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Arab World Rejects Suicide Bombing While Palestinians Stay the Course
2007-07-26 00:00:00 While most of the Arab world is finally starting to reject suicide bombings, Palestinians continue to justify them as proper modes of ?resistance.? More About: World , Suicide , Stay , Arab World
Another One Bites the Dust
2007-07-26 00:00:00 Justice is on a roll this week. On Monday we witnessed Galloway?s suspension from the Commons. Today we applaud University of Colorado?s decision to fire Ward Churchill from his post as ethnic studies chairman. More About: The D , Bite
Bulgarian Nurses Freed
2007-07-25 00:00:00 Update: Bulgari an s finally freed - that?s after eight years of imprisonment, torture and a couple of death sentences; extortion of $400 million; promises of a ?normalized relationship? from Europe. More About: Nurses
Latest Oil-for-Food Sleazeball Unveiled
2007-07-25 00:00:00 The British House of Commons released a report exposing the latest Oil-for-Food sleazeball to grace the program?s indefatigable, licentious womb. More About: Ball , Sleaze , Veil , Oil-for-Food
Main Stream Media and Our Wimpy Politicians
2007-07-24 00:00:00 Universal suffrage is great and all that, but what of the pool of knee-jerk voters to whom the politicians pander? Poli ticians , for whom the shortest route to office is popular opinion and gut reaction?not logical reasoning?are giving America a bad case of indigestion. More About: Media , Main , Stream
Bulgarian Nurses Offered to EU for a Larger Extortion
2007-07-24 00:00:00 Update: The Bulgari an nurses and Palestinian intern who Libya unjustly locked-up for allegedly infecting children they had come to treat, are now being used to extort more money from the US and EU. More About: Extortion , Offer , Nurses
The Million Dollar Question
2007-07-22 00:00:00 How do you get a third world country to lift the death sentence facing innocent people? Pay each ?victim? a million dollars, cross your fingers and hope real hard. Because in this country only a miracle can save you. More About: Question , Dollar , Million , Doll
From Throwaway Grandmas to Plastic Doll Harems, Talk About Family Values!
2007-07-22 00:00:00 If you can?t have a baby and want to avoid adoption?s sticky red tape, just move out to California and start picking through dumpsters, you?re bound to find a winner. But if you feel like some sweet, warm muffins and hand-knit sweaters, do as the rest of the world does: outsource to India ? they?ve got so many grandmas, they?re throwing them away. More About: Family , Talk , Plastic , Values , Harem
French at Work, Something You Don?t See Everyday
2007-07-22 00:00:00 The French are lazy. I?ve been saying it for years, but finally, I have vindication; and from non-other than their president! Last week, Sarkozy?s administration issued a choice piece of advice to the national assembly: ?Enough thinking, already. Roll up your sleeves.? More About: Work , Thing , Some
No Hoorays for Hugo
2007-07-18 00:00:00 Worried that Chavez will expropriate their livelihoods, a record number of Venezuelans are applying for asylum in the US, choosing, in this case, the ?devil? they don?t know. The figure soared from the 14 applicants granted asylum in 1998 to over a thousand in 2006? More About: Rays , Hugo
Self-Doubt, Hypocrisy, and the West?s Demise
2007-07-18 00:00:00 My rifle is loaded and the crosshair?s set on the nearest Israeli officer. ?Electronic music? pounds in my ears as I round the corner and squeeze the trigger, a perfect head-shot on the prison guard. More About: Hypocrisy , West , Doubt , Demi , Cris
Globalization Legacy: Justice in Beijing
2007-07-15 00:00:00 Justice moves swiftly in Beijing , peeking from beneath the blindfold to follow the road to economic heft. Thus China executed its former head of the Food and Drug Administration for taking bribes to approve untested medicine. Zheng Xiaoyu is a token sacrifice on the altar of globalization, a signal to the rest of the world that China stands behind its exports. More About: Globalization , Justice , Legacy , Jing
Where Are Party Line Politics When You Need Them?
2007-07-15 00:00:00 On the corner of New Utrecht Avenue and 65th Street, at a run-down gas station in a run-down neighborhood of New York?s Brooklyn borough, a small army of Mexicans rushes the back and side of a minivan. Sheer numbers quickly overwhelm the car, which rocks from the force of thirty men fighting for eight seats. More About: Politics , Party , Line , Where , Poli
The More Things Change?
2007-07-15 00:00:00 Things seem to have changed not at all between the time of E.B. White?s writing and today. Simply add I-S-L-A-M-O to ?fascism? and you too will see how similarly circumstances present themselves today. Some people will forever defend their right to freedom, while others will eternally fight to take it away. Only the names change. More About: Change , Things , Thing , Chang , Chan
Cindy Sheehan for President!
2007-07-15 00:00:00 God bless America for its indulgence of certifiable nut jobs. How could the world hate us so? If Al-Qaeda and European schadenfreude had its way, and America collapsed, where would the crazies live? More About: President , Cindy Sheehan , Sheehan , Shee , Resident
All?s Well But The Infidel
2007-07-15 00:00:00 How to approach the fairer sex? Google it. Need tie a Windsor knot for that big interview? That?s on Google too. I?m not married yet, but I?m slowly approaching that milestone; so you can imagine my pleasure at finding a how-to guide so that I could, one day, properly beat my wife? More About: Well
Al Zheimer?s in Al Qaeda
2007-07-15 00:00:00 The good doctor has a serious case of Alzheimer?s. Zawahiri, Al Qaeda ?s second in command, released a tape blessing the terrorist bombing that killed 6 Spaniards in June and also threatened England with more bombings if Brown does not learn from Blair?s mistakes (presumably, Afghanistan and Iraq). More About: Al-Qaeda
China Plays Catch-Up on Safety Standards
2007-07-15 00:00:00 Glowing toothpaste anyone? We banned it in the US eighty or so years ago when we discovered that radioactive isotopes are not so good for us. But I?m sure that you can get some made in China . In fact, they?ve got everything you need to get rid of your pesky children infestations: Led painted toy trains, poisoned cough syrup, toxic fish? More About: Standards , Safety , Plays , Catch
HANDS OFF MY CHOCOLATE
2007-07-15 00:00:00 Oh, England. Still teetering on the brink of fascism, I see. Turning a momentary blind eye to the recent idiotic attempts to freeze out Israeli academia and goods (read: anti-semitism), allow me to introduce England?s newest low: the ?fat tax.? More About: Chocolate , Hands , Chocolat , Choco
British Education Ministers Replace the Bible with Hitchhiker?s Guide to th
2007-07-15 00:00:00 Scary is the recent announcement by Labour ministers that the new secondary school curriculum (that?s grades 7 through 12) will exclude key players in what was history?s most horrific hour: WWII. Who needs to learn about Hitler, Churchill, Gandhi or Stalin, anyway? More About: Education , Bible , British , Guide , Ministers
Mister, Will You Pay For My Sex Change?
2007-07-15 00:00:00 I see London, I see France, I see you?ve got nothing under those prison-issued underpants. Something had been there recently, in fact, until British tax payers funded John Pilley?s sex-change operation in 1999, making legal history. More About: Change , Chang , Chan
Rubles, The New Currency of Britain?s Upper Crust
2007-07-15 00:00:00 Russia?s disgrace thrives on London streets. Contemporary art sells for record prices at Christie?s, as Moscow on the Thames roars lively this time of year ? the grizzly assassination of an expatriate ?spy? long forgotten by London?s newly immigrated, novo riche. More About: Britain , Currency , Rust , Crust , Rubles
Parisian Progressive Poseurs
2007-07-15 00:00:00 National identity? France doesn?t need a national identity. What it needs is more Arab ghettos, less workforce diversity, and as many home grown terrorists as it can muster against the rest of the West? More About: Progressive , Pose
Brits Vote to Kill Free Debate, Degrade Academia
2007-07-15 00:00:00 It seems that the eternally fair British academic union heads have deemed that the state of the world is looking up these days. So the scholars at the University and College Union (UCU) voted to boycott Israeli universities as a sort of prescription for world peace. Take two aspirins, dissolve the Jewish state, take a large breath - and swallow. More About: Free , Debate , Academia , Vote , Kill
Political Zealot Denied Tenure
2007-07-15 00:00:00 Earlier this week, the DePaul University board of trustees struck a blow for academic integrity when they denied Normal Finkelstein his hotly contested petition for tenure. Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky?s long-time protégé, had spent the last decade attacking Israel, survivors of the Holocaust and any academic literature in support of either one. More About: Political , Poli , Politic
Political Finger Pointing: Why if you do not like Bush Jr., you should have
2007-07-15 00:00:00 And we?re off? As the ?political derby? (to quote our editors) commences, we find ourselves faced with a number of candidates whose recent politicking twists a once-noble proverb. As the early worm now seeks to catch itself a bird ? in this case, the Eagle ? we must beg ourselves two age-old questions: Who is the lesser of the evils? And did we make a mistake the last go around? More About: Bush , Political , Like , Finger , Poli
Update: British Boycott of Israeli Universities
2007-07-15 00:00:00 As predicted earlier in these pages, the British universities? union?s decision to push for a boycott of Isra eli academics is giving the Brits one hell of a hangover. Had the academics a modicum of foresight (and backbone against the Palestinian lobbies), they would have put their anti-semitism on the backburner, favoring to save their reputation instead - to say nothing of saving their universities. More About: Update , Boycott , Univ
Playing ?Clue? in the Middle East
2007-07-15 00:00:00 Was it Israel in Gaza with the candlestick? Perhaps the international community with the trucks of money in aid it?s been pouring into the Palestinian territories? So who was it, then, that murdered at least 59 Palestinians in Gaza since Monday? More About: Middle East , The Middle East , East , Middle
A Jihad on the Queen!
2007-07-15 00:00:00 Some honors inspire reverence; others seem only good for instigating death threats. The British Queen knighted famed novelist Salman Rushdie today. The threats that followed were not as unexpected as their sources. Pakistan and Iran issued joint statements condemning the honors as ?an affront to Muslim Sentiments.? A Pakistani Cabinet minister added that the honor justifies suicide attacks. More About: Jihad , The Queen
(WWAD) What Would the ACLU Do?
More articles from this author:2007-07-15 00:00:00 Brace yourselves: Chris Ofili will unveil his newest creation, titled ?The Holy Muhammad,? predictably depicting a naked black man surrounded by pornography and elephant dung. His new exhibit, Sensation II, will also appear at The Brooklyn Museum. More About: Would , The A 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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