Is there any crime more heinous than radical Muslims’ hatred of women? I doubt that Banaz Mahmod would think so – if she were still alive. 20 years old, beautiful, the victim of a deplorable arranged marriage, and a woman in love with the wrong man, Banaz was raped repeatedly by two Muslim men, one her…
Op-Ed Blog
Illegal Immigrants’ Families
As a husband it’s difficult to imagine the suffering of a spouse or child who sees his/her family torn apart when a parent is arrested and deported for immigration violations. Human Rights Watch says that’s happened to over 1.6 million illegals in the last 10 years. The widespread impact on American families has been truly…
Allen West on Liberalism and Islam
Atlas Shrugs posted a brilliant column written by Allen West, a Lt. Colonel running for Congress in Florida. An excerpt: If Liberals admit there is a problem, they could be called upon to act. Liberals are blinded by the fear of action. They rest their hope upon the “reason” and “benevolence” of an enemy, an…
First Post, but something important none the less
First off, I want to thank Marc for inviting me to post as an author here at Black Shards. Marc and I have been moving buddies now for four years and thanks to the Internet we have stayed in touch even though we live relatively far apart. In thinking about what to write I pondered…
Censoring the Web
Remember 10 years ago, way back in 1997, when you got your first email account and swore off snail mail forever? Email was the bomb and surfing the web was the coolest thing ever. Then the first thought hit you – I could put my own content up, rave against the machine, all that jazz. …
Unreformed
Evidently Harrel Braddy wasn’t reformed by his 13 year sentence for attempted murder, judging from the fact that, after being released early for good behavior, he kidnapped a woman and her child and deliberately left the little girl to be eaten by alligators. Braddy had befriended Shandelle Maycock and her daughter Quatisha. Maycock testified that…
Judgment
As I’ve written about before, there is something profoundly lacking in the world today – namely men and women with the courage of their convictions and the will to act on them. Sometime in the last century it went out of fashion for men to act on their own independent judgment. Group-think is in and…
No God of Mine
Speaking about the murder of Kenneth Cummings, the killer, Terry Mark Mangum of Cypress, Texas says: “I believe I’m Elijah, called by God to be a prophet,” said 26-year-old Terry Mark Mangum, charged with murder June 11. ” … I believe with all my heart that I was doing the right thing.” … Mangum —…
Rights
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights. For Americans this statement forms the basis for our personal freedoms. It’s a simple, direct statement whose meaning cannot be misunderstood without a…
GOP and Gays
At GOP Progress today, Nate Nelson had this to say about Republicans and gays: Without exception, the anti-gay sentiment within the Republican Party comes from those who cannot accept that people will believe and behave differently than they do. These are the people who believe that consensual sex between gay and lesbian adults should still…