The Iconoclast

From the Barking and Dagenham Post and the BBC An aspiring rapper accused of plotting a terror attack has told jurors he made pro-Islamic State comments online for a "thrill" in lockdown. Sahayb Abu, from Dagenham, allegedly bought an 18in sword, knife, body armour, balaclavas and a hat in preparation ...Read More...

I didn't put the reports of Saira Khan receiving death threats up at the time because frankly there were more important things going on, and I thought it was only of UK interest, and Z list celebrity gossip at that. Saira Khan is a failed Apprentice (Alan Sugar ran the UK version of the TV business ...Read More...

by David J. Baldovin Philip Haney, a wonderful friend, strong Christian, and great Patriot standing for God, Family, and Constitution.   A front-line officer, intelligence expert, and founding member of the Department of Homeland Security.  His death was a shock to us all that knew him.  He is ...Read More...

Good News! My first book, Allah is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion is back up on Amazon in kindle form. We're working to get the book back up too. ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald In previous articles, I’ve discussed the Great Reset and introduced several ways of understanding the economics of it. The Great Reset can be thought of as neofeudalism, as “corporate socialism,” as “capitalism with Chinese characteristics,” and in terms of “stakeholder ...Read More...

The varieties of gender and race have led us to lose all reason and certainty, while our pc society is bannng books that dissent. by Phyllis Chesler Yesterday, I was standing on line, waiting for my second vaccine shot, when I was given a form which asked me to choose among the following: Am ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Mahmoud Abbas is famously corrupt; he has acquired a fortune of at least $400 million. He has also provided high-paying no-show jobs to family members and loyalists. He lives in a $13 million palace in Ramallah. He has a $50 million private jet. And he continues to have checks ...Read More...

French-Canadians owe their cultural survival to the Roman Catholic Church; they owe their achievement of approximate economic equality with English-Canadians to Duplessis by Conrad Black A just-released book about Maurice Duplessis (the premier of Quebec from 1936-1939 and again from 1944-1959) ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald Any discussion of “stakeholder capitalism” must begin by noting a paradox: like “neoliberalism,” its nemesis, “stakeholder capitalism” does not exist as such. There is no such economic system as “stakeholder capitalism,” just as there is no such economic system as “neoliberalism.” ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald The report on ill-tempered Bernie is here: “Sanders slams Israel for not sending COVID vaccines to Palestinians,” by Sarah Chemla, Jerusalem Post, February 25, 2021: US Sen. Bernie Sanders has criticized the Israeli government for sending COVID-19 vaccines to foreign allies ...Read More...

We appealed Amazon's decision to cancel Allah is Dead by Rebecca Bynum and Easy Meat by Peter McLoughlin. Allah is still "under review" but Easy Meat has been re-instated. The Kindle is back up and the book should appear soon. ...Read More...

by Theodore Dalrymple The mills of political correctness grind exceeding fine, though unlike those of God or justice, they also grind rather fast. Nothing is too small or insignificant for them, nothing can hide from them for long. Recently I noticed an article in the online version of the ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald  Uzra Zeya First, there was Maher Bitar, a Palestinian-American and anti-Israel BDS activist, whom Biden has appointed to be the senior director of intelligence programs at the National Security Council. In this key intelligence role, Maher Bitar will be ideally situated to ...Read More...

Interview with Frank Gaffney at America's Voice.   ...Read More...

From The Punch and the Vanguard Suspected armed bandits raided a school dormitory in Zamfara overnight, a teacher and parent told AFP on Friday, raising fears of another mass kidnapping in the Northern region. “More than 300 girls are unaccounted for after a headcount of remaining students,” said ...Read More...