Imagine an airline only for Muslims. How wonderful, how pure it would be! The layoffs among TSA officials working security for the non-Islamic airlines, however, would be devastating. “Islamic Facebook launched,” from Iran’s Ahlul Bayt News Agency, August 2 (thanks to Twostellas): A group of South African Muslims, upset about…

Experts slam the Washington Post’s series about intelligence contractors.

[Editor's note: This is the final installment of a three-part series. Click the following for Part I and Part II.] The campaign to pressure artists to boycott is part of a highly organised mass movement. As with pro-Palestinians generally, the so called BDS (Boycott Divestment Sanction) Movement continually draws parallels between apartheid South Africa and Israel. [...]

Who is driving the hate-campaign to strip the Jewish State of credibility and defenses?

Let’s face it–monster movies will always be part of our popular culture. In fact, they are as much a part of American culture as hot dogs and apple pie. Vampires are cool, sexy, mysterious, and sparkly–werewolves are pure animal savagery. Both always have and always will be part of American cinema. [...]

One of NewsReal Blog’s Biggest All-Time Hits has been our Meltdown with Keith Olbermann series.
Now we’ve collected the first half of the series as a PDF ebook which you can download for free here.
This 28,000-word, 56 page collection features posts 1-24 (all the posts from 2009) written by David Forsmark, chronicling the MSNBC demigod-in-his-own-mind Keith [...]

Dear Rhonda,
I’m so glad that you’ve decided to join me in reading Leszek Kolakowski’s Main Currents of Marxism. I think by reading it together and having a public correspondence about its themes as we plow through it we’re more likely to actually finish it and understand it better. In other words, we have a better [...]

AUTHOR’S NOTE: I had just finished this essay when I heard the terrible news that my friend Christopher had a cancer whoseprognosis was dire. My heart and thoughts go out to him, as they would to a brother. I have known Christopher as a man of great courage and decency and have an affection for him that [...]

I never got into the Harry Potter craze, either in book or movie form. But given who the series has managed to tick off now, I may have some catching up to do.  At the Daily Beast, Muslim women’s rights reformer Asra Nomani reports:
Not long ago, when I watched British-Muslim actress Afshan Azad, 22 years [...]

“This is one of the most dangerous cells we have uncovered.” “7 nabbed for cab-driver murder,” from the Jerusalem Post, June 28 (thanks to all who sent this in): Seven Israeli Arabs affiliated with al-Qaida and Global Jihad have been arrested for allegedly murdering a taxi driver last year, and…