The case against the Holy Land Foundation was an open-and-shut one – the nominal charity was almost certainly guilty of funneling money to Hamas, an organization that most Americans recognize as a sponsor of terrorism in Israel and beyond. So how did the U.S. government lose the case? The Investigative Project on Terrorism’s new report…
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Just Say No
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that judges do have the discretion to override federal sentencing guidelines in their courtrooms: By a 7-2 vote, the court said that a 15-year sentence given to Derrick Kimbrough, a black veteran of the 1991 war with Iraq, was acceptable, even though federal sentencing guidelines called for Kimbrough to…
FJS and Gun Nuts
Hilarious! And a Simpsons pic to boot!
Defending Mark Steyn
I wish I’d read Mark Steyn’s excellent article titled “The future belongs to Islam” when it was originally published last year. Doing so would have saved me the trouble of working out for myself the answer to troubling questions about demographics and the disintegration of western culture that ultimately led me to write this article…
ex-Aide Backs Huckabee
The Huckabee camp is trying to do damage control re Wayne DuMond, as in this letter at Time in which Olan “Butch” Reeves attempts to clarify the Huffington Post’s interpretation of his statements: In fact, Mr. Reeves completely corrobates Mr. Huckabee’s account of the meeting. … “They are saying that the Governor was trying to…
Huckabee’s Horton
As Michael wrote earlier, Mike Huckabee has been taking a beating over the Wayne Dumond affair, not least at the Huffington Post. There, Arianna wrote: While on the campaign trail, Huckabee has claimed that he supported the 1999 release of Wayne Dumond because, at the time, he had no good reason to believe that the…
Moderation in What, Exactly?
Ex-Muslim poster girl Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote today in the NY Times: IN the last few weeks, in three widely publicized episodes, we have seen Islamic justice enacted in ways that should make Muslim moderates rise up in horror. A 20-year-old woman from Qatif, Saudi Arabia, reported that she had been abducted by several men…
Boy Scouts Lose Philly Home
From the NY Times: For three years the Philadelphia council of the Boy Scouts of America held its ground. It resisted the city’s request to change its discriminatory policy toward gay people despite threats that if it did not do so, the city would evict the group from a municipal building where the Scouts have…
Romney on Religion
Relaxed, confident, gracious, Mitt Romney cuts an impressive figure, both on stage and working the crowd. He is everything a political candidate should be and, some would say, one thing more. I was witness to Mitt Romney addressing the big issue in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination – his belief in the Mormon…
A Primitive, Disgusting Practice
NY Times blogger John Tierney wonders: Should African women be allowed to engage in the practice sometimes called female circumcision? Are critics of this practice, who call it female genital mutilation, justified in trying to outlaw it, or are they guilty of ignorance and cultural imperialism? The topic is to be debated at the American…