The London School of Embarrassment
Once again, the London School of Economics continues to embarrass itself and its reputation with an unequivocal defense of Reza Pankhurst. The Islamic Society and countless others have sprung to his...
View ArticleDown That Road Again
If you thought the LSE (and Britain in general) was bad at curbing extremism and hatred (and I do, see here, here, and here), then Oxford University will knock your socks off. From The JC: Israel’s...
View ArticleAnother Canary
Smoke billowed from a seven-story building after a small private plane crashed into a building that houses an office of the federal tax agency in Austin, Tex. The Metro Gunman – John Patrick Bedell –...
View ArticleA Confluence of Hate
Hey, kids! Can you count the things wrong with this? Hot on the heels of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s report “Rage on the Right” comes the mechanized embodiment of that hatred. The license plate...
View ArticleBig Bust in the Big Apple, Cont’d
New development from the ongoing Times Square car bomb story: Police and federal agents on Sunday were reviewing surveillance footage that shows a possible suspect in the failed Times Square car...
View ArticleJumping to Conclusions
Well, um, whoops. Not so much the teabagging type, but rather “a Connecticut man, a naturalized United States citizen from Pakistan” named Faisal Shahzad. So yes, mea culpa. Though the white guy in...
View ArticleLibyan Thugs in the Heart of London
Yesterday I found myself at the center of a small skirmish outside LSE’s New Academic Building. It turns out that Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi, the son of Libya’s brutal dictator Muammar...
View ArticleLibyan Thugs in the Heart of London, Cont’d
The attack of the other day is starting to get a little bit of play in the press. They all insist on characterizing it as a “brawl,” however. Last I checked, eight versus two is more of a beating. The...
View ArticleLibyan Thugs in the Heart of London, Cont’d Again
This is the last post I’ll write on the subject (probably), but it makes for a good distraction from studying. The exam’s tomorrow. This is how I roll. Anyways, I got a lovely thank-you email from one...
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