Pakistan’s only Christian cabinet minister, and a staunch opponent of his nation’s blasphemy laws, was gunned down Wednesday as he went to work in Islamabad. Police reportedly found leaflets from the Pakistan Taliban near the scene of Shahbaz Bhatti’s assassination
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has ranked Yale University as among the worst violators of free speech on U.S. campuses. Alum Michael Rubin, writing at Commentary, provides examples: In 2009, Yale College Dean Mary Miller censored the
The Daily Mail reports: “Two people were today killed at Frankfurt airport after a gunman opened fire on a bus carrying U.S. soldiers. The attacker – who is believed to be a 21-year-old Kosovan – smuggled himself on to the
The American public is not satisfied that the major healthcare legislation that became law last year really does anything to improve the system. A majority of Americans surveyed in three recent polls — CNN, Fox News and Rasmussen – all
The big story all over Arabic-language news outlets is that embattled Libyan president Mu’ammar Gaddafi is secretly a Jew (see here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, for example). This points to the general antisemitic attitudes of the Muslim
In the wake of the turmoil in the Mideast, stock prices in peripheral stock markets have continued to plunge, often by several percentage points in a day. Recent stock market plunges The Cairo stock exchange, which has been shut down
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi continued his defiant rhetoric on Friday, saying that he would “crush any enemy,” according to Reuters. He spoke to thousands of supporters in Tripoli’s Green Square, and threatened to open his military arsenals and make weapons
Rolling Stone is pushing a story, aided by CNN and other outlets, that a “information operations unit” used psychological operations in an effort to influence Senators to support more funding for the war in Afghanistan. “Psy Ops” and “information operations”!
CNN is reporting: Washington (CNN) — A Saudi national living in Texas was arrested Wednesday for allegedly researching and acquiring chemicals to make a bomb, authorities said Thursday. Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, of Lubbock, Texas, allegedly researched several possible targets,
The Discovery Channel would do well to hire Secretary Rumsfeld for a very special episode of “Mythbusters,” as Candy Crowley of CNN recently learned the hard way. Secretary Rumsfeld is busting tail to promote his book, Known and Unknown, A
From a CNN segment called “Labor’s Last Stand?”: Money quote at the end: And Democrats say there is another reason Republicans want to gut unions. Organized labor donates hundreds of millions of dollars to candidates like Barack Obama. So if
John Boyd is the president of the National Black Farmers Association and has been the main media face of the Pigford settlement for over a decade. He’s been featured on numerous TV shows and in print. He’s been lauded by
And apparently, the folks at Media Matters are very angry at CNN’s decision. So angry that they featured this video on their site. Thanks, guys!
Nationalist feelings in both Cambodia and Thailand have resulted in border clashes, thanks to a disagreements about the ownership of the ancient Preah Vihear Hindu temple, on what is today the border between the two countries, according to CNN. Preah
Among the least analyzed aspects of the Egyptian revolution has been the significance of the widespread violence against the foreign media covering the demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. The Western media have been unanimous in their sympathetic coverage of the
Something strange happened today. Something, in fact, I never thought was possible. I not only gained some respect for a cable news network not named FOX, but I have, of all organizations, the George Soros-funded, 501(c)(3) Media Matters to thank
With questions looming about Islamist influence in a transitional Egypt, an organization that calls itself “the leading Islamic Institute in the West” is teaching students to support Sharia law in Egypt and around the world. Teachers at Houston-based Al Maghrib
Watch how this insensitive, misogynist jerk tries to use the race card to deflect criticism. Wonder if it will work?
It’s official. The New York Stock Exchange has been sold to, in one CNBC anchor’s words, ‘a bunch of foreigners’. The iconic trading floor of the NYSE was tense this morning as CNBC’s Mark Haines’ grilled CEO Duncan Niederauer on
How do bonuses equal to 50% of your annual salary sound? Wait – how do they sound if you’re not receiving them – but paying for them? And (most likely) on salaries far greater than the one you’re currently earning.
With Hosni Mubarak stepping down Friday, Egypt’s future remains uncertain. Egypt’s Supreme Council of Armed Forces has taken temporary power with expectations of elections still set for the fall. “Egypt is free!” chanted the hundreds of thousands of people gathered
Guess who said the following: “The earliest defenders of Islam would defend their more numerous and better-equipped oppressors because the early Muslims loved death — dying for the sake of almighty Allah — more than the oppressors of Muslims loved
Just released: CNN Looks Ahead to 2012 Election Season Cornell Belcher, Will Cain and Dana Loesch join Best Political Team on Television CNN is gearing up for the election season with the addition of political contributors from across the ideological
The media told us during the 2008 election that the world would love us if we elected Barack Hussein Obama to the White House. Certainly the Muslin world would adore us after we got rid of Evil Bush. We were
