TagsTagsLook, ma — I’m controversial! The Evolution of Blogging: An Interview with Charles Johnson. (Erik Kain and I conducted this interview through email over the course of several weeks.)
Shire Network News is back with an attractive new website and new podcasts.
Reader’s Digest has a very good, substantive interview with John McCain in their latest issue: An Exclusive Interview With John McCain: Old-School Values.
Bob Owens and Roger L. Simon have a video interview with Fred Thompson: Pajamas Media: War on Terror Conversations.
I have to admit, I had not heard of novelist Vince Flynn or his character Mitch Rapp before reading this interview, but he sounds like an LGF kind of lizard. Q: How can we win the war on terrorism when many cannot acknowledge who the enemy is? A: That’s a tough ...
Chuck Simmins emailed to let me know about his interview with Ashley and Tasha Gerken, twins who are serving in the Army in Kuwait, driving semi-truck convoys to Iraq: Interview With Ashley and Tasha.
Linda Frum interviews the always thought-provoking Mark Steyn: The man who likes to poke the world in the eye.
Ed Driscoll’s podcast interview with Mark Steyn is very much worth your time, especially Steyn’s account of his visit to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
Here’s another impressive interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, broadcast on British Channel 4 and made available at YouTube by Sugiero. UPDATE at 5/22/06 12:09:14 pm: And don’t miss Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s new book: The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam.
Here’s another interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali from Danish TV, November 16, 2005. This one is powerful stuff, as Ms Ali refuses to back down from some of her more “controversial” statements. (Hat tip: Sugiero.) [Video] UPDATE at 5/10/06 11:08:11 am: If the video won’t play for you by clicking above, try this ...
David Paulin looks at the Jill Carroll hostage story from a different angle—the mainstream media’s collective role in her kidnapping and the murder of her translator, due to the use (and misuse) of freelance reporters: A black eye for the mainstream media’s use of freelancers. Carroll freelanced for The Christian ...
I’m happy to report that Jill Carroll has repudiated the anti-American statements she made in that video released by the Iraqi mujahideen: Jill Carroll’s Statement. During my last night of captivity, my captors forced me to participate in a propaganda video. They told me they [sic] would be released if I ...
The Christian Science Monitor is reporting that Jill Carroll was threatened before her release, and that her video interview with the mujahideen in which she made anti-American statements was coerced. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Jill Carroll’s kidnappers reportedly warned her before her release that she might be killed if she cooperated with ...
Howard Kurtz sums up the Questions About Carroll’s Captivity, and even he thinks her statements about how well she was treated are “rather odd.” Carroll is a 28-year-old freelancer who went to Baghdad on her own, became a stringer for the Christian Science Monitor and clearly was bent on understanding Iraqi ...
A video has appeared on the internet, apparently showing ex-hostage Jill Carroll in an interview conducted by her kidnappers before they released her. (Hat tip: jimo.) “Did you think the American army or the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) would save you at any time,” a muffled male voice asked Ms Carroll ...
From MEMRI TV, Saddam Hussein gives a telephone interview from prison and demands that former Iraqi VP ’Izzat Al-Duri be punished by having his tongue and ears cut off. [Video] UPDATE at 3/29/06 8:59:24 am: MEMRI has updated their post about this video to indicate that the interview shown above was a hoax ...