Independence Day Considered

For a remembrance of what July 4 is about, below is a reading of the Declaration of Independence. The readers are serving members of the armed services, who have a particular enthusiasm.

Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration is both soaring and mundane. Noble principles frame the list of more ordinary problems felt by the colonists in their complaints.

(For […]

Saudi Found Guilty of Terror Plot in West Texas

In less than two hours on Wednesday, an Amarillo jury found a Middle Eastern man guilty of trying to build a weapon of mass destruction. Saudi national Khalid Aldawsari (pictured) came to the United States as a student to study chemical engineering at Texas Tech, but his interests turned to jihad instead of science.

He was arrested in […]

FBI Is Investigating 100 Islamic Extremists in Military

Islamic diversity has not worked out well for the US military, as illustrated most tragically by the preventable jihadist mass murder at Fort Hood in which 13 soldiers and personnel (shown below) were killed by Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan as he shouted, “Allah ackbar.” Dozens more were wounded.

Even so, the Army’s top officer General George […]

Illegal Alien from Morocco Pleads Guilty to Capitol Bomb Plot

The court system keeps pretty busy with Muslim terrorists, but it simplifies the process by welcoming plea deals, as happened Friday in the case of the Moroccan Amine El Khalifi (pictured) who schemed to blow up the US Capitol.

Plea deals diminish distasteful details about how Muslim immigrants and aliens routinely plot to mass-murder Americans. The […]

Coney Island Principal Yanks Patriotic Song from School Ceremony

Today’s example of why America’s tradition of patriotic assimilation is on the rocks, a victim of multiculti ideology: in Brooklyn a grade-school principal decreed that a patriotic song would not be sung at a kindergarten ceremony because she “did’t want to offend other cultures.”

The school has a lot of immigrant kids, and the song, Lee […]

Univision to Launch English-Language Television Network

The decision of a major Spanish-language network in America to broadcast on a new English-language platform is quite the reversal of accepted liberal opinion.

We have been told for decades that sensitive hispanics require the comfy reassurance of their mother tongue to receive any information at all, or they would be deeply insulted. As a result […]

Islam in Minnesota: Somali Women Workers Refuse to Comply with Safety Requirements

When I was young and unfocused, I worked for a while in a bakery, dragging around hundred-pound bags of flour and kneading up mass quantities of bread dough in mega-chomping mixers the size of Volkswagens.

With that experience in mind, I cannot imagine Somali women swathed in multiple yards of flapping sheets to work safely in […]

North Dakota: Somali Faces Trial for Quadruple Murder

In North Dakota, Omar Mohamed Kalmio, a Somali national, is in jail, accused of murdering his girlfriend Sabrina Zephier, her mother, brother and the mother’s boyfriend.

Kalmio made a court appearance last Tuesday, where it was noted that the murders occurred at two different residences, suggesting the Somali killed his girlfriend, then travelled across town to […]

Brussels: Burqa Attacks Police Officer When ID Is Requested

From Belgium, we have another example of why the culture of hostile Muslims does not work in the West.

When a burqa-covered Muslim woman was asked for identification in Brussels, she head-butted a female police officer and broke her nose. Face coverings are not permitted on Belgian streets.

The burqa then contacted her co-religionists, more than a […]

Universal University Utopianism

Thoughtful columnist Robert Samuelson recently posed some questions about the silly idea of universal college education and its corrosive effect on preparing young people for future gainful employment.

It is indeed curious that so much of K-12 is geared toward sending all the kiddies on to the big university when only 30 percent of Americans have […]

Israelis Reject Illegal Alien Africans

Everybody like their own tribe the best, because that preference is hard-wired in the human psyche for reasons of safety. Despite liberals’ persistent efforts to convince us that even the diversity of illegal immigration should be celebrated, home towners all over the world remain unconvinced, as indicated by a Pew survey showing that increased immigration was […]

Kansas Governor Brownback Signs Anti-Sharia Bill into Law

Good news from the heartland. Kansas’ decision to affirm the Constitution over foreign totalitarian Islamic law is an important victory in the long war.

I’m relieved that Brownback did the right thing. His Senate career showed a propensity for strange values in the general category of diversity, to be kind. He promoted the admittance of Somali […]