The Iconoclast
Elon Musk versus the Woke Cartel
by Michael Rectenwald Many criticisms have been leveled against Elon Musk—that he’s part of the elite, that Tesla has been the beneficiary of government handouts and exemptions, that his transhumanist Neuralink is […]
Uvalde: What Happened and where do we go from here?
by Gary Fouse With each passing day, the details surrounding the horrific shooting at a Uvalde, Texas elementary school become more and more troubling. Of course, the most troubling aspect […]
Sick and evil Kirklees man raped schoolgirl and ‘ripped away’ her life
Two sick men who sexually abused a vulnerable young girl have been jailed for 40 years. From the Huddersfield Examiner; the satisfactory conclusion to this trial which began three weeks […]
OUCH! Sorry, Not Now
by Reg Green Twenty years ago, I was diagnosed with cancer of the vocal cords. “Don’t worry,” they told me. “What you’ve got is more like skin cancer, not life threatening.” […]
Shabbat Bechukotai Shalom
Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime by Pierre-Paul Prud’hon by Phyllis Chesler As ever, the parsha is both divinely humane and divinely terrifying. The unmistakable melodies of Sinai—the exact steps […]
Emotional Damage
by Theodore Dalrymple In sentencing the former tennis champion, Boris Becker, to imprisonment for having failed to disclose assets during bankruptcy proceedings, the judge referred to his lack of remorse, which […]
“Who Will Be [Killed] Next?” asks the New York Times
by Lev Tsitrin “Readers often assume that reporters write their own headlines. In fact, they rarely do. Most headlines at The Times […] are written by editors experienced in the […]
How To Slow Gun Purchases Down
by Phyllis Chesler President Biden focused both on the Gun Lobby and on God in his speech at the White House in response to the latest horror—the mass shooting of […]
Lists of Russian Lies
by Michael Curtis I’ve got a little list, said the Lord High Executioner in The Mikado, “of society offenders who might well be underground and never would be missed, all […]
A WORD FOR HILLARY
by Samuel Hux My mind often surprises me, as it does when I think of the title above—for I am used to having contempt for Hillary Clinton. For one thing, […]
Islamic State group ‘trying to control’ Mali-Niger border with series of attacks
From France 24 The Islamic State (IS) group appears to be stepping up attacks close to the border between Mali and Niger, with sources suggesting that the jihadists are trying […]
A Latin American hero rises in Guatemala
Prosecutor General Consuelo Porras by Steve Hecht Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei has taken an important step toward limiting US State Department (DOS) socialist imperialism in Latin America. DOS is desperate […]
How many names of journalists killed in war zones do you know?
by Phyllis Chesler Did you know that 12 Al Jazeera journalists have been killed in recent years – seven of those in Syria? How many of their names or the names of […]
FOREIGN POLICY
by Ralph Berry ‘In the end we build up a picture of an apostolic succession, in which statesmen move from one muddle to the next display of “the continuity of […]
Voluntary, or Compulsory?
by Theodore Dalrymple A 2021 Canadian law on assisted suicide contains a provision that will allow doctors to provide assisted suicide to the psychiatrically ill starting next year. Given that severe psychiatric […]
George Orwell, demystified
by Lev Tsitrin BBC’s story of Russian journalists braving Putin’s Orwellian law that defines factual coverage of the Ukraine war as “disinformation” punishable by imprisonment for up to 15 years made […]
