Racism is bad – so is self-delusionBy Mark Steyn(Filed: 20/12/2005 These days, whenever something goofy turns up on the news, chances are it involves a fellow called Mohammed. A plane flies into the World Trade Centre? Mohammed Atta. A gunman shoots up the El Al counter at Los Angeles airport? Hesham Mohamed Hedayet. A sniper […]
Treason of the Intellectuals, Volume 3 But a new magnet for intellectuals is emerging: radical Islam. It’s not that intellectuals are likely to embrace radical Islam themselves anytime soon – for one thing, the requirement of believing in God would deter many of them. But what they can do is obstruct efforts to combat radical […]
Hollywood’s PC perversion stifles storytellingNovember 27, 2005BY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST This year’s Sean Penn thriller, ”The Interpreter,” was originally about Muslim terrorists blowing up a bus in New York. So, naturally, Hollywood called rewrite. And instead the bus got blown up by African terrorists from the little-known republic of Matobo. ”We didn’t want to […]
Excellent sources of opinion and news from a European perspective: The Brussels Journal From the desk of Paul Belien on Thu, 2005-06-30 13:08 “I believe in being free, acquiring knowledge, and telling the truth.” The above quote from the legendary American journalist H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) sums it up pretty much. The Brussels Journal is a […]
Two Marines. Different attitudes. War in IraqThe Honorable John P. MurthaNovember 17, 2005 The war in Iraq is not going as advertised. It is a flawed policy wrapped in illusion. The American public is way ahead of us. The United States and coalition troops have done all they can in Iraq, but it is time […]