The Iconoclast

West Midlands Police officer abducted and sexually assaulted 13-year-old girl
Another rotten to the core police officer, although thankfully he doesn’t seem to have been in the force long enough to get on the ‘diversity’ gravy train. Not that there […]

The Sumter Gambit
Robert Spencer reveals how the Left is trying to foment a civil war. by Bruce Bawer From birth, the United States was a house divided. Slavery had existed always, everywhere; […]

Will Jordan’s Subcommittee Be Able to Achieve What the ‘Church Committee’ Couldn’t?
by Roger L. Simon Important and laudable as it was at the time (1975), we must conclude that the Senate’s vaunted “Church Committee,” under Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), ultimately failed […]

Lone assailant injures 3 in Brussels subway stabbing attack
From ABC News BRUSSELS — A lone assailant wielding a knife injured three people in Brussels on Monday during a rush-hour rampage through a subway car before being detained by police […]

BBC asks whether US will sanction Israel over settlements
by Lev Tsitrin The question came up towards the end of the interview with Frank Lowenstein, US Special Envoy for Middle East Peace in the Obama administration — the interview that […]

Bangladesh Arrests Alleged Islamist Recruiting in Rohingya Camps
From the Irrawaddy news, an independent newspaper in English and Burmese, founded by Burmese exiles living in Thailand. Dhaka – A counterterrorism commander in Dhaka has announced the arrest of […]

One Wednesday in Spain and Germany
by Gary Fouse Wednesday, January 25th, was a really dark day in Europe, specifically in Spain and Germany. In Spain, the secretary general of the conservative VOX party (which opposes […]

Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility for mosque blast that killed more than 40 people
From CNN and The Guardian The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for a deadly blast in a mosque in Peshawar on Monday, the latest attack on the city in northwest […]

Djokovic Defeats Pfizer and Moderna in Straight Sets
by Roger L. Simon Stefanos Tsitsipas is one terrific tennis player, although Novak Djokovic was battling more than the young Greek when he won his 10th Australian Open and 22nd Grand Slam […]

The Last Supper
Though Da Vinci depicted The Last Supper as taking place around a fifteenth-century European table, the more likely Roman setting is portrayed below. The Urantia Book, paper 179. 179:0.1 (1936.1) DURING […]

Jerusalem: Boy, 13, ‘shoots and wounds’ two people, hours after gunman killed seven outside synagogue
From Sky News Two people have been wounded after a 13-year-old boy allegedly opened fire in Jerusalem, hours after a deadly shooting outside a synagogue. Israel’s national ambulance service said it […]

London: Muslims protest outside the Swedish Embassy today
Steve told me about this when we met this afternoon but the Swedish Embassy was a little too far from Trafalgar Square for me to do justice to both events. […]

No ULEZ – London protest about Mayor Sadiq Khan’s fund-raising new tax on Londoners
To Trafalgar Square in London to join the Action against ULEZ expansion gathering. As an official demonstration it was cancelled and Sadiq Khan refused the licence for it to take […]

TANKS FUTURES
by Ralph Berry Tanks dominate all assessments of the Ukraine war. That is because the authorities want us to talk tanks, to the exclusion of all other topics. Tanks are […]

7 killed, several hurt in shooting at Jerusalem synagogue; terrorist shot dead
From the Times of Israel Seven people were shot and killed and at least three others were wounded in a terror shooting attack at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov […]

Mastering the Future: The Megalomaniacal Ambitions of the WEF
by Michael Rectenwald The fifty-third annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) brought together fifty-two world leaders, seventeen hundred corporate executives, sundry artists, and other personalities to address “Cooperation […]