TagsTagsHere's the politically-connected representative of the American "Family" Association again, Bryan Fischer, explaining that God loves Christopher Hitchens so much that He sent Hitchens to burn in hellfire and be tortured by malevolent demons, for all eternity. I guess the term for that is "tough love." (h/t: Right Wing Watch.)
Bryan Fischer, American Family Association, Religious Right, Hate Speech, Christopher Hitchens
Posted tonight by Vanity Fair: In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011. It's not a surprise, but still a shock. One of the real heroes of rational humanism and critical thinking has left us, and we'll all be poorer for his leaving. I'll miss you, Christopher.
Christopher Hitchens writes today that the killing of Osama bin Laden won't mean very much if the United States continues doing business as usual with Pakistan: Osama Bin Laden's legacy: It will depend in part on what Obama does next. There are several pleasant little towns like Abbottabad in Pakistan, ...
As always, Hitchens says it well: Attempts to prosecute Assange will, I predict, be either too little or too late, or both, or worse. There is a good reason the Espionage Act of 1917 has such a rusty and unused sound to it. It was a panic measure passed during ...
Watch this one all the way to the end. A great interview that goes in some unexpected directions. [Video]
The investigations into child abuse in Germany’s Catholic schools are continuing to widen, now getting close to Pope Benedict himself, as his brother Georg Ratzinger has been implicated in covering up the systemic child abuse (with the now well-known Catholic Church practice of moving priests around to different parishes) — ...
Christopher Hitchens, Pope Benedict, Joseph Ratzinger, catholic church, Child Abuse, Crime
Today’s read: part two of Michael J. Totten’s interview with Christopher Hitchens.
Christopher Hitchens, Michael J. Totten, Interview, Militant Islam, Religion, Blasphemy
A must-read: Michael J. Totten interviews Christopher Hitchens, Part One.
Blasphemy, Religion, Militant Islam, Interview, Michael J. Totten, Christopher Hitchens
Again, Christopher Hitchens cuts through the nonsense: The truth about airplane security measures. Why do we fail to detect or defeat the guilty, and why do we do so well at collective punishment of the innocent? The answer to the first question is: Because we can’t—or won’t. The answer to ...
Christopher Hitchens, Terrorism, Security, Airline Safety, TSA
Nobody will ever accuse Christopher Hitchens of being shy about expressing his opinions. [Video] Don’t be too hard on her. She didn’t write that piece and she probably hasn’t read it. I doubt she could either read or write it. Everything she does is for effect, and is always deniable. She ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Populism, Antisemitism, Christopher Hitchens, Afghanistan, Video
Christopher Hitchens has an article at Slate about Sarah Palin’s increasingly open extremism, and points out that one of Palin’s new advisers is Fred Malek — the Nixon administration hatchetman who infamously compiled a list of Jews to be fired from the Department of Labor: Sarah Palin’s brand of populism ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Populism, Antisemitism, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Nixon, Fred Malek
Here’s the kind of brain food you don’t usually get from US media; the BBC’s The Intelligence Squared Debate, in a five-part YouTube playlist. The motion: “Is the Catholic church a force for good in the world?” Speaking for the motion, Archbishop John Onaiyekan and Anne Widdencombe MP. Speaking against the motion, Christopher ...
I agree with Christopher Hitchens on this one; by making a big deal about terror supporter George Galloway’s visit, the Canadian government has shot itself in the foot and given this creep more publicity than he deserves—and Galloway is an expert at exploiting these types of situations: We don’t need ...
George Galloway, Britain, Gaza, Hamas, Canada, Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens finally files a report on his run-in with fascist thugs in Beirut, as part of a longer essay on The Swastika and the Cedar. As Arab thoroughfares go, Hamra Street in the center of Beirut is probably the most chic of them all. International in flavor, cosmopolitan in ...
Here’s a highly entertaining segment of Bill Maher’s show, with Salman Rushdie and Christopher Hitchens squaring off against ... rapper Mos Def, who gives new meaning to the word “incoherent.” [Video]
Bill Maher, Christopher Hitchens, Salman Rushdie, Bill Maher, Al Qaeda, Taliban, Osama bin Laden
Here’s Christopher Hitchens on the Organization of the Islamic Conference’s latest attempts to use the United Nations to criminalize “blasphemy” (read: criticism of Islam) around the world. [Video]
United Nations, Christopher Hitchens, Free Speech, First Amendment, OIC, Organization of the Islamic Conference, Islam
Here’s Michael Totten’s account of Christopher Hitchens and the Battle of Beirut. Christopher was encircled by four or five of them. They were geared up to smash him, and I reached for his hand to pull him away. One of the toughs clawed at my arm and left me with ...
Christopher Hitchens, Lebanon, Syria, SSNP, Michael J. Totten
Christopher Hitchens is visiting Lebanon, and apparently was attacked and beaten by pro-Syrian neo-Nazis after he wrote some ... unflattering graffiti on an SSNP poster: Hot Air: Report: Hitchens beaten by Syrian thugs in Beirut? Some Hot Air commenters are applauding the SSNP thugs. UPDATE at 2/18/09 2:55:38 pm: Looks like Michael Totten ...
Christopher Hitchens seems a bit disappointed to find Barack Obama engaging in the same sort of pandering that caused Hitchens to bail out on John McCain: If we must have an officiating priest at the inauguration, we can do much better than Rick Warren. It is a fact that Rick ...
Barack Obama, Rick Warren, Gay Rights, Saddleback Church, Christopher Hitchens, Social Conservatives
Hitchens nails it, in a piece on Barack Obama’s failure to surge ahead of John McCain even as McCain seems to flounder: Why is Obama so vapid, hesitant, and gutless? (Title of the day.) Here’s a swift test. Be honest. What sentence can you quote from his convention speech in ...
If Barack Obama means what he’s saying about Pakistan, liberals who back him had better get ready for more war: Pakistan is the problem. Recent accounts of murderous violence in the capital cities of two of our allies, India and Afghanistan, make it appear overwhelmingly probable that the bombs were ...
Christopher Hitchens, Pakistan, ISI, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan, Barack Obama
Victor Davis Hanson and Christopher Hitchens discuss the execrable World War II revisionist book by Pat Buchanan. Moderated by the Hoover Institution’s Peter Robinson. [Video] [Video] Part 3. Part 4. Part 5. (Hat tip: Primetime Politics.)
LGF, VDH, Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens, Victor Davis Hanson, Pat Buchanan, WWII, World War II
Christopher Hitchens (yes, everyone knows he’s an unabashed atheist) makes an excellent point about a certain species of cave-dwelling salamander, related to a topic that keeps showing up in The LGF Creationism Cage Match—the evolution of the eye: How blind salamanders make nonsense of creationists’ claims. Or in this case, the ...
LGF, Christopher Hitchens, Science, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Creationism
Here’s Christopher Hitchens on this miserable election, interviewed by Rich Lowry and Michelle Cottle. [Video temporarily removed] (Hat tip: Primetime Politics.)
LGF, Christopher Hitchens, Election 2008, Obama, Clinton, McCain
AP tipped me to this one; the quote of the month from Christopher Hitchens, reported at The Independent: Furore over Hitchens’s sapphic slip. “Don’t know what came over me: the dear boy did suddenly seem extremely sapphic, yet I think my intuitions must have been scrambled all the same, since ...