A prominent Columbia architecture professor punched a female university employee in the face at a Harlem bar during a heated argument about race relations, cops said yesterday.
Los Angeles City Hall is thrashing around as the City Council and mayor belatedly try to control a pot-shop explosion they ignited, which has spawned dozens of freewheeling weed emporiums near public schools. The Los Angeles school board’s response? Nada.
Sadly, the number of unexpected sequels that did nothing more than tarnish the reputation of their predecessor far outweighs the number that worked. Sequels are almost always a step down from the first film but when that first film is an unexpected hit, that's a reaction that's nearly impossible to recreate. You can't surprise an audience twic […]
Back in 2007, Rick Morrissey of the Chicago Tribune claimed he would eat his column with salsa on it if the Chicago Bulls' Joakim Noah even proved to be “useful”. Well, not only did he talk the talk, he walked the walk. He literally slathers his column with salsa and then proceeds to eat it with Noah looking on.
It seems strange that in today's New York Times article on the Ft. Hood shooter, Army Major Nidal Hasan, Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) president Ingrid Mattson stated, "I don't understand why the Muslim-American community has to take
On November 2, 2004, Dutch columnist, filmmaker, and all-around provocateur Theo van Gogh was shot and stabbed to death as he biked to work on an Amsterdam street. The killer, Mohammed Bouyeri, insisted that Islam "compels me to chop off the head of
Luqman Ameen Abdullah, the head of Detroit's Masjid al-Haqq, was killed during an FBI raid on October 28 as he engaged federal agents in a gun battle. Prosecutors call Abdullah "a highly placed leader of a nationwide radical fundamentalist Sunni group."
I have always viewed push-up bras as false advertising, but does wearing one deserve a whipping because of their "deceptive" and "un-Islamic" nature? I don't know, but the controlling Islamist Shabaab party of Somalia seems to think so. And if our bras
Words matter in the battle against radical Islam. As Raymond Ibrahim explains, "In the war on terror, to acquire accurate knowledge — which is pivotal to victory — we need to begin with accurate language." And nowhere is accuracy more wanting than in
It’s time to come back…. Over the next few weeks I plan on slowly ramping up my new site, The New School Republican…. look forward to seeing you there…. Ray PS..Headquarters (I.E my kitchen table) has moved from downtown Chicago to South Florida… Posted in obama
I would like to sincerely thank everyone who has spent time here at Chicagoans Against Obama. I want to let you know how much your feedback and participation has meant to me. When I started this site several months ago, I did so not knowing that this would turn into what it is today….truthfully, [...]
In an exclusive postmortem interview with Chicagoans Against Obama… Tom Bradley revealed to us that after several months of nonstop media speculation that we would see the Bradley effect adversely impact Barack Obama’s election night numbers…. he couldn’t help but feel disappointed that there was no such effect on the final election n […]
These two guys, along with the rest of the main stream media, will be cheering on an Obama victory all day long…..don’t listen to them According to the McCain Campaign Memo (Full memo Here) McCAIN CAMPAIGN MEMO: READING THE EXIT POLLS BILL McINTURFF, INTERNAL POLLSTER Mon Nov 03 2008 16:53:14 ET As we have seen in previous election cycles, the [. […]
Unreal… Go to CNN.COM….nothing but Obama is winning in a landslide….Sarah Palin got prank called On MSNBC.COM…..they are highlighting a breaking story about ” free sex toys for voting”…but nothing on Obama’s coal comments…. By judging from the response (Here) of the President of The Ohio Coal Association […]
Commentary on the Fort Hood incident can be categorized three ways: reaction, response, and rejoinder (commentary on the commentary). Reactions generally consist of pundits pouring their preconceptions over what is known of the facts. These are the least worthy of our time, and rejoinders like this one from Stephen M. Walt of Harvard University in the Fort [ […]
Michael Crowley, senior editor at The New Republic, recounts some nightmare episodes with the 911 Emergency Response System in the current issue of Reader’s Digest. Here’s an excerpt: If there’s one thing we think we can count on, it’s that a frantic call to 911 will bring a swift and effective response. Government’s first [.. […]
Today’s episode of “Hagar the Horrible” could be an epigraph for the new Fall 2009 issue of Cato Journal. This issue includes Greek economists Michael Mitsopoulos and Theodore Pelagidis on “Vikings in Greece: Kleptocratic Interest Groups in a Closed, Rent-Seeking Economy” as well as Peter Leeson, author of The Invisible Hook: Th […]
Things you might not want to know: Have you ever thought about how dirty the money in your wallet might be? The case for dropping out of NATO. Gene Healy on the “arrogance of power” involved in running for president these days: “What sort of person wants the job badly enough to spend years living out of [...]
My colleague Dan Griswold pointed out yesterday some unfortunate editing in the Washington Post. Here are a couple of other trade-related items in the news recently: Sen. Max Baucus (D, MT and Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee) has seemingly thrown his weight behind the idea of “border measures” (i.e., carbon tariffs). After paying the se […]
In a blog entry for Islamist Watch, David J. Rusin shows how the word "jihad" continues to be euphemized in the West. Despite Islamic law's unequivocal portrayal of it as a military endeavor to empower Islam, jihad is still being peddled as "nothing more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Washington on Sunday following weeks of speculation about whether he would be met by U.S. President Barack Obama during the visit. When his plane took off, there was still with no word from the White
PHILADELPHIA – The Middle East Forum is pleased to announce the appointment of Daniel Huff as director of the Legal Project. Mr. Huff succeeds Brooke Goldstein who led the Project since 2007. Dedicated to providing legal aid for anti-Islamist researchers
I haven't posted for a while, but this is remarkable. Michael Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard discovered ("J Street Adviser Morton Halperin Goes to Work for Goldstone") that a letter purportedly written by Judge Richard Goldstone to criticize a House of
As reported last week by Campus Watch, Dalia Mogahed, appointee to President Obama's Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, executive director and senior analyst of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, and co-author, along with Georgetown
When a Muslim in the West for no apparent reason violently attacks non-Muslims, a predictable argument ensues about motives. The establishment – law enforcement, politicians, the media, and the academy – stands on one side of this debate, insisting that
National Review asked, "How big a deal is it that the president won't be going to Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall?" My response follows; what others wrote can be found at "Forgetting the Fall." Let us meditate briefly on
Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of the Afghan president, "a go-between between the Americans and the Taliban," and "a suspected player in the country's booming illegal opium trade," the New York Times informs us, "gets regular payments from the Central
"There is no doubt he is our friend," Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, says of Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as he accuses Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman of threatening to use nuclear weapons against Gaza. These
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has, since its founding in 1994, served as the Islamist movement in North America's most high-profile, belligerent, manipulative, and aggressive agency. From its headquarters in Washington, D.C., CAIR also sets
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