Category Archives: Essays

Did Steely Dan Anticipate Today’s Fainting Barrytown(ers)?  After voting for Hillary Clinton in the Rhode Island primary, I am relieved that she won my home state, as well as Ohio, and at least the popular vote in Texas.  Why, you … Continue reading →

 Their Agreement on the Koranic Kampf Update (hat tip Jihad Watch): Wilders Steadfast Wilders said Monday (yesterday) he has begun negotiations with Dutch broadcasters about airing the 15-minute film, “Fitna” He said he will only allow them to show it … Continue reading →

A double taqiyya exposed day, and you get to eat the worm, Brother Tariq! Apropos of the earlier posting of Ibn Warraq’s review of Caroline Fourest’s new book on the cultural jihadist Tariq “Taqiyya” Ramadan, comes this item from the … Continue reading →

Debasing John Stuart Mill’s Western legacy ? “In government, perfect freedom of discussion in all its modes – speaking, writing, and printing – in law and in fact is the first requisite of good because the first condition of popular … Continue reading →

The Truthteller                                    and The Taqiyya Artist Ibn Warraq, writing in the February 29, 2008 City Journal reviews Brother Tariq: The Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan, by Caroline Fourest: “The Pious Fraud: Tariq Ramadan, Islamist and equivocator”  Ibn Warraq, author of the … Continue reading →

“Friendly, brotherly and sincere relations between Iran and Iraq”…Isn’t that Special! As I have discussed on several occasions before (here, here, here, and here), the strengthening of ties between Iraq’s Shi’ite dominated government, and the Iranian Shi’ite theocracy under Ahmadinejad … Continue reading →

The living legacy of Zia ul-Haq: “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind,” (Hosea 8:7) Rakesh K. Singh in a March 2, 2008 Daily Pioneer report “Fidayeen implode on Pakistan,” chronicles how jihad terrorists (“fidayeen”) … Continue reading →

Tragically ignoring Bashir Gemayel’s insights from a quarter century ago Andrew McCarthy, the indispensable former prosecutor, most notably, of the Blind Sheikh jihadist responsible for orchestrating the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, whose brilliant new book, about this case and … Continue reading →

Castor seeds, ricin raw materials: “Anarchist type textbook” discovered in Las Vegas hotel room was tabbed at a spot with information about ricin. From this AP story, “Toxin mystery at Las Vegas motel deepens,” we learn some additional relevant details, … Continue reading →

A reflexive, row of (Castor) beans explanation for finding ricin in this hotel: “This is not a terror incident.” Update:  “Man in critical condition after exposure to ricin”  A man who stayed in a Las Vegas hotel room where ricin … Continue reading →