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Egyptian blogger sentenced
Thursday, 22 February 2007 12:56 P GMT-06
Egyptian student and blogger Abdelkareem Suleiman was sentenced to four years in prison. For writing things on his blog that were critical of the Egyptian government and fundamentalist Islam. Outrageous. When ...
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Islam and female genital mutilation
Monday, 5 February 2007 11:17 P GMT-06
In early November, I posted quite a rant regarding a news story about an Ethiopian immigrant convicted of female genital mutilation. A regular reader gently informed me offline that it's an African thing, not Islamic. I know it's a custom ...
British lord demands senators "honour the Constitution"
Wednesday, 20 December 2006 12:59 A GMT-06
It's a sad indicator of the sorry state of American politics in general and the U.S. Senate in particular that a British lord has to remind American senators that the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of speech, and that attempts by senators to ...
Western aid funds enforcement of sharia
Monday, 18 December 2006 5:39 P GMT-06
Remember all the money we contributed for disaster relief after the tsunami hit Southeast Asia? According to The Times of London, Indonesian Islamic extremists have spent the past two years diverting relief funds toward strengthening and enforcing...
"Harvesting" babies?
Wednesday, 13 December 2006 1:16 P GMT-06
Let me make it clear up front: I'm not a right-to-lifer. I have a "Pro-Choice on Everything" sticker on my car, I support a woman's right to abort a pregnancy, and my only objection to federal funding of fetal stem cell research is -- like a good ...
The example of Napier
Tuesday, 12 December 2006 11:55 P GMT-06
Larry Kudlow posted a great little item from "The Week" in the 12/18 edition of National Review (it's available at National Review Online to subscribers only). It briefly summarized the story of Colorado's Saudi slaveholder, mentioned the State ...
Got common scents?
Thursday, 7 December 2006 12:10 A GMT-06
Political correctness and hypersensitivity have reached new heights -- or depths -- in San Francisco. The city famous for its liberal tolerance and celebration of diversity couldn't tolerate the capitalist distribution of cookie smells, and the ...
Thinking about air travel
Wednesday, 29 November 2006 1:23 P GMT-06
Ben Shapiro came up with an interesting thought experiment: You are sitting in the concourse of an airport, preparing for your flight, when out of the corner of your eye, you spot six Arab men praying loudly in Arabic. "Okay," you say to yourself,...
The real Thanksgiving story
Thursday, 23 November 2006 11:32 A GMT-06
Happy Thanksgiving! May you enjoy lots of food, lots of football, and lots of fun with family and friends on this day. But please take a few minutes to read this story about the Pilgrims -- it's probably not the one you've heard. Two competing ...
Free Kareem!
Thursday, 9 November 2006 9:32 P GMT-06
In Egypt, they imprison people for blogging about women's rights, freedom of expression, and "secular thoughts": Egyptian security forces have arrested a student blogger whose writing was critical of Islam and the government, security sources and ...
Sign the censure petition
Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:10 A GMT-06
A Congressional censure resolution is an official expression of criticism and condemnation, a reprimand. Sometimes a president's behavior deserves to be censured by the Congress in order to make it clear that the American people's elected ...
Save the Christian Afghani
Wednesday, 22 March 2006 12:22 A GMT-06
On the off chance that you haven't already read about this -- Abdul Rahman is an Afghani who converted from Islam to Christianity. He's been sentenced to death. How can that be under the new Afghani constitution? Well, it's an interesting little ...
Workplace speech, part deux
Friday, 3 March 2006 11:39 A GMT-06
In my post about Overland High's commie geography teacher Jay Bennish, I mentioned that some students rallied in support of Bennish and an ACLU attorney was suing on behalf of his First Amendment rights, and I wondered whether the students and lawyer
One year later, Kelo home still stands
Thursday, 23 February 2006 3:22 P GMT-06
One year ago yesterday, on Feb. 22, 2005, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Kelo v. City of New London. The intrepid libertarian litigators at the Institute for Justice eventually lost in court, but they've since won a resounding victory ...
Essential liberty, temporary safety
Monday, 6 February 2006 2:40 P GMT-06
Over at Protein Wisdom, commenter Robert Crawford offered this great observation: Just a week ago, the left was arguing, in the most forceful way it knows—banners—the Ben Franklin quote about giving up liberty in exchange for freedom. Granted,...
Buy Danish!
Friday, 3 February 2006 2:57 P GMT-06
Matt Donegan is lucky that he only lost his job. If he'd made hate-filled, bigoted comments about Muslims instead of blacks and women, he might have been forced to go into hiding in fear of his life, like the Danish cartoonists who dared draw ...
Of carnivals and councils
Tuesday, 31 January 2006 1:07 P GMT-06
Mover Mike has posted Carnival of Liberty #30, so head on over there and start clicking links! Judging from the descriptions, there's a bunch of good reading there. And speaking of good reading, I've been remiss in not pointing to some other great...
Coretta Scott King
Tuesday, 31 January 2006 9:08 A GMT-06
Coretta Scott King, the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., died last night, apparently in her sleep: Former Mayor Andrew Young said on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Web site that Bernice King found her mother at about 1 a.m. Young, who was...
Google, Big Brother, and paranoia
Wednesday, 25 January 2006 5:52 P GMT-06
Last week, the Justice Department tried to subpoena search query data from Google, which is resisting the request. What the feds want isn't information about who searched for what, but just aggregated data on all the search strings used at Google.
Carnival of Liberty #29
Monday, 23 January 2006 11:22 P GMT-06
Welcome to the 29th Carnival of Liberty, a showcase of postings on the broad topic of individual liberty. I'm pleased to be hosting this week's carnival, and I believe we have some fine reading for your edification and enjoyment. We begin this ...
Too many laws
Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:03 P GMT-06
Last week, I noted in passing that the Colorado legislature is back in session. This is the time of year when most state legislatures reconvene, which makes it a sad and dangerous time for lovers of liberty. It could be worse -- some state ...
King's legacy lives in strange places
Monday, 16 January 2006 5:04 P GMT-06
A bazillion people have remembered Martin Luther King, Jr., in almost as many different ways. Some recall his opposition to the Vietnam War and use this to bash Bush and the "warmongering Republicans." Others remember the "content of their character"
Unspeakable evil
Tuesday, 10 January 2006 10:06 A GMT-06
The Saudi culture is so depraved, disgusting, and unspeakably evil that one is tempted to call for nukes to turn the entire Arabian peninsula into a sheet of glass. At a minimum, as Dymphna notes, decent people simply have to express their outrage...
The leak, the NSA, and the 4th Amendment
Tuesday, 20 December 2005 10:18 A GMT-06
I must confess that I always get a bit nervous when I hear the initialism "NSA," especially when accompanied by the words "domestic surveillance." So my initial reaction upon hearing about the NYTimes story, although milder ...
Iraqis make history
Thursday, 15 December 2005 2:30 P GMT-06
Today, Iraq became the first constitutional republic in the Arab world. Pay attention -- this is important: Today, Iraq became the first constitutional republic in the Arab world.
