by Gary Fouse Somali-born activist, apostate from Islam, and Islam-critic, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is no stranger to controversy. On February 11, Ms. Ali appeared in a virtual speaking event for the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco. Appearing with her was former New York Times journalist, Bari Weiss ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse The New York Times is back in the news again. That is a pun because the Times, like all newspapers, should be reporting the news-not making it. Last week the Times fired Lauren Wolfe, a  freelance editor, after she tweeted that watching Joe Biden's plane land in Washington gave ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse The Democrat party continues to sink to new lows. With the support of ten Republicans, the Dems in the House of Representatives have brought impeachment back to the country, just days before President Trump leaves office. Trump now stands as the first US president to be impeached ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse Cornell University Law School Professor William Jacobson, who runs a conservative blog called Legal Insurrection, has been going through Hell the past year or so due to his conservative views and recent criticism of Black Lives Matter. Students, faculty and administration have been ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse Last week, the inappropriately-named, pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel organization, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), sent out a tweet commemorating the First Intifada. (In Arabic, intifada is loosely translated as "rebellion" or "uprising".) The blog, Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers has the tweet ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse On numerous occasions, I have checked into a blog called, "Informed Comment" by University of Michigan professor Juan Cole. For those readers not familiar with Cole, he is one of the virtual army of leftist professors who are activists in the campaign against Israel. It is Cole's ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse David Palumbo-Liu Stanford University, like so many others, spent decades building a reputation as a premier academic institution in the United States. And like so many others, its actual worth as an educational center has declined in recent decades due to the usual assortment ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse This week, in a truly shocking development, a CBS reporter named Bo Erickson actually asked Joe Biden to comment on the revelations surrounding a laptop purported to belong to his son, Hunter. Former Vice President Biden, who was boarding an airplane, was clearly agitated and refused ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse The New York Post is reporting that a laptop, believed to belong to Hunter Biden, has been recovered by the FBI, and that the laptop contains a 2015 e-mail to Hunter from a Burisma official in Ukraine thanking him for introducing him to his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden. ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse Since I was rooting for Vice President Pence to wipe the floor with Kamala Harris in the vice-presidential debate Wednesday night, there were times when I wanted to scream at the TV. But I am the eternal pessimist, and it seems Pence got better grades from the professional pundits ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse Judge Amy Coney Barrett The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has thrown an already chaotic election into more chaos. Ginsburg, a liberal icon, now stands to be replaced by a conservative under PreisTrump and a Republican-controlled Senate. Democrats and liberals ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse This past week in Europe, there have been two events that have brought the topic of insulting Islam front and center. First, in Malmö, Sweden, a hot spot of Islamic unrest, Danish activists crossed over into the country and staged an exhibition that featured kicking a Koran around ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse As our election draws near, race relations are going to be an issue, largely due to the George Floyd death in Minneapolis and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, which along with Antifa, is increasingly resorting to violence and hate. Here are some of the more recent developments: George ...Read More...

Hat tip Amcha Initiative and Legal Insurrection by Gary Fouse There is yet another story regarding campus anti-Semitism this week. This time, it is the University of Southern California, where a Jewish, pro-Israel student has resigned after months of pressure from pro-Palestinian students, ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse It seems like the past 20 years or so when presidential elections and/or mid-terms roll around, we are told by our pundits and political leaders that it is the most important election of our lifetimes. In spite of our occasional electoral mistakes, the country has survived. This ...Read More...