As an NRA life member, it is difficult for me to concede that characterizations of the NRA as incompetent and self-serving are charitable and that the reality may be much worse. The NRA operated for many years as a bulwark of American freedom, focusing mainly on protecting the Second Amendment from statist predation. Unfortunately, in [...]
Donna M. Hughes, a professor in the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Rhode Island, highlighted some frightening aspects of the Iranian regime in Islamic Fundamentalism and the Sex Slave Trade in Iran. Professor Hughes begins: A measure of Islamic fundamentalists’ success in controlling society is the depth and totality with which they suppress [...]
Hamas, the Islamist terrorist group which currently controls the small region of land known as the Gaza Strip, wants to kill Mosab Hassan Yousef. Mr. Yousef is the best selling author of Son of Hamas, a revealing but not flattering look into the seedy world of Islamic extremism in Palestine. Mosab was born into Ramallah [...]
When we think about the War on Terrorism, it is so easy to think that we have only been fighting Islamic extremists since 9/11. Or, if you want to stretch it some, we’ve been fighting them since the Munich Olympics. Most Americans don’t realize that we have actually been dealing with Islamic extremists—terrorists—for much longer. [...]
I have been trying not to be too hard on the Obama Administration regarding their bungling of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. After all, this is Obama’s first real job and he’s a lawyer, not an engineer. It turns out that my forbearance in criticizing the Obama administration over this issue was largely unearned. Three [...]
Huge Chavez, Venezuela’s loony leftist leader, has seized several warehouses belonging to the Empresas Polar brewing company and has ordered the Venezuela military to crack down on businesses selling beer. Chavez is threatening to completely shut down Empresas Polar, perhaps due to political differences with Larry Mendoza, President of Empresas Polar. Mendoza received a Bachelors [...]
