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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
Primetime Politics has video of Christopher Hitchens vs. Andrew Sullivan on the Tim Russert show: Sullivan and Hitchens on Tim Russert.
LGF, Christopher Hitchens, Andrew Sullivan, Obama, Wright, Election
Christopher Hitchens is on Tim Russert’s show with Andrew Sullivan. I hadn’t seen Sullivan in a while and never read his blog any more, so it’s a tiny surprise to see how completely he’s transformed himself. Not a shred of the post-9/11 Sullivan remains; all that’s left is a rhetoric-spewing ...
Chrisopher Hitchens is disgusted with the Dutch government, and calls on Americans to stand behind Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The lizard army already has her back, of course. For a while, her security in America was provided by members of the elite Dutch squad that is responsible for the protection ...
Here’s Christopher Hitchens on President Bush’s unfortunate and ill-advised mangling of the Vietnam metaphor: To invoke Vietnam was a blunder too far for Bush. ...Here is a man who believes the ‘jury’ is still ‘out’ on whether we evolved as a species, who regards stem cell research as something profane, ...
On Paula Zahn’s show tonight, discussing the Pace University Koran-dunking incident, Ibrahim Hooper simply could not let anyone else finish a sentence. Hitchens was clearly very irritated at the constant interruptions, but got off this excellent line: “Mr. Hooper, you have neither read nor understood the First Amendment.” And at ...
LGF, CAIR, Council on American Islamic Relations, Propaganda, Radical Islam, Ibrahim Hooper, Christopher Hitchens, Dennis Prager
Christopher Hitchens on returning to his old neighborhood of Finsbury Park: Londonistan Calling. It’s impossible to exaggerate how far and how fast this situation has deteriorated. Even at the time of the Satanic Verses affair, as long ago as 1989, Muslim demonstrations may have demanded Rushdie’s death, but they did ...
LGF, Christopher Hitchens, Britain, Londonistan, Dhimmitude, Islamic Supremacism
At City Journal, Christopher Hitchens has a thoughtful criticism of Mark Steyn’s excellent book [Amazon Link]: Facing the Islamist Menace. In the prologue to his new book, America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It, Mark Steyn sarcastically alludes to two people whom, in different ways, I ...
Christopher Hitchens, Mark Steyn, Islam, Europe, Multiculturalism
Rep. Keith Ellison’s political stunt, in which he took his oath of office on a Koran owned by Thomas Jefferson, garnered lots of adulatory reviews from the left-wing blogosphere and mainstream media. They saw it as an excellent put-down of right-wing Christians and other conservatives who objected to Ellison using ...
Christopher Hitchens, Keith Ellison, Islam, Thomas Jefferson
Juan Cole responds to Christopher Hitchens, with a lengthy, excruciatingly incoherent rant calling Hitchens a drunk, including gruesome photos of combat injuries, and concluding with, “One, two, three, four. We don’t want your stinking war!” Yes, really. UPDATE at 5/3/06 1:00:45 pm: The Kos Kidz are lapping it up: Daily ...
Christopher Hitchens has an excellent piece at Slate on the dishonest apologetics of anti-Israel wacademic Juan Cole—who is trying to promulgate the falsehood that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not say Israel should be “wiped off the map:” What Iran’s leaders are really saying about Israel. (Hat tip: Allah.) UPDATE ...
Great column from Christopher Hitchens on the international dysfunctional community: My Ideal War. As for the “terror” connection, Hayes in a series of unrebutted articles has laid out a tranche of suggestive and incriminating connections, based on a mere fraction of the declassified documents, showing Iraqi Baathist involvement with jihadist ...