Sach Dean

"The Liberals have invited Howard Dean to speak at their Leadership Convention, this has raised all sorts of controversy in the blogosphere and MSM. Personally I think they missed an opportunity to blast the Conservatives with a far more effective speaker; Jeffery Sachs."

Mr Khatami on civilisation

Dr Anne Bayefsky on former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, one of the principals of the recently concluded meeting of the U.N.'s Alliance of Civilisations:What do the members of the "high level group" who drafted the report, such as former Iranian President Khatami, have...

Force will move Tehran, not the threat of economic sanctions

A brief word of advice to Mr Bush, from Mario Loyola at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies:America should not be talking about economic sanctions, but about defending its defensive perimeter—and whatever else we may say about that perimeter, a non-nuclear Iran...

Mr Choudhury on his date in court

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is on trial in Bangladesh--and the potential penalty is death--for 'praising Jews and Christians', 'attempting to travel to Israel' and by trying "to damage the image and relations of Bangladesh with the outside world", as I have noted here. ...

Do you believe Saddam Hussein had a hand in 9/11?

POLL ---- Yes / No.

Democrats Got Elected Despite Our Election System, Not Because of It

"Tell me which part of this statement isn't true:"There was an election a week ago. Democrats won big, Republicans lost big, and everything went great!"That's right, everything did not go great. At about 2:00 CT, the number of people who had called the voter protection line...

'Realism' at work

I wasn't aware of the ambassador-to-Armenia problem, although I have a vague recollection of the name Evans--it is John, not Robert, as a matter of fact, who was U.S. ambassador to Yerevan--nor do I recall how I managed to find Ummah News Links.  One factors out whatever...

"Academic veneer to the old isolationism"

I hope that Mr Bush is hearing quite clearly from those who have been his staunchest supports these five or six years: 'realism', or 'neo-realism', that is code for cooperation with Tehran and Damascus is suicidal at worst and, at best, represents the laying aside of the...

Bosnia acts against Wahhabis

A Syrian Wahhabi imam, Imad al-Husin, has been 'resigned' from his community, AKI reports from Sarajevo.  Imad al-Husin, a Syrian known as Abu Hamza, said he was resigning because of his "inability to express himself in the Bosnian language in order to be understood...

50% of Russians Live Alone

"Recent studies indicate that 50% of Russians opt to live alone to avoid the responsibility of caring for dependents. Russians are expected to be a minority in the near future because of a continually shrinking population."

Still no freedom in Vietnam for Missionaries of Charity

The government of Vietnam continues to suppress religious freedom, AsiaNews reports, although, according to Sister Nirmala, the general superior of the Missionaries of Charity founded by Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, it may be preparing to invite the Missionaries of Charity...

Bring Back Slavery

"Since Canadian Christians and other monothieists based on the Abrahamic traditions of the old testament claim Marriage is a Sacred institution and thus that justifies their attempts to overturn Canada's Same Sex Marriage laws then let them not be hypocrites. It's time to...

Now U.S. troops need to be transferred out of South Korea

I recollect that a 'plan' is in place for reducing the presence of U.S. troops near the demilitarized zone between South Korea and the north, moving them out of what would, after all, be the most contested territory if Pyongyang should decide to invade or otherwise attack the...

Let's hope that Steyn is simply wrong...

About which thesis, exactly, Mark Steyn is wrong, I'm not sure: but one of them, at least, I hope. 

Let's blame the Poles...

Briefly, the story goes that the wicked CIA secretly used locations in Holy Europe to question or imprison or torture or play bad pop music loudly to detained persons accused of acts of terror, that the blessed media discovered this perfidious assault on Euro liberties and...