The Iconoclast

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In the fewest number of steps, make a link between the introduction of the Christmas tree into American homes and a well-worn rhyme in “Goodnight Moon.”

Isn’t that a beautiful painting, Hopper’s New York Restaurant, that was chosen to be Miss March? I can’t keep my eyes off it. Its presence makes coming to this site, […]

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The Misdelivered Letters, Litotes, The Tear-Stained Charade:   From the BBC story about the Muslim families of the three little maids from school, pretending for the British poublic they had […]

So much noise, so much stuff. Here.

And more than doubled the number of civilians murdered, so proud are they of this deed of derring-do. They invited “friends and journalists.” Did any, will any, Westeren — non-Israeli […]

A few years ago I posted something about Robert Malley and his father Simon Malley. I ended by asking a question of Robert Malley: had he, I wondered, sufficiently examined […]

MK Yitzhak Herzog of Zionist Union on left and MK Ahmed Tibi of United Arab List on right Source: Miriam Alster/Flash 90 When we posted yesterday on “Yellow Journalism Roils […]

  Sidney Blumenthal and Hillary Clinton Read what my friend Ken Timmerman, author of Dark Forces; The Truth Behind What Happened at Benghazi, has to say about Hillary emailgate.  Note […]

From the Islamic Human Rights Commission, the same organisation that bring us the Al Quds march every year, and awarded the murdered cartoonists of the Charlie Hebdo magazine the title […]

Malia Zimmerman writes in

Djokar Tsarnaev was a cool and collected customer, when — twenty minutes after the bombing at the Boston Marathon, which he observed with mild interest — he went into a […]

There has always been a question whether Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative definition of Israel’s security interest was an opportunistic political tactic or a matter of well-thought-out conviction that it was the […]

Here. With the DOJ unable to find anything wrong with Officer Darren Wilson’s conduct, but unwilling to dwell on this (it was dealt with quickly at Eric Holder’s press conference), […]

I would use the term ‘defected’ to Syria myself. Flee suggests escaping from something threatening; there was nothing threatening about the prospect of a good education, a good career and […]