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Time Magazine Jumps Through the Anti-Semitic Looking Glass
Just ahead of the high holy days, Time magazine turns reality on its head with an astonishingly offensive cover story. Inside a Star of David constructed of white peace daisies on a blue background borrowed…
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Park51 Would Be the Most Expensive Islamic Center in North America
One of the first thoughts that occurred to me when I began writing about the planned 13-story, 100,000 square foot, $100 million Islamic center near Ground Zero is, “surely this would be the biggest Islamic…
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A Symposium on Moderate Islam — and Why the Ground Zero Imam Doesn’t Qualify
Two useful features today in the Wall Street Journal. First, a symposium titled “What is Moderate Islam?“, in which six scholars and thought leaders explore the topic that represents the world’s best hope for peaceful…
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A Politician Admits a Mistake.
In Other News, Pigs FlyAs longtime chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Barney Frank was one of the key architects of the housing bubble, and of the crisis that followed the burst. Not the sole architect, of course…
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Stumbling Toward a Middle Ground on the So-Called “Ground Zero Mosque”
Both sides of the controversy cite the First Amendment — freedom of religion vs. freedom of speech — but appealing to the Constitution is missing the point. Nobody — no serious person — is suggesting…
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Obama Fulfills Bush’s Plan for Responsible Withdrawal from Iraq
Operational discipline limited the display of the American flag while serving in Iraq — but these soldiers from the 4th Stryker Brigade have just crossed the border into Kuwait. Photo: Washington Post Just over a…
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It’s Not at Ground Zero and It’s Not a Mosque;
I Don’t Want It There, But I Don’t Want It BannedThread the needle time. Like the moderate Muslims I quoted in my prior post, I’m opposed to the project that has become known as the “Ground Zero Mosque.” As a blogger called milowent has pointed…
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Muslims Against the Ground Zero Mosque
When I first started hearing about it, the controversy over a proposed mosque near the gaping hole where the twin towers once stood seemed like an annoying distraction. I wished the whole discussion would just…
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“Islamism Is Not a Movement to be Engaged, It Is an Enemy to be Defeated”
You’ll never see me use the term “War on Terror” outside of quotation marks. Terror is not the enemy, it is one of the enemy’s tactics. That part is simple. Deciding what to call the…
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Noonan Hears Echoes of Reagan in Governor Christie
Former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan brings out the big guns in today’s Wall Street Journal, comparing New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to the Great Communicator. For anyone just joining us, Christie, the man Jersey-based blogger…
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Sen. James Webb: “White America is Hardly a Monolith”
In a riff on Nixon-goes-to-China, only a Democrat could get away with stating clearly and frankly the banal truth that sometimes white people suffer from racial discrimination in America. Fortunately, there’s a prominent Democrat willing…
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A Tireless Muslim Advocate for Islamic Reform
It’s a shame that conservative arsonist Andrew Breitbart has torched his own credibility so thoroughly at the time one of his websites was preparing to publish an important message from my favorite Muslim-American patriot. As…
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Shirley Sherrod, and the Administration That Couldn’t Shoot Straight on Racial Matters
Apparently someone in the Agriculture Department snoozed through the part of every old courtroom movie when the judge says, “before I pass sentence, is there anything you would like to say?” How dumb do you…
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Financial Services “Reform” to Complete Obama’s Tragic Trifecta
ObamaCare is such a train wreck that Americans support repealing it by a 2-1 margin. Don’t even get me started on the wasteful and dishonest Porkulus bill. And now comes yet another 2,000-plus page bill,…
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A Prodigy in Madison: My Latest Patch.com Article
I met a remarkable young man recently — a six-year-old taking organ lessons at the church where I work. I wrote about him for Patch.com’s Madison website. Here’s how it starts: His feet don’t reach…
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First Memories of Citi Field
What a perfect way to spend a summer Sunday afternoon — sitting in the shade at Citi Field, a beautiful blonde by my side, watching my Mets shut out the Atlanta Braves. Seven scoreless innings…
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Islam Needs a Reformation, Not Technological Help
Leave it to a devout and patriotic Muslim-American to smack down the Obama Administration’s latest example of unseriousness in the struggle against Islamic fascism. You may have read that Charles Bolden told al-Jazeera last week…
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“Lit the Torch of Freedom for Nations Then Unborn”
Because of a happy accident of birth, I have the extraordinary privilege of being a United States citizen. I’m grateful for that every day, but especially on July 4. Happy Independence Day!
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Darwinian Selection in the Maplewood BlogolopolisTM
Big cyber-news today in Maplewood, NJ, the place one blogger once called “the center of the blogging universe.” The New York Times abruptly shuttered The Local, its New Jersey experiment in hyperlocal blogging. I’ve chronicled…
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Obama’s Mixed Signals on Afghanistan
The prize for elegant metaphor of the day goes to Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal: With a wink of its left eye, the Obama administration tells its liberal base that a year from…
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The Odd Disinterest in a Real-Life Spy Thriller
Now Homeland Security is using the book to try to deport Yousef for providing “material support” for terrorists — despite the fact that he was saving Israeli lives from those very terrorists.