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Watch out for ideological whiplash; in the same week, the Supreme Court has banned the death penalty for child rapists, and ruled that individuals have the right to own guns. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, for the first time in U.S. history, that individual Americans ...
The Saudis obviously think they have America on the run. Their English mouthpiece ArabNews hasn’t published articles as insanely vitriolic as this one for years: How Is Guantanamo Different From Nazi Detention Camps? The current radical administration in the US is being humiliated day after day. It is stubbornly insisting ...
LGF, Saudi Arabia, Gun Control, Terrorism, Wahhabism, Theocracy
Here’s one of the flat-out craziest op-ed pieces I’ve ever read, by “former diplomat” Dan Simpson, a member of the editorial boards of The Toledo Blade and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in which he proposes turning the United States into a totalitarian police state, with “special squads” of police empowered to search ...
In the wake of the Virginia Tech killings, the Saudi royal family’s English-speaking mouthpiece, ArabNews, published an editorial equating the right to bear arms with state-sponsored terrorism. Most Americans simply do not see the falsity of their own position. So sure are they of their own moral rectitude that they ...
LGF, Saudi Arabia, Gun Control, Terrorism, Wahhabism, Theocracy
Mark Steyn wants us to be realistic about reality. In an age of cognitive dissonance and political correctness, he’s fighting an uphill battle. I think we have a problem in our culture not with “realistic weapons” but with being realistic about reality. After all, we already “fear guns,” at least ...
UCLA communications and policy professor Tom Plate, former editorial page editor for the Los Angeles Times (which gives a pretty good idea of his politics) leads off the debate with the assertion that it absolutely is the guns and not the people that are responsible: Plate: Let’s lay down our ...
It’s Penn and Teller, in the best show currently on American television, so the standard language warning applies (don’t click if F-bombs offend); and I don’t know who captured the clip but the audio’s out of sync; but this week’s events make P&T’s examination of the gun control issue especially ...