No Blood for Oil – Ask Christopher Hitchens

Of all of the utterly foolish positions taken by some people (banning DDT, banning nuclear power, banning domestic oil drilling, stopping the Tellico Dam to save the snail darter, etc.), perhaps the most foolish is exemplified by the cry, “no blood for oil”.The economy of...

Breaking With Left Fascism (or suddenly seeing the light)

Surprisingly, and horribly shocking to college liberals, there are quite a few liberal intellectuals, like Christopher Hitchens, Alan Dershowitz and Nick Cohen, bone fide members of the American and British intelligentsia, who have jumped ship and joined forces with President...

Why Are We Concerned About Rep. Keith Ellison?

Newly elected Representative Keith Ellison is being watched closely, not for his Muslim religion, but for the combination of his religion with activities that might indicate a certain sympathy for various forms of jihad, from imposing the Sharia to terrorism. When enough...

Hitchens on Religion

"He described his forthcoming book, God Is Not Great, as "a general case against religion." He says religions promote hatred, while demanding protection from hatred for themselves, usually in the form of censorship, to which he is intensely opposed in all its forms."

Christopher Hitchens: This July Fourth, ignore polls on America's image (Exam...

"Christopher Hitchens: This July Fourth, ignore polls on America's image  —  WASHINGTON - Here's what I want to know, and here's why I want to know it.  At what point in history, exactly, did the Pew Center decide that it knew how to measure world...