News You Need to Know 25Dec09
- Big Government: LA Times Defends Commie Ornaments
L.A. Times Art Critic Defends White House Commie-Chic Xmas
by Publius
Over at the L.A. Times today, art critic Christopher Knight went after Big Government for reporting on the White House Christmas tree ornaments and the man, Simon Doonan, tapped to oversee the decorations for the White House. Knight’s objection to Big Government’s coverage of the administration’s decision to inject left-wing [...]Related posts:
- From the Pen of David Horowitz: December 25, 2009
When I arrived, April appeared (gloriously I thought) in her white smock, more blonde than I had imagined. A generous smile welcomed me as she approached, and I felt my head lower in unaccustomed shyness. Even as we slipped into a patter of introductions, it occurred to me that the [...]
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- Christmas in Eurabia
From Switzerland comes this contemporary political statement that is also an intimation of future Eurabian Christmases (thanks to Islam In Europe)….
- Spencer: A Sorrowful Christmas In the Islamic World
My Human Events column today chronicles an unmerry Christmas in Iraq and other Muslim countries: Christians in the Iraqi city have opted not to celebrate Christmas this year, since Ashura, a major Shi’ite day of mourning, falls on the same day. So out of “respect” for the local Shi’ites, Chaldean…
- Merry Christmas
The Byzantine icon above is the work of the 16th-century iconographer Theophanes the Cretan. There are many things that are un-Islamic about it: 1. It is an image of human beings, which violates the traditional Islamic prohibition of images; 2. It depicts Jesus not as a Muslim prophet but…
- “There are principles at stake”: France’s ruling party proposes ban on face veil
“Extremists are putting the republic to the test by promoting a practice that they know is contrary to the basic principles of our country.” And those “extremists” have plenty of enablers who can’t fathom what the problem is with the dehumanizing symbol of segregation and subjugation (spun as “elevation” in…
- Grabar Vs Swindle on Weed and Conservatism at FrontPage
For those of you who may have missed it yesterday my debate with Mary Grabar about marijuana and conservatism is collected in its entirety at FrontPage here.
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- Shock horror: Indian Home Minister equates jihad with terrorism
Osama bin Laden and innumerable other Islamic jihadists have already made this connection, but that’s fine. It’s only “objectionable” when a non-Muslim does it. “Chidambaram equates Jihad with terrorism,” from TCN News, December 25: New Delhi: In an address to Intelligence Bureau, Home Minister P. Chidambaram equated Jihad with terrorism…
- The prosecution of Rifqa Bary
In The American Thinker today, Pamela Geller chronicles the ongoing CAIR machinations and chicanery in the Rifqa Bary apostasy case: There is a war of attrition going on in the Rifqa Bary case. Rifqa is the girl who converted from Islam to Christianity and fled from her family in fear…
- Lunch Break
“Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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