Culture/Art

Diana West

Sacrebleu: Does Liberty = Nazism?

I’ve been following (here and here) the escalating controversy  in France over recent remarks made by a conservative French minister, Claude Gueant, to the effect that civilizations that support liberty, fraternity, equality (sounds like France) are superior to civilizations that accept tyranny, the subjugation of women, ethnic and social hatreds (fits Islam to a [...]
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Peter Schweizer

Europe’s New Iron Curtain: Rising Dictatorships On the Continent

The Cold War was about freedom vs. tyranny:  the belief that individuals had certain inalienable rights vs. the belief that the state was omnipotent.  We won,  right?! You wouldn’t know it by looking at trends in Europe,  where tyranny is on the rise.  It’s not in the direct form of Soviet gulags, military parades or police [...]
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Lawrence Meyers

In Crisis, Faith and Reason Trump Atheism and Radical Islam

“I did a terrible thing and even though I know God will forgive me, I’ll never be able to forgive myself”.  How many times have we heard those words?  What do they really mean?  My book, Teacher of the Year: The Mystery and Legacy of Edwin Barlow examines the issue of God’s forgiveness through the [...]
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Peter Schweizer

Military Drops ‘Birth Control Glasses’

An infamous icon from the American military are going into the dustbin of history.  S-9 glasses, called “Birth Control Glasses” because they are so ugly, will be replaced by a new more attractive design.   Although are they that much of an improvement? What should we do with the old S-9s?  Maybe we should make them [...]
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Dr. Marc Weisman

‘Lowe’ Blow: Controversy Over All-American Muslim

As most are aware, one of the largest US retailers, Lowe’s Home Improvement, decided to pull its advertising from a reality TV show about Muslim Americans. TLC’s All-American Muslim takes a look at life in the heavily Muslim city of Dearborn, Michigan from the perspective of several typical Muslim-American families. Lowe’s apparently responded to pressure from [...]
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Sun Tzu

Pearl Harbor Survivors: ‘Hawaii Five-O’ Crew Was Rude And Disrespectful At Cemetery

From the Associated Press: HONOLULU — A group of Pearl Harbor survivors say they were disrespected by the crew of the CBS drama “Hawaii Five-O” during a visit to Honolulu’s National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. The Denver-based Greatest Generations Foundation took 23 veterans to the Punchbowl cemetery last week to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the attack [...]
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El Cid

New Law: No Burka Allowed When Taking Citizenship Oath In Canada

From the National Post: Give Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney credit for at least this much: On Monday, when he announced that the citizenship oath must now be taken with an uncovered face, he did not pretend that it was just another policy change. He mentioned it in the same breath as other initiatives he [...]
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Sun Tzu

How to Survive Communist-Induced Famine (Really): Introducing ‘The Cultural Revolution Cookbook’

Former Chinese dissident and Harvard-trained sociologist Dr. Sasha Gong will help you make the culinary best of a very bad, bad situation in her new book, co-authored with Scott D. Seligman: The Cultural Revolution Cookbook: Simple, Healthy Recipes From China’s Countryside (Earnshaw Books). The cookbook was inspired by the recipes invented by members of the urban [...]
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Joel B. Pollak

Anti-Israel, Jew-Baiting Cartoonist Honored… by South African Jewish Museum

Jonathan Shapiro, a.k.a “Zapiro,” is a talented and witty editorial cartoonist hailing from South Africa. His drawings frequently poke fun at South Africa’s ruling elite, and that of the world in general. Yet Shapiro shares and promotes the fervent anti-Israel sentiments that enjoy political favor in South Africa (much as in Europe). His cartoons often cross [...]
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Sun Tzu

Navy Vet May Be Evicted For Hanging Flag

From the Associated Press: SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — Edward Zivica, a 70-year-old who served in the Navy in the 1960s, faces a hard choice come Veterans Day next week: He can obey the rules and remain in his apartment complex, or he can follow his tradition of hanging the American flag outside his place. The managers at his [...]
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