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Two very different accounts are being told by those involved in a story that's gotten national attention because the first reports said a second-grader had been suspended from school for drawing a picture of Jesus on a cross.
Listening to the John & Cisco morning radio program here on Chicago's WIND AM 560 this morning, I was suddenly stopped dead in my tracks.
" A number of Arabic and Pashtu interpreters at the terror-war detention center at Guantanamo Bay are under active investigation for omitting valuable intelligence from their translations of detainee interrogations, among other security breaches.
Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001 and have continually threatened to do so since?
One of the world's most famous children's toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover - wearing a burkha. Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover for a charity auction in connection with Sotheby's for Save The Children.
We have heard a lot over the past year or so about how President John F. Kennedy wouldn't be able to garner his political party's nomination for the presidency in today's Democrat Party.
Two viruses caused the murders, wounds, and suffering at Fort Hood. The first arises from the fact that although a capacity for evil is inherent in human nature, human beings have, as David Brooks recently observed, a "conscious say" regarding the commission of evil acts.
Dimwitted guardians of our children don't understand the most basic concept of democracy and free speech.
"Officer, arrest that man! He repeatedly assaulted me by slamming his hard nose into my soft fist."
In a thoughtful piece that appeared on the site last Thursday, Salon.com writer Mark Benjamin argues that the emerging narrative of the Fort Hood shootings--and the "political correctness vs. terrorism" debate that that coverage has engendered--largely misses the point.
A friend who optimistically believes every cloud has a silver lining hopes the tragedy at Fort Hood was merely the work of a volunteer in the Insane Clown Army and not a terrorist attack on an American army base in our supposedly safe homeland.
Despite all the exhortations to report suspicious behavior in a post-9/11 world, we have seen the creation of a perilous climate in which the fear of offending has overtaken common sense even when lives are at stake.
"The brain-addled 'diversity' of General Casey will get some of us killed, and keep all of us cowed
The above list is not exhaustive, but I would submit that five of the seven items (the first and the last four) would have been grounds to have had him either put under close surveillance or dismissed from the service
College campuses should be places where the widest possible range of ideas can be heard. Instead, the Politically self-righteous seek to silence those whom they oppose. Here's an example.
Even as America struggles to understand the Fort Hood massacre, right-wingers have embarked on a dangerous, dishonest campaign to blame the atrocity on "political correctness" - as if the very idea of tolerance and diversity in the U.S.
The ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee on Tuesday night accused the White House of withholding information on the Fort Hood attack.
It started out as a mild virus initiated by the left of center intellectuals of academia. But, like every virus from computer carried to influenza, it spread rapidly through schools, hospitals, civil service, the media, companies, governance and the armed forces.
It is sad and disturbing commentary on the state of American culture when the facts surrounding an event, such as the slaughter that took place at Fort Hood, can not only be manipulated to facilitate a political ideology but blatantly ignored in the pursuit of a political agenda.
The violence at Fort Hood, President Obama told mourners on Tuesday, was "incomprehensible." The "twisted logic that led to the tragedy," he reiterated, may be "too hard to comprehend." If the Bush administration suffered a systemic failure of imagination on homeland security, th …
Aren't we shocked out of our minds to find out that Army Maj.
Bottom line: The society at large, driven by the sermonizing of its elites, has come to an unstated conclusion that, unfortunately, a few Americans will have to be sacrificed from time to time, for the larger goal of establishing the fact that Americans in no way think Muslims ar …
I was going to get back to pontificating on what I believe this week, but have been so angered by the media coverage of the Islamic terrorist attack on Fort Hood that I felt the need to speak on this topic.
Falsehood has more consequences than the revelation of personal insincerity. What happened at Fort Hood was no kind of "tragedy." It was a criminal act, of the terrorist sort, performed by a man acting upon known Islamist motives.