The Iconoclast

by Gary Fouse Rumors are buzzing around Washington this week that Lisa Page, the ex-paramour of disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok, was much more forthcoming than Strzok when she spoke with a Congressional panel last week behind closed doors. This is leading to speculation that Page may cut a deal ...Read More...

        Our very own Daniel Mallock's New York Times Bestseller, Agony and Eloquence: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and a World of Revolution, is currently on sale through Bookbub this week. You can get the Kindle edition for $1.20 or other electronic formats for $1.99. Fantastic book! ...Read More...

The arrest of Christian activists in or from Lebanon is a targeted political move to intimidate and deter Lebanese Christian activists Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai, center, patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church, Archbishop Paul N. Sayah, left, vicar general of the Maronite Catholic Church, ...Read More...

by Conrad Black The response to the Helsinki meeting has been so extreme on all sides that questions about the maturity, stability, and intelligence of the entire American political community are incited and require some act of faith to deal with positively. Earlier U.S. presidents created shock ...Read More...

by David Solway Recently, my wife and I received an invitation from a respected friend to attend an event in support of the beleaguered Yazidi community of northern Iraq, now suffering under the predatory onslaught of ISIL and other Islamic groups. Soliciting a contribution of several thousand ...Read More...

by David Solway I recently participated in an email chain with conservative writers and thinkers on the inexhaustible subject of Donald Trump. Some of my correspondents, while supporting Trump as a political champion, regretted his "coarseness." He is, they alleged, rather too crude and rough ...Read More...

by Conrad Black When the cant and emotionalism subside, the Helsinki summit will go down in history as a turning point in this American president’s struggle to disembowel the bipartisan regime of complacency and lassitude he successfully ran against. It may also be a modest inflection point in ...Read More...

Stephen Lennon's (aka Tommy Robinson) appeal against committal to prison and a sentence of 13 months imprisonment for Contempt of Court was heard at the Royal Courts of Justice this morning. Some supporters were present in the public gallery, and outside; others of us followed the live feed of the Independent ...Read More...

From the Independent, the furthest left leaning of all Britian's left-leaning national newspapers and a small section from the Municipal Journal (before their paywall comes up) the management magazine for Local Authorities. The government received information detailing the extent of grooming gang ...Read More...

From Ex Patica France on Monday expelled a radical Islamic preacher to Algeria after his release from prison, where he became a mentor to at least two jihadis who carried out deadly attacks on a satirical newspaper and a Jewish supermarket in January 2015, officials said. Djamel Beghal was given ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis The snowflakes continued on July 10, 2018 in New York City though the temperature was 90 degrees. About fifty of the usual suspects defied the heat to protest outside the Joyce Theater on the opening night performance of the Tel Aviv Bathsheva Dance Company which is generally ...Read More...

Fraught political landscapes have created considerable uncertainty as to who may be leading some of Canada's NATO allies come September by Conrad Black It is high summer and vacation time, including for me, as this will be my last column here until Labour Day. It is hard not to wonder what ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald When Prime Minister Netanyahu made his YouTube video on June 10, offering to help the Iranians with their water problem, it was a masterstroke. For he accomplished several things at once. First, he reminded the Iranians that Israel has no quarrel with them, but only with ...Read More...

Compare and contrast yesterday numerous anti-Trump demonstrations (just in London - so as to compare like with like - Scotland really is another country, and I'm never sure about Sheffield) with today Welcome Trump and Free Tommy Yesterday numerous groups descended on several locations in central ...Read More...

I have been away for a week and so missed President Trump's visit to The Home counties that surround London. The rude and vulgar demonstrators who said he was not welcome are not typical of the English public, and the Scottish police had the better judgment compared with the Metropolitan Police and ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis A spectre is haunting the United States and Europe, the spectre of immigration. It will not dissolve until the political and judicial systems of those countries enter into a holy alliance to exorcize it. The issue arouses fervent passion that frustrates the fulfillment of Article ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse On Thursday, FBI agent Peter Strzok testified before the House Oversight Committee. It was highly contentious. As a retired Drug Enforcement Administration agent who has testified hundreds of times in court, I always view the testimony of law enforcement witnesses with great interest. ...Read More...

Many of the president’s EU counterparts are in deep water politically. by Conrad Black On the heels of my misguided intuition, expressed on another site last week, that Judge Coney was the president’s most likely selection for the Supreme Court vacancy, the president should be (but won’t be), ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Singapore has been in the news for other reasons recently, but its appearance on the world stage, however brief, may provide us with an excuse to consider the views on Islam of the founding father of Singapore, and its longest-serving Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, who died ...Read More...

He intended to go overseas to wallow in the jihad bloodbath in Syria, and was encouraging others to do likewise; but, given that he wasn't able to get to Syria, where else might he have chosen to focus his murderous and entirely Islamically-orthodox aggression, had he not been detected, and arrested? I ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis This is the season on the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, at the Sanfermines festival when hundreds of foolhardy youngsters run through the street, as has been the custom for 700 years defying the animals from goring and trampling them. In 2017 thousands engaged in ...Read More...

A petition urging the Canadian government to take action in regards to ISIS returnees in Canada. by Geoffrey Clarfield This week Canadians were stunned to hear that after the near unanimous passing of Motion 103 on Islamophobia in the Canadian parliament last March, the government has decided ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, has just completed a trip to the Middle East. He first spent a day and a half  in Jordan, visiting the Roman city of Jerash, where his wife had had her picture taken when she was four years old. It turns out that the Middleton family had lived ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald I recently attended a Rally for Palestine in the main square of a medium-sized French city close to Marseille. There were flags aflutter of the State of Palestine, two booths full of anti-Zionist propaganda, French middle-aged leftists, committed to the cause, concolorous in ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald In Pakistan this May, Chinese ambassador Yao Jing gave an interview in which he assured his hosts that the Chinese government puts no restrictions on Muslims. Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing has said that Chinese government has given full freedom to the Muslims and allowing ...Read More...