The Iconoclast
Did Palestinians Poison Yasser Arafat?
In his musical-comedy film, The Court Jester, Danny Kaye amused us with the tongue twisting line, “the pellet with the poison is in the vessel with the pestle.” The long-running non-musical […]
Let He Who Has Never Been Wrong About Anything Cast The First Stone
The Daily Beast covering fire either.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is too kind
A few days before the UK General Election, Ayann Hirsi Ali hoped for a Conservative victory. From cut it loose. Labour does not appear to have won enough of the […]
Rohingyas In Indonesia
The Burmese who want the Rohingya out claim they are Muslims from what is now Bangladesh who infiltrated across porous borders into northern Burma, where they carried out massacres of […]
A Musical Interlude: You Are My Sunshine (Gene Autry)
Listen here. And to Jimmie Davis here.
Busy Old Fool? Unruly Sun? Think Again
How best to subsidize sun power and other suggestions, here.
A Hallmark Card to ISIS on Mother’s Day
ISIS writes: The attack by the Islamic State in America is only the beginning of our efforts to establish a wiliyah [actually wilayah, administrative district] in the heart of our […]
The Big-Hearted Naive Celebration Of The Dissolution Of The West
In Denmark, which is hardly the most advanced example, here. Lacking the words, and the will, to properly describe the full meaning of this endlessly-celebrated “diversity,” those who do not […]
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem: The Obstinate Leveller Of French Education
Meeting nearly-universal resistance among the educated, she denounces them all as “pseudo-intellectuals.” A teachers’ strike is planned. Here.
Hezbollah In Qalamoun
Here.
French, McCarthy, Lowry On The Response To What Happened To Garland
Here.
British jihadists linked to Texas terror
BRITISH fighters with Isis have been linked to a new wave of terror plots against the West, including the Texas shootings and threatened bombings in the UK. American intelligence officials believe […]
Melbourne, Australia: Yet Another Murderous Jihad Plot Is Fortunately Foiled
In April some Mohammedans in Melbourne had been plotting to carry out a murderous attack on Anzac Day, one of Australia’s significant national days. In May, we find out that […]
EDL in Walthamstow 2015
To Walthamstow, again. For reasons set out 2012. This was a much longer route, with more scope for UAF obstruction. It has another disadvantage; it is a mostly residential street. […]
They Don’t Make Football Coaches Like Alonzo Stagg Any More
A footnote found at the Wikipedia entry for George Lyman Kittredge, who in 1941, shortly before his death, kindly signed my father’s Detur Prize copy of his Complete Works of […]
David Cameron Must Find his Nerve Against the Scottish Nationalists
My wife Barbara, a renowned political scientist, in the absence of conclusive evidence of humanly generated climate change, suggests that some ineluctable and universal forces are possessing electorates to smite […]
