Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’m struggling to put words to my dismay upon reading the following: Saudi Arabia claimed an important diplomatic breakthrough yesterday when it said Iran had agreed to support an Arab peace plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. By securing Teheran’s apparent backing for the peace plan, which dates from 2002
Continue readingIf you’re a student of British history, you know that this is a picture of Lady Jane Grey, the hapless teenager who spent a few short days as Queen of England, only to end up beheaded when Bloody Mary took the throne. Except that it’s not. Turns out that this
Continue readingLast year, London police obtained credible information that Muslims were building chemical weapons in East London. As it turned out, there were no chemical weapons at the site. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (“IPCC”), obviously called based upon Muslim complaints, reached a few interesting conclusions. To appreciate just how interesting
Continue readingSomething interesting happened in England the other day, and I’m not quite sure what to make either of the original incident, or of what I learned based on the incident. Let me begin at my beginning. I was scanning The Telegraph, when a story about a ballerina at the center
Continue readingI think for many of us, England is one of the old world countries inextricably entwined with images of Christmas. When I think of England, I think of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol; of the Christmas tree, which the Germanic British royals elevated from a quaint German custom into a
Continue readingGwyneth Paltrow is certainly entitled to her opinions, although her practice of denigrating Americans may end up damaging her at the box office. It’s always stupid, if you’re a performer, to insult your audience (proving a priori that she may not be as smart as she likes to think she
Continue readingMy husband and I started watching Prime Suspect when it first appeared on American television and liked it enough to keep watching it every time episodes showed up. It’s a very gritty crime drama (the producers love showing partially decomposed women’s corpses) that follows the unlovable but effective DCI Jane
Continue readingAs you know, there is a big debate going on in England right now about the veil. Those who support the veil are framing this support in terms of religious freedom. However, veils are not an integral part of the Muslim religion. Instead, they are a product of Arab culture.
Continue readingThere are no words: A hardline Muslim teacher who caused a furore by denouncing pupils for celebrating Christmas has been made a Government schools inspector. Israr Khan’s Ofsted appointment was described by a former colleague as ‘absolutely astonishing’. Mr Khan, now headmaster of an Islamic school, launched into his tirade
Continue readingWe have had sitting around for months a DVD called The Long Way Home. It’s a documentary about the Jewish survivor’s plight in the three years after World War II. I really didn’t want to watch it, because I knew it would upset me — hence, it’s long sojourn on
Continue readingBritish Muslims are demanding a state within a state: British Muslim leaders meeting with government representatives to discuss ways of combating extremism are calling for the establishment of Islamic law (shari’a) to govern Muslims’ family life. “We told her if you give us religious rights, we will be in a
Continue readingI haven’t blogged about multiculturalism in quite a while, so those new to this blog may not know that it is one of my pet peeves, an enormous, angry bee buzzing in my intellectual bonnet. I think it is the root cause of the disuniting of America, with its effort
Continue readingI’ve already confessed to my weakness for chick lit, and expanded upon my disgust with the recent imports from Britain, which assure incompetent, drink-sodden women that the best looking guy in the room will see through the miasma of failure that hangs about them and sweep them off in a
Continue readingSometimes it’s little things that are the tipping point — not the bombed towers, trains or subways, but the attacks on core cultural values. The British upper echelons are planning a big change to a traditional British icon; let’s see if the masses object. (By the way, I found the
Continue readingAre you tired of America bashing? If you are, refresh yourself by reading Edward Bernard Glick’s article explaining why you probably shouldn’t take it all that seriously: When European intellectuals and their U.S. counterparts proclaim that the peoples of the world hate the U.S., they have it backwards. Americans are
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