Liberty blogger Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs has created a significant amount of off-web controversy by deciding to advertise her latest project on city buses across the United States. The ads on the buses read “Fatwa on your head? Is your family or community threatening you? LEAVING ISLAM? Got Questions? Get Answers! RefugeFromIslam.com” The project, [...]
Militant Muslims disrupted a lecture on free speech at Uppsala University in Stockholm earlier this month. The police were aware this might happen and were on hand to stop the violence before anyone was seriously hurt. Lars Vilks, the presenter, was assaulted and his eye glasses were smashed on his face, but he was otherwise [...]
According to a report released by CoreLogic this week, 24% of all U.S. single-family residential properties are under water — meaning that the home is worth less than the homeowner owes on the home. This condition affects 11.2 million American homeowners. Negative equity is one of the two main triggers of default on real-estate loans. [...]
Most Muslims with whom I talk support Islamist terrorism in some way. Sometimes the support is outright, in terms of funding operations or spreading the message of Islamist governance. At other times the support is more guarded, such as blaming every act of Islamist terrorism on the Jews, George Bush, or capitalism. I hope that [...]
I recently read Tom Kratman’s speculative fiction novel A State of Disobedience and I think it’s worth recommending. The book was published in 2003 and is set in the near future. John Ringo describes A State of Disobedience as “Probably the most realistic depiction of the second American revolution ever written” and I find it [...]
Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do is a pretty darned good book and it’s available online for free. It’s certainly not a short book; the paperback version is 692 pages. It is a fairly easy and pleasant read and it is very engaging because of the importance of it’s subject matter. The book is about [...]
