Only one of the men in this image is a hero. Guess who?
With his bloodless, sallow face, his lank hair drained of all color, his languorous, very un-Australian limbs, and his aura of blinding pallor that appears to admit no nuance, Assange looks every inch the amoral, uber-nerd villain, icily detached from the real world [...]

Publishing all sorts of top-secret documents, the founder of WikiLeaks has a long history of crime and immature self-absorption.

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 [...]

The developing conventional wisdom throughout the conservative blogosphere seems to be that the 92,000 documents on Afghanistan dumped by the leftist Wikileaks site are meaningless. These aren’t the Pentagon Papers. We know what’s in them.
This argument — true or false — is beside the point. Whether these documents contain important material or not it’s too [...]

A glimpse of the analysis in Dr. Leonard Peikoff’s forthcoming book, The DIM Hypothesis.
At the 2010 Objectivist conference/OCON, Dr. Leonard Peikoff was presenting material from his forthcoming book, The DIM Hypothesis, in which he analyzes Western culture and history from the perspective of the epistemological process of integration. I was surprised to learn that, according [...]

Welcome to the luxurious material deprivation of the Gaza Strip.

There are other disturbing statistics here, after the obligatory expressions of shock from the neighbors. “American-Bred Terrorists Causing Alarm For Law Enforcement,” by Jason Ryan, Pierre Thomas, and Xorje Olivares for ABC News, July 22: A Virginia man charged with providing material support to terrorists abroad appeared in court today…

But, but, but, I thought that in Kosovo they were all moderate Muslims who loved America! I read all about it in Commentary! “Kosovo: Judges Say No to U.S. Request for Extradition of Terrorism Suspect,” from AP, July 17 (thanks to all who sent this in): Three European judges serving…

Why is the Koran preoccupied with its own credibility?

Abetting Terrorism = “Free Speech”? by John Perazzo In a 6 to 3 decision last week, the Supreme Court upheld a federal law that makes it a crime for Americans to provide “material support” of any kind – be it in the form of cash, weaponry, training, personnel, services, or “expert advice or assistance” – [...]