The Iconoclast

by Michael Curtis Ingrid Bergman as Anna Anderson in Anastasia This above all: to thine own self be true is sound advice in the search for personal identity and authenticity of belief about one self. The problem arises whether the assertion by individuals of their own qualities, beliefs, and ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Continued fro Part I. At the same gathering, the Dalai Lama insisted that “India is the only country where different religions have been able to co-exist.” This was a bizarre remark, but the Dalai Lama is given to strange remarks. First, could he have forgotten that all ...Read More...

Inez Stepman, Independent Women’s Forum Senior Policy Analyst, and Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., NYU Professor of Global Liberal Studies, discuss alarmism on college campuses in having different viewpoints and Michael's new book, "“Springtime for Snowflakes: 'Social Justice' and Its Postmodern Parentag ...Read More...

From Al Jazeera.  Male, Maldives - Guests on a five-star honeymoon resort in the Maldives caught a rare glimpse of the decades-long political and religious tensions rocking this island nation when policemen - armed with axes, concrete saws and ropes - stormed the Fairmont Maldives to destroy model ...Read More...

This is Alan Craig of the London Borough of Newham, former councillor and leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance. A man I have met and admire. From ITV News Muslim sex gangs are responsible for a “holocaust of our children” that authorities have refused to tackle, Ukip’s children’s spokesman has ...Read More...

Seven of our provinces have top tax rates above 50 per cent; this is state larceny. Other than in an extreme national emergency, the state has no right to more than half of anyone’s income. by Conrad Black Canada’s tax policy is in shambles and its fiscal condition is deteriorating. In the ...Read More...

I'll assume that the description 'far right' really means 'not far wrong'. Even the left-leaning Guardian called him  A French rapper known for his provocative pro-Muslim lyrics. PARIS (Reuters) - A French Muslim rapper said on Friday he was cancelling two gigs at a Paris concert hall attacked by ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse Having watched the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings back in the 1990s, I thought the Senate couldn't sink any lower. When Anita Hill was dragged forth at the last moment, the hearings became a total circus. There were discussions of pubic hairs on coke cans, a porn movie featuring ...Read More...

Two important and worrying articles from the Times about the subversive activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Birmingham.  Hizb ut-Tahrir, whose purpose is to re-establish the caliphate in the Middle East with Sharia law, has relocated to the Sparkhill area of Birmingham, an inner-city neighbourhood that ...Read More...

Two very good articles in the Telegraph tonight. Unfortunately both behind the paywall so I cannot bring you much from either. However the important thing is not what the writers say, as that is very similar to what some of us have been saying for some time; it is that they are saying it now, in a national ...Read More...

by Marc Epstein Music and Lyrics By Rogers & Hart from 'Babes in Arms' (Second Verse) [BILLIE] When you're awake, the things you think Come from the dreams you dream Thought has wings And lots of things Are seldom what they seem Sometimes you think you've lived before All that you ...Read More...

From Metro H/T D and M Twitter has been slammed after a tweet promoting female genital mutilation (FGM) on children was viewed more than 30,000 times. A Muslim group calling itself Dawoodi Bohra Women for Religious Freedom posted a tweet last week justifying ‘khafz’ – or female circumcision – on ...Read More...

The key is for the president to be comparatively cautious. by Conrad Black The current standing of the Democrats in the midterm election polls is a levitation. Their record when they had the administration was poor. Their official leader, former president Obama, bombed with his long-winded, ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald There seem to be two Dalai Lamas when it comes to Islam. The first Dalai Lama, like that other expert on Islam Pope Francis, knows that authentic Islam is opposed to terrorism, that Islam is all about peace, and that any Muslim who engages in violence for that very reason ...Read More...

The authorities are allowing reporting of the latest Muslim rape gang trial; males from Rotherham on trial at the Crown Court Sheffield. There's not much coming into the newspapers but the Rotherham Advertiser has this part of the defence case this afternoon.  BARRISTERS defending two men accused ...Read More...