Tag: Islamophobia

The Bookworm Beat 12-8-15 — the “fresh off the spindle” edition and open thread

I did it again — I let my inbox get out of hand, so much so that I woke up this morning to discovery over a thousand unread emails in the email accounts for which I’m responsible. Going through them isn’t my favorite activity (too much guilt about emails I

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Obama’s speech highlights why it’s hard to have an intelligent political debate with Progressives

I found myself in conversation today with a Progressive who thought that Obama’s oval office address was just wonderful. “What did you like about it?” I asked him. “It was a very mature speech,” the Progressive replied, “and he said what I would have said.” Of course I asked, “What

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To the extent that there is increasing anti-Muslim feeling in America, I blame Obama and the Democrats

Although we’re hearing a lot from Muslims claiming to be worried about potential anti-Muslim feeling in America, the reality is that their worries are inchoate fears that aren’t grounded in real life experiences.  Indeed, John Hinderaker points out that despite fourteen years of Muslim-related fears, the vast majority of Americans have managed

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The Bookworm Beat 1/17/15 — Deep thoughts about our world edition and Open Thread

In no particular order, a whole lot of extremely interesting things about Islam, Leftist hypocrisy, John Kerry’s epic appearance in France, and other things that caught my eye. Pitch-perfect satire exposes Leftist hypocrisy Okay, I’ll admit that you don’t need pitch-perfect satire to expose Leftist hypocrisy, because the latter is

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