiling! If only the facts weren’t so inconvenient, and Islamic jihadists weren’t still so active around the world. Not that the facts matter to these “civil liberties groups.”…

Victory for Free Speech on Campus: Mississippi College Reverses Punishment of Student for Swearing Outside of Class July 28, 2010 JACKSON, Miss., July 28, 2010—Isaac Rosenbloom is again able to pursue advanced training as a paramedic at Hinds Community College (HCC) now that the school has reversed its punishment against him for swearing a single [...]

SAN JOSÉ, Calif., July 26, 2010—Nearly three years after terminating her over her protected classroom speech, the San José/Evergreen Community College District (SJCCD) has agreed to pay adjunct professor June Sheldon $100,000 in lost earnings in exchange for dismissal of her First Amendment lawsuit. In 2007, Sheldon had led a brief discussion about the nature/nurture [...]

How Israel pays for its compassion with the blood of its citizens.

An old colleague of President Barack Obama and William “Bill” Ayers has an interesting job these days — handing out a fat check to pro-Obama community organizers.

Handy L. Lindsey, a Member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge during the same period as Obama and Ayers, is President of the Cameron Foundation [CF], a [...]

Scorching temperatures are breaking records in Europe this summer. But the weather is moderate compared to the Islamic tempers flaring across the continent.
Tonight, Islamic riots are breaking out in France and England. Concerning the riots in France, Jihad Watch is reporting:
The violence began around midnight on Friday and lasted through the night in [...]

According to Reuters, the murderers were “machete attackers,” “raiders,” and “unknown assailants,” but then the rest of the story is about “religious violence” in Nigeria, making it likely to the point of certainty that Nuhu Dawat’s family was murdered by Islamic jihadists. But for Reuters, as for the rest of…