WikiLeaks sheds disturbing light on Pakistan’s two faces in the terror war.

An update on this story. The nature of the interaction with mosque officials is entirely too typical: When approached about specifics, respond with lofty generalities; repeat as necessary, and people who still won’t back down are automatically Islamophobes, naturally. “Sheriff’s office to probe Islamic burial,” by Mark Bell for DNJ.com,…

Time Magazine columnist Joe Klein, my polar opposite leftist namesake, posted another puerile attack on the Swampland blog against opponents of Cordoba House. This time his target was Newt Gingrich, whose opposition to the planned $100 million 13 story mosque complex within earshot of Ground Zero I discussed yesterday.
Klein claims:

If Newt actually believe what he [...]

I had the great pleasure of meeting Rene Stadtkewitz when I spoke for Pax Europa in Berlin last year. He is a measured, intelligent, well-spoken politician who is deeply aware of the nature of Sharia and the threat of the global jihad. But when he has tried to raise awareness…

Winning hearts and minds. None could have gone to the jihad, you say? And why not, exactly? What effective safeguards were in place to ensure that those who received money in Iraq had no sympathies for the jihad? With the U.S. government in massive denial about the nature of the…

When he was alive and I was still young, my father told me his version of the Fall. “We begin to die the day we are born,” he said. What I think my father meant by this was that the cells, which are the invisible elements of our being, are constantly churning in nature’s cycle. [...]

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 [...]

From the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs: In late June in Tel Aviv, senior Israeli Defense Forces officials briefed JINSA members on the security situation confronting Israel. They provided the group with the following video about the “Flotilla” incident that took place on the morning of May 31,…

In a 2005 interview with 60 Minutes, actor Morgan Freeman took Mike Wallace completely aback by calling Black History Month “ridiculous.” Freeman affirmed the condescending nature of the commemoration by prompting Wallace to confess no desire for a “Jewish History Month.”
“Black history is American history,” Freeman proclaimed. When a confounded Wallace asked how else to [...]

She’d outpester any pest
Drive a hornet from its nest
She could throw a whirling dervish out of whirl
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was still a young woman, these words were penned by Oscar Hammerstein for the 1965 show tune “Maria“. They are the words of Catholic nuns describing the somewhat rebellious nature of Maria Von Trapp, [...]