Written by Ryan T. Anderson

A&E enjoys rights to free contract and free speech in determining whom they employ and what they allow them to say. But just because you have a right to do something doesn’t make it the right thing to do.

In a series of instances we have seen the gatekeepers of civil society attack those who hold Biblical views about marriage and sexuality—Chick-fil-A, Barilla Pasta, Craig James who was fired from ESPN, and now Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty.

It is even worse... http://blog.heritage.org/2013/12/20/penalizing-hold-biblical-views-marri...

Written by Robert Spencer

Why not? They're not the enemy: "Last year, during my visit to Washington, in a very important briefing a day before I met U.S. President [Barack Obama], his national security adviser Tom Donilon, and senior White House officials, generals, and intelligence officials, the national security adviser met with me. He told me: 'The Taliban are not our enemies and we don't want to fight them.'" -- Hamid Karzai, November 26, 2013

"Over 500 Taliban prisoners released from Afghan jails," from the Pakistan Observer, December 25 (thanks to Kenneth):

Wednesday, December 25, 2013 - Kabul—The Afghan high peace council has released over 500 Afghan and Pakistani Taliban prisoners during the past one and half year.
The militants were detained in connection to suicide attacks and other insurgency activities, and were released based on president Karzai’s decrees and on the request of the Afghan high peace council.

At least 536... http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/12/afghanistan-over-500-taliban-prisoners...

Written By Patrick J. Buchanan

“Neo-isolationism is the direct product of foolish globalism. … Compared to people who thought they could run the universe, or at least the globe, I am neo-isolationist and proud of it.”

Those are not the words of an old America Firster, but the declaration of that icon of the liberal establishment Walter Lippmann in 1967, a year before he endorsed Richard Nixon.

In 1968, it was Nixon urging we stay the course in Vietnam, as Sens. Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy were clamoring for retreat and swift withdrawal.

In 1972, it was... http://www.humanevents.com/2013/12/20/why-neo-isolationism-is-soaring/

Written by Robert Spencer

Great. The U.S. should pull all of its troops out and end all aid to Afghanistan -- which for over a decade now has been an absolute, total waste of American blood and treasure for no purpose and no goal.

"Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he no longer trusts the U.S.," from Agence France-Presse, December 14 (thanks to Kenneth):

Visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in New Delhi on Saturday he no longer “trusts” the United States, accusing the Americans of saying one thing and doing another in his troubled homeland.
Karzai’s statement to journalists came a day after he insisted he would not be “intimidated” into signing a security pact allowing US troops in Afghanistan to stay on after next year.

“I don’t trust them... http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/12/afghanistans-karzai-says-he-no-longer-...

Written by By cdmichel

The only thing cigarettes and guns have in common is that they both produce smoke. But if a pack of duplicitous San Francisco lawyers gets their way, your guns will soon be classified as a public health hazard and regulated like seat belts and Marlboros.

On November 14th, 2013 the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence (LCPGV) held a public meeting that was streamed live to fellow anti-gun activists around the nation. The panel was composed of their own leadership, “journalists” from Mother Jones, and a set of activists who were previously neck-deep in campaigns against drunken driving and leading the anti-tobacco movement. Together they made unambiguous statements that signaled the next strategy in the assault on gun ownership, the canard that “smart laws lead to a healthier society.”

Ponder that for a moment. Few people decry seatbelt laws. And once the anti-tobacco lobby developed the angle of second-hand smoke, they won over most Americans. Given these successes (and the political/marketing maneuvers that made them happen) gun banners are now planning to use those PR blueprints to engineer their next conquest; your guns. Their plan? The sound-bite “Smart laws saved lives on the road and kept people from dying of cancer – we can do the same with guns” will resonate with under-informed voters, and foster a grassroots campaign of shame against gun ownership.

That’s where you... http://www.calgunlaws.com/ignorant-agenda/

Written by Lee Siegel

"What's celebrity sex, Dad?" It was my 7-year-old son, who had been looking over my shoulder at my computer screen. He mispronounced "celebrity" but spoke the word "sex" as if he had been using it all his life. "Celebrity six," I said, abruptly closing my AOL screen. "It's a game famous people play in teams of three," I said, as I ushered him out of my office and downstairs into what I assumed was the safety of the living room.

No such luck. His 3-year-old sister had gotten her precocious little hands on my wife's iPhone as it was charging on a table next to the sofa. By randomly tapping icons on the screen, she had conjured up an image of Beyoncé barely clad in black leather, caught in a suggestive pose that I hoped would suggest nothing at all to her or her brother.

And so it went... http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230445190457923814037...

Written by cdmichel

Nearly 50% of all gun homicides involve only 4% of inner city gangsters. This is common, but not widely publicized, knowledge. It’s a fact deliberately underemphasized by the Brady Campaign, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, and other gun ban advocates at the Happy Acres Home For the Terminally Bewildered. But a recent study by a sociology professor at Yale, who explored a poor Chicago neighborhood, evaluating homicide victims and their associations should reduce such willful ignorance.

Unlike gun control groups who believe associating with firearms is the seed of destruction, Professor Andrew Papachristos sees things differently. Papachristos dug through seven years of firearm homicide and police arrest records from one of Chicago’s high-crime neighborhoods. What-do-ya-know: people in that neighborhood who associated with criminals had a significantly higher chance of being shot. And every step away from the gangsta life style reduced the odds of being killed by 57%.

“It’s the behavior of... http://www.calgunlaws.com/clustered-criminals-habituate-homicide/

Written by Robert Spencer

This explains a great deal as to why the Republican Party has so abjectly failed to deal realistically or adequately with the jihad threat. Grover Norquist, as the leader of Americans for Tax Reform, has a huge base of supporters among Republican politicians. But he also has extensive ties to Islamic supremacists. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) called Norquist out for this on the House floor in October 2011, saying of the anti-tax hero: “Documentation shows that he has deep ties to supporters of Hamas and other terrorist organizations that are sworn enemies of the United States and our ally Israel.” He pointed out that “around the years 2000 and 2001, Mr. Norquist’s firm represented Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was convicted two years later for his role in a terrorist plot and who is presently serving a 23-year sentence in federal prison.”

"Documents: Karl Rove Gave Grover Norquist $26 Million in 2012," by Matthew Boyle for Breitbart, November 26 (thanks to Doc Washburn):

Tax documents from Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS show that Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) is largely funded by Rove, ProPublica’s Kim Barker reports.

“Social welfare nonprofits... http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/11/karl-rove-gave-grover-norquist-26-mill...

Written by Robert Spencer

"They fear that the herdsmen, with backing from Islamic extremist groups, want to take over the predominantly Christian areas in order to acquire land for grazing, stockpile arms and expand Islamic territory. Hit-and-run, guerrilla-style attacks on Christian villages in which children are shot to death as they sleep support their suspicion that the assaults are motivated by desire to eliminate Christianity."

Will the Islamophobia never end?

"Islamic Extremists Kill at Least 71 Christians in Nigeria," from Morning Star News, November 26:

JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspected Muslim herdsmen slaughtered 37 Christians in coordinated attacks on four Plateau state villages early this morning after Boko Haram terrorists killed at least 34 Christians in Borno state earlier this month, sources said.

In attacks on the four... http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/11/nigeria-muslim-mobs-murder-at-least-71...

Written by Robert Spencer

Twelve years after the Taliban were ousted from power, Sharia is to be fully implemented again in Afghanistan. What was all that American blood and treasure spent for? The U.S. oversaw the adoption of a constitution in Afghanistan that enshrined Sharia as the highest law of the land. That made this and the imposition of other Sharia provisions inevitable. But to have stood up for the rights of the women who will be brutalized and victimized as a result of this would have been "Islamophobic."

"Afghanistan 'plans to reintroduce public stoning as punishment for adultery,'" by Rob Crilly in the Telegraph, November 25 (thanks to Anne Crockett):

Afghanistan is planning... http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/11/sharia-in-action-in-afghanistan-plans-...

Written By Noel Sheppard

Not surprisingly, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer had some harsh words Monday for the agreement the White House struck with Iran concerning that nation’s nuclear program.

Appearing on Fox News’s Special Report, Krauthammer said, “This is a sham from beginning to end. It’s the worst deal since Munich.”... http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/11/25/krauthammer-iran-n...

Written by Dave Jolly

My friends in the United Kingdom have told me that Muslims have taken over whole communities and small towns. In some of those areas, they have driven out non-Muslims by intimidation, sometimes with violence. They have forced people to sell or abandon their businesses. They’ve taken over the local governments, law enforcement and schools. Numbers of Christian churches have been turned into mosques.

Now, Lynn Small, the headmistress of Littleton Green Community School in Huntington, Staffordshire is bullying parents and students into forcing them to allow their kids to attend an Islam focused field trip called Explore Islam. The parents received a letter from Small about the field trip stating:

“The workshop is at Staffordshire... http://godfatherpolitics.com/13380/students-labeled-racist-years-dont-go...

Written by John Bolton

Negotiations for an “interim” arrangement over Iran’s nuclear weapons program finally succeeded this past weekend, as Security Council foreign ministers (plus Germany) flew to Geneva to meet their Iranian counterpart. After raising expectations of a deal by first convening on November 8-10, it would have been beyond humiliating to gather again without result. So agreement was struck despite solemn incantations earlier that “no deal is better than a bad deal.”

This interim agreement is badly skewed from America’s perspective. Iran retains its full capacity to enrich uranium, thus abandoning a decade of Western insistence and Security Council resolutions that Iran stop all uranium-enrichment activities. Allowing Iran to continue enriching, and despite modest (indeed, utterly inadequate) measures to prevent it from increasing its enriched-uranium stockpiles and its overall nuclear infrastructure, lays the predicate for Iran fully enjoying its “right” to enrichment in any “final” agreement. Indeed, the interim agreement itself acknowledges that a “comprehensive solution” will “involve a mutually defined enrichment program.” This is not, as the Obama administration leaked before the deal became public, a “compromise” on Iran’s claimed “right” to enrichment. This is abject surrender by the United States.

In exchange for superficial... http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/abject-surrender-united-states_76814...

Written by Amy Payne

Every few months, it seems, Harry Reid (D-NV) threatens to upend the Senate so that he can push something through without following the rules.

This time, it’s the President’s judicial nominees.

President Obama is already well on his way to remaking federal courts in the liberal image, but Reid insists this isn’t happening fast enough. The Senate Majority Leader is threatening again that he will break Senate rules to change the rules—so he can do anything he wants with the bare minimum number of votes (51).

This would mean effectively... http://blog.heritage.org/2013/11/21/obama-remakes-courts-harry-reid-want...

Written by Raymond Ibrahim

The worst Christian massacre—complete with mass graves, tortured-to-death women and children, and destroyed churches—recently took place in Syria, at the hands of the U.S.-supported jihadi “rebels”; and the U.S. government and its “mainstream media” mouthpiece are, as usual, silent.

The massacre took place in Sadad, an ancient Syriac Orthodox Christian habitation, so old as to be mentioned in the Old Testament. Most of the region’s inhabitants are poor, as Sadad is situated in the remote desert between Homs and Damascus (desert regions, till now, apparently the only places Syria’s Christians could feel secure; 600 Christian families had earlier fled there for sanctuary from the jihad, only to be followed by it).

In late October, the U.S-supported “opposition” invaded and occupied Sadad for over a week, till ousted by the nation’s military. Among other atrocities, 45 Christians—including women and children—were killed, several tortured to death; Sadat’s 14 churches, some ancient, were ransacked and destroyed; the bodies of six people from one family, ranging from ages 16 to 90, were found at the bottom of a well (an increasingly common fate for “subhuman” Christians).

The jihadis even made... http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/11/largest-massacre-of-christians-in-syri...

Written by Robert Spencer

Why wouldn't this have happened? There is no attempt to vet refugees to determine how tied in they are to the jihad ideology, whether or not they are active members of jihad terror groups. If there were such an attempt, it would be denounced as "Islamophobic" by Hamas-linked CAIR, and discarded by dhimmi officials. "Exclusive: US May Have Let 'Dozens' of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees," by James Gordon Meek, Cindy Galli and Brian Ross for ABC News, November 20 (thanks to Kenneth):

Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating the remnants of roadside bombs recovered from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The discovery in 2009... http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/11/us-may-have-let-dozens-of-jihad-terror...

Written By Mary Grabar

Three years after the Department of Education announced a contest called Race-to-the-Top for $4.35 billion in stimulus funds, some parents, teachers, governors, and citizen and public policy groups are coming to an awful realization about the likely outcomes:

•A national curriculum called Common Core

•Regionalism, or the replacement of local governments by federally appointed bureaucrats

•A leveling of all schools to one, low national standard, and a redistribution of education funds among school districts

•An effective federal tracking of all students

•The loss of the option of avoiding the national curriculum and tests through private school and home school

Working behind the scenes, implementing these policies and writing the standards are associates from President Obama’s community organizing days. In de facto control of the education component is Linda Darling-Hammond, a radical left-wing educator and close colleague of William “Bill” Ayers, the former leader of the communist terrorist Weather Underground who became a professor of education and friend of Obama’s.

When these dangerous... http://www.aim.org/special-report/terrorist-professor-bill-ayers-and-oba...

Written By cdmichel

When your stock and trade is irrational logic, you publish the same stuff.

An example of such irrationality was recently whelped by a politicized organization now called the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence (LCPGV). They were originally called the Legal Community Against Violence, though both names are misleading given that their stated goal is enacting lots of gun control laws, not anti-violence laws. In a knee jerk reaction to a crazy person murdering people in a law firm one tragic day in San Francisco, this band of local liberal litigators took it upon themselves to develop novel theories, imposing liability on gun manufacturers for the criminal misuse of their products and inventing/promoting legislation designed to reduce the availability of guns. In the 20 years since then, they have effectively become the law firm for the gun ban lobby.

Throughout their history... http://www.calgunlaws.com/twenty-years-of-putting-nonsense-first/

The mainstream media habitually runs interference for jihadists, obfuscating their identity and goals, and under-reporting the atrocities they commit. This article is a particularly egregious example. "Christians 'face extinction' amid sectarian terror, minister warns," by Matthew Holehouse for the Telegraph, November 14 (thanks to Anne Crockett):

Christianity is in danger of becoming extinct in its ancient homelands because of a rising tide of sectarian attacks, a senior minister will warn on Friday.

"Sectarian," eh? So some other sect is attacking Christianity? What sect could it be? Scientology? Eckankar? Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh?

Violence against Christian... http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/11/christians-in-middle-east-face-extinct...