GayPatriot emails: [W]e define a conservative blogress as a smart blogress who has earned the respect of gay men by expressing herself with eloquence and without kowtowing to the politically correct mavens of popular cultural and…
The BBC reports on Syrian underwear. What may be a new discovery to outsiders is that Islamic sexual mores are not only about veiling women, segregating the sexes and austerity. On the contrary, sex is there to be enjoyed to the …
An eye for an eye, in Iran. [A] spurned suitor poured a bucket of sulfuric acid over [Ameneh Bahrami's] head, leaving her blind and disfigured.... Courts usually order families of the accused to pay "blood money" fo…
Says the 8-year-old girl Nojud Mohammed Ali , whose lawyer said "I believe there are thousands of similar cases" in Yemen. In other news from the Middle East: A Turkish barber accused of swearing at God is sentenced to …
I've been recording... and avoiding. But now I'm taking a look. [ADDED: Link to news story about the Compassion Forum.] The first question, to Hillary Clinton, is perfect: Why criticize Barack Obama for saying that peopl…
Ah, here it is. At 60 East 3rd Street. It's run by our old friend Dominick Fernow. You remember this Village Voice article about him. You saw pictures of him here , remember? (With the tongue?) I told him that the pictures …
WaPo reports: Jose Padilla... was convicted today by a federal jury in Miami along with two co-defendants of supporting al-Qaeda and other violent Muslim extremist groups.... They were found guilty on all three counts against the…
Steven D. Levitt -- whose Freakonomics blog is now on the NYT website -- applies his thinking skills to the enterprise of plotting terrorism! He identifies the goals: "what really inspires fear... is the thought that they c…
"... and if anybody in this room thinks we don't have infiltrators, well you are probably still waiting for the Easter bunny.... As a matter of fact I know for certain... that one of them is in this room right now."…
This is getting bizarre! Are people really watching? Anyway... I'm going to watch. I'll try to pay more attention tonight, now that "The Sopranos" aren't on. ( It's on CNN , at what I like to call 6 Cent…
I'm at this debate, which I mentioned the other day, between Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and UW polisci prof Howard Schweber, here at the University of Wisconsin Law School. I'll ju…
From the required textbook for Kevin Barrett's course on Islam, here at the University of Wisconsin. The book is: "9/11 and American Empire: Muslims, Jews, and Christians Speak Out," a collection of essays includin…
The Badger Herald -- one of the UW student newspapers -- reconsiders its position on Kevin Barrett (the part-time teacher here who believes that the government perpetrated the 9/11 attacks). Initially, the paper supported the UW…
We've heard that question a lot over the past few years. Now: An intelligence assessment that the war in Iraq increased Islamic radicalism, worsening the terror threat, set off a sharp debate today among American political of…
Sheryl Gay Stolberg has a nice essay in the Week in Review about the struggle to figure out what to call the enemy in the war on terrorism (or is it the war on terror?): [The term "Islamic fascists"] turned up in one o…
So wrote Second Circuit Judge Ralph Winter , rejecting claims of privilege and granting federal prosecutors access to the phone records of two NYT reporters. The case arose from a Chicago grand jury’s investigation into who told …
Glenn Reynolds opines on the Kevin Barrett controversy: They've got two problems here. No, make that three. Problem one is that they hired a looney as an adjunct. That's not shocking -- adjunct positions pay badly and ar…
UW Regent Jeffrey B. Bartell says he'll respond to that question, which he's been hearing a lot lately. Here's how the response goes: [M]y question in response is how did you learn about these theories?... As abhorre…
Stanley Fish takes on the Kevin Barrett controversy in an op-ed in the NYT today: Mr. Barrett’s critics argue that academic freedom has limits and should not be invoked to justify the dissemination of lies and fantasies. Mr. Bar…